Sylas vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Sylas
based on 1,157 Sylas vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Olaf
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Sylas vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Sylas in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some significant Sylas vs. Olaf counter statistics that can help you explain the differences between the two. For instance, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Olaf’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf..
Sylas usually has a similar longest kill spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Olaf. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Sylas and Olaf
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Who is Better, Sylas or Olaf?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when trying to fight Olaf, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Sylas makes a bad counter for Olaf.
While Sylas does have a much lower winrate than Olaf, when on opposite teams, Sylas also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Sylas into Olaf.
Additionally, Sylas has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Olaf matchups, Olaf is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Sylas is a terribly counter to Olaf. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Sylas in order to counter Olaf during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Olaf. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Sylas versus Olaf build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Sylas incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Olaf than with most other typical builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 45.6% battling Olaf with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Olaf as Sylas, Sylas players should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Sylas vs Olaf clashes, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.6% winrate overall.
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