Olaf with Alistar
How to Synergize Olaf and Alistar
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Olaf Alistar Synergy Summary
Best Olaf vs Alistar Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Olaf and Alistar
Tips for Playing as Olaf with Alistar
Olaf can combine Berserker Rage, Vicious Strikes, and Ragnarok at low life to become deceptively strong.
The bonus healing granted by Vicious Strikes amplifies your Life Steal from all sources as well as heals from allies.
Advice to Understand How Alistar Will Play
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Olaf Alistar Synergy Stats
How to Play with Alistar as Olaf in LoL
The Olaf Alistar synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Alistar, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Olaf sees a very large drop in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Alistar. His KDA worsened from NaN to NaN. This fall shows that Alistar helps Olaf perform poorer in competitive League games. Yet, the small difference proves that this performance change is only marginal.
When Olaf plays on the same team as Alistar, he gets a small increase in his total damage dealt. This change may demonstrate that Alistar provides protection for him to dish out more damage or that his participation also helps increase the match's duration. Similarly, when Olaf is played with Alistar on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing with Alistar.
Additionally, when Olaf plays with Alistar on the same team, he on average takes a little less damage than when he plays alone. Taking not as much damage could mean that Alistar does a decent job of protecting Olaf during teamfights.
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Is Olaf better when played alongside Alistar?
There is no one best ally for Olaf that will no matter what be his ideal teammate. However, Alistar is a below average teammate for Olaf. By being on the same team as Olaf, he drops their win rate by -1.2% to 47.8%. This clearly indicates that there is a harmful strategic relationship between Olaf and Alistar that allows them to perform worse together than without each other.
Alistar has a much greater difficulty compared to Olaf. That means you need to be cautious when enlisting Alistar teammates to play with, as they will require a much greater level of skill to be able to play well with you.
Fighting cooperatively, Olaf players will likely observe an overall large increase in your team’s capability to dish out massive AD. Combined, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Olaf and Alistar together, you may not be giving your other teammates very much magical damage output. We recommend you pick other champs on your team that neutralizes this relative hole in their kit.
Regardless of your Alistar ally's ability, you should focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well anyway.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Olaf in order to synergize with Alistar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League games, you should continue reading to master some more lessons on this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Olaf and Alistar synergy build consist of Sterak's Gage, Experimental Hexplate, and Ravenous Hydra. When Olaf included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better as an ally of Alistar than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Olaf had an average win rate of 47.8% helping carry Alistar with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating your oponents, Olaf players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Olaf and Alistar pairings, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.8% win rate overall.
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