For some reason I found it funny that the only counter to Olaf, the guy that runs your down and autos you to death, is Trynd, the other guy that runs you down and autos you to death.
They're really bonkers back then with old black cleaver + crit build + flat ad runes or flat crit runes. Insert xz in your games for maximum game toxicity.
This is really in the spirit of Olaf - if you go in you need to run the fight through till the end. I also love the message he sent ‘I have 5 more Pentas for you’ lol
@@BrunoRibeiro-st2qd I mean, the whole point of all the nerfs and how his solo queue win rates are really low have always had to do with how he does really well in organized pro play, but is terrible in solo queue, so... The sky is blue? .... Like.... H-H-H-H-Him? I understand it. I see it. My eyes are open. The runes... They speak to me... HE IS IN MY WALLS HE IS IN MY HEAD GET HIM OUT! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH I MUST... REALM... THE ENEMY... I MUST REALM... WARP.. THE ENEMY F.... I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN I MUST REALM WARP THE ENEMY FOUNTAIN
I know you said this isn't very mechanical, but he's really spacing his autos and animation cancelling really well. The increase in damage from doing this vs not would be really noticeable.
@@roharro2 by "you" fellow, i mean the average high elo. let me rephrase that. and since high elos will face also high elos, wouldn't that mean high elos would be competent to pull it off?
Just tried it for myself and I gotta say, it's as good as said in the video. One of first ever games as Olaf and first attempt at Crit Olaf resulted in a 20/4/6 total carry. Super fun and super strong.
Olaf is one of those I tend to do too well with despite only playing him occationally, tri/gore/stride-builds. I got stomped with him before the rework. Honestly he's (hidden?) OP now because there's nearly no counterplay as soon as he ults and sticks to you.
This video, as with all your videos, are a golden ray of hope. The very premise of this channel is gorgeous - off meta builds because this is a bloody game, not a fucking exam or someshit. Thank you for these entertaining jewels of videos, for your research, your calming voice and presence, and I hope you get 1 Million subscribers soon mate.
Fun fact: on Wild Rift(LOL mobile) we have an item called Solari chargeblade. It was recently reworked due to how broken it was but before its rework its passive gave you 25% crit everytime you cast an ability which resets when you do crit damage. It was intended for champs like lucian and xayah who were ability dependent but we ended up with champs like Shyv, riven, Olaf and yasuo getting 100% crit with 1 item. So imagine olafs brusier build but with the added benefit of nuking people with crit.
@@dedt4932 you forget that he has to smurf a ton of games to get this acounts up, which means a ton of games you just cant win bc your opponent isnt in a rank that matches their skill level
I’ve tested it, it isn’t like you can 1v1 every top laner since the start, but if you wait for the serrated and poke them down with Q, you can go in and easily finish them. Shieldbow is probably the biggest powerspike and after that, you’re just stronger and stronger. I’m plat 1 and I managed to get myself fed a lot of times, then you can easily carry for some free LP.
Till the last 20s of the video I was thinking how the heck is he gonna deal with tryndamere? Crit Olaf is basically trynda without death immunity . When u said he bans tryndamere, it all finally made sense
Had a match as kayle V Olaf (gold 3) yesterday, was the weirdest match I've had in years on top lane, had no idea chimes put out this video, unknowingly went cull + defensive runes, knowing he's gonna be a beast early, event went first item oblivion, tried my best to be under turret and bait the axes, truly a miracle I won that
I’ve played Olaf like this for years. It is VERY powerful. I personally take ghost and ignite, and instead of red side, I use Confitioning and Revitalize.
@@drmajor2574 Most of the time. My favorite item on Olaf since season 3 has always been Ravenous Hydra. I used to rush old Tiamat into Hydra to start and max e into all matchups for big burst, but Olaf's E has had a damage nerf since than, and since watching this video when I commented, I'ved been rushing Dirk into Sheildbow. Into an enemy like say a Yorick, I'll get the dirk and Tiamat (to cleave if trapped in his circle) than do Shieldbow than finish Ravenous into Collector. Gotta say, Dirk>Sheildbow>Collector is still pretty OP. Where this video reccomends Death's Dance, I just love how Hydra feels on Olaf so I swap DD for Hydra. DD IS really good on Olaf tho. Also, as of the last few days I've been running red side secondary runes as outlined in this video. It makes a noticable difference in the mid to late game, and I'm sure the challenger who made the rune/build did this to compensate for how Olaf is SUPPOSED to fall off late game. I've been going Ulti Hunter+Eyeball OR AGAINT FAST ASS LANERS LIKE QUINN TOP than I'll go Blue side secondary going Magical Footwear+Approach Velocity and take Ghost+Flash. While the blue side secondary makes you the fastest Olaf around, that red side secondary snowball power is pretty insane.
This was like season 1-2 strategy on olaf... you builded 2 Bloodthirsters and 2 phantoms and you were unstoppable :D good old days and yeah looks awsome this guy makes it work :D
same items but trynd, 2 phantom dancers, 2 bloodthirsters, 1 IE and of course last whisper, I 2.5 shot a full tank malphite back then. I think I never saw anyone that sells boots for 6 items back then
Always wondered how this playstyle would work out. I guess this man has refined it. Kinda funny that the old tactic to burst them before down before they can outplay you still works even in this durability patch but then I remember they also made bruisers even tougher so they can build more dmg. Go figure.
Welp there goes my theory. I actually considered this off-meta strat while playing around with Olaf in practice tool. He has a lot of the necessary tools to make it work but I just never bothered to try it. Glad to see it tested now though cus I know what I'm playing for a while. Also 3:05 seeing as assassin get bursted never gets old.
Kled is horrendously bad, isn’t strong early as a early game champ, the only top laner of his class with no armor shred built in(even tho he’s an auto attacker), doesn’t scale in the slightest, is the buggiest champ, only wins against aatrox, and all his items and even runes got nerfed. You could never pick Kled in high elo such as challenger and EVER casually “get 5 more Pentas today”. That’s why he doesn’t play him that’s why NOBODY plays him.
problem is, riot needed to kill him for...no reason lmao, like it was the patch yone and yas got buffs while sitting at 55% win rate, and they went like, ahh he counters them, and has 48% win rate and is played only by onetricks, lets kill the champ. i dunno. just sad
In case people are searching for the "new" build, Get a Longsword in easy matchups or Doransw in fight heavy lanes or Shield when ranged/poke First item Dirk so your damage go through armor. This is the point you should fight after breaking a freeze or dive eith your jungles. After that build Shieldbow for the added survivability and damage. Now you need to choose between high damage or cdr. IE if you can nuke people or Navori if you need to stay on tankier people Finish your Dirk into Collector Then its situational. If you're ahead, just go Bloodthirster and Guardian Angel. If there is lots of ad dps, go Deathdance and either GA or Sterak. Against AP, any MR adc/assassin item, just dont waste money on QSS, since the runes should make your ult come back faster
Can't believe I played against this guy in FLEX on EUNE server yesterday. Damn it was so tilting to lane with Shen against a Crit Olaf. But yes we managed to win due to stacking up.
I think Crit Olaf still works. Just need a few item replacement. Stormrazor -> Ionian Boots/Berserker Greaves -> IE or Galeforce -> Immortal Shieldbow -> The Collector -> Lord Dominik's Regards. (Which either order is fine) Got 25/12/18 from my last game with it.
The guide is legit. I followed this guide exactly and yuumi attached to my belt from 12 min onwards. Run into 4 enemies inside dragon pit and killed them all while I still have half hp. This guy is basically troll warlord from dota2 with bkb as ulti.
As someone who has abused the shit out of reworked Olaf for free PDL, this crit build is surprisingly strong, and the fact that the runes aren't that different from the meta runes means that If I know I wont snowball I build the standard build, works even when I tried it out in SoloQ at low D3.
Back when i first started playing league, I’d always play olaf top and me being in love with crit and attack speed, I’d always buy those items. But I was absolute garbage at the game so my teammates were not too friendly :(
I was just shaking my head the whole time I was watching those clips. It was a montage of "I'm not playing the same LoL that you are playing" clips. Then there was the comment about teleporting to bot lane, running STRAIGHT at the enemy carry, taking the tower from your hapless bot laners, and laughing while you leave to probably do the same thing mid with your massive gold and level advantage. Some people just want to watch the world burn.
Had the great misfortune of playing with this guy. He ran it down in a normal game because he wanted to finish faster so he could play ranked again after he was suspended. Fun stuff.
what would the build be like if u switched shieldbow for gale force (you would lose the heal and shield but gain move speed passive and gap closer with a bit extra burst)
Yes but actually no, it is worse. He needs the sustain and shield from shieldbow. I've tried it, he literally needs the early sustain or he wont survive any hard engage lane / lategame
and this is why support teemo is even better in the new patch ran into 2 top olaf (tho only 1 of them was crit build) and the moment the laning phase ended they lost their lead cause blind spam and 2v1s
so many start to play olaf crit in my rank game, and it actually works. either they smurf or I dont know. in chat they talk about this vid from "happy chime noise" So I came to see it too, nice
I used to run a variant of this as my secret weapon in aram games with bloodthirster, when you press r and start attacking enemies and get like 400 hp back per hit it's way too entertaining, glad to see it's actually viable
Had never heard of you or the type of content you do until I had an Olaf in my gold rank games and he had copied this build. Thank you for allowing a low Gold ELO player to go 3/16/1 in 28 minutes against an Aatrox 15/1/6. This Olaf player complained about being ganked when he was pushed all game and had only placed down 4 wards. I am now subscribed to you now so that I can be aware of inters in my ranked game. Keep up the great content
invading enemy jungle when you dominate lane and rift herald is what makes him easily a master tier toplaner. i play in low diamond and never see toplaners focus on funneling themself like this. i immediately notice when a toplaner is a smurf because of how devastating it is when they start to build their influence into the enemy jungle. i like to think low elo toplaners think of themself as the prey of junglers while high elo junglers are the jungle hunters.
Ever since immortal shieldbow had reworked my playthrough in olaf is drastically changed. The lost of attack speed in immortal shield made olaf very slow in attacking. In my recent 10 games so far i played with CRIT Olaf i had 4 wins and 6 lost. I doubt this is still Best OFF Meta
me too now i max w for more attack speed sad but it's not that bad because when you think about it your e doesn't crit so you aa deal more damage than e (except against tank). But yeah crit olaf is now a lot weaker.
I played against an olad onetrick running this build in lower elo that got super fed in laning phase. It actually isn't great down in plat and below because of how long games end up going and because you can't really count on your teammates to play well. That crazy fed olaf actually became pretty useless once we stalled the game and everyone got items. We just bursted him every fight and then turned on his team. If you don't have another person who can hard carry after the enemy uses all their cd's to burst you, the olad build ends up falling off if the enemy stalls until everyone is on 6 items.
I can promise you, it is not easy to click that damn timer button in game. The timer doesnt start for me till I lock the screen on me and then try and click the timer.
