Olaf
Hardest matchups for Olaf in Top (Emerald, patch 16.20): 
Zed, 
Ornn, 
Camille. Easiest: 
Corki, 
Varus, 
Rumble.
Try it in a draftCountersPower curvesIn the tier listWho wins into OlafOn the pro tier list
Olaf on patch 16.22
- Top50.2%#47 of 103B8,489 games
- Jungle50.7%#32 of 74B881 games
- steady since 16.21
Olaf’s main role on patch 16.22 is Top: a 50.2% win rate across 8,489 Emerald games, #47 of 103 Top champions on the tier list (grade B), picked in 3.4% of games. Olaf is also played Jungle: a 50.7% win rate across 881 games, #32 of 74. Since patch 16.21, Olaf Top has not moved by more than chance explains: 0.2 points across 52,120 games in 8 ranks.
Emerald games from every region, as of Nov 9, 2026. The tables below load current numbers. Patch 16.22 tier list
Solo queue
Open in the tier listPatch 16.20, the current one
| Lane | Grade | Win rate | Games | Picked | Mains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top86% of its games | B | 50.3%50.3% raw ±0.7 | 20,397 | 2.9%4.1% banned | 52.4%47.9% first time |
| Jungle11% of its games | A | 50.7%50.9% raw ±1.9 | 2,596 | 0.4%4.1% banned | 51.6%47.9% first time |
| Mid2% of its games | too few games | 50.8%52.9% raw ±5.1 | 376 | 0.1%4.1% banned | 51.5%47.2% first time |
| Bot1% of its games | too few games | 50.1%50.6% raw ±5.4 | 332 | 0.0%4.1% banned | 51.4%47.3% first time |
| Support0% of its games | too few games | 49.1%42.0% raw ±9.0 | 119 | 0.0%4.1% banned | 51.0%47.3% first time |
Matchups
Every matchupHow to read this
Olaf’s win rate against each champion picked into it in the lane opposite: its hardest matchups, then its easiest. The small number is the matchup’s own effect on Olaf, the part not explained by either champion’s strength.
Hardest for Olaf
Lane leads and team bans
What Olaf’s team bans
Champions a team bans more often when it has Olaf than the other team does in the same games (149,426 games). The other team banned before Olaf was picked, so the gap is the ban spent because Olaf was coming — a sign players see these as counters. Riot does not say which player cast a ban, so this is the team’s choice.
Builds
Every buildHow to read this
How Olaf is built in this lane, most common first, with the items those builds finish and how they win.
- AD bruiser
53.1%18,139 games - Crit
53.4%1,194 games - On-hit
51.9%166 games - Lethality
54.0%66 games - Tank
53.3%10 games
Runes and summoner spells
How to read this
How Olaf does with each summoner-spell pair, keystone and minor rune in this lane, at the rank and region above. These are the win rates of the players who made each choice, not the choice’s own effect: a page is recommended only when a real share of players runs it.
22,348 games · patches 16.20, 16.21 · Sep 10 – Oct 21
Flash + Ghost50.5% · 15,982 games
ConquerorPrecision + Inspiration · 51.0%
Triumph · Legend: Alacrity · Last Stand · Biscuit Delivery · Approach VelocityShards: Adaptive Force · Adaptive Force · Health
Start: Doran's Blade + Health Potion · 53.2%
Key items: Stridebreaker → Experimental Hexplate · 53.1%
Boots: Gluttonous Greaves · 55.7%Every option, with its numbers
Summoner spells
- Flash + Ghost50.5%15,982 games · 72% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Ghost + Ignite52.3%658 games · 2.9% pick rate · same players: −0.2 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Exhaust + Flash50.0%2,518 games · 11% pick rate · same players: −0.9 pts vs the usual- Flash + Ignite50.2%2,200 games · 9.8% pick rate · same players: −1.0 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Keystones
- Conqueror + Inspiration51.0%18,145 games · 81% pick rate · the usual choiceRecommended
Conqueror + Resolve48.3%2,571 games · 12% pick rate · same players: −1.9 pts vs the usual
Stormraider's Surge + Inspiration48.3%765 games · 3.4% pick rate · same players: −2.3 pts vs the usualRare: not recommended
Minor runes with Conqueror
- Triumph50.7%97% take it
Presence of Mind49.1%2.6% take it
- Legend: Alacrity50.6%97% take it
- Last Stand50.7%99% take it
- Approach Velocity51.0%99% take it
- Biscuit Delivery50.7%82% take it
Cash Back52.5%8.7% take it
Magical Footwear53.1%6.8% take it
Triple Tonic50.9%3.4% take it
- Adaptive Force52.2%22% take it
- Attack Speed49.8%78% take it
- Adaptive Force50.4%98% take it
- Health50.9%31% take it
- Health Scaling50.1%68% take it
These numbers describe, they do not prove. Each rate is Olaf’s record when its player chose that option, pulled toward Olaf’s own rate by 100 games of prior so a small sample cannot look like a discovery. An uncommon page often wins more because experts run it, and they would win on any page, so only a choice taken in at least 10% of games can be recommended, and spells and keystones are ranked by how the SAME players do with them against the usual choice, not by the raw rate; rarer ones are listed with their numbers and labeled. The build line (opening buy, the two key items in the order they are finished, boots or the support upgrade) is advice in the same sense: how Olaf does when built that way.
The learning curve
Champion pool
On a first game Olaf wins 47.7%; in the hands of players with the most mastery on it, 52.9%. That gap ranks it 83 of 173 for how much practice pays. It crosses 50% at about 29K mastery points.
Pro play
On the pro tier list
Olaf in the major leagues and international events this season, across 3,434 games: its record, how often it is picked or banned, whether it is taken blind or saved as a counter, its lane at 15 minutes, and the best pro on it.
| Lane | Win rate | Priority | Blind / counter | Lane @15 | Best pro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | 51.1%109W 98L | 15%17% in any lane | 33% counter | −48 gold | — |
| Jungle | 50.0%19W 19L | 3%17% in any lane | 82% counter | +74 gold | — |
How much knowing Olaf pays
Players on their Mastery band win 5.2 points more on Olaf than first-timers do: #83 of 173 champions for how much mastery pays.
At 300k+ mastery points, Olaf players win 52.9%: #42 of 173 champions for where mastery ends up. The fitted curve levels off at about 53.7%, and is half-way up by ~40K points.
OlafDots are the six mastery bands, placed at their mastery points. The line is the best-fitting curve that rises and levels off.
This is not a promise about your next game. Players do not reach a mastery band in a random order, and a champion someone loses on tends to get dropped before it reaches the high bands — so the right-hand side of every curve is partly survivors, not only practice.
Text summary of this page as it stood on Nov 9, 2026. The live tables on this page are current.
Olaf ranked-play summary
Most similar champions: Dr. Mundo, Zaahen, Tryndamere.
Anonymous public figures recorded on Nov 9, 2026, when this page was built. The interactive tables on this page load current data.