First champion I ever played in league of legends Ftw.

Champion Overview:

BROMMAACCCCIIIIAAAAAAAA.

Olaf is a tanky-Dps Anticarry. His goal on a team is to Rambo into the enemy team and kill their carries. He has amazing laning abilities capable of wrecking most solo tops. Olaf has the ability to spam true damage in lane essentially Darius Ulting you every-time you come close to him (If you like playing darius, I think you would like olaf). Olaf has the power to kill even the most fed of enemy squishies with his ultimate.

Skills Overview:


Passive: Berserker Rage- For each 1% of health missing, Olaf's attack speed is increased by 1%.
This passive allows you to last hit better, win closer fights, and kill that squishie your ramboing at when the enemy team trys to kill you off.

Q: Undertow- Olaf throws an axe to a target location, dealing 50 / 90 / 130 / 170 / 210 physical damage plus 50% of his attack damage to units it passes through and slowing them by 16 / 22 / 28 / 34 / 40% for 2.5 seconds. If Olaf picks up the axe, the ability's cooldown is reduced by 6 seconds. Cost 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 mana.Range 1000.
This skill is very nice, you NEED to know how to aim this axe to play olaf. It is his chasing power and a source of poke in certain matchups.

W: Tough It Out- For 6 seconds, Olaf's attack damage is increased by 7 / 14 / 21 / 28 / 35 base damage plus 1% of his max health. While active, Olaf gains 9 / 12 / 15 / 18 / 21% lifesteal and spell vamp. Cost 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 mana. Range 700.
This skill is your sustain, its like udyr's turtle stance. This skill also gives you an mini atma's impailer while you have the active on.

E: Reckless Swing- Olaf deals 100 / 160 / 220 / 280 / 340 true damage to his target and inflicts 40 / 64 / 88 / 112 / 136 true damage to himself. Cost none. Range 325.
This skill is AMAZING, its like darius ulting the enemy every 4 seconds <3. This skill allows you to wear down and easily kill enemies who have to get into melee range to CS

R: Ragnarok- Active: For 5 / 6.5 / 8 seconds, Olaf is immune to disables and reduces incoming damage by 20 / 30 / 40. Passive: Olaf has 10 / 20 / 30 increased armor penetration. Cost 100 / 75 / 50 mana.Range 400.
This skill is what makes olaf a Berzerker, this allows you to run at the carries worrying nothing about your HP bar, and theirs. Who dies first?

Combos/Skillorder:


Skill Order:
Ability Sequence
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Use this max if the enemy laner will be coming close to CS.
Ability Sequence
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

Use this if the enemy laner likes to sit back and poke, or is stronger then you in melee range.
Combos:

(Q repeatedly pick up and throw as you chase)-(E whenever its up)-(W If you get into an auto fight)-(R to go full Berserker mode.

Matchups:

Easy

Riven (A good riven can kind of manage this matchup, but all you need to do is spam E, her hp will get wrecked unless she maxes shield first, which already hurts her), Jax (No dodging true damage spam), Irelia (Dash to that minion I dare you), Warwick ( Can't out sustain BR POWER), Shen (If hes going ranged shen throwing stuff all day at you, then throw back at him and if you hit him you can go get more free harass, if he wants to try and fight you spam EE all day evry day), Nasus (Good luck farming Q), Lee Sin (A good lee sin wont die, but he also won't get as much farm), Renekton (Your early and late game is stronger), Fiora and Shyvana (All their damage moves require them to be in auto range <3), and Darius (For him its like fighting another darius.... Thats spamming ult every 2 seconds).
Hard

Teemo (Poke and movequick), Yorick (trades harder, sustains harder), Vayne (Her kit counters yours, she can tumble away from axes, knock you away when you want to true damage her, and just run away when you ult. She will get farmed and scale into late game well.), Kennen (Ranged, and has good escapes), Nidalee (She can wear you down from a distance and come in for the kill), Vladimir (He has ranged poke, and his pool for when you get to close), Mordekaiser (Numero Uno Hue) and Akali (I cant see whats murdering ME!!!!!!).

Playing AS/VS:

As:
  • Make sure you know how to aim, and follow up on your axes
  • Do not get caught up in your strength and think you can 1v5.
  • Remember your ultimate can be used as a cleanse.
Vs:
  • Do not get baited by olaf's ultimate.
  • After olaf throws his axe, run in a path that forces him to go out of the way to get it.
  • Sending an AD carry top (With an escape) gives your team an advantage over olaf.

Big Item Choices::


Wriggle's Lantern- Gives you sustain off your W.

Heart of Gold and Philosopher's Stone- Believe it or not these work AMAZINGLY on olaf. The majority your damage is true, so these items do not even weaken you. They both build into useful items later on.

Trinity Force- The stats here are useful, when you are chasing your axes get the sheen procs for you to hit the enemy with.

Frozen Mallet- This item allows you to stick to a target, pick this over trinity force if you are not doing well in lane or your team lacks CC.

Atma's Impailer and Warmog's Armor- Both items go really well with your W. You can build the chain vest for atma's early in lane to make the enemys not even hurt you.

Force of Nature- Allows you to run around faster.

Guardian Angel- Revive and spam more.

Maw of Malmortius- Strong vs Ap lanes, allows you to rambo even better.

Aegis of the Legion- If no one else got it.

Bloodthirster- More rambo damage and sustain.

Infinity Edge- Stronger Auto's.

Gametypes:

SoloQ:

Olaf is really strong in soloQ as he can win lane hard AND can rambo kill any enemies who got fed <3.
Ranked 5s:

Olaf is strong as a counterpick to CC comps. Olaf has a great ability to get in and kill who he needs to ignoring all there Stuns and such.

Conclusion:


This was my Top facts olaf. I am Berzerk and he is a Berserker (I think Berzerk looks cooler then Berserk, both names were available when I chose I just liked the Z better.) He was my first champion I played and still to this day is one of my favorite champions to play. As always summoners have a good day and good luck on the fields of justice.

SERIES UPDATE:
I plan on releasing these every day/other day until I get all of the top lane picks in the league ( about 50-60 of them) if there are any requests leave in the comments below and ill work on them. I want to make this series for others to better understand the champions of top lane. Once I am done (Or once I have a few top facts out) I will release some Facts about top lane mechanics, eventually I will probably put everything into one generic top lane guide, however until I do that I will continue to watch and update my blogs as needed. Tips and tricks I missed under my Top Facts would be helpful if you put anything I don't have in the comments I will be sure to add it. I will be forming a guide called The complete guide to Top lane or something in that nature. The intention of this series is not as a "Build guide" or a "play guide", these are more like facts you should know about the champion. These are to inspire people to think of new champion possibilities they might not have thought of or to help a new player with the champion. I do not list runes masteries or a set build ( I give a kind of recommended items) in here due to the fact I want people to think of that for themselves and try new things. This series is an attempt for the LOL community to try new things and have fun in a fun game. Thank you for reading and have a nice day :P