Olaf Jungle Wild Rift overview and best build snapshot
Best Build
Quick snapshot of the default setup for this guide.
Items
Boots
Items
Summoner Spells
Spell 1
Ghost
Spell 2
Smite
How to play
Pick up your axe while chasing Throw your 1st ability along your chase route. Walking over the axe reduces its cooldown so you can throw it again.
Take early fights with nearby support You are strong in longer fights, but avoid running into an enemy team on your own.
Use your ultimate to keep moving Break through stuns and slows to reach a key target while your teammates follow.
Guide author
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Strengths
- True damage and built-in sustain let him win scuttle fights, invades, and most early 1v1s by force.
- His ultimate ignores all crowd control, so lockdown that stops other divers cannot keep him off the backline.
- A fast clear plus the slow on his axes give him strong ganks and early objective pressure.
Weaknesses
- Melee with no dash, so slows and kiting shut him down once his ult is spent.
- Scales worse than the carries and tanks he beats early, so long games work against him.
- His threat is obvious, so teams can wait out his ult window and collapse after it ends.
Olaf Jungle Wild Rift best build, items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order
ITEM BUILD
Best Wild Rift build for Olaf Jungle, including items, runes, summoner spells, and skill order.
STARTING ITEM
Simple early attack damage. His passive already gives him more attack speed the lower his health drops.
BOOTS
Armor and health, which let him commit to the extended fights his passive rewards him for being low in.
CORE BUILD
Spellblade triggers on the attack after his Q (1st), which speeds up his clear. The move speed also helps him reach the target his slow is meant to catch.
His ultimate is a fixed cast he uses to commit, and this turns that same cast into a blizzard on whoever he charged into.
Spreads burst damage out over a few seconds, which suits a champion deliberately living at low health for the attack speed.
Ultimate haste. His ultimate is his engage and his only answer to crowd control, so more of them is more fights he can commit to.
Build this when you are fighting in the middle of the enemy team and need both armor and magic resist. His ultimate walks him there ignoring crowd control.
SITUATIONAL ITEMS
Ability haste means more axes, which is his slow uptime and the true damage swing he chases with.
After Undertow (1st) slows the target, Olaf can cash in the first-hit crit and heal immediately; the sustain is especially valuable while he stays low and keeps attacking through Ragnarok (Ult).
Build this against armor stackers or enemies who heal, since he has to win by attrition.
Build this when the enemy has shields, since his E (3rd) already ignores resistances but not shields.
Boot swap against heavy magic damage and crowd control, for the stretches when his ultimate is down.
Build this against heavy magic burst, since his ultimate answers crowd control but not damage.
Replace Experimental Hexplate when Olaf needs a burst shield to keep attacking at low health; buy it for survival rather than extra Tenacity during his ultimate. Health, permanent Tenacity, and a bonus-Health Lifeline shield help you survive the return damage. Choose this or Maw of Malmortius for your Lifeline slot.
Replace Zeke's Convergence when Olaf can repeatedly hit armored targets and help allied physical carries damage them. Health and haste support longer fights, while repeated physical damage reduces Armor for your whole team.
Replace Death's Dance against sustained magic damage that Olaf must run through to stay in attack range. Repeated champion magic damage stacks extra Magic Resistance and movement speed, making it a sustained-magic-damage answer.
Replace Zeke's Convergence when crit carries win the damage race despite Olaf reaching them. Reduces physical critical-strike damage, so prioritize it against fed crit carries rather than purely on-hit damage.
Replace Zeke's Convergence when Olaf must cut enemy healing while continuing his physical attacks and axe throws. Physical damage applies Grievous Wounds while Health and haste suit a bruiser. Buy Executioner's Calling first if healing is urgent, then finish after your early core.
RUNES
KEYSTONE
Undertow (1st), Reckless Swing (3rd), and a basic attack are three quick hits. Reckless Swing (3rd) closes the gap with a short targeted dash, and Phase Rush helps Olaf remain in range after that first contact.
PRIMARY
His fights are committed brawls, so refunding health on a takedown lets him keep going into the next one.
His passive already rewards him for being low, so a rune that pays in the same window compounds directly.
Attack speed stacks on top of Berserker Rage (Passive) as Olaf's health drops, increasing his basic-attack output and passive healing. Undertow (1st) and Reckless Swing (3rd) remain important ability damage, so attacks are not literally his entire damage profile.
SECONDARY
Move speed after a summoner spell extends Olaf's chase beyond Reckless Swing's (3rd) short targeted dash and helps him keep collecting Undertow (1st) axes.
SITUATIONAL RUNES
Take this over Phase Rush when winning the extended brawl matters more than reaching it.
Take this over Nimbus Cloak when the enemy composition can focus Olaf after he engages and extra durability matters more than approach speed.
Take this over Legend: Alacrity against durable opponents when repeated ability casts matter more than extra attack speed. Shorter Reckless Swing (3rd) and Tough It Out (2nd) cooldowns help Olaf repeat his damage and protection through an extended duel.
SUMMONER SPELLS
MAIN SPELLS
Ghost
Ghost supplies the sustained movement speed that Reckless Swing's (3rd) short targeted dash cannot. Combined with Ragnarok's (Ult) crowd-control immunity and repeated Undertow (1st) slows, it helps Olaf stay on a target after reaching them.
Smite
You are playing Jungle, you always take Smite. Monster damage upgrades from 600 to 1000 after 8 consumed Eco-system Protection stacks and to 1400 after 20 total.
SKILL ORDER
Skill Priority Order
- 11st Ability
Q - 23rd Ability
E - 32nd Ability
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Olaf Jungle Wild Rift matchups and counters
Wild Rift matchup guide for Olaf Jungle, covering favorable lanes and difficult counters to prepare for in ranked.
Good Matchups
These champions are favorable matchups for this pick in Wild Rift. You have advantages against them and can play more aggressively.
Nunu & Willump
A slow farmer who wants to scale and snipe objectives loses both against you: your invades deny his camps and your sustain beats his in every fight on top of the pit.
Wukong
Ragnarok (Ult) walks straight through the knockup that is his way into and out of fights, and your true damage shreds any armor he stacks. His clone buys a second, but he has no way to escape your chase.
Fiddlesticks
Your ultimate turns off the fear that is his whole defense, so you walk through Crowstorm (Ult) and kill the squishy channeler before his drain out-trades your axes. He has no escape and no lockdown that sticks.
Olaf Counters
These champions counter this pick in Wild Rift and can be difficult matchups. Learn how to play against them or consider banning them.
Lillia
Blooming Blows (1st) builds enough movement speed to kite Undertow (1st) pickups, and Watch Out! Eep! (2nd) punishes Olaf when he runs directly at her through the jungle. Do not chase after a missed axe; contest camps and objectives where Lillia must enter a fixed area, then use Ragnarok (Ult) after Lilting Lullaby (Ult) begins so the sleep cannot end the engage.
Kindred
Kindred slows and chips you from range for free, and Lamb's Respite (Ult) denies your finishing damage while stalling the all-in. She takes scuttle and objectives at range while you chase without catching her.
Nidalee
Spear poke from a range you cannot answer wears you down, and in cougar form she slows you while you swing at nothing. She takes scuttle and objectives at range and kites you around every wall.
Olaf Jungle Wild Rift game strategy and teamfighting guide
Wild Rift game strategy for Olaf Jungle, from early lane control through mid and late game map play to final teamfights.