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Everything for Olaf Mid on patch 16.17, pulled from real Emerald+ ranked games — the build path, rune pages, the counters worth banning, the strongest teammates, and Olaf's win conditions.
Olaf is an AD juggernaut in the mid, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 51.9% win rate, 0.1% pick rate, 937 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Olaf is front-loaded: at peak strength early and falling off the longer the game runs, so the win condition is to convert early pressure into objectives and leads before the 25-minute mark.
How Olaf wins: splitpushing a side lane and forcing the enemy to answer it. The kit grades 7/10 split-push. Play around where Olaf is thin, siege and mobility (3/10, 3/10), and the enemy loses their angle.
The most-played core build is Stridebreaker, Experimental Hexplate, Death's Dance, which holds a 55.0% win rate across 40 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.
Most-played core build and runes for Olaf Mid this patch, from Emerald+ ranked games. Pick the enemy team at the top of the page for a comp-specific build.
Olaf is also played in these other roles this patch.
For full draft-time coaching with all 10 picks, use the Team Builder. To see Olaf's tier on this patch, see the Tier List.
