Talk:Olaf/@comment-24073465-20140211152247/@comment-1330314-20140212125228

As a bruiser, you're going to be concerned with bonuses that benefit only yourself, so is not a good choice. I do, however, recommend getting a for the slow, and upgrading it into  later on. Olaf is designed to synergize really well with attack speed, which BotrK provides, and similarly the item's on-hit effect is more effective the more attack speed you have. Any intelligent top laner is going to stack health early on to counter your true damage, and BotrK counters that, so you end up countering pretty much all types of tankiness while becoming tougher to kill due to your lifesteal and its synergy with his W. Olaf has no gapclosers, so the active will give you huge sticking power against squishy mobile targets. Coupled with your ult, you will be unstoppable.

Hydra is a good second damage item, particularly if you're planning on splitpushing (Olaf, by the way, has one of the best splitpushing capabilities out of any top laner). I would only recommend getting one later on in the game, however, after you're done building your core tanky items (i.e., and ). I wouldn't particularly recommend focusing on cooldown reduction when itemizing for Olaf, since he has multiple ways of reducing his cooldowns already. Instead, try to focus on getting uber-tanky and picking up a few damage items on the side.