Talk:Olaf/@comment-200.35.211.39-20100714143753

I dont understand players saying than olaf is OP. Isnt OP at all, in fact, isnt good at all.

- First, he is extremely item dependant, the items on this guy are really expensive and he is not a good farmer even with the axe throw, an axe throw thats a skillshot. Frozen is over 3k to start with. You can start with with other items but you really going to be bad in the beginning.

- The passive works in low life. If you go around a DPS build that i hear a lot you are actually wasting your passive, and the best skill Reckless Swing, you will not have enough HP to make your skills works unless you go on 1 vs 1.

- Olaf isnt Trynd, you cant go into middle of the battle get focus use Ulti and get out, isnt work like that. The Ultimate explains itself, is a 8 sec Cleanse and reduce at level 3, 65 points of damage of any kind. Just 65. At level 18 characters incluiding mages Hit over 600. Of that you will reduce 65. The inmortality is just a myth, it just make it more tank, thats all.

- Olaf have no escape skills, this means he is ghost dependant. And in a lot of cases, you will be using your Ult to escape a focus, no to stay in battle. To chase or to escape?

Anyway my point is, test the character. You will realize that is really far on be OP, in fact is very hard to use. You cant pretend that life stealing will give you and edge in a 3 vs 3 battle against good lvl 30 players, no one will tank you and if you get focus your ulti will not save you. Hard to balance. If you go DPS is possible that you just trade kill per kill.

Skills have a sinergy, Ulti to reduce Reckless damage, Vicious to recover with the spell vamp the Reckless damage, giving you more attack power that actually gives more damage to Undertow. In the middle of this, life stealing to stay in half HP to active the passive and get more DPS.