Talk:Olaf/@comment-88.207.5.123-20120622002558/@comment-216.232.229.16-20120622142933

The thing with his Q is that most people treat it like a skillshot in that you fly it at your enemy while they're dancing about with the hopes that you'll whack 'em with it for damage.

What helps his Q a -lot- is using it as a chasing tool, predict the opponent's movement patterns. If they're dancing in front of their turret, and you're in no condition to touch those tower hits, don't bother with it.

If you sneak up on someone, and are either a) in melee range, or b) close enough that you can cut them off, or use your Q -to- cut them off, you predict their running pattern, and throw it in the direction they -have- to go in order to get away from you, preferrably the same direction that you can pick it up, and throw it at 'em again.

It may -seem- slow moving, but it's sure as heck faster than a running champion.

Actually, you can think of it this way...

Since the axe has 1600 missle speed and 1000 range, it travels roughly 4 times the speed of a champ with 400 movespeed, if they're running away from you, unless they're pulling some weird swerving moves - if they have the movespeed for that, they have the movespeed to outrun you anyways - they'll be running in a predictable line - the fastest they can get away from you. Get your Q off early enough, and you'll whack 'em with it.

Of course, that's best-case scenario.