Talk:Olaf/@comment-7460908-20140131222345/@comment-5557556-20140201015210

Problem was in his Q and auto attacks enhanced with W. W used to gave attack damage, life steal and spellvamp.

So if you bought youmuu's ghostblade, your ult had 3rd level and you had full armor penetration runes and masteries you would end up having 20 (youmuu) + 30 (ultimate) + 19 (runes) + 6 (masteries). That would yield you 75 armor penetration at all times.

So at every time you would deal true damage to enemy adc or mid laner since they rarely had over 100 armor. In some cases adcs would go naked, just damage items and that would prove lethal to them. One axe would hit like a truck since now it dealt full damage without any reduction. Thanks to his W that scaled with health you could build a boatload of health and in the end you would have a ton of attack damage with enough health. I remmember once having more attack damage than my carry when I used my W with only warmog's armor (1450 health back then). You had free attack speed from your passive and from youmuu's active. So you would hit like a nuke, couldn't be stoped and was tanky as Rammus. He was up for a serious nerf and then Voyboy happened with his insane Olaf domination which was a nail in the coffin for Olaf. They nerfed him Karthus and Rengar style.

With rework they shifted a lot of that power to E, made axes into a chasing tool and removed AD from W but gave it better healint to compensate for the loss. Olaf is good but he can't be even compared with old one. Release one was even crazier, he gained insane damage reduction for 8 seconds on top of his cc immunity and armor pen. It was something like 60% on level 3 of skill.