Talk:Olaf/@comment-190.183.60.68-20101215160444/@comment-3213212-20101216213533

^ I do belive you're missing the point completely. It's not about losing X damage from Vicious Strikes here, or at least, not only. It's about the fact that Olaf got nerfed even though he is widely considered to be one of the most balanced *and* useful Champions at this moment. And it's not a small nerf we're talking about here - first of all, it's 2/3 of the whole bonus power of one of his skills. Secondly - I really doubt that Riot put in any serious thought to that nerf. Making it 0.5% of HP on every level is basically like taking this part away completely. It's power basically does not grow with Champion level which renders this skill actually *weaker* as the game goes on, compared to other skills with an effect based on Champion stats. Even if you're assuming 3k HP, you will get total of 15 bonus Attack Damage which is less than half of what you're getting by just having this skill at level 5.

Another thing is that also his Ultimate got nerfed - not in the most important part, but still, I don't think anyone serious though that damage reduction part was imbalanced in any way.

Also, the fact that other Champions are nerfed more than Olaf is not an argument at all. You say Katarina (and it's "she", btw.) got nerfed harder - I say that Katarina is not a pure-AD based autoattacker. Her ultimate is more or less AoE and is able to deal far greater damage in a teamfight than Olaf, same goes to Vladimir, Galio and other Champions that got nerfed in patch 106/107.

And one more thing about how much though Riot puts in their nerfs - Undertow now deals Physical damage, which means that Olaf deals no Magical damage at all. So, I'm wondering - why Vicious Strikes still has Spell Vamp component? It's not like you would heal yourself with Undertow before but now it's completely useless - why is it still there?

Olaf is certainly not unplayable or useless and I am sure that some item build changes can fill up for Vicious Strikes. What bothers me though and I'm going to express it, is that Riot made a change that has nothing to do with balance, was completely unconsidered and rendered half of Olaf's skill pointless.

P.S. - Phantom Dancer on Jax in most cases is a failure and users on EU Forums don't have time to worry about Olaf probably because they are too busy mourning Twitch and so called "Tank" Garen.