Talk:Olaf/@comment-4034717-20110604183521/@comment-89.167.76.163-20110614184534

I do not know who were you playing against in those 200 games, but I have to assume, if you're telling me that your build is Youumu's Ghostblade, Bloodthirster and a Wriggle's Latern, Exhaust and Ghost as your summoner spells (for a jungling Olaf, mind) and you're *initiating fights* with this, that you've been playing with plain, retarded morons, monkeys or bots. As simple as that and I will give you my reasoning for that.

First of all, your Ultimate does not work on Blind, which is kinda the most important debuff when fighting a right-clicker like Olaf. So if they happen to have Teemo or Corki in their team, you're dead meat. instantly. Also, I'll put it this way - it's not about being a tank, because it's not HP that makes Champion a tank. But if you'd be playing against anything more than a blind, one-handed idiot like you did in your 200 other games, you'd be blown away in a matter of seconds by *ANY* kind of an AP carry. Saying that lifesteal will be your survivability is a lie and pure nonsense when you don't have any kind of reliable form of CC whatsoever. No one, and I mean *no one* will stand in place and let you hack on him, ultimate or no ultimate. You ain't getting survivability items of any description that does not rely on people getting DCed in a middle of a fight - you're dead meat to any burst damage. That's a simple fact in any level of play other than levels 1-5.

I'm not going to say that TSM build or the one I use is the only viable for Olaf, you certainly can take other route when playing him. But I won't stand for someone saying that lifesteal will be enough for any meele DPS to survive because it won't, no matter if it's Master Yi, Olaf or Jax. If you're not getting HP/Armor/Mresist - you're dead and theyr Ap/AD ranged carry is getting fed. And Olaf has the luxury of being able to stack some HP from Mallet/Warmog's/Banshee/Randuin's and still deal tons of damage with his Q, AA with bonus attack speed from passive and take a huge chunk of HP from Armor/Mresist stacking opponents with Reckless Swing and reach 300+ AD with Atma's Impaler and his W. Not using this advantage is wrong and will always lead to playing Olaf unefficiently and subpar to his abilities.