Olaf vs Naafiri Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
In Jungle, this is Olaf versus Naafiri — a fighter/tank hybrid against a assassin/fighter hybrid. 270 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Olaf at a 41.5% win rate into Naafiri. Sitting 8.5 points below the 50% line marks Naafiri as a genuine problem pick for Olaf.
Neither profile surprises the other: Olaf and Naafiri are both physical threats. Olaf opens on 645 health and 35 armour, Naafiri on 610 and 28. 7 armour of separation tilts level-one trades toward Olaf. Olaf scales to 2668 health by 18 while Naafiri reaches 2395. Base attack damage is 68 against 55, so Olaf wins the raw auto-attack exchange. Speed reads 350 to 340, handing Olaf the better rotations.
Track Tough It Out on Olaf and Hounds’ Pursuit on Naafiri — the matchup swings on those two. Level six shifts things: Ragnarok on one side, Hounds’ Pursuit on the other.
With both sitting in melee range (125 against 125), neither side gets a free poke pattern.
Treat 270 games as the confidence attached to 41.5%. Everything comes from Emerald+ solo queue and refreshes without manual input.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Naafiri has the statistical edge. Olaf wins 41.5% of the recorded games.
41.5% from Olaf's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
270 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Olaf build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Olaf build page.