How to win lane as Mordekaiser against Olaf · 47.91% win rate (2,200 Emerald+ games, lolalytics, sampled July 2026) · Matchup data reviewed on patch 26.15
His true damage out-duels the realm — deny axes, build armor, anti-heal.
Track: Olaf's R — Ragnarok (100–80s cooldown). He’s relentless in it. Bait it before R.
Read from Mordekaiser's seat: which stage windows this plan plays for against Olaf.
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Olaf | Olaf out-trades you at level 1 — Undertow shreds armour and refunds its 9s cooldown on pickup, while you have only Q and no Darkness Rise aura yet. |
| Level 2 | Mordekaiser | Your Q+W spike arrives: Obliterate single-target poke banks into an Indestructible shield you recast as a heal, letting you trade back evenly for one window. |
| Level 3 | Olaf | Reckless Swing's true damage out-paces your W sustain at 4-5, and Ragnarok's disable immunity shrugs off the Death's Grasp pull you'd peel with. |
| Levels 4-5 | Olaf | Even with Darkness Rise online Reckless Swing chunks through your shield in true damage, and Undertow's slow lets him kite your aura. |
| Level 6 | Mordekaiser | Realm of Death isolates him 1v1 with no jungle peel — you stack Darkness Rise and out-DPS him, your guaranteed flip even in a losing lane. |
| First item | Olaf | His first bruiser item plus lifesteal lets his true-damage all-in out-grind your W heal once Ragnarok is back up. |
| Two+ items | Olaf | Extended fights favour him — Reckless Swing's true damage ignores your shield, and you cannot peel or escape an Olaf who is CC-immune in R. |
"Olaf owns the opening levels. Undertow shreds your armour and slows, and picking the axe back up refunds its 9s cooldown, so he chips you for free while you have only Q and no Darkness Rise aura online yet. Your window is level 2-3: poke with Obliterate, bank the damage into your Indestructible shield, and recast it to heal off the trade. Do not greed an all-in — if he pops Ragnarok mid-trade your E pull does nothing, and Reckless Swing's true damage carves through your shield."
Pooled Emerald+ win rates from Mordekaiser's side, sampled July 2026.
The full Mordekaiser vs Olaf report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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Olaf, slightly — Mordekaiser wins 47.91% of 2,200 games; winnable with the right plan.
Mostly — Olaf has a small statistical edge (52.09% win rate), but execution decides this lane far more than the pick does.
No — if anything Olaf has the slight edge (Mordekaiser wins 47.91%), though it stays close.
Mordekaiser takes Conqueror on the Precision tree with Triumph, Legend: Haste and Last Stand, and Resolve secondary (Bone Plating and Overgrowth) vs Olaf.
Start Doran's Shield + Health Potion and back for Haunting Guise / Giant's Belt (≈900-1300g). Build Liandry's Torment (burn carries his extended trades) first, then Riftmaker (omnivamp turns the Realm 1v1 unloseable), with Plated Steelcaps (Swiftness into kite comps).
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