How to win lane as Olaf against Gragas · 54.02% win rate over 733 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Olaf | Your Q-slow-into-auto wins first contact and your passive ramps attack speed as you trade — Gragas has no level-1 burst to match it. |
| Level 2 | Olaf | At 2 you add E true damage to the Q-slow, a guaranteed chunk his Q-pool can't out-heal. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | Level 3 is genuinely even — he has Q-pool plus body-slam E to disengage and reset, so a missed axe lets him kite the trade out. |
| Levels 4-5 | Olaf | Your axe-reset perma-slow and W-omnivamp out-grind his Q-pool sustain across every short trade in this window. |
| Level 6 | Gragas | His R is his one out — it knocks you off him through Ragnarok or boops you into his jungler, so he owns the level-6 all-in if you respect the cancel poorly. |
| First item | Olaf | Black Cleaver plus your perma-slow is your most oppressive point — he can't body-slam away from a target he can never un-slow. |
| Two+ items | Olaf | You still beat his bruiser build 1v1, so close it now and dive before his AP scaling and E disengage reclaim the game past two items. |
Gragas wants to chip you with Q and heal it on the pool, but his Q-pool sustain can't keep up with how hard you punish a melee. Land your axe through him for the slow, then walk in for an auto and E true damage — that guaranteed chunk ignores his W damage reduction and out-trades anything his pool heals back. Chase the axe pickup so your Q refunds and the slow never drops, which is what stops him body-slamming away clean. Don't whiff the axe into minions and don't trade into his Q when it's about to come off cooldown.
The full Olaf vs Gragas 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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