How to win lane as Olaf against Pantheon · 54.71% win rate over 923 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | Pantheon owns level 1: his W point-click stun plus empowered Q out-bursts you before your E true damage or W sustain exist. |
| Level 2 | Even / skill | It evens out at 2 — you have a slow and a trade tool now, but his passive still blocks autos and his Q poke trades back. |
| Level 3 | Olaf | With Q-slow into E true damage you flip it — his auto-block passive does nothing against guaranteed true damage and he has no dash to escape. |
| Levels 4-5 | Olaf | Your W-omnivamp out-sustains his spear poke and your axe-reset slows let you walk him down all-in after all-in. |
| Level 6 | Olaf | Ragnarok removes and immunizes his W stun — the core of his all-in — so you ult and run him down or dive him for free. |
| First item | Olaf | Your Bramble/Black Cleaver spike lands while Pantheon already falls off into items — force every trade now. |
| Two+ items | Olaf | You keep beating him late because he scales worse than you do — only his global R roam saves him, so close the map before that matters. |
Pantheon is the one window where you have to be careful — at levels 1-2 his W point-click stun into an empowered Q spear can chunk you before your E true damage and W sustain are online, and his passive blocks your autos so your raw trades feel weak. Don't walk into a level-1 stun-lock; farm the wave and wait for your spike. The moment you hit 3 with Q plus E, the lane flips: land Q to stick the slow, walk in, and E for guaranteed true damage that his passive shield can't block.
The full Olaf vs Pantheon 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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