Bel’Veth vs Olaf Counter Pick

Olaf brings one of the few true-damage tools available in the jungle: Reckless Swing ignores resistances entirely, and Ragnarok grants immunity to disables for as long as he keeps attacking, which on paper should neutralize Royal Maelstrom’s root and Above and Below’s knockup. It doesn’t work out that way in practice — the matchup lands at 58.7% for Bel’Veth across 121 games on patch 16.13.1.

Part of the explanation is timing. Olaf’s true damage scales with the axe thrown in Undertow, but at 68 base attack damage and a 125 attack range, he has to close distance the old-fashioned way, while Bel’Veth’s Void Surge dash and later attack-range increase from Endless Banquet let her dictate when the fight starts. Olaf’s difficulty rating of 3 also means his damage output rarely surprises an opponent tracking cooldowns. Olaf reaches a strong 2,668 health at level 18, ahead of Bel’Veth’s 2,395, but Death in Lavender’s stacking attack speed tends to close that health gap faster than Tough It Out’s shield can offset it. Olaf’s Berserker Rage passive grants attack speed and life steal that scale with missing health, meaning the fight gets more dangerous for Bel’Veth the longer it drags on rather than less. Both champions face a short-range exchange of their own — Olaf’s 125 reach against Bel’Veth’s 150 — which forces exactly the melee trading his kit is built to win before that life steal curve becomes a real problem.