About Me

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First off I am still new to the game so I am open to any criticism. Also this is my first guide, so any help there is also appreciated. Olaf has to me been one of the most interesting champions in the game, you can play him tank, or off-tank and yet still perform the same role with a slightly different way of doing it. I picked up Olaf a few weeks ago and decided to try him as a top laner. As I played him top lane I started to wonder if he would work as a jungler, seeing as how I main jungle and support, I do a bit of searching, and it turns out yes he is in fact a viable jungler. I went through quite a few guides, however none of them seemed to be finished or exactly what I wanted so I decided to make my own. The result is this guide you are reading now. Well, that's enough about me, let's get to the actual guide.

Pros + Good sustain + Strong in team fights + If fed can snowball the game out of control + Ragnarok is amazing for getting out of any CC and creates nice escapes and engages + Once you engage on a gank level 6+ the enemy laner can't CC you

Cons - Relies on friendly laner to have CC and land it or landing Undertow - Relies on Undertow for early jungle clear - Blue buff dependent until somewhere late in mid-game - Weak against all forms of CC pre-six - Clear speed isn't as great as most junglers early game

Greater Quintessence of Attack Damage: All of Olaf's scaling abilities scale with AD. Also his main damage is gonna come from his Undertow and Berserker Rage as well as Reckless Swing.
Greater Mark of Attack Damage: Armor Pen doesn't really work well with Olaf since his Reckless Swing deals true damage. Other than that same reason as the Quints
Greater Glyph of Cooldown Reduction: 6 of these give you 5% CDR plus 5% from masteries means a free 10% CDR to start the game with.
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist: 3 of these to make up for the MR you're missing from not going full flat MR.
Greater Seal of Armor: Standard seals on pretty much any champ.

Remember you can replace the Armor for Percent Health or Flat Health if you want. That's a personal preference.

Ghost Ghost is amazing on Olaf with the increased move speed you can catch up to people and run ahead of them to make sure they don't get away. As well as running into the enemy team with Ragnarok+ Ghost and an Orianna ball on you while her Command: Shockwave is up you can almost guarantee a 3-man Shockwave at least. The wombo combos are pretty ridiculous.

Smite Smite is standard for all junglers. Even if you don't need it to jungle take it for the objective control, Baron Nashor and Dragon can change games.

Remember this build is more defensive. The whole point is make you near unkillable in teamfights while also giving you just a bit of damage to give some actual DPS. Spirit of the Ancient Golems is necessary for a defensive build, and therefore we build a lot of health and resistances. If the enemy is full AD I'd just go with Sunfire Aegis, Randuin's Omen, Thornmail, Ninja Tabi, and Blade of the Ruined King. The reason I take BotRK as my offensive item is because you can take out tanks as well as scare a squishy into focusing you, which can turn them into killing themselves on your Thornmail. When I pick Sunfire Aegis I get it because we already have a Randuin's user on the team, so I see no reason to get one for myself. As for BotRK v.s. Hydra: Hydra is more useful for when you want to get some waveclear or the enemy team likes to group up in melee range of you during teamfights. Otherwise, BotRK is just generally better. Spirit Visage v.s. Banshee's Veil v.s. Locket of the Iron Solari: Visage is generally the best choice, unless there are reasons the Spell shield of Banshee's would be better, such as the enemy having a combo caster or CC that if it hits you you're guaranteed to die, normally that's not a case for Olaf, but if they have a silence it might be. Get Locket if no one else wants to or isn't building it. It's generally a core item on tanky supports, but sometimes people don't build it so, it's nice if you can get it. Locket does give some useful stats and a nice shield, but it's just not an item you want unless your team needs it. Frozen Mallet v.s. Warmog's Armor: Mallet is more for it's slowing affect so you can stick to your targets, and Warmog's is for it's regen and health.

Ability Explanation

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Berserker Rage
Ability Sequencing

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As I said earlier in this guide. You always max Undertow first. After that depends on your preference. This is how I do it though.

Remember this build is more defensive. The whole point is make you near unkillable in teamfights while also giving you just a bit of damage to give some actual DPS. Spirit of the Ancient Golems is necessary for a defensive build, and therefore we build a lot of health and resistances. If the enemy is full AD I'd just go with Sunfire Aegis, Randuin's Omen, Thornmail, Ninja Tabi, and Blade of the Ruined King. The reason I take BotRK as my offensive item is because you can take out tanks as well as scare a squishy into focusing you, which can turn them into killing themselves on your Thornmail. When I pick Sunfire Aegis I get it because we already have a Randuin's user on the team, so I see no reason to get one for myself. As for BotRK v.s. Hydra: Hydra is more useful for when you want to get some waveclear or the enemy team likes to group up in melee range of you during teamfights. Otherwise, BotRK is just generally better. Spirit Visage v.s. Banshee's Veil v.s. Locket of the Iron Solari: Visage is generally the best choice, unless there are reasons the Spell shield of Banshee's would be better, such as the enemy having a combo caster or CC that if it hits you you're guaranteed to die, normally that's not a case for Olaf, but if they have a silence it might be. Get Locket if no one else wants to or isn't building it. It's generally a core item on tanky supports, but sometimes people don't build it so, it's nice if you can get it. Locket does give some useful stats and a nice shield, but it's just not an item you want unless your team needs it. Frozen Mallet v.s. Warmog's Armor: Mallet is more for it's slowing affect so you can stick to your targets, and Warmog's is for it's regen and health.

Created July 8th, 2014

September 17th, 2014: Added an item section in the guide to explain a bit more details about item choices