Brolaf Olaf - Legendary Skin, Splash & Chromas

Brolaf dropped December 1, 2010 and it’s still one of the most committed comedy skins in the entire game. Riot took Olaf, a screaming Viking who throws axes and runs at people with zero self-preservation instinct, and reframed him as a college bro. Board shorts. Sunglasses. A keg where the axe should be. Somehow this is a Legendary skin and somehow it earns it. Been maining Olaf on and off since season three and this is the one I always come back to when I want the enemy top laner to start second-guessing their life choices before the first wave hits.

What Brolaf actually changes on Olaf

The whole skin is built around one gag: the axes become kegs. Beer kegs, specifically – and thats the joke the entire kit commits to. It sounds dumb written out. In-game it reads as one of the best visual gags Riot has executed at this price point. You throw a keg at a Darius in the pre-6 laning phase and there is something genuinely satisfying about watching it bounce off him.

New VFX across the full kit. Q, Undertow, gets the keg throw – the keg flies out, bounces, sits on the ground, and you run back to pick it up exactly like you would with an axe. The loop animation on it is clean. W, Vicious Strikes, gets updated particles to fit the bro aesthetic. E, Reckless Swing, connects with a satisfying crack. R, Ragnarok – Brolaf’s ult – loses the Viking fury framing entirely. VFX on the ult pop differently here. It’s good work.

The voice lines are where this Legendary really justifies 1820 RP. Logan ‘Lomar’ Margulies voiced Brolaf and committed fully to the bit. The new VO is packed with bro-speak, party references, and lines that make zero logical sense coming from a berserker. (random aside: there is one specific line in here that made me stop a ranked game mid-cs to actually laugh, which I genuinely cannot say about 90% of skins at this tier.) If you’ve only heard base Olaf, the contrast is jarring in the best way. This is exactly why Legendary skins exist.

No new recall animation though. That’s the one real knock I have against Brolaf at 1820 RP – a keg stand recall was sitting right there and they didn’t take it. The absence is noticeable once you know it’s missing. Every other Legendary I own has a distinct recall. This one just reuses base.

Day Job skinline, December 2010, and the eight chromas

Brolaf lives in the Day Job skinline, Riot’s loose collection of “what if this champion had a normal human persona” concepts. Released December 1, 2010 – this was season one, early League, when the design team leaned hard into comedy without overthinking it. No splash artist credited for Brolaf, which is standard for that era of releases. The splash has that pre-2014 stylized look Riot moved away from. Could be wrong here but I think the Brolaf splash holds up specifically because the expression on his face is completely deadpan – sunglasses on, keg in hand, absolutely zero acknowledgment that any of this is weird.

Eight chromas available. Turquoise leans into the beach-party reading of the skin harder than base. Obsidian takes Brolaf almost out of comedy territory entirely – goes dark enough that it reads clean in-game without screaming “look at my funny skin.” Tanzanite goes deep purple and hits different if you want something that doesn’t blend into the Rift. There’s 8 options total, so you’ve got real variety here without having to settle for a color that doesn’t fit.

Still in the shop, available any time. Not legacy vault, not loot-only. Grab Brolaf for 1820 RP whenever you want. Loot eligible too, so if you’re cracking chests and need an Olaf skin, it can land from there.

Should you buy Brolaf?

Real verdict: Brolaf earns Legendary through personality over raw production value. The new VO carries the whole thing. Grinded ranked with this for roughly six months straight around season eleven and the voice lines never went stale – that is genuinely rare at any price. The missing recall hurts, but the keg-as-weapon gag is so well executed that it barely registers once you’re in a teamfight chasing down their backline at full Ragnarok speed.

Not sure if it’s just me but Brolaf has this specific quality where the enemy in top lane starts playing differently the moment they see what skin you’re running. Something about a keg flying at them at pre-6 just looks unserious in a way that tilts people before they realize they’re tilted. Seen this in my Diamond games more than once. The skin is old but the psychological angle hasn’t aged at all.

First choice for Olaf mains, full stop. If you want grimdark Viking Olaf, Pentakill Olaf or Marauder Olaf both exist at lower RP. But if you want the VO, the kit changes, and the Day Job skinline concept done right? 1820 RP well spent. Lock it in.