Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
The stats shown on this page feature some valuable Azir against Ivern matchup statistics that can help you figure out the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ivern’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ivern. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Azir typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes more damage than Ivern. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champ with higher HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Azir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ivern, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Azir makes an ok counter for Ivern.
While Azir does have a higher win rate compared to Ivern, when on opposite teams, Azir also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Azir into Ivernas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Azir has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Azir vs Ivern matchups, Azir is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Azir is a decent counter for Ivern. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Azir against Ivern.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Ivern during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir on average gets much more CS compared to Ivern. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Azir versus Ivern build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Nashor's Tooth, and Shadowflame. When Azir incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Ivern than with most other common item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 50.9% when countering Ivern with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Ivern as Azir, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Azir vs Ivern battles, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.9% winrate overall.
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