Ivern vs Irelia
How to Beat Irelia as Ivern
based on 1,098 Ivern vs Irelia matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Irelia Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Irelia Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Irelia as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Irelia
Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!
Advice to Win Against Irelia
Pay attention to Ionian Fervor stacks and try to engage Irelia when it is down.
Minion waves greatly enhance Irelia's mobility, beware fighting her inside one.
Beware of wasting your high impact spells on Defiant Dance.
Ivern vs Irelia Counter Stats
How to Counter Irelia with Ivern in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some influential Ivern vs. Irelia matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Irelia’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Irelia. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Irelia. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Irelia
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Who is Better, Ivern or Irelia?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ivern usually fairs equally well when taking on Irelia, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes an ok counter for Irelia.
While Ivern does have a lower winrate than Irelia, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Ireliaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ivern has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Irelia. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Irelia matchups, Irelia is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ivern is a somewhat poor counter for Irelia. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Irelia.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ivern in order to counter Irelia during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern most often gets a lot less CS compared to Irelia. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ivern versus Irelia build include Redemption, Ardent Censer, and Staff of Flowing Water. When Ivern combined at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better countering Irelia than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ivern had an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Irelia with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of beating Irelia as Ivern, Ivern players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Ivern vs Irelia counterpicks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.4% winrate overall.
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