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!
Nasus is prone to being kited. Try not to engage him at full Health.
Max rank Wither is a very effective counter to Attack Damage characters, so try to avoid getting caught alone by it.
While transformed by his ultimate, Nasus is stronger than most champions in the League. Engage him only if you have a clear advantage.
The stats provided here underscore several important Ivern vs. Nasus counter statistics that can help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Nasus’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Nasus. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Nasus. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when facing off against Nasus, with a 51.2% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes a good counter for Nasus.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate than Nasus, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ivern into Nasusas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Nasus. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Nasus matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter for Nasus. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ivern against Nasus.
To truly master Ivern in order to counter Nasus during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern often gets a lot less CS compared to Nasus. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ivern versus Nasus build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Nasus than with many other common item sets. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 51.2% when countering Nasus with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Nasus as Ivern, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ivern vs Nasus fights, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nasus as Ivern are given for all ranked divisions. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu at the top of this page.