Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
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 several vital Kog'Maw versus Ivern matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Ivern’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ivern. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Kog'Maw typically has a much larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ivern. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Ivern, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Kog'Maw makes an ok counter for Ivern.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower win rate compared to Ivern, when on opposite teams, Kog'Maw also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Kog'Maw into Ivern.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw vs Ivern matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Kog'Maw is a somewhat poor counter for Ivern. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Ivern.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kog'Maw in order to counter Ivern during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw most often picks up much more CS as Ivern. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Kog'Maw versus Ivern build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Blade of The Ruined King, and Terminus. When Kog'Maw incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs Ivern than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 49.2% when countering Ivern with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Ivern as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Kog'Maw vs Ivern face-offs, this combo of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 49.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ivern as Kog'Maw are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.