Despair is very effective against other tanks, so make sure you're in range of opponents with the highest Health.
Amumu is highly dependent on teammates, so try laning with your friends for maximum effectiveness.
Cooldown Reduction on Amumu is very strong, but it's often difficult to itemize for it. Grab the Golem buff whenever possible to gain Cooldown Reduction without sacrificing stats.
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 highlight several influential Amumu vs. Ivern matchup statistics that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Amumu’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ivern’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Amumu may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Ivern..
Amumu normally has a similar longest killing spree as his enemy does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Ivern. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Amumu usually fairs equally well when facing off against Ivern, with a 49.1% win rate. Therefore, Amumu makes an ok counter for Ivern.
While Amumu does have a lower win rate compared to Ivern, when they face off with one another, Amumu also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Amumu into Ivern.
Moreover, Amumu also has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Amumu 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Amumu is a somewhat poor counter for Ivern. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Amumu against Ivern.
To truly master Amumu in order to counter Ivern during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Amumu typically racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Ivern. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Amumu versus Ivern build consist of Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Amumu combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Ivern than with most other common item sets. In fact, Amumu had an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Ivern with this build.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Ivern as Amumu, Amumu players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Amumu vs Ivern counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.1% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Ivern as Amumu are given for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu earlier on the page.