Ivern vs Akshan
How to Beat Akshan as Ivern
based on 755 Ivern vs Akshan matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Akshan Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Akshan Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akshan as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Akshan
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!
Ivern vs Akshan Counter Stats
How to Counter Akshan with Ivern in LoL
The stats shown here underscore several influential Ivern versus Akshan counter statistics that can help us interpret the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akshan’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akshan. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Ivern typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives less damage than Akshan. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ivern and Akshan
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Who is Better, Ivern or Akshan?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when trying to fight Akshan, with a 51.7% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes a good counter for Akshan.
While Ivern does have a higher winrate compared to Akshan, when on opposite teams, Ivern also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Akshanas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akshan. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Akshan matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter for Akshan. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Ivern against Akshan.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ivern to counter Akshan during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern usually picks up a lot less CS relative to Akshan. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ivern versus Akshan build consist of Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed much better vs Akshan than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ivern had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Akshan with this build.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Akshan as Ivern, Ivern players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Ivern vs Akshan counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Akshan as Ivern are displayed for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the statistics and builds to a specific player tier, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.