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!
Leaving the Smoke Screen's area of effect removes the harmful effect immediately.
Graves deals mostly physical damage so Armor is an effective counter.
The stat comparisons shown here underscore some critical Ivern against Graves counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences between the two. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Graves’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Graves. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes less damage than Graves. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when playing against Graves, with a 51.5% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes a good counter for Graves.
While Ivern does have a higher winrate compared to Graves, when facing one another, Ivern also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Gravesas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Graves. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Graves matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Graves. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Graves.
To learn all of the intricacies of Ivern to counter Graves during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern on average racks up less CS relative to Graves. Champions who typically don't earn much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Ivern versus Graves build consist of Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Ivern incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when fighting Graves than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ivern had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Graves with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Graves 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 Graves counters, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.5% win rate overall.
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