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!
Try to engage him in short bursts instead of going toe-to-toe with him. Preventing him from attacking consecutively drastically lowers his damage output.
Jax can dodge all incoming attacks for a very short amount of time and stuns enemies in melee range when it ends. Wait to strike him until after his dodge is finished.
The stats shown here emphasize several vital Ivern versus Jax counter stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Jax’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Jax. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Ivern typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Jax. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when playing against Jax, with a 52.4% win rate. As a result, Ivern makes a good counter to Jax.
While Ivern does have a higher winrate than Jax, when on opposite teams, Ivern also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Ivern into Jaxas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Jax. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Jax matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a noticably 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 good counter to Jax. Focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Jax.
To truly master Ivern to counter Jax during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern typically gets a lot less CS compared to Jax. Champions who typically don't get much CS typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ivern versus Jax build consist of Shurelya's Battlesong, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better versus Jax than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 52.4% battling Jax with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Jax 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. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ivern vs Jax counterpicks, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.4% win rate overall.
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