Ivern vs Kassadin
How to Beat Kassadin as Ivern
based on 591 Ivern vs Kassadin matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Kassadin Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Kassadin Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kassadin as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Kassadin
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!
Advice to Win Against Kassadin
It takes 6 spell casts for Kassadin's slow, Force Pulse, to become castable. If he levels up that ability, judiciously use your own skills while laning against him.
Kassadin deals mostly magic damage. If he's doing well consider buying magic resist items like Mercury's Treads and Banshee's Veil.
Each time Kassadin consecutively uses Riftwalk, he pays more and more mana. Keep this in mind as you chase him.
Ivern vs Kassadin Counter Stats
How to Counter Kassadin with Ivern in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several critical Ivern against Kassadin matchup statistics that may help us realize the differences between the two. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kassadin’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kassadin. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Kassadin. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Kassadin
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Who is Better, Ivern or Kassadin?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually loses when trying to fight Kassadin, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Ivern makes a bad counter to Kassadin.
While Ivern does have a lower win rate than Kassadin, when on opposite teams, Ivern also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Ivern into Kassadinas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Kassadin. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Kassadin matchups, Kassadin is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Ivern is a garbage counter to Kassadin. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ivern against Kassadin.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ivern to counter Kassadin during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern on average racks up a lot less CS relative to Kassadin. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ivern versus Kassadin build consist of Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Kassadin than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ivern boasted an average winrate of 46.2% battling Kassadin with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Kassadin as Ivern, you should take the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Ivern vs Kassadin counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 46.2% winrate overall.
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