Ivern vs Katarina
How to Beat Katarina as Ivern
based on 1,475 Ivern vs Katarina matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Katarina Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Katarina Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Katarina as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Katarina
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 Katarina
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
Ivern vs Katarina Counter Stats
How to Counter Katarina with Ivern in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some influential Ivern versus Katarina matchup stats that may help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Katarina’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Katarina. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Katarina
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Who is Better, Ivern or Katarina?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Katarina, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes an ok counter for Katarina.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate compared to Katarina, when on opposite teams, Ivern also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less time consuming champ to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Ivern into Katarinaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Katarina matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Katarina. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Katarina.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ivern to counter Katarina during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern often accumulates a lot less CS relative to Katarina. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ivern versus Katarina build include Redemption, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Ivern used at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Katarina than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 50.6% battling Katarina with this build.
To have the best probability of vanquishing Katarina as Ivern, Ivern players should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Ivern vs Katarina matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.6% win rate overall.
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