Ivern vs Kog'Maw
How to Beat Kog'Maw as Ivern
based on 329 Ivern vs Kog'Maw matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Kog'Maw Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Kog'Maw Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kog'Maw as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Kog'Maw
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 Kog'Maw
The range on Living Artillery increases each rank.
Run away from Kog'Maw after he dies!!!!
Kog'Maw doesn't have a good escape ability, so he is especially prone to ganks.
Bio-Arcane Barrage allows Kog'Maw to kill Baron Nashor extremely early. It can be valuable to ward Nashor when Kog'Maw completes his Blade of the Ruined King.
Ivern vs Kog'Maw Counter Stats
How to Counter Kog'Maw with Ivern in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several influential Ivern against Kog'Maw counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences between the two. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kog'Maw’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kog'Maw. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his opponent does. Typically, he takes less damage than Kog'Maw. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ivern and Kog'Maw
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Who is Better, Ivern or Kog'Maw?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually fairs equally well when facing off against Kog'Maw, with a 50.8% win rate. Thus, Ivern makes an ok counter for Kog'Maw.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate than Kog'Maw, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more time consuming champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Kog'Mawas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kog'Maw. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Kog'Maw matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Kog'Maw. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ivern against Kog'Maw.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ivern to counter Kog'Maw during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern often picks up a lot less CS compared to Kog'Maw. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Ivern versus Kog'Maw build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better against Kog'Maw than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 50.8% when countering Kog'Maw with this build.
To have the highest chance of beating Kog'Maw 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 runes we have analyed for Ivern vs Kog'Maw battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.8% winrate overall.
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