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!
Ryze is especially dangerous to opponents that are marked with Flux.
Use Realm Warp's windup time to figure out how to deal with what may be coming out of the portal.
Crowd controlling Ryze during Realm Warp's windup will cancel the portal.
The stats shown here show some valuable Ivern versus Ryze matchup stats that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ryze’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Ryze. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. On average, he takes less damage than Ryze. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually wins when trying to fight Ryze, with a 52.0% win rate. Thus, Ivern makes a good counter for Ryze.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate than Ryze, when on opposite teams, Ivern also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Ryzeas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ryze. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Ryze matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Ryze. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Ryze.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ivern to counter Ryze 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 mind the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern most often accumulates a lot less CS as Ryze. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ivern versus Ryze build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern included at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better vs Ryze than with most other typical builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average winrate of 52.0% battling Ryze with this build.
To have the highest probability of defeating Ryze 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. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Ivern vs Ryze fights, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 52.0% winrate overall.
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