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!
Get boots early when playing against Syndra, they'll help you avoid many of her spells.
Attack Syndra after she's used Scatter the Weak, it has a long cooldown so she'll be vulnerable.
At max rank Syndra's spells gain bonus effects and change in appearance.
The stats shown on this page clarify some influential Ivern against Syndra counter stats that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Syndra’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Syndra. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Syndra. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when taking on Syndra, with a 51.2% win rate. As a result, Ivern makes a good counter for Syndra.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate compared to Syndra, when facing one another, Ivern also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Ivern into Syndraas 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 Syndra. This 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 overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Syndra matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Syndra. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Syndra.
If you would like to truly master Ivern in order to counter Syndra during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern typically accumulates a lot less CS as Syndra. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have 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 large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ivern versus Syndra build include Ardent Censer, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better against Syndra than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ivern had an average win rate of 51.2% when playing against Syndra with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of coming out on top against Syndra 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 that we analyzed for Ivern vs Syndra matchups, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.2% win rate overall.
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