Katarina vs Ivern
How to Beat Ivern as Katarina
based on 1,475 Katarina vs Ivern matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Ivern Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Ivern Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ivern as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Ivern
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
Advice to Win Against Ivern
Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!
Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
Katarina vs Ivern Counter Stats
How to Counter Ivern with Katarina in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several vital Katarina versus Ivern counter statistics that may help you interpret the differences between this pair of champs. As an example, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ivern’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ivern. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Katarina typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Ivern. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Katarina and Ivern
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Who is Better, Katarina or Ivern?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually fairs equally well when playing against Ivern, with a 49.4% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes an ok counter for Ivern.
While Katarina does have a lower win rate than Ivern, when facing one another, Katarina also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Katarina into Ivernas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Katarina vs Ivern matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Ivern. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Katarina against Ivern.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Katarina to counter Ivern during both the laning 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 tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina often accumulates much more CS relative to Ivern. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Katarina versus Ivern build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Katarina incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better against Ivern than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Katarina had an average winrate of 49.4% when playing against Ivern with these items in her kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Ivern as Katarina, you should equip the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Katarina vs Ivern matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.4% winrate overall.
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