Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
The stats shown on this page underscore some important Leona against Ivern counter stats that may help us realize the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Ivern’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Ivern..
Leona normally has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Ivern. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when trying to fight Ivern, with a 51.6% win rate. Thus, Leona makes a good counter to Ivern.
While Leona does have a higher winrate compared to Ivern, when they face off with one another, Leona also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Leona into Ivern.
Moreover, Leona has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ivern. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Ivern matchups, Leona is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Leona is a decent counter to Ivern. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Leona against Ivern.
If you would like to truly master Leona to counter Ivern during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually picks up more CS relative to Ivern. Champs who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Leona versus Ivern build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Ivern than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 51.6% when playing against Ivern with this build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Ivern as Leona, Leona players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Leona vs Ivern counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.6% win rate overall.
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