Ivern vs Brand
How to Beat Brand as Ivern
based on 2,432 Ivern vs Brand matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Brand Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Brand Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Brand as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Brand
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 Brand
Brand's passive allows him to excel against teams that cluster together. Be sure to split up against him.
Brand must land an ability before his combo is able to get started. Dodging his Sear or Pillar of Flame will disrupt his rhythm.
Try to move away from allies when you see Pyroclasm being cast. The initial missile speed is slow, which should give your team time to react.
Ivern vs Brand Counter Stats
How to Counter Brand with Ivern in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some important Ivern versus Brand matchup statistics that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Brand’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Brand. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Brand. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ivern and Brand
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Who is Better, Ivern or Brand?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Brand, with a 50.0% win rate. Thus, Ivern makes an ok counter to Brand.
While Ivern does have a higher winrate than Brand, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Brandas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Brand. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Brand matchups, Brand is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter for Brand. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ivern against Brand.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ivern to counter Brand during both the early game 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 grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern on average picks up a lot less CS as Brand. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Ivern versus Brand build consist of Staff of Flowing Water, Moonstone Renewer, and Dawncore. When Ivern combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Brand than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average winrate of 50.0% when playing against Brand with this counter build.
To have the best chance of beating Brand as Ivern, you should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cosmic Insight, and Future's Market runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Ivern vs Brand clashes, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 50.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Brand as Ivern are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.