Ivern vs Garen
How to Beat Garen as Ivern
based on 1,342 Ivern vs Garen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Garen Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Garen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Garen as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Garen
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 Garen
Be careful about attacking Garen in brush. It often will lead to taking full damage from Judgment.
Stack armor items to lower the large amount of physical damage that Garen deals out.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. If getting out of its radius isn't possible, move through allied minions to reduce damage taken.
Try to run away from Garen as your health gets lower, as he can execute you quickly with Demacian Justice.
Ivern vs Garen Counter Stats
How to Counter Garen with Ivern in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several important Ivern against Garen matchup statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Garen’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Garen. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern usually has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Garen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with higher HP has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Garen
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Who is Better, Ivern or Garen?
Both LoL champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when playing against Garen, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Ivern makes a great counter to Garen.
While Ivern does have a higher winrate than Garen, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more complex champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Ivern into Garenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Garen. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Garen matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ivern is a great counter for Garen. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ivern against Garen.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ivern in order to counter Garen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern usually gets a lot less CS relative to Garen. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to use in your Ivern versus Garen build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Garen than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ivern had an average win rate of 53.1% when playing against Garen with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of beating Garen 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 combinations we have analyed for Ivern vs Garen battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
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