Ivern vs Gwen
How to Beat Gwen as Ivern
based on 876 Ivern vs Gwen matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Gwen Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Gwen Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Gwen as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Gwen
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 Gwen
Gwen must hit something to recast her Ultimate, try to evade her between casts.
Gwen needs to attack a few times to set up her damage, so try to get the jump on her.
Gwen's Hallowed Mist shroud will only follow her once, after that it will dissipate when she leaves.
Ivern vs Gwen Counter Stats
How to Counter Gwen with Ivern in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here highlight several significant Ivern against Gwen counter statistics that may help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Gwen’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Gwen. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Gwen. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Gwen
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Who is Better, Ivern or Gwen?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually fairs equally well when playing against Gwen, with a 50.6% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes an ok counter to Gwen.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate than Gwen, when facing one another, Ivern also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Gwenas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Gwen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Gwen matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Gwen. Make sure you focus your play on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ivern against Gwen.
Other Champion Matchups Against Ivern
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ivern in order to counter Gwen during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern usually racks up a lot less CS relative to Gwen. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Ivern versus Gwen build consist of Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern used at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Gwen than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 50.6% battling Gwen with this build.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Gwen as Ivern, you should use the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Eyeball Collection, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Ivern vs Gwen fights, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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