Ivern vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Ivern
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Ivern vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Kalista
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 Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Ivern vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Ivern in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some vital Ivern versus Kalista matchup stats that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Kalista. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Ivern typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kalista. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ivern and Kalista
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Who is Better, Ivern or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ivern usually wins when playing against Kalista, with a 52.5% win rate. Thus, Ivern makes a good counter for Kalista.
While Ivern does have a higher win rate than Kalista, when on opposite teams, Ivern also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Ivern into Kalistaas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Ivern has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Kalista matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Ivern is an above average counter to Kalista. Focus your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ivern against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Ivern to counter Kalista during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern on average picks up a lot less CS as Kalista. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The best items to use in your Ivern versus Kalista build consist of Echoes of Helia, Redemption, and Ardent Censer. When Ivern combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better countering Kalista than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 52.5% when countering Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Kalista as Ivern, Ivern players should equip the Summon Aery, Nimbus Cloak, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Future's Market, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Ivern vs Kalista battles, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.5% winrate overall.
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