Ivern vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Ivern
based on 384 Ivern vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
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 on this page highlight several valuable Ivern vs. Kalista matchup stats that can help us interpret the distinctions between the two. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kalista. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Kalista. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Kalista
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Who is Better, Ivern or Kalista?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ivern usually wins when facing off against Kalista, with a 55.5% win rate. Thus, Ivern makes a fantastic counter to Kalista.
While Ivern does have a much higher win rate than Kalista, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Ivern into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ivern has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Kalista matchups, Ivern is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Ivern is a great counter to Kalista. Make sure you focus your strategy on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ivern against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ivern in order to counter Kalista 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 listen to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern on average picks up a lot less CS relative to Kalista. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Ivern versus Kalista build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern combined at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Kalista than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 55.5% battling Kalista with this counter build.
To have the best probability of beating Kalista as Ivern, you should take 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 players picked for Ivern vs Kalista battles, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 55.5% winrate overall.
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