Ivern vs Kayn
How to Beat Kayn as Ivern
based on 1,963 Ivern vs Kayn matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ivern vs Kayn Matchup Summary
Best Ivern vs Kayn Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kayn as Ivern
Tips for Playing as Ivern against Kayn
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 Kayn
When Kayn is in terrain near you, you will get a visual warning on the edge of the terrain he's in.
Umbral Trespass requires Kayn to damage a target first. Try to dodge Blade's Reach to deny him a long range cast of Umbral Trespass.
Damage Kayn while he's in Shadow Step to shorten its duration, or apply hard crowd control (stun, charm, knockup, etc) to end Shadow Step immediately.
Ivern vs Kayn Counter Stats
How to Counter Kayn with Ivern in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several vital Ivern versus Kayn counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Ivern’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Kayn’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ivern may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kayn. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Ivern normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kayn. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ivern and Kayn
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Who is Better, Ivern or Kayn?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Ivern usually fairs equally well when playing against Kayn, with a 50.9% win rate. Therefore, Ivern makes an ok counter for Kayn.
While Ivern does have a higher winrate compared to Kayn, when they face off with one another, Ivern also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Ivern into Kaynas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ivern also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kayn. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Ivern vs Kayn matchups, Ivern is the better champ with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Ivern is a decent counter to Kayn. Focus your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Ivern against Kayn.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ivern in order to counter Kayn during both the laning 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 mind the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ivern most often gets less CS relative to Kayn. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 numbers shown on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Ivern versus Kayn build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Redemption, and Moonstone Renewer. When Ivern combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better versus Kayn than with many other typical builds. In fact, Ivern boasted an average win rate of 50.9% battling Kayn with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Kayn 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 builds players chose for Ivern vs Kayn counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kayn as Ivern are given for all skill levels, merged. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.