Ivern, the Team Dependency Jungle

Know how when you're support, you need your ADC to be competent at their job in order to be able to do your job? Imagine playing a roaming support that needs CS AND for a minimum of 2 allies to be competent at their jobs in order to be able to do your job. Because that's what you get with Ivern. You are an extra support for a team that probably doesn't want you.

You won't be getting an impressive kill count on Ivern. At best, you'll gain many assists as long as at least one ally on your team knows that them waiting a tiny bit for you to be there will benefit them.

Know how when a jungle can't help a lane if they fed an enemy? It's especially true for Ivern. He cannot shut down a fed enemy, he can assist an ally in shutting that enemy down, but anything else will only end up getting him killed.

In my humble opinion, Ivern is not suited for solo players. It's as though he was designed specifically for pre-mades and the dynamic queue that a large portion of the player base despises.

Ivern has potential and he's fun. In spite of his AP scaling, I actually discovered that I enjoy more success with him by building straight tank. But, you won't see me taking him into a ranked game, especially at my elo.