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THE SIEGE TREE UNSTOPPABLE IVERN - Can't Stump The Trunk

The Kind Deep··43 votes·3,400 views

You have yet to live until you play UNSEALED SPELLBOOK Ivern with max item CDR. item 2045 item 3060 item 3512 item 3158 <------ All you need

How to play: Start:item 1039 item 1006 and bring summoner 12 summoner 11

You are Ivern.... the most greedy tree in the gosh darned forest. In early game you do the Ivern, and start their buff. EZ first clear with rejuv bead and blue buff.

You want gank as much as possible to maximize your time spent until you get item 2045 and item 3512 . Don't forget you need the stacks of item cdr from Ingenious Hunter.

THEN THE GAME BEGINS.

You use your unsealed spellbook to maximize your roaming and siege potential. With daisy you can easily have her tank long enough to allow a zz to half health a tower. AND DO NOT FORGET YOU CAN HIDE ZZ IN YOUR BUSHES.

From the point you get the above items you want to maximize their time on the map and THROW YOUR GOSH DANGED STUMP AT THEIR NEXUS

By the late game if your team is losing simply ignore them and go for the clean end, it works almost every time.

REMEMBER YOU NEED MAX ITEM CDR FOR THIS TO WORK SO YOU CAN SEIGE CONSTANTLY

I recommend swapping between these summoner 12 summoner 6 and if need be ditch the smite.

Don't forget to USE YOUR BRAIN because this strat revolves around being so utterly strange that the enemy team cannot help but focus you or ignore you and make the mistake of thinking you are useless

THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU MY SEIGE TREES

GO!

RAM THAT NEXUS WITH YOUR STUMP!

31 Comments

Meep Man39 votes

Not gonna lie, this is the first thing I thought of when I saw this: http://static.starcitygames.com/sales/cardscans/MAGPRM/promodoranthesiegetower.jpg

Angrychickén9 votes

A man of culture I see

50000000000000001 votes

Holy shit, name checks out

Wolfeur4 votes

So, he is the guy whose items we buy all the time!

fƒ155 votes

bring demolish and redemption possibly as well for max pushing power!! and with demolish that %5/%10 bonus heal shields runeitem 3455

Steelflame6 votes

Honestly, I'd say he should skip the Unsealed Spellbook for either Resolve tree primary Dom second, or Primary Domination secondary Resolve.

All the Inspiration tree is really giving him is +5% CDR on items, which isn't worth an entire skill tree, and the summoner spell CDR isn't all that useful in his case IMO.

With Domination-Resolve, he could also double down on his own personal "Fuck you tower" with Demolish+Soul Hunter rune. This would give him two burst spikes vs a tower up front, and lets him use the other useful runes.

With Resolve-Domination, he could instead set himself up to be much more valuable to his own team in actual teamfight situations instead, with Guardian (which procs on whoever he shields if they take damage during said shield, or otherwise just point blank allies) and the more utility focused resolve runes, and still taking Demolish.

50000000000000002 votes

Domination is very obviously useful, so let's ignore that. Inspiration tree gives a lot of useful options. It first gives reduced summoner spell cooldown, which makes escape a lot easier. And since we're talking Ivern, it also means even more and easier counterjungling. Hexflash is an option as well, and I think this would allow for even better splitpushing. Future's Market is extremely valuable, since jungle income isn't great, and you hit insane powerspikes from item actives. Magical Footwear might be useful, but I think Future's Market is too valuable. There's a huge difference between having a Zz'Rot vs a item 2053 item 1057. 5% CDR on items isn't much when comparing between 0 and 5% CDR, but we're talking about 40% from bounty hunter, 10% from Ruby Sightstone, and another 5% from the rune. That's up to total of 55% compared to 50%, which brings down Zz'Rot cooldown to 54s from 120s (compared to 60s). On top of that, the 5% also applies for other active items, which you're planning to get a lot of.

Steelflame1 votes

A big arguement against Future's Market though is the very fact that your income isn't top tier. It means you are playing extra for items with a lower income.

Doctor Dyment4 votes

This is one of those things that looks incredibly stupid on paper, but I can see it working well. Like, weirdly well. I'm gonna try it.

Weedbro1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Doctor Dyment,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=A6Oysy94,comment-id=0001,timestamp=2018-01-03T02:29:25.018+0000)

This is one of those things that looks incredibly stupid on paper, but I can see it working well. Like, weirdly well. I'm gonna try it.

it is incredibly stupid. I'm an ivern main. I know this doesn't work. you know what happens? the enemy teleports on you and kills you. the end. Big whoop.

Andrey03451 votes

Wait, teleport doesn't give 4.5 seconds to dodge?

LadyRenly4 votes

Do you get Redemption, or do you just go straight tank after these items?

The Kind Deep4 votes

Most of the time I just go straight tank but if you get a redemption early it helps you grab stacks of Ingenious Hunter faster without much trouble. Not to mention that redemption with that much item cdr can get a tad crazy.

So, YES go redemption.

Ionian Vulpix3 votes

I mean, yeah, I could do that, but then I'd have to play Ivern, and he's almost as boring as Leona or Fiddlesticks. Ironic, considering how much I love Nunu.

LiteUpSketchers6 votes

There's something wrong with you

Ionian Vulpix2 votes

I do not confirm or deny this fact.

soopcan2 votes

this looks amazing, i want a video of this in action cause i don't have ivern yet

Agent Corgi2 votes

Gonna go try this, be back in like 3 games.

Agent Corgi16 votes

OK, played my 3 games. Can give a Synopsis. First two games didn't go so well, mainly because of the sequence I built the items with & multiple losing lanes. item 2045 --->item 3158 --->item 3512 --->item 3060

However, I tried a different approach on Game 3. I rushed item 3158 into item 3107 . The Healing/Shielding power that Redemption gives you will prove Valuable during ganks & being able to heal from Long Range will be extremely useful. After doing Jungle things (ganking & tending to the forest critters), I eventually started working on item 3512 & item 2045 . Once I got these two items, This playstyle REALLY took off as I was able to have 2 ZZ'rot Portals active at once. I did get the item 3060 & item 3174 (Figured more shields & heals would be good), which helped out in Sieges even further. Overall, the playstyle **DEFINITELY ** has potential, however you're team needs to understand your strategy & what you're intentions are. In game 3, I had been partnered up with a 4-Man Premade that started becoming annoyed & began flaming me (Usual "We'll all report you if you don't do what we say, because we're a premade" routine) when I wasn't around for teamfights (despite actually being there or throwing down a Redemption/Salvation for them). So you definitely have something here with this Ivern Ivern Playstyle, however you will have to play in a Coordinated team or Let your teammates know what you intend to do in-game.

Final Score/Item Path/Runes in Game 3: 2/2/35 Rank Recieved: S- item 1039 item 1006 -->item 3158 -->item 3107 -->item 3512 -->item 2045 -->item 3060 -->item 3174 -->item 3382 Runes: [Primary]: Unsealed Spellbook/Biscuit Delivery/Future's Market/Cosmic Insight [Secondary]: Zombie Poro/Ingenious Hunter

Marsupius2 votes

I'm part of the group he plays this with. We win a solid 66% of the time with this build/playstyle. He literally 1v1's Panteons like its nothing. This strat is so stupid and comical its amazing.

Weedbro2 votes

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I'm part of the group he plays this with. We win a solid 66% of the time with this build/playstyle. He literally 1v1's Panteons like its nothing. This strat is so stupid and comical its amazing.

stop jerking this dude off. I checked his profile, first of all, you don't win 66% of the time, its right there in lolprofile. Second, he's only played Ivern like 6 games in his last batch, and only has 35,000 mastery points. Dude hasn't even played Ivern enough for 100k mastery points.

Don't get me wrong, it's a neat idea but deciding to leave your team to 4v5 to split push all game long is ultimately a really poor idea for Ivern. He's made for team fighting, not for solo pushing towers. Also, Ivern, and this strat is no different, is only as good as his team mates. So Sleep Suffering is just leaning on you and his other team mates to make this happen. It's not actually any good.

The Kind Deep1 votes

You are right I am certainly no Ivern main and neither am I terribly good at this game.

However, I think you are missing the point. This build was originally a joke between myself and my friends but I found myself enjoying this build and playstyle a lot due to how it is just simply FUN (at least for me anyways). Which is why I decided to make this post.

Another thing here is that you seem to have misunderstood the point of this build. You are right, Ivern is not a split pusher. The point of this build is to put pressure all on objectives all over the map. And you seem to think that just because I am focusing turrets that I never help my team when that would actually be counterproductive to this build. You need to help your team early to get Ingenious Hunter stacks and sometimes grouping for towers is the more direct path for victory.

Finally, to say that I am leaning on my team is a little unfair. Certainly they must fight without me sometimes during the mid-late game, but the pressure that I can apply on the enemy through this strat also takes pressure off of my team seeing as more often than not the enemy will try to stop you. Thus allowing openings for your team to do other things elsewhere.

TheThundersRoar2 votes

Love it, the idea reminds me of full-regen splitpush Heimerdinger back when he had the regen passive.

Start with item 1006 item 1006 item 1006 and build only regen items, which also happen to be pusher items, and go from there.

Weedbro2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Sleep Suffering,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=A6Oysy94,comment-id=,timestamp=2018-01-03T01:05:10.018+0000)

You have yet to live until you play UNSEALED SPELLBOOK Ivern with max item CDR. item 2045 item 3060 item 3512 item 3158 &lt;------ All you need

How to play: Start:item 1039 item 1006 and bring summoner 12 summoner 11

You are Ivern.... the most greedy tree in the gosh darned forest. In early game you do the Ivern, and start their buff. EZ first clear with rejuv bead and blue buff.

You want gank as much as possible to maximize your time spent until you get item 2045 and item 3512 . Don&#039;t forget you need the stacks of item cdr from Ingenious Hunter.

THEN THE GAME BEGINS.

You use your unsealed spellbook to maximize your roaming and siege potential. With daisy you can easily have her tank long enough to allow a zz to half health a tower. AND DO NOT FORGET YOU CAN HIDE ZZ IN YOUR BUSHES.

From the point you get the above items you want to maximize their time on the map and THROW YOUR GOSH DANGED STUMP AT THEIR NEXUS

By the late game if your team is losing simply ignore them and go for the clean end, it works almost every time.

REMEMBER YOU NEED MAX ITEM CDR FOR THIS TO WORK SO YOU CAN SEIGE CONSTANTLY

I recommend swapping between these summoner 12 summoner 6 and if need be ditch the smite.

Don&#039;t forget to USE YOUR BRAIN because this strat revolves around being so utterly strange that the enemy team cannot help but focus you or ignore you and make the mistake of thinking you are useless

THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU MY SEIGE TREES

GO!

RAM THAT NEXUS WITH YOUR STUMP!

you mean this strat revoles around your enemy being so braindead they can't realize that "WOW, LOOK AT THAT, SOMEONE IS SPLITPUSHING THE TOWERS THE ENTIRE GAME. BETTER JUST IGNORE HIM AND LET HIM DO THAT."

It's amazing what people will upvote on these fucking forums.

VentingPaladin1 votes

At least it isn't someone complaining about the game's balance. It's someone actually trying to provide a potential build. And isn't Yorick's rework supposed to revolve around that idea? Splitpushing?

Fedoran1 votes

But is he truly u n s t o p p a b l e ?

by the way?

Jew Stomper1 votes

I do a related thing with Zilean. Just I run at 99% all the time.

LazyW0lf1 votes

I need a mobafire link for this

Pale Pirate1 votes

So uh... Why not start with ignite and switch it to later on teleport then?

The Kind Deep1 votes

No reason why you cant. I just like it for the early gank potential.

BestPudgeNA1 votes

Oh Shit the TRICK 2 TREE BUILD

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