Ivern "friend of the forest" abilities speculation
Hey guys, just going to give you my expert speculation on the new champion that will be on PBE probably by next week.
Just keep in mind, this is speculation.
Assuming you all watched the video by now, there is three possible abilities we can take away from the video. One that should be obvious to everyone is the root/snare that is shown in the video which also ends with a silence. The other two you might not know about..... Taming/putting jungle monsters to sleep and gaining XP/buffs that way, and creating bushes.
First thing, I am thinking Ivern is going to gain his XP and buffs by putting jungle camps to sleep. So instead of killing the monsters, he just puts them to sleep somehow. I'm assuming there will also be a sleep timer so you know when the camp is going to wake back up so you can come back and get more XP/buffs from it again. Also... in addition to that, this is just my thoughts, I think maybe after he puts camps to sleep, more than likely, a bush begins to form around the camp incase of counter jungling. So the enemy jungler will have to auto attack the bushes a couple times and destroy them to get inside the camp. (Again, just a guess, although I really do believe he will gain xp from putting the camps to sleep, just unsure about the bush protecting them part).
Also, the creating bush mechanic is another thought I think will be featured. This can be a passive, a basic ability, or an ultimate. I'm leaning more towards passive than anything else tho. A passive in which random bushes spawn nearby, and a possible 3-6 can be out at any time again nearby, and the other passive being a bush wraps around jungle camps when tamed by serenading them to sleep or however he does it. So this is going to be a two part passive.
If it's a basic ability where he can create a certain amount of bushes as he pleases and wherever he wants them, that seems a little OP in a way, and would definitely bring adc rengar into meta. I can't see this being a basic ability because he wouldn't have much offense then, unless hes a support. Think about it, three abilities would be the 1. put camps to sleep with Q 2. Root with W, and 3. create bushes with E which gives him 1 other ability (R) unless I'm wrong and his passive is like some 3 hit proc, or empowered abilities and basic attacks if nearby camps.
If it's an ultimate, you can probably expect it to be like a Jarvin ult in which traps whoever is inside the radius, and forms a bush around you and the enemy, or whoever is inside. Other players cannot attack you from the outside for a short time while the ultimate is going on. So this can be used to save an ally as well.
I'm leaning more towards this being a passive tho than anything, but we will see, but it being a basic ability wont be ruled out by me because you saw with a press of a finger, he made a bush behind him, and another press of a finger in front of him which kinda seems like pressing an ability rather than a passive. So maybe it being an ability is actually legit, none the less we will see whenever the 6.20 pbe patch comes or whatever next week or whenever.
What do you guys think? Would this be cool to see? Go around put your enemies camps to sleep, and if they attempt to kill the camp, they gain no buffs from it, only XP. It would kinda be OP as hell, and give a whole new meaning of counter jungling and junglers fighting one another. Again, I think it will just be putting camps to sleep, but the other part would be interesting.
What do you guys think?