A possible nerf to Ivern

Ionian Vulpix··2 votes·401 views

I'm not going to come out and say I'm an expert at Ivern or at jungling or at League in general, but this is just a possible idea to allow him to be a strong support jungler without being one of the best counter junglers since for Arceus's sake he's better at counter jungling than Nunu.

Make it so Ivern can't Smite enemy camps until level 3. It will hurt a lot since he won't get level 2 and your team's buff as soon as jungle monsters spawn. But he can still apply his passive, so he can mark an enemy camp, go back to his jungle, smite the buff and mark the other camps, then possibly go back to the enemy buff and steal it with the readied grove.

Right now, he's strong because the support items are dirt cheap, but he gets easy gold so he can protect his team. Yes, his shield may be annoying, but without it, he would feel like an even more gimmicky support since he has nothing else to peel except an incredibly easy to dodge root, bushes (which I will admit probably has a lot more potential for skill expression than anything else in his kit) and an AI controlled knockup. His shield is meant to be strong since he's a support, so instead of nerfing him for doing what he should be doing, cut some power from his unnecessary cheese strength.

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