How are you supposed to play Ivern?

NvestmentPlanker··2 votes·889 views

I love the champ because he's really troll and fun, but I don't really know what skills to prioritize or what builds are good on him. Anyone on here have a build path that is working for them and seeing success? I know Daisy synergizes well with Ryali's but that's about it.

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ThePikol2 votes

I build him tank. item 1409 item 3027 item 3117 item 3742 item 3143 item 3190. I knwo it's a lot of armor but my enemies are mostly AD. I do Q,E,W then max E first. Start with item 1039 item 2043 item 2003 , and steal enemy buff first, ward his jungle and gank after steal (i'm lvl 2 while others are lvl1), it usually makes enemy burn flash in first minutes. Hope it helps

L Rayquaza1 votes

From what I have heard, AP Tank, like a Cho'Gath

NvestmentPlanker1 votes

Hm. So like RoA and Rylai's then tank items? RoA isn't very strong right now so idk.

L Rayquaza1 votes

Yeah, I prefer Cinderhulk over echoes, when Daisy is out your team effectively has two tanks

NvestmentPlanker1 votes

I too prefer Cinderhulk due to the fact you use a significant portion of health to clear camps. therefore having a larger health pool seems efficient. Ivern has decent AP scalings but I just feel like he rarely has the opportunity to DO DAMAGE.

L Rayquaza2 votes

If they make Daisy's protections and health scale with his instead I feel once people get used to the unique clear he could be a top teir jungler

NvestmentPlanker1 votes

I hope so. he's fun

Timethief491 votes

Probably pretty high the guy looks like Walking pot

NvestmentPlanker1 votes

LOL

Done251 votes

Ivern does NOT work well with Rylai. Daisy will not apply "on spell" effects. His only skill that really benefits from the slow is his passive W damage. And even then it only applies the weaker 20%/1 second version.

five oh tree 1 votes

I always either prioritize q or max q and e evenly (depending on how I'm doing.) I always get item 3027 and item 1414 and then from there it's pretty situational. I really enjoy item 3115 on him. Then a couple defense items, probably.

As for paths, I usually start a buff and smite it and go right to mid to get a level 2 gank while they're still level 1. I've been thinking about just starting wolves, then going to blue and smiting blue, ganking, then coming back to wolves. But that would leave me low... anyway! There's no real specific paths, because I don't have to worry about the individual smite buffs as much. I try to take the enemy's buffs if I have smite though.

He's an odd champ to play.

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