Ivern, the Green Father





Why Ivern!

I believe Ivern to be a great pick up for your jungle pool for a few very key reasons!

• First, as we have seen with the roaming Janna top that has come into meta this patch Ivern is exactly like that besides the fact hes not in top but can actually jungle.
• Next, he provides the same enchanter utility on a jungler allowing you to have a more aggressive and powerful bot lane combo such as Samira and Leona, or something more poke based such as Ezreal and Lux!
• Lastly, he will be provide incredible survive-ability for your team come late game not to mention an insane damage boost!
• One last secret peace of advise that people may not know is that, when Ivern gives his shield to an ally it is now their shield what this means is anyone with liandries will now have it applied on the explosion of Iverns shield providing more damage for your team!

Why listen to me!

I may not be a pro but, I have reached Diamond Two last season playing Jungle including Ivern of course. I have been playing sense season Three and have been increasing my knowledge of the game ever sense I was a hard stuck silver player! I have also been featured in many Streaming highlight channels such as Synapse! These clips are old as I haven't streamed in a while but Ive only gotten better!







Runes best for Ivern!

So Lets dive on in with the most important step picking your runes there are Two main paths you want to go when picking runes for Ivern, lets start with the most common and effective choice Aery!

• Rune Page

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Why these runes...

• For Starters Aery is a great and almost always needed pick up for Ivern it allows his shields to be bigger and even allows for his damage to be buffed ever so slightly
• Next we have nimbus cloak this is really just the best choice out of all in the second part of this tree, Manaflow band does not provide any needed stats and Nullifying orb is purely situational against heavy AP!
• Third we have Transcendence almost as important as Aery providing us 10 Ability haste at level 8, combo that with our mythic and Cool down boot we are already at a very nice 58 Ability haste (37% CDR) one more item and we will be above 40% CDR which makes our shield incredibly spammable !
• Lastly, we have Water walking enabling us to run around the river faster and get in for those insane counter ganks!
• Moving into our Secondary we will most commonly take Debt Ivern can work off of very little gold really only needing 1 to 2 items to be a useful enchanter! Taking Debt lets you complete your items faster!
• The last rune we will be talking about it cosmic insight, this allows your active items such as Redemption or Mikaels Crucible to come off cool down faster.
• P.S There is a case to be made for the resolve tree secondary going font of life and Revitalize making your shields stronger and providing some healing when impairing enemies but I believe Aery offsets that and provides you with the extra shielding you want!

Alternative Runes

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• Our first rune here is Guardian now, the reason we don't take this over Aery is because we don't have full control over when it procs, if we use our shield on our front line and Guardian is down we aren't getting as much value as we could be on our next few shields allowing our back line to be more vulnerable.
• That being said Guardian is a great rune to take when you have One carry you need to keep alive a late game carry something like Kog'maw, Vayne or Jinx.
• Moving down we have Font of life your shield impairs enemies making it easy for your teammates to proc this and gain back some life during fights!
• Conditioning is just going to make us tankier past 10 minutes which will keep us alive in many situations
• Last Revitalize is half the reason you would pick this tree it is so good to have an extra 5% on your shield and if your target is lower than 40% health it is doubled to 10%!
• you're definitely going to want to take Cosmic insight and Debt here as you want your power spikes as early as possible missing aery you lose a lot of free extra shielding which you can gain back with items later.

Summoner Spells (Loadout)

Naturally with Iverns passive you'll be taking Flash/Smite!

Skill Path

As you don't need your abilities to clear I like to wait until I am level two, to level up one of them you'll never know which ability you'll need if you're invaded!

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Item Builds

There are two main way I prefer to build Ivern and we will get into why each is important in a moment. The basic build will look something like this!











Pathing!

Pathing is an Important part of playing Ivern you path incredibly different than other Junglers so you need to know which lanes you want to be near at the end of clearing your jungle! As Ivern doesn't not kill camps you must Release them after his passive is done counting down!

Ganking Mid/Bot (Blue side) Ganking Top/Mid (Red side)

If the bottom and mid lane provide the most ganking opportunity you need to path accordingly. (while you are walking between camps look at your lanes and see how they are doing and if you need to alter your pathing)

1. Start at Blue mark it but do not smite!
2. Go to wolves as gromp will not have spawned yet and we want to be as efficient as possible again not smiting wolves either.
3. Go to gromp mark it and smite it this will give you mana and HP you need to mark your red side camps!
4. Head into your Red side and mark Raptors and Red
5. At this time wolves and Blue will have completed there count down and you can go collect those!
6. Head back into your red side and collect your Raptors and Red
7. Assess the situation do you have time to mark Krugs, are your lanes in a gankable position or do they have priority etc.

Ganking Mid/Bot (Red Side) Ganking Top/Mid (Blue side)

This fairly similar you do the opposite of the the previous pathing!

1. Mark red Do Not Smite!
2. Mark Raptors
3. Mark Wolves
4. Mark Blue and smite it will give you just enough mana and HP for marking gromp!
5. Head back to the red side grab Red and Raptors (assess if you have enough time to mark Krugs this camp is the least important camp to Ivern as he does not fully benefit from it!)
6. Head back to your Blue side to grab Wolves and Gromp and now youll be bottom side ready to gank on red side or youll be top side ready to gank if youre on Blue side!





Matchups

As the meta is always changing we will go over the match-ups you'll see in 12.3

• Matchups

Kha'Zix

Champion

As kha'zix is very great at fighting alone due to the Isolation passive you will want to stay away from him, he also can build serpants fang a large counter to your shields! I would recommend another jungler if you see this picked! That being said the match up is winnable! Path away from the lanes you believe Kha'zix to be going and aim to counter gank him, he has a lot of burst and if you can shield you ally from it youll be able to turn the fight with ease!

Diana

Champion

Diana is incredibly popular right now so this match-up will be something you'll deal with a lot. Redemption first against her can really negate her ultimate and as she dives into the back line you'll easily be able to land a root on her to keep her from furthering her attack on your back line! Always be aware of her burst though and avoid clumping with your teammates and of course by many wards to keep her from getting the jump on you!

Shaco

Champion

The Shaco match-up can vary as the build path for shaco could be ap or ad! Most people will go AD and thats okay with us as it is very similar to kha'zix a lot of up front burst damage that if you can shield can not only save your ally but turn a gank around as well! Most Shacos' will end up taking ignite so again avoid fighting them early and you'll have smooth sailing from there!

Rek'Sai

Champion

Rek is a champion I will usually ban while her play rate is not to high if she knocks you up youre dead and it can be incredibly frustrating to deal with as she will invade and kill you and you camps very quickly definitely avoid playing Ivern into this character it will be a bad time!

Nunu & Willump

Champion

This is the other Character I like to ban when trying to play Ivern! Nunu doesnt really counter Ivern in any way besides he clears fast and ganks a lot. You can only counter gank so much and when hes not ganking he will be taking your camps as well as hes a tank overall hes a great pick so banning him out is a good call IMO.

Kayn

Champion

This is a fairly even match up as most people are going Red Kayn now a days with the recent buffs to deaths dance! Kayn will clear faster than you but, you will have an excellent time counter ganking him. Throwing your shield on an ally allowing them to slow Kayn after he dives in with Q is almost a guaranteed kill or flash on him as he will have used everything to dive in and have no way out. Furthermore you can generally negate his ulty damage with one shield if timed right!

Hecarim

Champion

The last match-up we will talk about is Hecarim, Again another semi-tanky engage Champion who ganks a lot again you easily match him and counter gank your lanes. That being said he has more damage than kayn so it may not be as easy to turn ganks, grabbing mikaels for his ultimate fear can save so carries lives as well as redemption as his AOE is incredibly strong!

What and Who goes well with the Green Father?

• Breakdown

Liandry's Anguish

Item

So this item is amazing with Ivern you may be asking but, I dont even build it what are you talking about? Well when Iverns shield is applied to an Ally with this item it will trigger on explosion! Meaning anyone who builds it will apply the liandires in an AOE around them to anyone diving them!

Sylas

Champion

One of my Favorite Duos is Ivern Sylas when I see someone pick Sylas I really want to insta lock ivern to help allow them to dive into enemies with my shield slow them all and watch them destroy the enemy team! This is true for anyone who can dive onto enemies. Things like Fizz, Kat, Kass, Diana even Zed and Ahri.

Soraka

Champion

The only time I would say avoid pick Ivern is when A support has already locked in a Champion such as Soraka, Lulu, Janna, and Sona. This will give the enemy team a major insentive to build serpants fang and Anti-healing items as well as overall makes your team incredibly squishy. Unless you have a very tank mid/top laner I would shy away from Ivern and another Enchanter Combo!

TL:DR

If you enjoy making the other team smash their keyboard and ping their own jungler this guy is for you! He absolutely loves saving his teammates with a last second shield or buffing the carries so hard they are a 1 v 9 Unkillable machine. He Excels in the jungle and providing the team with the ever so important role of an enchanter while still providing reliable ganks and very rewarding counter ganks!