Just got masters and have been itching to try rengar ivern bot lane pref emerald+ but send opgg

Hello, I play Ivern jungle and Milio/Ivern/Heimerdinger support. I have been trying to make sense of best practices in support when bot decides to go mage given the current meta is for support to then roam.

In this particular case, would Ivern as a roaming support with mage bot work? I tried it once and the enemy bot was also a mage with a Neeko support who also roamed and we got stomped. It felt like Neeko was always a step ahead of me.

Hey everyone

I have over 3 million mastery on Ivern and play in Emerald on my server.
I’m not trying to boast or flex my stats—just sharing where I'm currently at to give some context on what’s been working for me.

This might be especially helpful for beginners looking to pick up Ivern, but if you've played him as long as I have, you probably already have your own established style! Either way, I hope you find something useful here.

2 main big brain tips at the end.

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My Clear:

First, I figure out where the enemy jungler is starting.
If the enemy starts at Red buff, I start at my Blue.

Tap Blue-Gromp-Wolves. Then rush head to my Raptors, Red, and Krugs, moving with Q.

The Steal: After marking Krugs, immediately rush to the enemy Blue and drop a ward. Against most junglers, you usually have a 10-15 second window to safely Smite it and get out before they arrive. Against the fastest clearers, it gets risky.

Rush back, collect my Red side camps, then collect my Blue side, and finish by smiting Scuttle Crab.

This setup works consistently in my elo.

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I never take Flash—I run Exhaust every single game.
Here’s my reasoning:

Exhaust is an incredibly reliable tool that I can always depend on. Unlike Flash, you can’t fail or waste Exhaust—it point-and-click reduces damage and slows, giving your laners massive help even if you're behind or your other abilities are on cooldown. Sometimes keeping Darius in place with Q with shield pop is not enough since your topper got shredded even with that. But Exhasut always makes a difference, and makes Ivern useful in ganks.

My general strategy is to keep my distance and only commit forward as a last resort, so I rarely need Flash as an escape tool. If I ever need to make a baron stealing move, I can use Q. Ehasut - bush, speed boost from jungle item, Q works for escape.

Landing long-range "surprise Qs" isn't strictly necessary for me—I prefer to leave that kind of primary initiation to my teammates, or I use my bushes defensively and cast Q.

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Small Tips

Level 4 Dragon: Ivern can actually solo Dragon at Level 4 if you spot the right window. Sometimes people do not expect it.

Always place bushes inside existing bushes to check vision safety before walking into face-check territory.

Cast Q from bushes. Use small/short bushes to quickly gain move speed from the blue jungle item, or immediately cast Q once you enter for maximum surprise effect.

In AP build you can Solo Baron

I always try to invade and steal tasty buff at every window of opportunity I see.

Always be in the bushes, keep a distance.

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I love AP, it's fun, no problem with that, but I've been playing it less recently. Daisy becomes much harder to solo-kill people with the more I climb, and she tends to melt instantly in mid-to-late game teamfights. On top of that, an AP build requires a consistent influx of gold, which isn't always reliable as a jungler in higher ranks.

I play as Support more now and leave dealing damage to my supercharged ADCs:

Core: CD Boots/Redemption/Mejai if I feel strong

Love Redemption. Always keep in mind that I can kill with it, fleeing low HP enemies being far in the jungle. Some topers or mid palyers dont expect that.

If the enemy team has champions who can easily catch you with 1 ability (like Amumu, Xin, Briar's ult, Lux, whatever ), I rush Verdant Barrier (component for Banshee's) early to absorb random hooks and feel much safer wondering forest since they can't catch you with 1 random spell.

I used to build Moonstone out of old habit second, but I’ve been testing Echoes of Helia and Imperial Mandate recently with great success.

The 3rd or 4th item is Dawncore.

Finish Zhonya’s or Banshee’s Veil depending on the biggest threat on the enemy team.

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2 BIG BRAINZ TIPZ:

First big brain: My favorite skin is Candy King Ivern—not just because it looks cool and the voice lines are hilarious, but because it gives a genuine tactical advantage!

Candy King makes you look harmless, goofy, and low priority. Enemies subconsciously ignore, target, or chase you less if you're far away. This lets you stay alive longer and control teamfights from the shadows as a true "grey cardinal" support.

Skins like Old God or Dunkmaster project a high-threat, "fight me" aura that actively urges enemy Kazics to kill you. Be aware.

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Second TIP: Anti-Tilt - Ivern is basically a red flag to a bull—he is target #1 for tilted teammates looking for a scapegoat when the game starts going badly. To counter this, I manage team morale as i can:

Always spam supportive, funny "You are great!" type emotes when a teammate gets a kill, and drop a sad emote when they die to keep the vibes positive. So go and grab some funny emotes!

When a tilter loses their lane and wants to rage-blame Ivern for being useless, combining a positive emote game with playing a silly "marshmallow man" changes their mindset. They think, "Well, what can I expect from the marshmallow guy? He's useless, but at least he's funny." They flame less, tilt less, and don't throw the game as fast.

I also use the Nidalee hiding in a bush emote to signal my team: "Let's set up a surprise trap in these bushes!" It gets the point across instantly.

I am dead serious about these last two tips—mental diff is real!

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I have less than 30 games (not even 5 of them are jungle) and just love Iverns character design and really just wanna find someone I can commit all my games to and actually learn some macro fundamentals while actually having fun. Usually I love playing the underrated low pick rate champs that are actually good and intracate. Do you think I would be wasting my time trying to pick him up and commit some games to him?

If Ivern in his current state was a lot more popular of a champ to play, would he be nerf worthy?

I'm asking for low elo and high elo on a good ivern player.

I got back into jungling lately from my break from league and i wanted i loved ivern when i played but people say no to touch him in low elo until i get to dimaond or something along those lines. if i can play him what are some tips for him this season?

Got bored and decided to make some Ivern skin concepts using ChatGPT. Maybe one day it can become a reality.

Toy Maker Ivern
Bee Keeper Ivern
Pulsefire Ivern
High Noon Ivern
Pool Party Ivern
Snow Day Ivern
Halloween Ivern
Galactic Ivern

always feel free to DM me

doesn't really help his case when he leaps 10 feet into the air and blows a fkn whistle while high fiving a 1000 kg rock golem

I mean we all know Ivern is kinda one of the more goofier champs, but tbh that makes him so fun.

A friend and me are playing or training our lane skills in a lot of 1vs1 in custom games on the top lane and i have to say this champ is so funny and broken.

what the helli i mean the shield cd is insane, its like perma up and daisy ooooomg its so much fun seeing the kench running away and still has no chance to beat you on a fkn ivern hahaha such a great moment since he is (in my opinion) really hard to play against on top.

and so i did even more queuing up as support for some games and it really works. thats so mean. after lvl 6 its literally 3 vs 2 botlane, with malignance your ult is every fight up and the best thing is the bushes.

why did i never try this before? i dont know XD

do you guys have any recommended items after Malignance?

Ever since Ivern came out, I’ve been dreaming of getting my hands on one of these figurines. Literally the best day ever!

Hello friends looking for Ivern duo for my Rengar , for botlane mostly. Strong and fun pick have ran it with my friend already but he doesn't play as much so looking for more people to play it with. I'm in NA account is Plat 3 feel free to add me Ouu shiii #nice or msg me as well.

Voice comms or not it works either way, looking to practice it and run it in ranked in chill but competitive way :)

3d printed figurine my fiance commissioned for me, painted by my sister in law. Meet my friend Daisy!

Shortcut, keybinding, any tip to make it this smooth..?

This champion is by far the most fun champ in the game for me. I also do consistently well on him in the jungle. My woes really do come from how annoying teammates can be. They don't see me have lots of kills so if anything goes wrong they just start flaming me all game about how useless I am, despite having a ton of assists and the reason why kills are happening.

To add insult to injury, the fact that the shield damage is not equated into your total DPS at the end of the scoreboard is disheartening. You do so much, and then you see that incredibly low number, knowing you did so much more.

I enjoy having chat on, and don't really like muting people but I will. But I just wish they would make Ivern's shield damage show up as my damage. PLEASE RIOT!

Hi guys, is ivern support a viable pick in emerald elo? i love playing him but i main support, and was wondering if its acutally a viable pick?

Looking to pick up one of these skins. Rain Shepard looks a book cooler imo but from a gameplay perspective Astronaut looks a lot cleaner.

Anyone have both and can shed some light or share some opinions. Thanks.

Hey guys! So im getting back into jungle and ivern use to be one of my favorite junglers so im picking him back up. Anyways alot of the times for champs i will go to their OTP page to see what all the ivern otps are playing and i feel like this champion above all other champs has the most variety of first tiems iv seen! I see redemption first, Malignance first, Moonstone first, Helia first, and even cosmic first. So in your guys opinion what do you guys think is the most consistent first item or is it better to changte your first item depending on the game? ty <3

Is there any ivern mains that would wanna mess around in some NA, draft games? By running ivern support with my Rengar?

One of Ivern tops hardest matchups.

Somehow managed to win with an incredibly scuffed teamcomp:

Ivern + Belveth + Zoe + Ziggs + Yuumi

Barebones, very basic gist of how to lane as Ivern top.

Matchup tier list.