Zac vs Ivern Counter Pick

Ivern’s passive changes the terms before either champion meets. Friend of the Forest means he cannot attack or be attacked by non-epic monsters, and his groves grow camps that are taken without a health cost, so tempo and pathing are never symmetrical between these two.

Zac wins the physical comparison comfortably. He opens on 685 health with 33 armor where Ivern sits on 630 and 27, and he reaches 2,538 health by level 18 against 2,313. His damage is magic into Ivern’s 30 base magic resistance, and Unstable Matter takes a percentage of maximum health regardless of what anyone builds. On a direct collision at 175 attack range against 475, Zac should be the one who walks away.

The 157 games logged on patch 16.13.1 return 44.0% anyway, because direct collisions are optional for Ivern. Rootcaller holds Zac in place and lets Ivern’s allies dash straight onto him, Triggerseed shields a target and then detonates for a slow, and Daisy! adds a second body that Zac’s crowd control has to account for. Elastic Slingshot is a long, visible wind-up, and a rooted Zac mid-flight is a free counter-engage. Ivern’s difficulty rating of 7 against Zac’s 8 leaves almost no execution gap to exploit either. Camp control and vision decide more of this than any duel does. Ivern’s kit is on the Ivern entry.