Fiddlesticks vs Ivern Counter Pick

Ivern never contests camps in the usual way. Friend of the Forest stops non-epic monsters from attacking him and lets him grow groves that mature over time, so the tempo Fiddlesticks normally earns by clearing efficiently loses most of its value. The recorded result is 41.5% for Fiddlesticks across 130 games on patch 16.13.1, a losing figure, although a sample that small shifts by several tenths on a handful of results.

Both champions deal magic damage and both start with 30 magic resist, so neither buys a clean defensive answer to the other. What separates them is control over when a clash happens. Fiddlesticks wants to open unseen with Crowstorm; Ivern can simply decline, rotating between groves while the fear from Terrify sits on cooldown. Once a fight does start, Daisy! puts a summoned sentinel on the field that soaks damage over time and gives Reap a second body to catch, while Triggerseed shields an ally and detonates for a slow, blunting the burst window. Fiddlesticks owns the sturdier frame on paper, 650 health and 34 armor at level 1 rising to 2,452 and 113.9 at 18, against 630 and 27 growing to 2,313 and 106.9, and he walks at 335 to 330. Difficulty ratings of 9 and 7 hand the Green Father one more edge. Kits: Fiddlesticks and Ivern.