Ivern vs Fiddlesticks Counter Pick

Two magic-damage junglers with nearly identical reach — 475 for Ivern, 480 for Fiddlesticks — should produce a coin flip, and instead Ivern takes 58.6% of 128 games measured on patch 16.13.1. The reason is that neither champion wants to trade basic attacks, and the ability that settles the fight is a channel. Crowstorm flocks crows around Fiddlesticks for continuous area damage but must be committed to a position, and Ivern’s kit exists to remove champions from positions.

Triggerseed shields an ally and detonates for damage and a slow, refreshing if it hits nobody, which lets Ivern pre-shield whoever is about to be dived. Brushmaker creates brush on demand, and brush changes which routes can be walked unseen, since Terrify is strongest when Fiddlesticks damages enemies while hidden. The genuine vulnerability is Reap, which silences enemies caught in the centre of the slash and can cut off Ivern’s entire response. Raw durability favours Fiddlesticks — 650 health and 34 armor at level one, 2,452 at level 18, against 630, 27 and 2,313 — but a difficulty rating of 9 opposite 7 means the Crowstorm entry has to be exact, and a mistimed one hands over an uncontested objective instead of a kill. A Harmless Scarecrow replaces his trinket with effigies, making vision cheap for him, and 335 move speed against 330 means retreating is never guaranteed.