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By GamGem ResearchLast updated 18 Oct 2026

Ivern Jungle Build, Runes and Counters · Patch 26.20

the Green Father

Patch 26.20 · Stats from the 26.18 Master+ sample (2,023 games).

Ivern, the Green Father, never attacks jungle camps — he grows groves on them and frees the monsters — and Daisy! brings his Sentinel friend into fights. Master+ junglers ran Summon Aery on him most and built like a support, with Moonstone Renewer in both of his printed paths.

SupportMage

Patch 26.18 · Jungle · Ranked Solo/Duo · Master+ · EUW · KR · NA · 2,023 games · Preview sample

Role snapshot (Jungle)

STier
Win Rate
52.3%
Pick Rate
3.1%
Ban Rate
1.2%

2,023

Games

High

Confidence

Most common path

104 games

61.5%Win Rate

Start
FlashSmite

Other first item

73 games

61.6%Win Rate

Start
FlashTeleport

Runes

Patch 26.18

This exact page: taken in 26.6% of games·54.7% win rate over 539 games.

Primary

Sorcery

Summon Aery

Your attacks and abilities send Aery to a target, damaging enemies or shielding allies.

Nimbus Cloak

After casting a Summoner Spell, gain a short Move Speed increase that allows you to pass through units.

Transcendence

Gain bonuses upon reaching the following levels:Level 5: +5 Ability Haste Level 8: +5 Ability Haste Level 11: On Champion takedown, reduce the remaining cooldown of basic abilities by 20%.

Waterwalking

Gain MS and AP or AD, adaptive in the river.

Secondary

Inspiration

Cash Back

Get some gold back when you purchase Legendary Items.

Cosmic Insight

+18 Summoner Spell Haste+10 Item Haste

Shards

  • Ability Haste
  • Move Speed
  • Health Scaling

Other keystones taken

  • Glacial Augment16.6% taken · 50.6% win336 games
  • Press the Attack15.4% taken · 51.4% win311 games
  • Deathfire Touch0.8% taken · 52.9% win17 games

Tree pairs

  • Sorcery + Inspiration57.2% taken · 52.8% win1,158 games
  • Inspiration + Resolve14.8% taken · 50.2% win299 games
  • Precision + Domination11.2% taken · 54.2% win227 games

Skill Order

Which ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Ivern's most common path.

Q

Rootcaller

Ivern conjures a vine, dealing damage and rooting enemy targets hit.

Cooldown 14/13/12/11/10s · 60 Mana
W

Brushmaker

In brush, Ivern and his nearby allies attacks deal bonus magic damage.

Cooldown 0.5s · 30 Mana
E

Triggerseed

Ivern places a shield on an ally which explodes after a short duration slowing and damaging enemies.

Cooldown 11/10/9/8/7s · 70 Mana
R

Daisy!

Ivern summons his Sentinel friend Daisy to fight with him.

Cooldown 140/130/120s · 100 Mana

Max Order

EQW

Max E first, then Q, then W. Take R whenever available (6 / 11 / 16).

Level-up Order

  • Q
  • W
  • E
  • R
Ability123456789101112131415161718
QRootcallerQQQQQ
WBrushmakerWWWWW
ETriggerseedEEEEE
RDaisy!RRR

Matchup map (Jungle)

How Ivern performs against enemy jungle laners

Levels 1 – 18 · Master+40%60%Ivern's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
< 40%Very hard

Conditional build matrix

Recommended items by enemy team composition

Master+ · Patch 26.18
Mythic / CoreFirst major item
Core 2Second item
Core 3Third item
BootsBoot slot
SituationalPick as needed

Scaling — minute 10–30

IvernJungle average

Gold

102030

Damage to champions

102030

CS

102030

Counter plan — how to beat Ivern

  • Track the roam — it is strongest where the enemy jungler already is

  • Dodge the primary — its rotation is one skillshot; sidestep it and the rest is chip

  • Punish the cooldown — Ivern is exposed while its rotation is down

  • Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one

  • Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit 7/10, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average

Ability details

  • P

    Friend of the Forest

    Ivern cannot attack or be attacked by non-epic monsters. Ivern can create magical groves on jungle camps which grow over time. When the grove is fully grown, Ivern may free the monsters to receive gold and experience.

    Passive — never cast

  • Q

    Rootcaller

    Ivern conjures a vine, dealing damage and rooting enemy targets hit. Ivern's allies can dash to the rooted target.

    Cost 60 ManaCooldown 14/13/12/11/10sRange 1125

  • W

    Brushmaker

    In brush, Ivern and his nearby allies attacks deal bonus magic damage. Ivern can activate this ability to create a patch of brush.

    Cost 30 ManaCooldown 0.5sRange 1150

  • E

    Triggerseed

    Ivern places a shield on an ally which explodes after a short duration slowing and damaging enemies. The shield refreshes if it hits no enemies.

    Cost 70 ManaCooldown 11/10/9/8/7sRange 750

  • R

    Daisy!

    Ivern summons his Sentinel friend Daisy to fight with him. Re-cast command Daisy to attack or move.

    Cost 100 ManaCooldown 140/130/120sRange 600

Ivern balance history

Riot's notes from patch 25.S1.1 to 26.20 change Ivern in 1 patch. The latest is patch 25.07, published 2025-04-01.

  1. Patch 25.072025-04-01

    QRootcaller

    • Root Duration1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 / 2to1.6 / 1.7 / 1.8 / 1.9 / 2
    Why, in Riot's words

    Ivern is weak, especially in the early game. We're looking to buff up his ability to make early plays to make him more attractive as a pick especially for skilled players.

Ivern skins (7)

Riot's data lists 7 looks for Ivern with their own art, the base skin included and 32 chroma variants.

ARAM performance

EstimateB
Win Rate
50.6%
▼ 0.8%
Pick Rate
1.8%
▲ 6.2%
Ban Rate
1.8%
▼ 0.4%
Damage dealt
97.3%
Damage taken
102.3%
Healing
111.1%
Shielding
92.6%
Ability Haste
+17

Best ARAM build

Patch timeline

This champion’s win rate on each patch the preview sample spans, over its own games there. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.

  1. 26.1952.1% over 591 games · small sample-0.1
  2. 26.1852.5% over 1,068 games+0.1
  3. 26.1751.9% over 360 games · small sample—

Ivern's base stats against all 173 champions

StatIvernRankMedian
Base health630=61st620
Health per level99=126th104
Base armor27=104th30
Armor per level4.7=42nd4.6
Base magic resist30=110th32
Magic resist per level1.3=93rd1.55
Base attack damage50=157th59
Base attack speed0.644=96th0.656
Attack speed per level3.4%=25th2.5%
Move speed330=117th335
Attack range47574th175

Ivern at level 1 and level 18

  • Ivern reaches 2313 health at level 18 — 630 at level 1 plus 17 × 99, the 45th-lowest of 173 champions on patch 26.20, shared with 2.
  • Ivern reaches 1470 mana at level 18 — 450 at level 1 plus 17 × 60, the 6th-highest of 145 mana users on patch 26.20, shared with 2.
  • Ivern reaches 106.9 armor at level 18 — 27 at level 1 plus 17 × 4.7, the 85th-lowest of 173 champions on patch 26.20, shared with 2.
  • Ivern reaches 52.1 magic resist at level 18 — 30 at level 1 plus 17 × 1.3, the 34th-lowest of 173 champions on patch 26.20, shared with 43.
StatLevel 1Per levelLevel 18Rank at 18
Health630+992313=127th of 173
Mana450+601470=6th of 145
Armor27+4.7106.9=87th of 173
Magic resist30+1.352.1=97th of 173

Riot Data Dragon 16.20.1. Growth curve: League of Legends Wiki — Champion statistic.

Riot's tips for Ivern

Playing Ivern

  • Try to help allies follow up a good Rootcaller hit with Triggerseed!
  • Use Brushmaker to set up future ambush spots!
  • Daisy can block skillshots and slow down enemies. Use her to peel for your teammates!

Playing against Ivern

  • Ivern can be deceptively slippery. Be careful chasing him too far.
  • Ivern's brush has a long duration. Watch out for ambushes!
  • Be careful when fighting Ivern alone if he has Daisy ready to help!

Quick answers about Ivern

What class is Ivern?
Riot classes Ivern as Support and Mage. This site files the champion under Jungle.
How hard is Ivern to play?
Riot rates Ivern's difficulty 7 out of 10.
What resource does Ivern use?
Ivern's abilities spend Mana.
What is Ivern's attack range?
475 units — the 74th-highest of 173 champions on patch 26.20.
What are Ivern's abilities?
Passive — Friend of the Forest, Q — Rootcaller, W — Brushmaker, E — Triggerseed and R — Daisy!.
How many skins does Ivern have?
Riot's data lists 7 skins with their own art, the base look included, plus 32 chroma variants.
How much health does Ivern have at level 18?
2313 — 630 at level 1 plus 17 × 99 per level, Riot's own values, before items and runes.
What is Ivern's ultimate cooldown?
Daisy! (R): 140/130/120 seconds by rank, before ability haste, in Riot's Data Dragon 16.20.1.
When did Riot last change Ivern?
Patch 25.07, published 1 April 2025 — the latest of 1 patch that change Ivern in Riot's notes from 25.S1.1 to 26.20.

Ivern at a glance

Ivern, the Green Father, is a Support and Mage champion in League of Legends. Riot rates the kit 7/10 for difficulty, 3/10 for attack, 5/10 for defense and 7/10 for magic. Ivern spends Mana and has 7 skins with their own art.

Attack3/10
Defense5/10
Magic7/10
Difficulty7/10

Ivern's story

Ivern Bramblefoot, known to many as the Green Father, is a peculiar half man, half tree who roams Runeterra's forests, cultivating life everywhere he goes. He knows the secrets of the natural world, and holds deep friendships with all things that grow, fly, and scuttle. Ivern wanders the wilderness, imparting strange wisdom to any he meets, enriching the forests, and occasionally entrusting loose-lipped butterflies with his secrets.
— Riot Games, Data Dragon 16.20.1. League of Legends Universe

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Methodology

Data window
Preview sample — a one-time snapshot of 65,406 ranked games (Master+, EUW/KR/NA, patch 26.18), counted by GamGem while our Riot production key is under review. Figures will update daily once it is approved. Counted 26–27 Sept 2026; patches 26.18 (35,477) · 26.19 (18,580) · 26.17 (11,048) · 26.16 (293) · 26.15 (8); by server EUW 22,382 · KR 21,922 · NA 21,065 · EUNE 20 · TR 17. 642 games without a result — remakes ended by vote in their first minutes, and games recorded with no winner — were not counted.
Rank aggregation
Master, Grandmaster and Challenger, pooled — the three ladders the count read its players from. Splitting further leaves samples too small to separate a real effect from noise.
Role assignment
A champion is filed under every lane that holds at least a tenth of its counted games — the position the match itself reports, not the champion’s class. Its headline win rate is across all of them; each lane’s own win rate and games are counted too, and a lane’s tier list ranks by them.
Counters
The two champions in the same position on opposite teams, over that pairing’s own counted games — ranked on the edge pulled toward zero by its sample size, printed raw.
Minimum sample
None — no figure is hidden for being thin. Every rate prints its games, and the confidence band is its 95% margin: Very High within ±1.5 points, High ±2.5, Moderate ±3.1 (1,000 games), Low wider.
Why a build is not a cause
An item is counted when the match ENDS with it, so late items show long games and an item bought when already ahead shows games that were being won. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying the item caused the win.
Where the numbers come from
Names, classes, abilities, items and runes are Riot Data Dragon. Win, pick and ban rates, builds, keystones, spells and matchups are counted by GamGem from Riot's ranked match records. An estimate, not a count: this panel is not in the preview sample, and is labelled so.

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