Nunu & Willump vs Ivern Counter Pick

Friend of the Forest reshapes everything around this matchup. Ivern cannot attack or be attacked by non-epic monsters and plants magical groves on camps that finish growing on their own, so the usual pressure one jungler applies to a rival’s camps simply does not land. Across 184 games on patch 16.13.1, Nunu & Willump sit at 43.5%.

What makes the fights themselves difficult:

• Rootcaller roots the target and lets Ivern’s allies dash straight to it, converting one hit into a collapse that 345 move speed cannot walk out of.
• Triggerseed shields an ally and then explodes for damage and a slow, refreshing itself if it hits nothing, so his shielding is effectively free.
• Daisy fights on command as a separate body, something to handle while Absolute Zero is still channelling.
• At 475 attack range against 125, he never has to stand where Willump is swinging.

The counter-argument is durability. Ivern carries 50 base attack damage, the weakest opening hit of the two, 630 health at level one and 2,313 at level 18, and both champions deal magic damage, so magic resist is the shared purchase with no itemization edge either way. Reaching him is the problem: Biggest Snowball Ever! knocks up and Snowball Barrage roots, but both require the distance to be closed first. Ratings of 4 against 7 suggest the losing side here is simply the one with fewer answers. His kit sits on the Ivern page.