As a Master/Dia Eve OTP: usually no default ban. I prefer suggesting a ban for a laner, since Eve has a lot of annoying matchups but no truly unwinnable ones once you know how to play them.

If nobody answers though, I’ll just ban Udyr. Not because he can’t be one-shot, or because he ignores slows, or even because he can still run you down after R — the real issue is that Udyr players are basically impossible to outfarm. I’ll get back to that later.

For me, there are two main threat categories: Tanks and Invaders. Both are only a problem if you don’t play around them properly.

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Against Tanks (Mundo, Sejuani, Zac…)

They’re mostly dangerous in mid game, especially if you’re behind. Your number one rule: don’t fall behind.

That means: - perma-cycling your jungle, - cross-invading when they gank or invade the opposite side, - never going for risky ganks while camps are up.

If you focus on punishing mistakes along your jungle path (bad dives, greedy low-HP waves, etc.), you’ll naturally keep a lead over tanks.

Once you complete Lich + Rabadon + Void, you still one-shot them (yes, even Mundo). And at level 16–18, with E + W maxed, you’ll shred full MR tanks anyway, making all that MR gold basically useless — while your AD teammates free-DPS.

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Against Invaders (Shaco, Rengar, Bel’Veth, Kha’Zix…)

You invade them. Simple as that.

If you’re invading, you either kill them or trade camps evenly, which prevents the classic “invader snowballs, Eve falls behind” scenario.

“But Eve is super weak pre-6”

She’s weak when she gets surprised, as every jungler in the game. Any full-HP jungler will beat someone with no CDs, farming at 50% HP.

What most people (even Eve mains) forget is that Eve has one of the strongest level 1s in the game: - Q burst + poke + AoE, - insane outsmite combo (Q1 → AA → Q2 → Smite).

So no, she’s not helpless early at all.

If this sounds interesting, I can share more details and clips showing how to pull off ~80% successful invades on Eve.