Absolutely not.
I can think of dozens of counters to the IS2 - Tiger, Panther, Paks, Jagdpanzer IV (to name a few)... all of which are either immune to fire OR can be moved when you see the tell tail red smoke.
With the exception of the Pak 43 - which you don't really need to counter the IS2.
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