Cast World Ender when you are sure you can force a fight.
Use Umbral Dash while casting The Darkin Blade to increase your chances of hitting the enemy.
Crowd Control abilities like Infernal Chains or your allies' immobilizing effects will help you set up The Darkin Blade.
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
The stats shown here highlight some significant Aatrox against Pantheon matchup stats that may help you figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Aatrox’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, showing that Aatrox may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Aatrox normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Typically, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Aatrox usually wins when taking on Pantheon, with a 51.7% win rate. As a result, Aatrox makes a good counter to Pantheon.
While Aatrox does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Aatrox also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Aatrox into Pantheon.
Moreover, Aatrox also has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Aatrox vs Pantheon matchups, Aatrox is the better champion with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Aatrox is a decent counter to Pantheon. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Aatrox against Pantheon.
To truly master Aatrox in order to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Aatrox most often picks up more CS as Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to have in your Aatrox versus Pantheon build consist of Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Aatrox combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Pantheon than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Aatrox had an average win rate of 51.7% when playing against Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Pantheon as Aatrox, Aatrox players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Revitalize, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Aatrox vs Pantheon battles, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 51.7% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Aatrox are given for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you should use the selection menu located at the top of this page.