Initiate team fights using Charm, and chase down stragglers with Spirit Rush.
Spirit Rush enables Ahri's abilities, it opens up paths for Charm, helps double hitting with Orb of Deception, and closes to make use of Fox-Fire.
Use Charm to set up your combos, it will make landing Orb of Deception and Fox-Fire dramatically easier.
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 stat comparisons provided here emphasize some influential Ahri vs. Pantheon matchup stats that may help you appreciate the distinctions between this set of champs. As an example, Ahri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Ahri may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon..
Ahri often has a similar longest killing spree as her counter does. On average, she receives less damage than Pantheon. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Ahri usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 49.1% win rate. As a result, Ahri makes an ok counter for Pantheon.
While Ahri does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Ahri also has a greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Ahri into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Ahri also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ahri vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Ahri is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Ahri against Pantheon.
If you would like to truly master Ahri to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ahri often racks up more CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Ahri versus Pantheon build include Stormsurge, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Ahri used at least these three items in her build, she performed much better vs Pantheon than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Ahri boasted an average win rate of 49.1% when playing against Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Pantheon as Ahri, you should use the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Ahri vs Pantheon LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 49.1% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Ahri are presented for all skill levels combined. If you want to scope the stats and builds to a specific rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.