Alistar vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Alistar
based on 3,076 Alistar vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Alistar vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Alistar vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Alistar
Tips for Playing as Alistar against Pantheon
Using Flash can allow you catch your target off guard to knock them back into your allies with Pulverize and Headbutt.
Move Speed is very important on Alistar. Consider which boots to buy carefully.
Using Pulverize can allow you to establish better positioning for Headbutt.
Advice to Win Against Pantheon
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.
Alistar vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Alistar in LoL
The stats provided here show several influential Alistar versus Pantheon matchup statistics that can help you understand the differences and similarities between the pair. Alistar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Alistar may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Alistar often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Alistar and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Alistar or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Alistar usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 52.6% win rate. Therefore, Alistar makes a good counter for Pantheon.
While Alistar does have a higher winrate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Alistar also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Alistar into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Alistar also has a great amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Alistar vs Pantheon matchups, Alistar is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Alistar is an above average counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Alistar against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Alistar to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Alistar often racks up a lot less CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who on average don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Alistar versus Pantheon build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Celestial Opposition. When Alistar combined at least these three items in his build, he performed much better countering Pantheon than with most other common builds. In fact, Alistar had an average win rate of 52.6% when countering Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the highest chance of annihilating Pantheon as Alistar, you should take the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Minion Dematerializer, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Alistar vs Pantheon matchups, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.6% winrate overall.
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