Darius vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Darius
based on 6,207 Darius vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Darius vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Darius vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Darius
Tips for Playing as Darius against Pantheon
Noxian Guillotine does more damage the more attacks you can land prior to it. Use Noxian Might to deal maximum damage.
Darius benefits greatly from enhanced survivability. The longer you can prolong a fight, the more powerful he becomes.
Decimate is a powerful harassment ability. Strike an enemy from maximum range for the greatest effect.
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.
Darius vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Darius in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here clarify some critical Darius versus Pantheon counter statistics that can help us distinguish the distinctions between the pair. Darius’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Darius may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Pantheon..
Darius often has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives more damage than Pantheon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Darius and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Darius or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Darius usually fairs equally well when facing off against Pantheon, with a 50.7% win rate. Thus, Darius makes an ok counter to Pantheon.
While Darius does have a higher win rate than Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Darius also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Darius into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Darius has almost no 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 ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Darius vs Pantheon matchups, Darius is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Darius is a decent counter to Pantheon. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Darius against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Darius to counter Pantheon during both the lane 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 displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Darius often picks up more CS as Pantheon. Champions who typically don't earn much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Darius versus Pantheon build include Sterak's Gage, Dead Man's Plate, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Darius bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better countering Pantheon than with many other common item sets. In fact, Darius boasted an average winrate of 50.7% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Pantheon as Darius, Darius players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Celerity runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Darius vs Pantheon battles, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 50.7% winrate overall.
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