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Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
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 shown here emphasize some strategic Illaoi vs. Pantheon counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences between the pair. As an example, Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Illaoi typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than her enemy does. On average, she takes more damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually fairs equally well when taking on Pantheon, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes an ok counter to Pantheon.
While Illaoi does have a higher win rate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Illaoi also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to develop with. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Pantheon.
Additionally, Illaoi 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 for every situation in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Pantheon matchups, Illaoi is the better champ with a similar win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Illaoi is a decent counter for Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Illaoi against Pantheon.
To truly master Illaoi to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up more CS as Pantheon. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Illaoi versus Pantheon build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better countering Pantheon than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Illaoi had an average winrate of 50.4% when countering Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of annihilating Pantheon as Illaoi, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Pantheon counters, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 50.4% win rate overall.
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