Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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 on this page show several significant Kai'Sa against Pantheon counter statistics that can help us figure out the differences and similarities between this set of champions. As an example, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Kai'Sa typically has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Pantheon. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when taking on Pantheon, with a 47.3% win rate. Therefore, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Pantheon.
While Kai'Sa does have a lower winrate than Pantheon, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kai'Sa into Pantheon.
Additionally, Kai'Sa also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Kai'Sa is a bad counter for Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Kai'Sa against Pantheon.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa in order to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa often gets more CS compared to Pantheon. Champs who on average don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kai'Sa versus Pantheon build include Nashor's Tooth, Guinsoo's Rageblade, and Zhonya's Hourglass. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Pantheon than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the best chance of beating Pantheon as Kai'Sa, Kai'Sa players should take the Hail of Blades, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Domination and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Kai'Sa vs Pantheon counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 47.3% win rate overall.
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