Katarina vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Katarina
based on 6,248 Katarina vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Katarina vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Katarina vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Katarina
Tips for Playing as Katarina against Pantheon
Picking up Daggers will significantly reduce Shunpo's cooldown.
Try waiting until the other team is distracted with fighting your team, and use Shunpo to teleport into the fray and unleash a devastating Death Lotus.
Using Shunpo on an allied Champion, Dagger, or minion can be a great escape tactic.
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.
Katarina vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Katarina in LoL
The stats shown on this page underscore several critical Katarina versus Pantheon counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Katarina’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Katarina may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon..
Katarina normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Katarina and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Katarina or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Katarina usually loses when taking on Pantheon, with a 48.5% win rate. Therefore, Katarina makes a bad counter for Pantheon.
While Katarina does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Katarina also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Katarina into Pantheonas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Katarina also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Katarina 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 team members during team fights.
Katarina is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Katarina against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Katarina 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 lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Katarina usually picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Katarina versus Pantheon build include Lich Bane, Nashor's Tooth, and Stormsurge. When Katarina combined at least these three items in her build, she did much better countering Pantheon than with many other common item sets. In fact, Katarina had an average win rate of 48.5% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Pantheon as Katarina, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Ingenious Hunter, Triumph, and Coup de Grace runes from the Domination and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune builds players used for Katarina vs Pantheon counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Katarina are displayed for all ranked divisions. If you want to scope the statistics and builds to a distinct player tier, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.