Lucian vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Lucian
based on 10,112 Lucian vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lucian vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Lucian vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Lucian
Tips for Playing as Lucian against Pantheon
For optimal burst, try to combine Relentless Pursuit into Piercing Light.
Ardent Blaze actually explodes in a star pattern. Try to line it up so the spokes hit enemy champions.
Because of Lightslinger, Lucian benefits more from Attack Damage than he does from Attack Speed.
Once you have chosen an angle for The Culling, you cannot change it. Pick your moment well!
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.
Lucian vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Lucian in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize several critical Lucian against Pantheon matchup statistics that can help us interpret the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Lucian’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Lucian may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon..
Lucian typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also illustrate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lucian and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Lucian or Pantheon?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Lucian usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 49.2% win rate. Therefore, Lucian makes an ok counter for Pantheon.
While Lucian does have a lower win rate than Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Lucian also has a greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champion to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Lucian into Pantheon.
Moreover, Lucian 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lucian vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Lucian is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Lucian against Pantheon.
Other Champion Matchups Against Lucian
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lucian to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lucian most often accumulates more CS as Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Lucian versus Pantheon build include Kraken Slayer, Navori Quickblades, and Voltaic Cyclosword. When Lucian incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs. Pantheon than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Lucian boasted an average winrate of 49.2% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the highest chance of defeating Pantheon as Lucian, Lucian players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Legend: Bloodline, and Presence of Mind runes from the Inspiration and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Lucian vs Pantheon LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.2% win rate overall.
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