Pantheon vs Illaoi
How to Beat Illaoi as Pantheon
based on 3,235 Pantheon vs Illaoi matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Illaoi Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Illaoi Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Illaoi as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Illaoi
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
Advice to Win Against Illaoi
Killing Tentacles whenever possible will make it much easier to win a fight against Illaoi.
When your spirit gets pulled out, fight back if you can. Dealing damage to Illaoi reduces the spirit's duration.
Avoid grouping up for Leap of Faith to reduce the number of Tentacles available to Illaoi.
Pantheon vs Illaoi Counter Stats
How to Counter Illaoi with Pantheon in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential Pantheon versus Illaoi matchup stats that may help us explain the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Illaoi’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Illaoi..
Pantheon usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Illaoi. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pantheon and Illaoi
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Illaoi?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Illaoi, with a 49.6% win rate. As a result, Pantheon makes an ok counter to Illaoi.
While Pantheon does have a lower win rate compared to Illaoi, when they face off with one another, Pantheon also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Pantheon into Illaoi.
Furthermore, Pantheon also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Illaoi. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Illaoi 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.
Pantheon is a somewhat poor counter for Illaoi. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Illaoi.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon to counter Illaoi during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average gets less CS as Illaoi. Champions who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Pantheon versus Illaoi build include Death's Dance, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs Illaoi than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average winrate of 49.6% when countering Illaoi with these items in his kit.
To have the best probability of annihilating Illaoi as Pantheon, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Pantheon vs Illaoi counters, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.6% winrate overall.
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