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.
Katarina's abilities deal magic damage, so even if she's building Attack Damage items, get magic resistance to counter her.
Try to save a disable for when Katarina uses her Death Lotus.
The stat comparisons shown on this page underscore several valuable Pantheon versus Katarina matchup stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. As an example, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Katarina’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Katarina..
Pantheon often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Katarina. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually wins when trying to fight Katarina, with a 51.5% win rate. Thus, Pantheon makes a good counter for Katarina.
While Pantheon does have a higher win rate than Katarina, when they face off with one another, Pantheon also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Pantheon into Katarina.
Additionally, Pantheon also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Katarina. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Katarina matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pantheon is a decent counter to Katarina. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Pantheon against Katarina.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon in order to counter Katarina during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon most often gets a similar amount of CS compared to Katarina. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Pantheon versus Katarina build include Black Cleaver, Bloodsong, and Sundered Sky. When Pantheon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Katarina than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 51.5% when playing against Katarina with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Katarina as Pantheon, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Pantheon vs Katarina fights, this order of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 51.5% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Katarina as Pantheon are given for all ranked divisions. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.