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.
Aqua Prison is a very powerful ability with a long cooldown, take advantage of the situation if Nami misses this ability.
Tidal Wave has a very long range but travels slowly, be aware of when it is coming your way as you can move out of its path.
Try to avoid fighting an opponent affected by Tidecaller's Blessing, it lasts a short duration so waiting it out can help you greatly.
The stats provided here highlight several strategic Pantheon against Nami matchup statistics that may help you understand the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Nami’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Nami. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Pantheon usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives more damage than Nami. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually fairs equally well when playing against Nami, with a 50.4% win rate. Thus, Pantheon makes an ok counter to Nami.
While Pantheon does have a higher winrate than Nami, when on opposite teams, Pantheon also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champ to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pantheon into Nami.
Furthermore, Pantheon has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Nami. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Nami matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Pantheon is a decent counter to Nami. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Nami.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon in order to counter Nami during both the lane 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 tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon typically accumulates much more CS as Nami. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Pantheon versus Nami build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Pantheon included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Nami than with most other common item sets. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Nami with this counter build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Nami 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. Out of all the runes players picked for Pantheon vs Nami fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 50.4% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Nami as Pantheon are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you would like to filter the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.