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.
Be ready to dodge Shen's taunt and punish him if he misses.
Once Shen reaches level 6, watch out for his global-range ultimate, which can turn fights quickly.
The stat comparisons provided here clarify several vital Pantheon against Shen counter stats that can help you distinguish the differences between the pair. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Shen’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Shen..
Pantheon typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives less damage than Shen. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when trying to fight Shen, with a 48.6% win rate. Therefore, Pantheon makes a poor counter for Shen.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate compared to Shen, when they face off with one another, Pantheon also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pantheon into Shen.
Additionally, Pantheon also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Shen. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting 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 Shen matchups, Shen is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Pantheon is a somewhat poor counter for Shen. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Pantheon against Shen.
If you would like to truly master Pantheon in order to counter Shen during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon most often picks up a similar amount of CS compared to Shen. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Pantheon versus Shen build consist of Maw of Malmortius, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon combined at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better countering Shen than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 48.6% when playing against Shen with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of beating Shen as Pantheon, Pantheon players should use the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes players picked for Pantheon vs Shen counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.6% winrate overall.
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