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.
Skarner can't harm you very much outside of short range, so stay away from him!
Skarner is especially dangerous when inside Crystal Spire zones his team controls. Try to capture them ahead of time if a fight may break out around them.
Skarner's Move Speed is increased as long as his shield, Crystalline Exoskeleton, persists. Attack him to lower his speed.
The stat comparisons shown on this page show several significant Pantheon against Skarner matchup stats that can help us figure out the differences between the two. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Skarner’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Skarner..
Pantheon normally has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Skarner. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when facing off against Skarner, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Pantheon makes a poor counter for Skarner.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate than Skarner, when on opposite teams, Pantheon also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Pantheon into Skarner.
Additionally, Pantheon also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Skarner. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Skarner matchups, Skarner is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Pantheon is a garbage counter to Skarner. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Pantheon against Skarner.
To truly master Pantheon to counter Skarner during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average gets more CS relative to Skarner. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. 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, typically have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Pantheon versus Skarner build include Spear of Shojin, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon included at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Skarner than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 47.2% when countering Skarner with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Skarner as Pantheon, Pantheon players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Pantheon vs Skarner fights, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 47.2% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Skarner as Pantheon are shown for all ranked divisions. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual skill level, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.