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.
It's easier to focus Soraka than the ally she is healing.
Focus on attacking Soraka when she ever ventures to the frontline to heal her allies.
Take advantage of Soraka's long cooldown on Equinox if she uses it to harass.
The stat comparisons provided here feature several critical Pantheon versus Soraka matchup statistics that may help us interpret the differences between the pair. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Soraka’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Soraka. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Pantheon often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Soraka. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pantheon usually fairs equally well when playing against Soraka, with a 49.0% win rate. As a result, Pantheon makes an ok counter to Soraka.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate than Soraka, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pantheon into Soraka.
Additionally, Pantheon has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Soraka. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Soraka matchups, Soraka is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Pantheon is a somewhat poor counter for Soraka. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Soraka.
To learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon to counter Soraka 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 tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon most often racks up much more CS as Soraka. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Pantheon versus Soraka build include Sterak's Gage, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon used at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better when fighting Soraka than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average winrate of 49.0% when playing against Soraka with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Soraka as Pantheon, Pantheon players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Pantheon vs Soraka battles, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 49.0% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Soraka as Pantheon are given for all skill levels, merged. If you would like to narrow the stats and builds to a particular skill level, you may use the selection menu located at the top of this page.