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.
Taric reduces his spell cooldowns by basic attacking enemies with Bravado. Try to kite him in teamfights and punish him for approaching the minion wave in lane.
Taric's ultimate, Cosmic Radiance, has a long delay before its effect. Try to quickly assess whether to disengage the fight or attempt to kill his allies before it goes off.
The stat comparisons provided here underscore some significant Pantheon against Taric matchup statistics that may help us interpret the distinctions between the two. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Taric’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Taric. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pantheon often has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes a similar amount of damage to Taric. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when trying to fight Taric, with a 45.5% win rate. Therefore, Pantheon makes a poor counter to Taric.
While Pantheon does have a much lower winrate compared to Taric, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Pantheon into Taric.
Furthermore, Pantheon also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Taric. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Taric matchups, Taric is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Pantheon is a bad counter for Taric. Focus your actions on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Taric.
To truly master Pantheon to counter Taric during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average picks up more CS as Taric. Champs who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Pantheon versus Taric build include Spear of Shojin, Bloodsong, and Sundered Sky. When Pantheon used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better against Taric than with many other typical builds. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average winrate of 45.5% when playing against Taric with this build.
To have the best probability of beating Taric 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 rune combinations we have analyed for Pantheon vs Taric clashes, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 45.5% winrate overall.
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