Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Samira versus Pantheon matchup stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Samira’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Samira may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Samira normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champion with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Samira usually loses when facing off against Pantheon, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Samira makes a poor counter to Pantheon.
While Samira does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Samira also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Samira into Pantheon.
Additionally, Samira has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Samira vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Samira is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Samira against Pantheon.
If you would like to truly master Samira in order to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Samira on average racks up more CS compared to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Samira versus Pantheon build include Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Immortal Shieldbow. When Samira combined at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better when fighting Pantheon than with many other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Samira had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Pantheon with this build.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Pantheon as Samira, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Eyeball Collection, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Samira vs Pantheon face-offs, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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