Sylas vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Sylas
based on 5,853 Sylas vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sylas vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Sylas vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Sylas
Tips for Playing as Sylas against Pantheon
Clever use of enemy ultimates can open up new possibilities to approach teamfights.
Wait for you or your enemy to reach low health before using Kingslayer for maximum effect.
Space out your ability usage to get maximum effect from Petricite Burst.
Advice to Win Against Pantheon
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.
Sylas vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Sylas in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify some important Sylas against Pantheon matchup statistics that may help you realize the differences between the two. As an example, Sylas’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Sylas may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon..
Sylas often has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sylas and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Sylas or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Sylas usually loses when playing against Pantheon, with a 48.1% win rate. As a result, Sylas makes a bad counter for Pantheon.
While Sylas does have a lower win rate than Pantheon, when facing one another, Sylas also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Sylas into Pantheon.
Additionally, Sylas has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Sylas vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Sylas is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Sylas against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Sylas 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 lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sylas usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Sylas versus Pantheon build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Sylas incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs Pantheon than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Sylas boasted an average winrate of 48.1% when countering Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Pantheon as Sylas, you should use the Electrocute, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Sylas vs Pantheon counters, this order of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.1% win rate overall.
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