Taric vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Taric
based on 1,836 Taric vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Pantheon
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
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.
Taric vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Taric in LoL
The stats shown here clarify several critical Taric vs. Pantheon matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between these two champions. As an example, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Taric usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Taric and Pantheon
Damage Types Compared
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Who is Better, Taric or Pantheon?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Taric usually wins when facing off against Pantheon, with a 54.5% win rate. As a result, Taric makes a great counter to Pantheon.
While Taric does have a much higher win rate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Taric also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to learn and master. You should be be fine when picking Taric into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Taric also has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Taric vs Pantheon matchups, Taric is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Taric is a great counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Taric against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric usually racks up less CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They 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 have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The best items to use in your Taric versus Pantheon build include Thornmail, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Taric boasted an average winrate of 54.5% when countering Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the best chance of defeating Pantheon as Taric, Taric players should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes we have analyed for Taric vs Pantheon matchups, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 54.5% winrate overall.
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