Communication is key when making use of Thresh's lantern. Let your teammates know how you like to use it.
Death Sentence and Flay can be combined in either cast order for powerful combinations.
Thresh can collect souls without needing to kill units himself. Planning your map position to be near the most deaths will help to maximize soul collection.
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 here feature some important Thresh vs. Pantheon counter statistics that may help you explain the differences between these two champions. As an example, Thresh’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Thresh may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Thresh usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes less damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Thresh usually fairs equally well when facing off against Pantheon, with a 49.5% win rate. Thus, Thresh makes an ok counter to Pantheon.
While Thresh does have a lower winrate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Thresh also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Thresh into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Thresh also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Thresh vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Thresh is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Thresh against Pantheon.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Thresh to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Thresh typically accumulates a lot less CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions 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 numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Thresh versus Pantheon build include Zeke's Convergence, Thornmail, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Thresh bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Pantheon than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Thresh had an average win rate of 49.5% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the greatest probability of coming out on top against Pantheon as Thresh, Thresh players should equip the Guardian, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Thresh vs Pantheon matchups, this order of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 49.5% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Thresh are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular player tier, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.