Transfusion instantly deals damage to the enemy before healing Vladimir, making it one of the best last hitting tools in the game.
Cast Hemoplague where it will afflict the most units.
Sanguine Pool pops incoming missiles, so it can be used to dodge disables.
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 stats provided here feature some important Vladimir against Pantheon matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Vladimir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Vladimir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Pantheon..
Vladimir normally has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Pantheon. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Vladimir usually fairs equally well when facing off against Pantheon, with a 50.9% win rate. As a result, Vladimir makes an ok counter for Pantheon.
While Vladimir does have a higher win rate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Vladimir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Vladimir into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Vladimir has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Vladimir vs Pantheon matchups, Vladimir is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during late stage team fights.
Vladimir is a decent counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Vladimir against Pantheon.
To truly master Vladimir in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vladimir usually accumulates more CS as Pantheon. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Vladimir versus Pantheon build consist of Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Liandry's Torment. When Vladimir combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better when facing Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Vladimir had an average winrate of 50.9% when playing against Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Pantheon as Vladimir, you should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Gathering Storm runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Vladimir vs Pantheon counterpicks, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.9% win rate overall.
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