Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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 provided here feature some critical Xayah against Pantheon matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between these two champions. Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, showing that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Xayah often has a similar longest kill spree as her opponent does. Typically, she receives less damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Xayah usually loses when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 48.2% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter for Pantheon.
While Xayah does have a lower win rate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Xayah also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Xayah into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Xayah also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah 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 allied champions during team fights.
Xayah is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your actions on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Xayah against Pantheon.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Xayah 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 tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah on average accumulates more CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who typically don't earn much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Xayah versus Pantheon build consist of Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah used at least these three items in her build, she did significantly better when fighting Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Xayah boasted an average winrate of 48.2% when countering Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Pantheon as Xayah, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Xayah vs Pantheon counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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