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 on this page underscore some significant Zeri vs. Pantheon matchup stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the two. Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Pantheon..
Zeri normally has a similar longest kill spree as their opponent does. Commonly, they takes a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when facing off against Pantheon, with a 45.8% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a poor counter to Pantheon.
While Zeri does have a much lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a greater difficulty level that makes them a more challenging character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Zeri into Pantheon.
Additionally, Zeri also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zeri vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Zeri is a garbage counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your play on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zeri against Pantheon.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zeri in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri on average gets more CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Zeri versus Pantheon build include Bloodthirster, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they performed much better vs. Pantheon than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 45.8% when playing against Pantheon with this build.
To have the highest probability of annihilating Pantheon as Zeri, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zeri vs Pantheon battles, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 45.8% win rate overall.
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