Akali vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Akali
based on 10,968 Akali vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Akali vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Akali vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Akali
Tips for Playing as Akali against Pantheon
Akali excels at killing fragile champions. Let your team initiate and then strike at the people in the back.
Twilight Shroud offers safety in even the most dangerous situations. Use that time to save up energy for a quick strike later.
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.
Akali vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Akali in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some valuable Akali versus Pantheon counter stats that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. For instance, Akali’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Akali may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Akali usually has a similar longest killing spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Akali and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Akali or Pantheon?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Akali usually loses when playing against Pantheon, with a 48.2% win rate. Thus, Akali makes a poor counter to Pantheon.
While Akali does have a lower win rate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Akali also has a much greater learning curve that makes her a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Akali into Pantheonas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Akali has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Akali vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Akali is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Akali against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Akali in order to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Akali on average accumulates a similar amount of CS as Pantheon. Champs who on average don't get much CS usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Akali versus Pantheon build include Cryptbloom, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Stormsurge. When Akali incorporated at least these three items in her build, she did much better when facing Pantheon than with most other common item sets. In fact, Akali had an average winrate of 48.2% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Pantheon as Akali, Akali players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Overgrowth, and Second Wind runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Akali vs Pantheon counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.2% win rate overall.
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