Azir vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Azir
based on 2,715 Azir vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Azir vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Azir vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Azir
Tips for Playing as Azir against Pantheon
Be a bird!
In the lane, try to position your soldiers between the enemy's minions and the enemy champion. This way you can use them both to last hit and to project threat onto your lane opponent.
Be careful about putting down both of the soldiers stored by Arise! Unless you're going all-in, always have a soldier in your back pocket if you need to escape over a wall or if you misposition your other soldier and need damage now.
Think of Emperor's Divide as a defensive ability first and foremost. Use it when the enemy engages on you or your allies. Remember that your team can walk through the soldiers summoned by Emperor's Divide and use this to your advantage when enemy melee champions engage on you.
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.
Azir vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Azir in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some valuable Azir against Pantheon counter statistics that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Azir’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Azir may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Pantheon..
Azir typically has a similar longest killing spree as his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also imply that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Azir and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Azir or Pantheon?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Azir usually wins when facing off against Pantheon, with a 52.9% win rate. As a result, Azir makes a good counter to Pantheon.
While Azir does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when facing one another, Azir also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more challenging character to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Azir into Pantheonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Azir also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This 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 Azir vs Pantheon matchups, Azir is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Azir is an above average counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your strategy on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Azir against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Azir to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Azir typically picks up more CS as Pantheon. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Azir versus Pantheon build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zhonya's Hourglass, and Shadowflame. When Azir used at least these three items in his build, he did much better against Pantheon than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Azir had an average winrate of 52.9% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Pantheon as Azir, you should take the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Azir vs Pantheon counterpicks, this set of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 52.9% win rate overall.
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