Bard vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Bard
based on 4,816 Bard vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Pantheon
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
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.
Bard vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Bard versus Pantheon counter stats that may help you distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes less damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Bard or Pantheon?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when facing off against Pantheon, with a 53.1% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a great counter to Pantheon.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Bard vs Pantheon matchups, Bard is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Bard against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Bard in order to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn 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.
Bard typically racks up a lot less CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Bard versus Pantheon build include Locket of the Iron Solari, Solstice Sleigh, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Pantheon than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 53.1% when playing against Pantheon with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing Pantheon as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Bard vs Pantheon matchups, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 53.1% winrate overall.
If you want to see Bard vs Pantheon tips and builds for a an individual player tier, feel free to select one from the selection menu above. By default, the stats and guides given are computed using all games finished with these champions.