Garen vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Garen
based on 6,283 Garen vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Garen vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Garen vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Garen
Tips for Playing as Garen against Pantheon
Garen is only constrained by cooldowns, making items such as Black Cleaver very effective for him.
Garen's regeneration greatly increases if he can avoid receiving damage for several seconds.
Judgment deals maximum damage when only hitting a single target. For effective trading, try to position such that only the enemy champion is hit.
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.
Garen vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Garen in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Garen vs. Pantheon counter statistics that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Garen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Garen may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Garen typically has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. On average, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Garen and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Garen or Pantheon?
Both LoL champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Garen usually fairs equally well when playing against Pantheon, with a 49.7% win rate. Therefore, Garen makes an ok counter to Pantheon.
While Garen does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Garen also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Garen into Pantheon.
Moreover, Garen also has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Garen vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Garen is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Garen against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Garen in order to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Garen often racks up more CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Garen versus Pantheon build include Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Garen bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Garen boasted an average winrate of 49.7% battling Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Pantheon as Garen, you should use the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Gathering Storm, Second Wind, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players picked for Garen vs Pantheon counters, this set of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 49.7% winrate overall.
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