Spirit of Dread restores Health when nearby enemies take damage, including damage dealt by allies. Cast this during a large fight to maximize Hecarim's survivability.
Devastating Charge deals more damage based on the distance traveled. Try using Onslaught of Shadows or Summoner Spells such as Ghost or Flash to maximize this damage.
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 provided here emphasize several influential Hecarim against Pantheon counter stats that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Hecarim’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Hecarim may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Hecarim typically has a similar longest kill spree as his counter does. Typically, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Hecarim usually loses when taking on Pantheon, with a 47.2% win rate. As a result, Hecarim makes a poor counter for Pantheon.
While Hecarim does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Hecarim also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Hecarim into Pantheon.
Additionally, Hecarim 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 fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Hecarim 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 teammates during late stage team fights.
Hecarim is a bad counter to Pantheon. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Hecarim against Pantheon.
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Hecarim in order to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Hecarim usually picks up less CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. 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 require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Hecarim versus Pantheon build include Turbo Chemtank, Muramana, and Dead Man's Plate. When Hecarim included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed much better vs. Pantheon than with most other common builds. In fact, Hecarim had an average win rate of 47.2% when playing against Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Pantheon as Hecarim, you should equip the Phase Rush, Nimbus Cloak, Celerity, Waterwalking, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Hecarim vs Pantheon fights, this combination of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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