Make the most out of your Icathian Surprise.
Kog'Maw can outrange most champions with his Bio-Arcane Barrage ability.
Use Void Ooze to set up a perfect Living Artillery.
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 stats shown here clarify several vital Kog'Maw against Pantheon matchup stats that can help you explain the differences between the pair. As an example, Kog'Maw’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kog'Maw may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon..
Kog'Maw usually has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives a similar amount of damage to 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 kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Kog'Maw usually loses when playing against Pantheon, with a 47.8% win rate. Thus, Kog'Maw makes a poor counter for Pantheon.
While Kog'Maw does have a lower win rate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Kog'Maw also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Kog'Maw into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Kog'Maw has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Kog'Maw 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Kog'Maw is a trash counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your actions on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Kog'Maw against Pantheon.
To truly master Kog'Maw 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kog'Maw usually racks up more CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Kog'Maw versus Pantheon build include Immortal Shieldbow, Runaan's Hurricane, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kog'Maw used at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better when facing Pantheon than with many other typical builds. In fact, Kog'Maw boasted an average winrate of 47.8% when playing against Pantheon with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Pantheon as Kog'Maw, Kog'Maw players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Bloodline, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Kog'Maw vs Pantheon fights, this combination of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 47.8% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Kog'Maw are displayed for all ranked divisions combined. To narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you should use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.