Leona vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Leona
based on 6,423 Leona vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Leona vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Leona vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Leona
Tips for Playing as Leona against Pantheon
Shield of Daybreak and Zenith Blade form a powerful offensive combo.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
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.
Leona vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Leona in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize several vital Leona against Pantheon matchup statistics that can help you interpret the differences between this set of champs. Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Pantheon. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Leona usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her opponent does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Leona and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Leona or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Leona usually wins when facing off against Pantheon, with a 52.3% win rate. As a result, Leona makes a good counter for Pantheon.
While Leona does have a higher win rate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to learn. You don't need to be too worried when picking Leona into Pantheon.
Moreover, Leona has a great deal of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, 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 Leona vs Pantheon matchups, Leona is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Leona is a good counter for Pantheon. Focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Leona against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Leona to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona usually accumulates a lot less CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs 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 values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Leona versus Pantheon build consist of Zeke's Convergence, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Leona included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Leona boasted an average winrate of 52.3% battling Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the best chance of crushing Pantheon as Leona, you should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Second Wind, Overgrowth, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Leona vs Pantheon matchups, this order of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 52.3% winrate overall.
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