Leona vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Leona
based on 3,672 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.
You can absorb a huge amount of damage using Eclipse, but you must stay near enemies to gain the bonus duration.
Lead the charge and mark your foes with Sunlight before your allies deal damage.
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 here feature some important Leona against Pantheon counter statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the two. For instance, Leona’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Leona may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Pantheon. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Leona typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her matchup does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Leona and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Leona or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Leona usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 51.9% win rate. Therefore, Leona makes a good counter for Pantheon.
While Leona does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when facing one another, Leona also has a greater level of difficulty that makes her a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Leona into Pantheon.
Additionally, Leona also has a lot 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 ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Leona vs Pantheon matchups, Leona is the better champ with a higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Leona is a decent counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Leona against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Leona 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 listen to the build and stats displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Leona often racks up a lot less CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Leona versus Pantheon build consist of Evenshroud, Knight's Vow, and Bulwark of the Mountain. When Leona bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better when facing Pantheon than with most other common builds. In fact, Leona had an average winrate of 51.9% when playing against Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Pantheon as Leona, you should equip the Glacial Augment, Hextech Flashtraption, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Unflinching runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players used for Leona vs Pantheon LoL games, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Leona are presented for every ranked division. To narrow the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you should use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.