Maokai vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Maokai
based on 7,123 Maokai vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Maokai vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Maokai vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Maokai
Tips for Playing as Maokai against Pantheon
Maokai's passive makes him extremely durable against focus fire from spells - so long as he can still basic attack something.
Try looking for flanks or other situations where Nature's Grasp is unavoidable or takes enemies by surprise.
Saplings can be tossed into brush for empowered effect - but don't stack well.
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.
Maokai vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Maokai in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here show several important Maokai vs. Pantheon counter stats that can help us distinguish the distinctions between this set of champions. As an example, Maokai’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Maokai may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Maokai usually has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he receives more damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Maokai and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Maokai or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Maokai usually wins when facing off against Pantheon, with a 54.1% win rate. Thus, Maokai makes a great counter for Pantheon.
While Maokai does have a much higher winrate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Maokai also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less difficult champ to develop with. You should be be fine when picking Maokai into Pantheon.
Additionally, Maokai has a very large amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Maokai vs Pantheon matchups, Maokai is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Maokai is a great counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Maokai against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Maokai to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Maokai most often racks up less CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Maokai versus Pantheon build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Maokai used at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Pantheon than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Maokai had an average winrate of 54.1% when countering Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Pantheon as Maokai, Maokai players should take the Aftershock, Font of Life, Bone Plating, Unflinching, Cosmic Insight, and Hextech Flashtraption runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Maokai vs Pantheon face-offs, this mix of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.1% win rate overall.
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