Naafiri vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Naafiri
based on 2,264 Naafiri vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Naafiri vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Naafiri vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Naafiri
Tips for Playing as Naafiri against Pantheon
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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.
Naafiri vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Naafiri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page highlight some valuable Naafiri against Pantheon matchup statistics that may help you interpret the differences between the two. Naafiri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Naafiri may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Naafiri typically has a similar longest killing spree as their counter does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Naafiri and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Naafiri or Pantheon?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Naafiri usually wins when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 51.4% win rate. As a result, Naafiri makes a good counter for Pantheon.
While Naafiri does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Naafiri also has a lower difficulty level that makes them a less challenging character to learn. You should be careful when picking Naafiri into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Naafiri has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 a single best champion in League of Legends, in Naafiri vs Pantheon matchups, Naafiri is the better champion with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Naafiri is a decent counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Naafiri against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Naafiri 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 mind the build and suggestions presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Naafiri typically gets a similar amount of CS as Pantheon. Champs who typically don't take much CS typically 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, often have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to use in your Naafiri versus Pantheon build include Maw of Malmortius, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Naafiri combined at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better against Pantheon than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Naafiri boasted an average winrate of 51.4% when playing against Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of beating Pantheon as Naafiri, you should use the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Inspiration and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Naafiri vs Pantheon matchups, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 51.4% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Pantheon as Naafiri are displayed for all skill levels, merged. To scope the stats and builds to a distinct division, you can use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.