Nasus vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Nasus
based on 5,082 Nasus vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nasus vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Nasus vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Nasus
Tips for Playing as Nasus against Pantheon
Paying attention to last hitting with Siphoning Strike will have a large impact at the end of a game.
If you're solo, Spirit Fire is a great way to farm a lane. It can be bad if you're in a lane with 2 and you push too far. Find the right balance between Siphoning Strike last hits and AoE farming.
If you have low defenses, people will focus you down even during your ultimate. Try buying some survivability items even in your DPS builds.
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.
Nasus vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Nasus in LoL
The stats provided here show some strategic Nasus against Pantheon matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between this pair of champions. Nasus’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Nasus may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Pantheon..
Nasus often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Nasus and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Nasus or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Nasus usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Nasus makes a good counter to Pantheon.
While Nasus does have a higher winrate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Nasus also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Nasus into Pantheon.
Additionally, Nasus has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Nasus vs Pantheon matchups, Nasus is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Nasus is a decent counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your tactics on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nasus against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nasus to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nasus usually gets more CS as Pantheon. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Nasus versus Pantheon build consist of Sterak's Gage, Trinity Force, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Nasus combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better versus Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Nasus boasted an average winrate of 51.8% battling Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Pantheon as Nasus, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players used for Nasus vs Pantheon fights, this composite of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 51.8% winrate overall.
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