Nidalee vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Nidalee
based on 1,220 Nidalee vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Nidalee vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Nidalee vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Nidalee
Tips for Playing as Nidalee against Pantheon
Use brush to your advantage! Moving in and out of brush can heavily alter your effectiveness in battle.
Start team fights by harassing with your Javelin Toss, and then switch to cougar form to chase down Hunted targets.
Bushwhack traps deal damage based on their victim's current Health. Set them up in your team's backline before fights break out during sieges to help your team deal damage to the enemy frontline.
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.
Nidalee vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Nidalee in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Nidalee vs. Pantheon matchup stats that may help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Nidalee’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, showing that Nidalee may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Nidalee often has a similar longest kill spree as her matchup does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Pantheon. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Nidalee and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Nidalee or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Nidalee usually loses when facing off against Pantheon, with a 45.6% win rate. Therefore, Nidalee makes a bad counter for Pantheon.
While Nidalee does have a much lower win rate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Nidalee also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Nidalee into Pantheonas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Nidalee also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Nidalee vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Nidalee is a garbage counter for Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Nidalee against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Nidalee to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown here, you should grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Nidalee typically accumulates less CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities 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 case, try to do better than the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Nidalee versus Pantheon build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Lich Bane, and Stormsurge. When Nidalee bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did much better vs Pantheon than with many other common item sets. In fact, Nidalee had an average winrate of 45.6% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Pantheon as Nidalee, you should equip the Dark Harvest, Sudden Impact, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Transcendence, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players used for Nidalee vs Pantheon counter picks, this combo of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 45.6% win rate overall.
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