Pantheon vs Akali
How to Beat Akali as Pantheon
based on 10,968 Pantheon vs Akali matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Akali Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Akali Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Akali as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Akali
Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.
Advice to Win Against Akali
Akali's Five Point Strike is powerful when used at maximum range and energy. Engage on her when she has low energy to maximize your chance of winning trades.
Return to base if your Health is low and Akali has her ultimate available.
Akali can still be hit by area effect spells while obscured inside Twilight Shroud. Doing so will briefly reveal her position.
Pantheon vs Akali Counter Stats
How to Counter Akali with Pantheon in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here underscore several important Pantheon vs. Akali matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between the pair. As an example, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Akali’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Akali..
Pantheon usually has a similar longest killing spree as his counter does. On average, he receives a similar amount of damage to Akali. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pantheon and Akali
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Akali?
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually wins when trying to fight Akali, with a 51.8% win rate. Thus, Pantheon makes a good counter to Akali.
While Pantheon does have a higher winrate compared to Akali, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Pantheon into Akali.
Moreover, Pantheon has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Akali. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Akali matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Pantheon is a decent counter to Akali. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Pantheon against Akali.
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How We Calculated Our Pantheon vs Akali Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pantheon in order to counter Akali during both the early game 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 pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon usually racks up a similar amount of CS relative to Akali. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. 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 a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers shown here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Pantheon versus Akali build include Trinity Force, Sundered Sky, and Eclipse. When Pantheon incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better vs Akali than with many other common item sets. In fact, Pantheon had an average winrate of 51.8% when countering Akali with this counter build.
To have the best probability of defeating Akali as Pantheon, Pantheon players should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Pantheon vs Akali LoL games, this order of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 51.8% win rate overall.
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