Pantheon vs Azir
How to Beat Azir as Pantheon
based on 2,715 Pantheon vs Azir matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Azir Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Azir Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Azir as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Azir
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 Azir
Try to think of Sand Soldiers as fire. Don't stand in the fire.
Azir relies on his soldiers to deal damage and can only move them so often. Try to capitalize on windows of time when his soldiers are stationary.
Azir has immense damage over a prolonged amount of time but lacks the upfront burst of other mages. Try to burst him out before he can turn a confrontation around.
Pantheon vs Azir Counter Stats
How to Counter Azir with Pantheon in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize some valuable Pantheon against Azir counter statistics that can help you interpret the differences and similarities between this set of champions. Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Azir’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Azir..
Pantheon typically has a similar longest kill spree as his matchup does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Azir. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pantheon and Azir
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Azir?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when taking on Azir, with a 47.1% win rate. Thus, Pantheon makes a poor counter for Azir.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate than Azir, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Pantheon into Azir.
Moreover, Pantheon has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Azir. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Azir matchups, Azir is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Pantheon is a garbage counter to Azir. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Pantheon against Azir.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon to counter Azir during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average accumulates less CS relative to Azir. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Pantheon versus Azir build include Blade of The Ruined King, Bloodsong, and Opportunity. When Pantheon combined at least these three items in his build, he did much better vs. Azir than with most other typical builds. In fact, Pantheon boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Azir with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Azir as Pantheon, you should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the runes players picked for Pantheon vs Azir counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 47.1% winrate overall.
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