Pantheon vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Pantheon
based on 4,816 Pantheon vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Bard
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 Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Pantheon vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Pantheon in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here clarify some vital Pantheon against Bard matchup statistics that can help us understand the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Pantheon often has a much larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pantheon and Bard
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 46.9% win rate. Therefore, Pantheon makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Pantheon into Bard.
Additionally, Pantheon also has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Pantheon is a bad counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Pantheon
Additional Information for Pantheon Players
How We Calculated Our Pantheon vs Bard Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average accumulates much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't acquire many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to use in your Pantheon versus Bard build include Black Cleaver, Spear of Shojin, and Eclipse. When Pantheon included at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Pantheon had an average winrate of 46.9% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest probability of crushing Bard as Pantheon, you should equip the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Pantheon vs Bard fights, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.9% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Bard as Pantheon are given for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct skill level, you should use the selection menu above.