Pantheon vs Malzahar
How to Beat Malzahar as Pantheon
based on 5,354 Pantheon vs Malzahar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Malzahar Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Malzahar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Malzahar as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Malzahar
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 Malzahar
Malzahar is especially dangerous when he has built up his Void Swarm.
When Malzahar hits a spell on enemies affected by Malefic Visions, the Visions are refreshed.
Avoid minion waves that have been affected by Malefic Visions. You never know when they may die and pass the Visions onto you.
Pantheon vs Malzahar Counter Stats
How to Counter Malzahar with Pantheon in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Pantheon versus Malzahar counter stats that can help you understand the differences between the two. As an example, Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Malzahar’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Malzahar..
Pantheon usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives more damage than Malzahar. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to escape additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Pantheon and Malzahar
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Malzahar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when playing against Malzahar, with a 46.2% win rate. Thus, Pantheon makes a bad counter for Malzahar.
While Pantheon does have a lower winrate than Malzahar, when facing one another, Pantheon also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex character to learn. You may get destroyed when picking Pantheon into Malzahar.
Additionally, Pantheon also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Malzahar. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Malzahar matchups, Malzahar is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Pantheon is a bad counter for Malzahar. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Malzahar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Pantheon in order to counter Malzahar 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 often gets less CS compared to Malzahar. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The top items to have in your Pantheon versus Malzahar build include Black Cleaver, Bloodsong, and Eclipse. When Pantheon combined at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better countering Malzahar than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 46.2% when playing against Malzahar with this build.
To have the greatest chance of coming out on top against Malzahar as Pantheon, Pantheon players should take the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players used for Pantheon vs Malzahar face-offs, this composite of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.2% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Malzahar as Pantheon are shown for all ranked divisions combined. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.