Pantheon vs Maokai
How to Beat Maokai as Pantheon
based on 7,123 Pantheon vs Maokai matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Pantheon vs Maokai Matchup Summary
Best Pantheon vs Maokai Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Maokai as Pantheon
Tips for Playing as Pantheon against Maokai
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 Maokai
The cooldown on Maokai's self healing is heavily gated on how many time you hit him with spells. Careful about wasting abilities on him.
Maokai will avoid taking damage while he's using Twisted Advance, so don't waste your spells.
Saplings will chase the first enemy that gets too close, but detonate after a few seconds or if they collide with other enemies. Be especially careful around brush sapling, as they are much more dangerous.
Pantheon vs Maokai Counter Stats
How to Counter Maokai with Pantheon in LoL
The stats provided here show several vital Pantheon vs. Maokai matchup stats that may help us grasp the distinctions between the pair. Pantheon’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Maokai’s ratio of NaN, showing that Pantheon may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Maokai. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Pantheon usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Maokai. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is not able to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Pantheon and Maokai
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Who is Better, Pantheon or Maokai?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Pantheon usually loses when facing off against Maokai, with a 45.9% win rate. As a result, Pantheon makes a bad counter for Maokai.
While Pantheon does have a much lower win rate than Maokai, when they face off with one another, Pantheon also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Pantheon into Maokai.
Moreover, Pantheon has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Maokai. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion in League of Legends, in Pantheon vs Maokai matchups, Maokai 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 teamfights.
Pantheon is a bad counter to Maokai. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Pantheon against Maokai.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Pantheon to counter Maokai during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Pantheon on average gets more CS as Maokai. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS usualy don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Pantheon versus Maokai build include Spear of Shojin, Bloodsong, and Eclipse. When Pantheon bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Maokai than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Pantheon had an average win rate of 45.9% when countering Maokai with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of crushing Maokai as Pantheon, you should take the Press the Attack, Presence of Mind, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Transcendence, and Scorch runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Pantheon vs Maokai counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.9% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Maokai as Pantheon are presented for every ranked division. If you want to narrow the statistics and builds to a distinct rank, you may use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.