Poppy vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Poppy
based on 2,911 Poppy vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Poppy vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Poppy vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Poppy
Tips for Playing as Poppy against Pantheon
Keeper's Verdict can be released immediately to send the enemy straight up, take advantage of this in duels.
Iron Ambassador tends to land near walls, try to take advantage of this with Heroic Charge.
Advice to Win Against Pantheon
Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
Poppy vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Poppy in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Poppy against Pantheon counter stats that can help us realize the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Poppy’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Poppy may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Poppy typically has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also hint that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Poppy and Pantheon
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Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Poppy or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Poppy usually fairs equally well when facing off against Pantheon, with a 50.6% win rate. Thus, Poppy makes an ok counter for Pantheon.
While Poppy does have a higher win rate compared to Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Poppy also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Poppy into Pantheon.
Additionally, Poppy has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Poppy vs Pantheon matchups, Poppy is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Poppy is a decent counter for Pantheon. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Poppy against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Poppy to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Poppy typically racks up a similar amount of CS as Pantheon. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Poppy versus Pantheon build consist of Unending Despair, Sunfire Aegis, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Poppy incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better vs Pantheon than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Poppy had an average win rate of 50.6% battling Pantheon with these items in her kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Pantheon as Poppy, Poppy players should use the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Bone Plating, Revitalize, Biscuit Delivery, and Time Warp Tonic runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Poppy vs Pantheon LoL games, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.6% winrate overall.
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