Riven vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Riven
based on 5,305 Riven vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Riven vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Riven vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Riven
Tips for Playing as Riven against Pantheon
Riven lacks a source of healing or strong defense and must compensate with burst combos. Lead into fights with Broken Wings and Ki Burst, while using Valor to escape and absorb counter-harass.
Riven's Broken Wings locks onto the champion your cursor is over at the time of cast. If you want to move past your opponent, make sure that your cursor is past your opponent as well.
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.
Riven vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Riven in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some vital Riven against Pantheon matchup stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the two. Riven’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Riven may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Pantheon..
Riven often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Riven and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Riven or Pantheon?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Riven usually fairs equally well when taking on Pantheon, with a 49.4% win rate. As a result, Riven makes an ok counter to Pantheon.
While Riven does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Riven also has a much greater difficulty level that makes her a more complex character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Riven into Pantheonas her relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Riven has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Riven vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champ with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Riven is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Riven against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Riven in order to counter Pantheon during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed above, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Riven often racks up more CS as Pantheon. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Riven versus Pantheon build include Maw of Malmortius, Spear of Shojin, and Death's Dance. When Riven used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed significantly better vs. Pantheon than with most other common builds. In fact, Riven boasted an average win rate of 49.4% when playing against Pantheon with this build.
To have the best likelihood of beating Pantheon as Riven, Riven players should equip the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Nimbus Cloak, and Transcendence runes from the Precision and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Riven vs Pantheon battles, this set of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 49.4% win rate overall.
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