Ryze vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Ryze
based on 1,536 Ryze vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Pantheon
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here highlight some strategic Ryze versus Pantheon matchup statistics that may help you understand the differences between the two. For instance, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Pantheon..
Ryze often has a slightly smaller longest killing spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Pantheon. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also illustrate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ryze and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Ryze or Pantheon?
Both LoL champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Ryze makes a bad counter for Pantheon.
While Ryze does have a lower winrate compared to Pantheon, when on opposite teams, Ryze also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more challenging champ to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Ryze into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Ryze also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Ryze vs Pantheon matchups, Pantheon is the better champion with a lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during team fights.
Ryze is a somewhat poor counter for Pantheon. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Ryze against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ryze to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and stats displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze usually racks up more CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions 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 have to have many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Ryze versus Pantheon build include Seraph's Embrace, Rabadon's Deathcap, and Luden's Companion. When Ryze combined at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better countering Pantheon than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Ryze boasted an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Pantheon as Ryze, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Ryze vs Pantheon LoL games, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 48.4% winrate overall.
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