Zac vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Zac
based on 3,791 Zac vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zac vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Zac vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Zac
Tips for Playing as Zac against Pantheon
Picking up goo chunks is very important to staying alive.
When Cell Division is ready, try to die in a position that makes it difficult for the enemy team to kill your bloblets.
Charging Elastic Slingshot from the fog of war will give opponents less time to react.
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.
Zac vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Zac in LoL
The stats shown on this page feature some important Zac versus Pantheon counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Zac typically has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champ with more HP has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zac and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Zac or Pantheon?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when taking on Pantheon, with a 54.7% win rate. Thus, Zac makes a great counter to Pantheon.
While Zac does have a much higher winrate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Zac also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes him a more difficult champion to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Zac into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac also has some amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zac vs Pantheon matchups, Zac is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Zac is a great counter to Pantheon. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Zac against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Zac in order to counter Pantheon during both the laning 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 listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac usually racks up less CS compared to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values displayed here to do well.
The most important items to prioritize in your Zac versus Pantheon build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Liandry's Torment. When Zac bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better vs. Pantheon than with most other common builds. In fact, Zac had an average winrate of 54.7% battling Pantheon with this counter build.
To have the greatest chance of crushing Pantheon as Zac, Zac players should use the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Of all the rune combinations we have analyed for Zac vs Pantheon counters, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 54.7% win rate overall.
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