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.
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.
The stats provided here show some vital Zac against Pantheon counter statistics that can help you figure out the differences between the pair. For instance, Zac’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Zac may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Pantheon. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Zac typically has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Pantheon. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zac usually wins when facing off against Pantheon, with a 53.1% win rate. As a result, Zac makes a great counter for Pantheon.
While Zac does have a higher winrate than Pantheon, when facing one another, Zac also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Zac into Pantheonas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Zac has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation 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 allies during team fights.
Zac is a great counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zac against Pantheon.
To truly master Zac in order 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 tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips shown above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zac usually accumulates less CS compared to Pantheon. Champions who typically don't take much CS often don't require 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, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Zac versus Pantheon build include Sunfire Aegis, Thornmail, and Demonic Embrace. When Zac bought at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better against Pantheon than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Zac boasted an average win rate of 53.1% when countering Pantheon with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Pantheon as Zac, Zac players should equip the Aftershock, Font of Life, Conditioning, Revitalize, Triumph, and Legend: Tenacity runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players chose for Zac vs Pantheon battles, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 53.1% win rate overall.
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