Zed vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Zed
based on 6,602 Zed vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Pantheon
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Zed in LoL
The stats provided here feature several influential Zed against Pantheon counter stats that can help us interpret the differences between the pair. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Pantheon’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Pantheon..
Zed often has a similar longest killing spree as his opponent does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champion has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Zed or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zed usually loses when trying to fight Pantheon, with a 48.4% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a bad counter to Pantheon.
While Zed does have a lower winrate than Pantheon, when they face off with one another, Zed also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex character to learn and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Zed into Pantheonas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Zed has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Zed 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 late stage team fights.
Zed is a somewhat poor counter to Pantheon. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your CS and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Zed against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't get much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to use in your Zed versus Pantheon build consist of Serylda's Grudge, Axiom Arc, and Hubris. When Zed combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 48.4% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the best probability of annihilating Pantheon as Zed, you should take the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Future's Market, Cosmic Insight, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Zed vs Pantheon matchups, this set of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 48.4% win rate overall.
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