Zilean vs Pantheon
How to Beat Pantheon as Zilean
based on 1,941 Zilean vs Pantheon matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zilean vs Pantheon Matchup Summary
Best Zilean vs Pantheon Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Pantheon as Zilean
Tips for Playing as Zilean against Pantheon
Time Warp is an effective way to enable allies to finish off enemies, or escape from a losing battle.
Chronoshift is a powerful deterrent to attacking your carries, but casting Chronoshift too early in a fight can cause the enemy to switch targets too soon, making it less effective.
You can combine the use of Time Bomb and Rewind to place two Time Bombs on a target quickly. Placing the second bomb will detonate the first and stun all nearby enemies.
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.
Zilean vs Pantheon Counter Stats
How to Counter Pantheon with Zilean in LoL
The stats provided here emphasize some valuable Zilean against Pantheon counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Zilean’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Zilean may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Pantheon. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Zilean normally has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he receives less damage than Pantheon. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zilean and Pantheon
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Who is Better, Zilean or Pantheon?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Zilean usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 51.8% win rate. Therefore, Zilean makes a good counter for Pantheon.
While Zilean does have a higher winrate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Zilean also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Zilean into Pantheon.
Furthermore, Zilean also has a very large 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 lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Zilean vs Pantheon matchups, Zilean is the better champ with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during late stage team fights.
Zilean is a decent counter to Pantheon. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Zilean against Pantheon.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Zilean to counter Pantheon during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zilean most often picks up less CS relative to Pantheon. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Zilean versus Pantheon build include Shurelya's Battlesong, Imperial Mandate, and Vigilant Wardstone. When Zilean used at least these three items in his build, he did much better when fighting Pantheon than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Zilean boasted an average win rate of 51.8% battling Pantheon with this build.
To have the best probability of crushing Pantheon as Zilean, Zilean players should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Cheap Shot, and Relentless Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the runes we have analyed for Zilean vs Pantheon matchups, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.8% winrate overall.
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