Equinox can be used as a powerful zoning tool to keep enemies at bay.
You can use Wish on your allies from across the map to save them from otherwise fatal events.
Soraka is a powerful ally in battle, using her strong healing to keep the party moving forward.
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 stat comparisons shown here underscore some valuable Soraka vs. Pantheon counter statistics that may help us distinguish the distinctions between this pair of champs. As an example, Soraka’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Pantheon’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Soraka may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Pantheon. This observation is largely a result of the differences in assists.
Soraka usually has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than her counter does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Pantheon. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, but it can also illustrate that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Soraka usually wins when playing against Pantheon, with a 51.0% win rate. Therefore, Soraka makes a good counter to Pantheon.
While Soraka does have a higher winrate compared to Pantheon, when facing one another, Soraka also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champion to develop with. You should be careful when picking Soraka into Pantheon.
Additionally, Soraka has a lot of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Pantheon. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Soraka vs Pantheon matchups, Soraka is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Soraka is a decent counter for Pantheon. Focus your play on increasing your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Soraka against Pantheon.
If you would like to truly master Soraka in order to counter Pantheon during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips presented here, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Soraka typically picks up a lot less CS relative to Pantheon. Champions who on average don't get much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They 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, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Soraka versus Pantheon build include Redemption, Staff of Flowing Water, and Moonstone Renewer. When Soraka used at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better countering Pantheon than with most other common item sets. In fact, Soraka had an average win rate of 51.0% when playing against Pantheon with this build.
To have the best chance of crushing Pantheon as Soraka, you should equip the Summon Aery, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Revitalize, and Bone Plating runes from the Sorcery and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Soraka vs Pantheon face-offs, this combination of runes resulted in the highest win rate. Notably, these runes provided a 51.0% winrate overall.
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