Nasus vs Pantheon Counter Pick

Pantheon owns the early numbers. He attacks from 175 units to Nasus’s 125, opens with 40 armor against 34, and Mortal Will empowers a spell every few attacks or casts, which suits short decisive skirmishes. Yet Nasus wins 60.4% of the 139 games recorded on patch 16.13.1, which says the fights being counted are not short.

Two things explain that. Soul Eater hands Nasus life steal for nothing, so an even damage exchange is not an even health exchange, and Siphoning Strike compounds permanently whenever it finishes a target, with camps supplying a stacking source Pantheon has no equivalent for. Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable to damage from the front while he strikes repeatedly, which fully answers an opponent attacking head-on and answers nothing once the angle changes.

Wither is the corrective tool: applied after Shield Vault has landed, it removes both the burst window and the retreat. Grand Starfall lets Pantheon drop into a fight from a distance, so contesting objectives without vision on him is the usual way a favourable number becomes a loss. Late statlines converge at 2,418 health against 2,503, with Pantheon keeping the armor lead at 124.2 to 113.9 and 345 move speed against 350, so the jungle skirmishes that go long belong to whoever has stacks banked. Pantheon kit.