Pantheon vs Taric Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Two very different profiles meet in the Support lane: Pantheon the fighter/assassin hybrid, Taric the support/tank hybrid. 224 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Pantheon at a 39.3% win rate into Taric. That is 10.7 points under even, which is why Taric is listed among the champions Pantheon struggles into.
Both Pantheon and Taric threaten mainly physical damage, so one resistance covers the lane. The stat sheet reads 650 HP and 40 armour for Pantheon against 645 and 40 for Taric. Scaling matters as well: Pantheon ends on 2503 HP, Taric on 2328. Base attack damage is 64 against 55, so Pantheon wins the raw auto-attack exchange. Movement speed: Pantheon 345, Taric 340.
Pantheon threatens Grand Starfall; Taric counters through Bastion. Ultimates decide the rest — Grand Starfall versus Cosmic Radiance.
Both champions are melee (Pantheon at 175, Taric at 150), so the lane is decided by cooldowns rather than reach.
A 224-game window is wide enough to trust the direction, narrow enough to shift. No hand-editing here — the Pantheon figures come straight from ranked play.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Taric has the statistical edge. Pantheon wins 39.3% of the recorded games.
39.3% from Pantheon's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
224 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Pantheon build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Pantheon build page.