Zed vs Pantheon Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Two very different profiles meet in the jungle: Zed the assassin, Pantheon the fighter/assassin hybrid. 108 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Zed at a 42.6% win rate into Pantheon. Sitting 7.4 points below the 50% line marks Pantheon as a genuine problem pick for Zed.
Both Zed and Pantheon threaten mainly physical damage, so one resistance covers the matchup. Before items it is 654 HP, 32 armour, 29 MR for Zed; 650, 40, 28 for Pantheon. The 8-armour edge belongs to Pantheon. At full build levels the gap widens to 2503 HP versus 2337, favouring Pantheon.
Zed threatens Death Mark; Pantheon counters through Shield Vault. Whoever spends Death Mark or Grand Starfall first hands the other a window. Note the resource bars too: Energy versus Mana.
With both sitting in melee range (125 against 175), neither side gets a free poke pattern.
Riot scores Zed at 7/10 for difficulty against 4/10, and that gap alone drags on the average. A 108-game window is wide enough to trust the direction, narrow enough to shift. The Zed versus Pantheon numbers rebuild from current Emerald and above games.
FAQ
No — current data marks this as a counter matchup: Pantheon has the statistical edge. Zed wins 42.6% of the recorded games.
42.6% from Zed's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
108 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Zed build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Zed build page.