Viego vs Pantheon Counter Pick

Pantheon enters the early game with noticeably more armor, 40 at level one compared with Viego’s 34, and climbs to 124.2 by level 18. Viego deals purely physical damage, so that armor directly blunts his damage, but the recorded win rate still leans his way: 53.9% across 538 jungle games on patch 16.13.1.

• Aegis Assault renders Pantheon immune to damage coming from the front while he attacks, so on-hit pressure from Blade of the Ruined King must come from behind or wait out the channel.
• Mortal Will charges his next spell after a set number of casts or attacks, handing him burst windows he can pick his moment for instead of damage he has to keep up.
• His 28 magic resist is the weakest figure on his sheet, and a physical damage kit has little way to exploit it.

Reach and resource cost decide it. Viego attacks from 200 units to Pantheon’s 175 and both move at 345, yet Viego spends nothing on abilities while Pantheon pays mana for Comet Spear and Shield Vault. Grand Starfall lets Pantheon project power across the whole map, while Heartbreaker lets Viego reset within a single fight, and Sovereign’s Domination turns any nearby corpse into a second health pool. Health stays close: 630 for Pantheon against 650 for Viego early, and 2,483 against 2,503 at level eighteen. Difficulty is rated 4 for Pantheon and 5 for Viego. Compare Viego and Pantheon.