How to win lane as Pantheon against Garen · 51.18% win rate over 2,464 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | At level 1 your point-and-click W stun damage is one of the best in the game — all-in before his passive regen matters. |
| Level 2 | Pantheon | Your level-2 W+Q spike out-bursts Garen, who has no answer and can't W-cut the full combo yet. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With all three basics it's a coinflip — his W cuts your burst and his Q silences your follow-up, so it comes down to baiting the W. |
| Levels 4-5 | Garen | His R is a missing-HP true-damage execute — the all-ins you'd win on raw HP now kill you under the threshold. |
| Level 6 | Garen | Garen's R execute plus W tenacity means he survives your dive and punishes it; your R is for roaming, not 1v1. |
| First item | Garen | His first-item bruiser stats and damage-cut W outpace your stalled early-game damage in a straight duel. |
| Two+ items | Garen | By 2+ items Garen's stats, tenacity, and true-damage execute hard-outscale your front-loaded kit — you can't close him. |
Levels 1-2 are yours: your point-and-click W stun plus empowered Q out-trades anything Garen has before his passive regen comes online, so force the all-in early. The catch is his W — if he pops it your burst gets cut, and his Q silences whatever you try to follow up with, so bait the W down before you commit your stun. Don't poke into a Garen who's about to back off into a bush; his regen heals your chip damage the second you stop.
The full Pantheon vs Garen report continues with the mid-game plan, the late-game and teamfight plan, every power spike to play around, and the win conditions for both sides — plus cooldown tracking and the live enemy-jungle tracker inside the app.
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