How to win lane as Pantheon against Illaoi · 49.42% win rate over 777 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | Your point-and-click W stun and Q burst chunk her at level 1 before she has any tentacles placed to punish you back. |
| Level 2 | Pantheon | Your level-2 spike (W+Q) is a real all-in window while she still can't slam you with a stacked field. |
| Level 3 | Even / skill | With all three basics up you can short-trade, but if she lands E on your spirit the field flips it — genuinely even. |
| Levels 4-5 | Illaoi | Once she's placed tentacles your trades eat multiple slams and her sustain heals your Q poke right off. |
| Level 6 | Illaoi | Her R multiplies tentacles and out-heals your whole combo — never all-in into that field, so the window is hers. |
| First item | Illaoi | Around first item her sustain and AoE outpace your plateauing damage; you can't burst through the heals anymore. |
| Two+ items | Even / skill | Late, neither side wins cleanly off-field — you roam and pick with R while she splitpushes, so it evens out. |
Levels 1-3 are yours, but only outside her tentacles. Your point-and-click W stun plus Q chunks her before she has any tentacles placed, so threaten the level-1 and level-2 all-in hard. The trap is committing where she's already set tentacles — if she lands E (Test of Spirit) on your spirit, you have to sprint out of her field while three tentacles slam you. Throw your held long-range Q to poke and clear from max distance, never walk into the field to melee her down.
The full Pantheon vs Illaoi 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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