How to win lane as Pantheon against Zac · 52.78% win rate over 612 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27
| Stage | Favoured | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | Pantheon | Your point-and-click W stun does real damage at level 1 and Zac has no escape — start the fight, you own this window. |
| Level 2 | Pantheon | W+Q at level 2 spikes you for an all-in he can't answer before his E sling is charged. |
| Level 3 | Pantheon | With all three basics, W-stun into empowered Q and an E block out-trades his blob sustain — a premier kill window. |
| Levels 4-5 | Pantheon | Held long-range Q poke and E damage-blocks keep you controlling the lane while he can't stick to you. |
| Level 6 | Pantheon | Grand Starfall extends your lead with roams; even in lane your tempo still beats a slow-scaling tank. |
| First item | Pantheon | Eclipse / Profane Hydra is your power peak — keep forcing all-ins and punish every E engage with a W-reset. |
| Two+ items | Zac | Full-tank Zac with Cell Division blobs and double E sling is unkillable while you fall off — he reclaims the lane. |
Zac is an off-meta tank with no real level 1 — your point-and-click W stun and its damage make you one of the strongest champs on the map here, so look to fight the moment you can reach him. He has no escape until his E charges, so a level 2-3 W-stun into empowered Q and an E channel out-trades him cleanly. The one thing that undoes you is letting him walk over the four blobs his passive drops on the ground after spells — deny those by fighting on top of him or pushing him off them.
The full Pantheon vs Zac 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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