Yasuo vs Pantheon — Top Lane Matchup Guide

How to win lane as Yasuo against Pantheon · 50.42% win rate over 1,075 Emerald+ games · Updated 2026-07-27

Verdict: Pantheon is favoured — Pantheon owns 4 of the 7 game windows to Yasuo's 3. Play it patient and win your windows. Yasuo wins 50.42% of games vs Pantheon in top lane (1,075 Emerald+ games analysed).

Favour timeline — who owns each window

StageFavouredWhy
Level 1PantheonLevel 1 is Pantheon's — Comet Spear and empowered autos out-poke you.
Level 2PantheonLevel 2 stays Pantheon's: his Shield Vault stun all-in beats your early trades.
Level 3PantheonLevel 3 is Pantheon's as his poke-and-stun pattern peaks before your items.
Levels 4-5YasuoLevel 4 swings to you — dash spacing lets you dodge his poke and punish cooldowns.
Level 6PantheonLevel 5 tips back to Pantheon on his W all-in and Grand Starfall pressure.
First itemYasuoFirst item is yours — crit Yasuo out-scales a Pantheon whose damage plateaus.
Two+ itemsYasuo2+ items stay yours: you out-duel and out-scale his falling-off kit.

Early game (levels 1–5)

Pantheon owns levels 1-3: Comet Spear poke and a Shield Vault stun into empowered autos shred you before you have items, and his point-blank W engage ignores Wind Wall. Farm safe, dodge his Q, and don't take the extended trade.

Read the rest of this matchup

The full Yasuo vs Pantheon 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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