Does pantheon fall off late game

The most recent being a small nerf to his Q damage in Patch 9. Because the entirety of Worlds will run on Patch 9. Skip to content. Image via Riot Games. Load More. Shield Vault W W. Aegis Assault E E. Grand Starfall R R. Gathering Statistics Please check back soon for detailed counter information. Pantheon's Top Items Pauldrons of Whiterock. Youmuu's Ghostblade.

Black Cleaver. Pantheon's Top Runes. Cast Your Vote Today! Join MFN. That being said we can take a Long Sword with Refillable Potion instead of Corrupting Potion since manaflow band provides all the mana we need.

This set up in particular will let us get our first Serrated Dirk on our first back easily. Next the Transcendence is really underrated on Pantheon.

These runes are more impactful during the mid to late game. These two runes you can use with the Conqueror Pantheon. The way that Taste of Blood and Ravenous Hunter work is by giving more sources of sustain aside from just the Conqueror rune. Taste of blood is better for the early game sustain while Ravenous hunter is better for late game sustain once you have it max'd out.

The healing from all of these sources will help you to dive into your fights and out last your opponents. Personally i dont feel like these runes out perform the inspiration runes in the secondary slot for the early half of the game, BUT they will be better for the later stages of the game like the sorcery ones are.

Paying homage to old Pantheon. There will be situations where you have to fight and you wont have perfect stacks of Mortal Will to do these combos as if they were set in stone.

Im not saying there isnt optimal combos to go for in the event you have perfect stacks , but in certain situations you should be trying to weave auto attacks in so that you always end on EMPOWERED Comet Spear.

Once you get your W its time to start trading. It is easy to point and click your Shield Vault to stun your opponent and use Comet Spear BUT, at level 2 it's still risky to stay in prolonged trades.

The safest way to go about trading at level 2 is to get 4 stacks on your Mortal Will passive before attacking.

By doing this you inflict free damage to the enemy because of the "step back" you take while they are still stunned. If you dont do this already i really suggest trying it out, you can use it to safe trade the whole laning phase :D. Here i will list some examples. If you are at 3 stacks you can Shield Vault to get you to 4, then auto attack to get 5, and finish them with empowered Comet Spear.

This variation will allow you to save your Aegis Assault for defense. That being said when you are on the roam to gank, you can use it in your damage rotation because for ganks you tend to need all your damage available the moment you attack. You start with your Grand Starfall , you dont need to land it, just make sure it gets you within range so that you can use your empowered Shield Vault which is your opening attack.

The empowered shield vault will get you back to 3 Mortal Will stacks immediately, from there you want to use your Aegis Assault for the 4th stack, ALSO you will need to click your E again to cancel your aegis assault since most of its damage is at the end when you bash with the shield so double click E. Thats not all, hit them with the Ignite just incase they have a sliver of hp left. This combo is Pantheons strongest and can be done in 2 seconds once you get it down, with this you send enemy Adc's on the express way to deletion.

Thank you for reading :. This is it for my first guide : I hope it wasn't too bad, and trust me i will keep on working on it. I really love Pantheon and im always testing items for the Meta while also working on some fun off meta builds i did find the guide building process addicting LOL! I do want to thank anyone who took the time to read this, i hope it was helpful in some way.

Anyways good luck everyone on the next ranked season! ALSO for anyone interested in all the flashy stuff to make your guide pretty, here is the link to jhoijhoi's guide to making a guide Tons of codes you can play with, its just extremely helpful and im really thankful they put it up xD i do recommend checking it out.

The below chapters will be dedicated to my tank build for Pantheon. I was running this build when the new Frostfire Gauntlet came out. This build was designed to make Pantheon a strong frontline tank which he can provide tons of utility for the team. For the Godzilla build you'll want to choose Grasp or Aftershock as you main rune, this will mostly be based on matchup. Grasp is the better choice for damage, sustain, and hp scaling and is the better choice in alot of fights especially since your shield provides so much defense already.

Now for Aftershock there are reasons you will want this over grasp and it usually comes down to this. If you are against an opponent that you know you cant fight or if you want to play safe. For example if your opponent picks riven, irelia, or akali, Aftershock will practically shut down their combo's giving you enough time to do your damage and back off while minimizing damage taken.

Aftershock works great for anti burst or protecting you during short trades. Another reason aftershock works so well is because Pantheons kit is capable of burst, you can do your burst during the time period that your aftershock boost is still up and then back away or stay in the fight, a good way to view this is as if the aftershock gives you a pseudo invincibility.

Now in the mid to late game Aftershock will be incredibly helpful in teamfights especially if you ult into the enemy teams cluster, odds are they will all focus fire on you but as long as you land your stun quick enough, your aftershock should block most of the incoming damage. Its also really helpful in tower dives since the increased resists will help reduce tower damage.

All that being said Grasp does provide the similar types of benefits as aftershock but they are felt later in the game since instead of the defense boosts you'll have more flat hp and healing for inting team fights and tower diving. So when it comes to Grasp vs Aftershock, either is great, it mostly comes down to if you want maximum safety from bursts Aftershock or more sustain Grasp.

Since we will have a ton of hp from items and runes, Demolish is the best choice in this section since it will help you push the towers with ease. Font of Life is the only other usable choice in this selection but since you will be top lane you wont be able to use it till later when you start joining team fights which makes it useless the first half of the game.

Now this section is abit tricky, any of these choices could work well. I personally like conditioning for the extra stats in the mid and late game, to help Pantheons scaling. Typically you would take Second Wind if you are expecting to get poked alot and Bone Plating against someone who will burst you. I feel like Pantheon has enough sustain from Grasp and enough protection from his Aegis Assault to not require either of those 2 runes for early sustain.

Revitalize is also good but i feel like you get enough healing from Grasp alone to where the extra healing isnt significant. So for secondary runes Triumph and Tenacity work really well, but really theres alot of choices for secondary runes.

Next i choose Tenacity, i like having some source of tenacity but also i dont like building Mercury's Treads unless the enemy is really CC heavy.

This item gives a huge AOE slow that scales in effect with your hp and gets bigger as your size increases. I choose this vs Sunfire Aegis because the hp scaling and utility is more useful than just having damage ramp Every time I play as Pantheon, I end up going something like 5 - 1 early game, come the end of the lane phase thought I drop off and end up being even at like 8 - 8 usually.

Any specific reason for this? Most likely my style of play or is Pantheon just surpassed by most used champions late game? JustAPoorBoy 8 years ago 2. That's just Pantheon in general. You play him to secure an early advantage and help snowball the more slow rolling characters on your team. MIG 8 years ago 3. If you've got some champs with strong late games then yeah he's worth it to carry them through mid game.

DeadpooL7 8 years ago 5. I mean it sounds kind of extreme so some of it is your playstyle or youre exaggerating but hes like Shaco. You play him to get your team ahead so they can stomp later in the game. Plus his ult makes him a good split pusher late game. XionTeikiatsu 8 years ago 6. Peel for your carry.