why do 90% of top lane pantheons i see get fed?

Strong early game and people are usually too stupid / stubborn to just play safe and not feed him.

Not many can handle his crits early game. It is unfortunate...and overpowered.

Luckily, his end game is kinda garbage.

Because people suck at this game?

In all seriousness, people don't understand a few simple concepts:

• some champions are lane bullies and will crush you in lane 1v1, but are weaker late. Just play passive and farm when you can.
• if you start to fall behind, play passive in lane. Don't try to "catch up" by making risky plays. Wait for jungle pressure or obvious enemy mistakes to get back in it. Forcing something that isn't there is a great way to get ganked or outplayed and fall further behind.

Why does win trades so heavily early game? Same reason. Early game champions have an easier time winning fights early in lane and can just snowball off of that.

probably because people forget exists

He's the definition of an early-game champion. Here is his win-rate by game duration graph: http://i.imgur.com/hH6kpnL.jpg

A lot of people just refuse to even consider playing safe until they've fed beyond repair. Sometimes, I can hear thirsty Riven/Fiora players' internal screams: "If I just keep jumping onto him, It'll work this time!!!" While they are like 1/10/0 at 15 minutes in...

strong early game to make up for his god-awful late game

its not that his late game is bad. its that he needs to pay a VERY heavy price for it. As far as early game is concerned: ive noticed that panth players are dedicated mains; hes not a generalist nor niche. Also, people underestimate his E crit and block patterns. ive seen some smart guy playing safe, buying smart etc.. but those are veryyy rare breeds.

Stronger early game

Cz some idiot just bought , joins queue & lost mid to someone in Blind Pick, and goes top with him anyway.

Nobody knows about his execution passive, being crit early game hurts a lot.

1. He's your typical snowbally early lane bully.
2. He has no real "bad" matchup. Yes, even against ranged ADs he can still shit on them.

It's odd, most of the Panths I see top actually feed.

Now most of the Panths I see in the jungle get fed.

Because he's a baker and can feed himself.

Because 90% of people don't understand his early power and after he gets one kill they blind run into him 4 more times? What levels of play are you looking at? Because it must be sub gold.

because most people dont know what they are doing top and pantheon early game is very strong to make up for his falling off hard late game

1. 2. 3.armor quintessences 4. Your W 5. ??? 6. Profit. He will do laughable damage, you have tons of pots, he has to spam, otherwise your passive kicks in. Did I mention that your poke is practically better because he is so squishy ? And that even if somehow he denies some cs, you are still always relevant thanks to your ult ?

Cuz his early game power is stupid

Some people like to play this game for fun, and hiding from panth like a little puss isn't fun. These people would prefer to try their hand at fighting Panth first, then consider playing safe after they've died like 2 or 3 times.

Beacuse he is a baker.

It's easy to get fed when you bake your own food.

He is a bit overtuned at the moment, and it's why we're seeing him so much lately.

I've never been a fan of Pantheon, but he's not as bad as long as you understand that most champions are going to lose in a duel against him early game. You can trade, but make it short and sweet. What I see a lot of top laners do it is underestimate his passive, extend the trade, then realize they're not going to win and try to escape. They end up dying. One death and you pretty much have to cower under your tower to avoid him because his pokes hurt so much more with a lead.

You don't always get the counter pick position, but almost anyone has a chance to survive the laning phase against him. If you're or , you might want to think about asking your mid laner to trade with you or play extremely safely as you're at a disadvantage either because of your kit or because of balance shifts on top of that.

Also I wish people would stop saying Pantheon's late game is trash. He's not a late game champion, but he's far from the worst late game champion to be playing, especially when you consider how powerful his early game is and how one-sided games are today.

Honestly, Pantheon pretty much counters every core top laner right now. I think most of the problem is that his Q is a homing missle rather than a skillshot. You just get completely poked out of lane from damage that cannot be avoided, so you back off and try to farm under turret, but you can't even do that cause he's poked you too low and tower dives you.

OR.

You challenge him and play aggressive to get him to play more safely, then you make one wrong move and he combos you from 50%-0

The only champ I've really had success against him on is with Poppy. I can use my buckler to break his shield then do meaningful trades.

because pantheon's late game is literally trash, so his early game is very strong and most top laners are tanks/fighters who does not have significant dueling power/tankyness in early levels, so they cant fight pantheon and they got poked out.

Try having one on your team. Guaranteed not to get fed.