Regarding Pantheon's possible nerf in patch 7.18

Greetings, Riot and everyone. I would like to discuss a few matters about Pantheon's future and possible nerf. As it was stated, the Qs early game damage would be reduced and another part of his abilities would be buffed (Perhaps his ult).

Q is very important for Pantheon and it's one of the primary reasons he is powerful early game. Should his Q get nerfed, the weakness will affect his early game. Let's remember that Pantheon is an early game champion and he becomes weaker and weaker in mid and late game. So the nerf would make him somehow useless in the whole game.

It was said that his ult would be possibly buffed; However, consider that most of the time, his ult doesn't even damage the enemies and they easily move out of it and it's always used as teleport. The nerf which would affect his early game and improves his mid game a bit is like improving Gangplank's early game and taking some of his late game power away from him.

There are several people who complain about Pantheon and say how awful it is to fight against him, but it is much similar to those who say Teemo is toxic and should we nerfed and as we know, both statements are incorrect. He has his strengths and his weaknesses. His strength is early game.

It was also stated that Nautilus would be buffed, and let me add that there are rumors of upcoming Malphite buffs, not to mention the new champion revealed, Ornn. These are all tanks (Beside and , who have been very active lately...) and as we know, we are in the tank meta, and many tanks counter Pantheon. So nerfing Pantheon is not a good decision is such a situation; It would be very unpleasant to see Pantheon falling into oblivion like several other champions. Please think about my points.

Thank you for reading.