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Pantheon Support!

Evolve Wings·8/27/2016, 9:36:52 AM·2 votes·1,447 views

I know, I'm. Crazy right? I've mained pantheon since shortly after beginning league and I've found this excellent strategy that works for me quite often. Let me know what you guys think, and help me brainstorm on good ADC's for pantheon. I've noticed that he works best with bursty champs like Ezreal and Lucian (Pantheon and Lucian is AMAZING)

STRATEGY: The strategy behind Pantheon support is to go glass cannon early game(full AD) and Armor Penetration, and bruiser late. Even though most supports will take exhaust Pantheon should be using ignite to help give an advantage in lane, and have extra damage and healing reduction. Teleport can be used if you are focused less on your lane and more focused on snowballing top and mid. (Pantheon's ultimate with teleport can have almost constant threat across the map.) Start with your W so that you can have a stun leap, this also refreshes your block and allows you to put a full charge on your block passive, so you can have a Proc active and 3 stacks at level one. Which is going to be a lot of mitigation for damage provided you don't let the enemy support break the block. If you do it correctly you can block almost every enemy ADC auto attack in the laning phase. After W get Q and start poking down your enemy ADC. Usually I pick up first blood at level 2. I have learned that Your ADC should share the first few kills because of how snowbally Pantheon is naturally, after you pick up some gold, first back you will roam to mid and try to pick up another kill, then go back to lane until 6 and then once you hit 6 you leave the lane and use your ultimate to start snowballs in the other lanes. In essence, pantheon support is meant to quickly get bottom lane ahead because of the high kill potential, then turns the whole game to your team's favor by visiting other lanes and using your lead to snowball your team.

PS Pantheon's mana costs are very high so if you plan on keeping a lot of poke and pressure you can invest in a sheen, which you can use later to build a tanky item. Buying a sheen will roughly double your mana and allow for an annoying amount of poke.

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I hate my ADC8/27/2016, 11:50:15 AM5 votes

Okay... It's nice of you to share this, but let me make some things clear here.

Pantheon is a very very poor choice for support. It is perfectly fine to play it in a normal game if your team is fine with it, after all, you play normals for fun, to try new things and not be bothered by the competitive nature of ranked, but it is absolutely not okay to do it in ranked. Do not play Pantheon support in ranked.

I am a plat 2 support main. All I do is support and I can assure you that Pantheon shouldn't be used for that role. Here's a detailed explanation as to why it shouldn't be used:

  1. Melee support needs to be naturally tanky and build to be a Tank from the start with very few exceptions. This is due to the fact that you are in a 2 man lane. This means you have a) Less XP, which makes you easier to kill from a gank, and b) There are 2 people that can throw crap at you at all time on the other side.

  2. Pantheon needs gold to be effective and a support is effectively starved of gold. You absolutely cannot rely on kills or assist for your gold because that is the ideal scenario. In a neutral scenario where nobody kills each other, you will quickly starve and be useless if you don't start CSing, taking gold away from the rest of your team to deal with your need for scaling.

  3. Pantheon doesn't have good poke. Get this out of your head right now, please. His Q does as much damage as the majority of conservative and defensive supports do with their most basic poke ability and he does far less than offensive supports like Karma, Brand, Vel'Koz, etc. His E will never reach a target on the bot lane without engaging or putting yourself at risk of dying.

  4. Pantheon's ultimate is a ganking tool. You do not have the luxury of roaming for any extended period of time as a support and I'm gonna talk about that in #5. You will not be able to gank other lanes with it with very few exceptions.

  5. One of the support main responsibility is the well-being of his ADC. The ADC needs the support's help for the entire duration of the game, even at the end. The support needs to protect and maintain his ADC so that he get as much gold as possible. YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT RELY ON KILLS TO FEED YOUR ADC. Kills in lane are a commodity, not a given. CS and objectives are the only reliable way to feed your ADC. This means keeping your ADC alive and allowing him access to the minions so he can get CS. For every time your ADC as to back, he loses tons of gold and XP from not being in lane. This also means to do the opposite for the enemies. You need to make their ADC lose CS and XP as much as possible. A Pantheon support will get himself and his ADC bullied out of lane by any competent ADC-support duo.

  6. A Support ISN'T a carry. You need to be selfless and the only kills you take are the one that would have gotten away otherwise or would have caused the death of a team member if you didn't attack. Never assume your ADC cannot carry. You only know if he is able to carry or not once you have seen him in action for long enough. If your ADC cannot carry for whatever reason, you have very few choices left as a support and if you are Pantheon, you will be underfed and unable to make any kind of comeback as you won't be able to support your mid, top or jungle in any significant ways. So when you say: "Your ADC should share the first few kills", that is absolutely wrong. A support should always leave the kills to his ADC with the exceptions I mentioned above.

I could go on and explain the role of a support outside of the laning phase and taking care of your ADC, but I think I made my point here... Pantheon is a very very poor choice for support. The only reason you should play support Pantheon is for shit and giggles in a non-ranked game.

Mysticman898/28/2016, 1:34:24 AM1 votes

The majority of champions can be played in the support role, and if you criteria for viability allows for 'works if snowball', then probably everyone can.

The best supports tend to be the ones who are viable even if you get trashed in lane, since you still have a surplus of built-in utility from your abilities.

AcidTheWarlock8/28/2016, 1:47:22 AM1 votes

That's up there with Zed support