Casual reminder that very nearly nothing actually beats Pantheon
He's been one of the most oppressive and non-interactive top laners in the game since always, but he's only become more impossible to face over the last couple of seasons with the potion rework and the introduction of keystones. At present, Pantheon can spear someone every 4 seconds for 65 +140%AD plus corrupting pot burn plus DFT burn the instant he enters lane and bully them down to free kill range by the time he hits level 2, which he'll almost always get first due to how hard he's bullying. Combined with the fact that he essentially always takes
since his ult means he doesn't need
, has strong all-in on top of the best level 1 harass in the game and is also practically immune to being all-inned against due to being able to double raise his shield passive. His consistent 54% winrate even on people who have never played him before for the past several patches show he's unreasonably effective even with minimal skill requirement. He needs some kind of downside to him.
could probably shit on Pantheton actually. You can barely tower dive a Shen with his own Auto Block and you can rush start