@Riot Please TL;DR, please don't let Pantheon turn into an Athenian (aka: non-manly spartan)

eanthecamelian··5 votes·638 views

As a representative of the small group of pantheon players, I can attest, even before the new juggernaut comp and buffs, pantheon did average in lane, but definitely got out-scaled by most top laners and junglers late. With the recent buffs to Darius, Garen, Nasus etc, I and many fear that Mantheon will de-puebertize into a Boytheon.

With his

  1. Low defensive stats and HP (makes jungling less than optimal, and laning against garen, nasus, vlad a long day)
  2. easily interrupted stun and E (primary damage source)
  3. short ranged Q (more like a dart throw than a spear toss)

He countered few but now he might be countered by many. Pantheon players rely on early roaming, to snowball other lanes, but being so squishy even ganking a victor is sometimes gruesome.

Please buff Pantheon,

4 Comments

Blitzidious2 votes

Indeed. I, first hand, have seen this power that Garen has. If The Mantheon is to Combat this White Knight of JUSTICE, he will need buffs.

Blastumz1 votes

You know, my buddy plays this awkward hybrid tank pantheon and really makes it work. I thought for sure it would be bad, but even late game he annoys the shit out of the other team. To be fair though, it is ranked fives and we can count on each other to chain cc, etc.

Panth1 votes

As a completely objective speculator with no bias at all, I agree completely that the Spartan needs some sort of attention.

Riot has ignored him for years other than taking his ult off global and extending the channel time.

So many other champions outdamage, outtank, and outsustain him, and can trade with him. He needs some sort of buff for his late game. I can't specify what, but something's gotta give.

His stun is ridiculously underpowered in late game and also a huge commitment for an engage ability, so that could be given more than the measly stun time it's currently set to which most CC stuns in the champion pool are better than at this moment...

Recruit Rush1 votes

Riot hasnt ignored him at all, don't you remember all the nerfs when he started to be played as jungler mid season 4? It was nerfs everyday.

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