Pantheon random buff idea

Darth Valer··2 votes·562 views

This idea just popped into my mind and I wanted to share it to know if it would be too broken, useless, overloading or what. Basically, he would get an additional (or a tweak to his Certain Death existing one) passive (either on his Q or E or as a second passive, like Azir's, Kalista's, Yasuos' etc...) that halved his crit. chance. The other half would increase the minimum threshold required to activate his Certain Death passive. This way he could benefit from the purchase of both Infinity Edge and Youmuu's Ghostblade, that feel attractive to Panth due to the high AD + crit. dmg amp for the former and Brutalizer path for the latter.

In my head it doesn't seem too broken since they grant 35 % c.c., which would enable Certain Death at 32,5% health. Plus building both items wouldn't be much viable: going full dmg already wrecks squishies and still makes your life miserable against tanks or minimum focus.

Youmuu's Ghostblade, though, might be bought more lightheartedly, feeling the crit.chance would be less wasted gold.

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4 Comments

LilxPaprika2 votes

or the threshold could scale with bonus crit chance from runes/items. 1.5% per 5% crit. (cap at +10%) so 15+10% = 25% health

so at 35% crit you have it'll trigger at 25%

perhaps crits above 15% (from 25%-15%) of targets remaining health could deal 25% less dmg. so you'd still be critting but for 175% instead of 200% or with IE 225% instead of 250. or even half for 150% ... still a buff though. maybe half but could go all the way to 30% health left.

so to recap, deathmark increases by say 2% per crit 5% crit chance, deathmark cap at 30% and gives 150% crit to spells that hit champions between 30% and 15% health left. lets say he gets IE, it would do 175% instead of 150% + 50%. so total bonus crit dmg divided by two. or 133% (divided by 3) or 125% (divided by 4) no matter what its still a buff.

The Whamboozler1 votes

If they do change/rework/buff Panth they'll probably just give him more dashes and some % damage and call it a day.

Darth Valer1 votes

I think Pantheon is not that bad. He simply fares better in certain metas than others (where snowball is rewarded, games can be ended early with ease and peel+armor itemization is not overbearing). Plus, AD Caster itemization right now kinda sucks (I miss the old stackable BT that could grant up to 100 AD ç_ç)

Möral Support1 votes

Pantheon does not need buffs, he just currently does not fit into cinderhulk/tank meta. I do agree he is on the lower end of possible plays in competitive, but he will come back into meta once bruisers and poppy meta starts. Cant Spell Poppy with OP

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