What if Pantheon

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You will get downvoted, but I actually like the idea of Pantheon not using mana.

My main reasoning is that mana is a restriction on him all game, whereas other champions get empowered by it late game. Late game he becomes a stun bot, which isn't fun.

So if Riot wants to keep him as a lane bully, I'd like to see him without mana like renekton and Riven. They'd have to weaken his early (and change his abilities a lot) a bit, but it could give him a better and more fun late.

or they could just tax largely how much his abilities cost, pretty much how it is now, it would just regenerate faster so you aren't useless after two rotations of spells.

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Holy fuck no, how are people so stupid that they would upvote this?

The only thing keeping Pantheon's laning phase in check is his mana costs. Giving him the ability to spam his abilities without having to worry about mana would make him unbearably oppressive and binary. Either the costs wouldn't be enough to keep him from doing his Q>W>E>Q combo and he'd be unbearably oppressive, or they would and he would be utter dog shit.

Ya I understand the worry of his early pre-6 being ridiculously over powered if he was energy based. It would definitely require a change in his damage output if not his kit as a whole. I simply posted this because he is such a fun champ to play however it is no secret that he loses a lot of his edge after about 30 minutes. Not saying he is useless but even at 30 minutes he can still be mana starved and can only go through about 2 rotations of spells before he is completely oom. The main problem with this is that just trying to clear waves can leave you oom and in a bad spot if you are split pushing. Not to mention if you are split pushing and decide to ult, the ult itself is ridiculously taxing on mana along with taking an hour to finally land, at which point you go through one rotation and are oom. You are basically left with no chance of extended fight other than just runnning around hoping to execute low enemies with q's.

Energy would somewhat remedy this because he would just have to wait a little bit while it recharges and would give him a better late game. I could be completely wrong however and this could be a horrible horrible mistake. He is one of my favorite champs to play, I just want to have the opportunity to enjoy playing him past 35-40 minutes is all.

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this has to be a troll post?

sorry not meant to be a troll post. Was just asking what if?