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Happy to see a better Pantheon

Talos of Altmora·9/19/2019, 4:07:25 PM·6 votes·4,999 views

So If you know anything about he, it's that I loved Targon... old Targon. And when the new one rolled around I... didn't handle it well. Why? because Leona became a zealot. Diana had become... basicly a puppet. And Pantheon? A Space body-jacker who took over a better character like a meat-suit. I was a fan of all of these characters (Pantheon carried me to level thirty before everything else.) but... well... needless to say I was not happy.

So, forwards flash when I tried to get back into league I saw the New Pantheon and...

Well I don't know why he's called Pantheon but he's automatically far better then before if for the simple reason he's his own person now. And well... wanting to fight the aspects is a Good thing, considering we Have Zoe, the girl who sees nothing wrong with wiping out a small town, or Diana, who can't control herself and is a puppet to the 'moon' aspect.

So when I came back I bought him and I'll probably try to main him as best I can..

Also, some things I think need to be improved as well for the Other, original Three

Leona: Tone down the Zealotry... a lot. Part of what made the original conflict between her and Diana interesting is that Leona was the embodiment of the positive parts of the Solari Faith... which is kind of weird given their newish (It could be inferred beforehand) Solari being religious tyrants. There's more you can do with a well-rounded faith with positives, divisions and the like, then as "CURSH THE HERETICS!" like She was. without that it's just Diana being the good guy against the Evil Leona. Now if you take her out of that place where she would kill Diana for being a heretic it's both more understandable she'd hunt her but doesn't look like she's going to kill her for heresy, but for being (As far as Leona knows) a Murderer of old people, and thus the drive for justice is understandable and it keeps Leona as someone who can be kind, but willing to do what she needs... and it makes more sense the aspect would give her greater context, which will remove the... implication Pantheon brought in that the hosts are meat-puppets.

Diana: Okay, so new Diana... interestingly enough doesn't... do much? I mean if anythign maybe the Solari are merciful considering the implication is she constantly challenged them (Or maybe she was too stupid to actually challenge them so they laughed her off). So to fix this... well I'd have her be the quiet kid in the temple who slowly, after a lifetime of work... pieces together the truth of the Lunari before going out and looking for them. This is mostly because it would be her own work; in her current story the aspect seems to have planned her ENTIRE LIFE out, from before she was even born... (And Aspect!Pantheon did nothing to help the idea she was raised to be a puppet). Plus it makes Diana as a smart enough to put it together, which is an interesting character trait for a woman who will become a heretic. That scene will be reworked as well. plot hooks would be set up once she brings in her proof; at this point she'd still be Solarian, but trying to tie the moon into the religion... but at the same time the Lunari talk... freaks them out, and they order her executed. This can be because they want to keep power, or something more sinister... and the Moon empowers her, she kills them in self defense (Might keep the Torture and the Scars from Iron Stylus's art, but I always found it a bit excessive when you could just kill her, but I assume they wanted her to repent.) And we have her in a similar state, and ready to be hunted... with the possibilities out for it...

Taric: Honestly there's not much I would change. Maybe his short story instead of fighting over the last of a flower (because if it's the last of it's kind it's probably already spread it's genes and such so the aspect should make him do something more important) to instead a field of flowers that, later on in time, would grow to make a cure against a plague of somekind. more understandable basicly, and helpful.

AurelionSol Ah I love this guy; he also hates the aspects! Really, I wouldn't change much, but if I could drop the aspects... well, i'd keep him the same but he'd be more laid back and be painting his stars across the galaxy, protecting them when needed.

Zoe: Zoe is...interesting in all the wrong ways. In her short story she blows up a town and doesn't care. Her Bio... well she's a kid you know? SO it makes sense the Lunari would be annoyed with her and her playfulness.. until she's chosen by the aspect; Basicly she's far from home, her people are dead... and uh.. she's not really wise or grown, it's like she's still a child... there's two ways to see this; The Aspect keeps her from thinking too hard or she's genuinely mentally... wrong. Now the intention is to have her be this whimsical fun character... but well her actions and her backstory paint her as... something else. Now I would change this eagerly; keep her fun aspects but make sure she's more.. responsible and not killing people.

And that's it... While I doubt their gonna bother to alter Targon or change anything... i'm happy at least Atreus Is back ; he's a better direction and a sign of... hope for Targon I didn't have before...

27 Comments

mrmeddyman9/19/2019, 4:16:20 PM6 votes

Leona has found out some truth that put obvious doubt in her and her looking for Diana since they changed the story. Also she did many thing that a straight up "zealot" wouldn't do, she helped the golden skin demon boy up the mountain when she wasn't supposed to which is what got her in trouble in the first place and she's actively seekiing out Diana, a heretic btw, not to kill her, but seemingly just to talk and make sense of what she now knows. Her "zealotry" is not nearly what you describe it to be.

Diana is in control of her own actions. Only old Pantheon was a complete slave to his Aspect.

mmoran55549/19/2019, 5:15:02 PM5 votes

I love new Pantheon, he rocks!

Troll Slaiyer9/20/2019, 12:25:13 AM3 votes

sorry man, riot is great at ruining things. and they are bad at fixing things.

Everyday Legends9/19/2019, 6:22:39 PM2 votes

I think you're characterizing Zoe improperly. As an ancient being, she thinks on a different timescale than a typical person and has seen things people aren't usually witness to. For example, she notes that a squirrel that she thinks is cute will only live for a couple more years, but that the shortness of its life makes it even cuter. She's also the Divine Messenger of Targon who heralds events of great significance, like the Great Darkin War.

So let's extrapolate: the handful of decades that makes a person's lifespan? That's charming. A little village of people? She's seen the fall of civilizations. In the end, these things and these people are of little cosmic significance, and so that's how she regards them.

And as far as not having wisdom befitting a being of her age, she has plenty of lines that explore the nature of the cosmos and her duties as an Aspect. But then again, she's had a thousand years to ponder things like that. Here on Runeterra, after being gone for so long, she's more interested in all of things she's experiencing as new for her and everything's that changed.

But I that's just my take, I suppose.

Hunkmenlordy9/19/2019, 4:12:57 PM2 votes

What do you want taric fight for if not a flower then?

FSRER9/19/2019, 6:29:43 PM1 votes

There is also Kayle and Morgana that are the aspect of Justice (which before was her mother). Isn't it weird that they are not talked about, at all and there is not a single aspect that interacts with them?

SEKAI9/20/2019, 12:24:09 AM1 votes

And Pantheon? A Space body-jacker who took over a better character like a meat-suit.

I assume by "space body jacker" you're referring to Pantheon the Aspect, given you mentioned "took over a better character like a meat-suit". Though that sentence is a little weird since we have no idea how those Aspects look like without their host bodies and the really jacked body is just the body of Atreus, not having much to do with Pantheon.

Also if you have been following the development, apparently Pantheon the Aspect has died (slain by Aatrox), or at the very least has gone into dormancy if not straight up killed. The current Pantheon in the game is none other than Atreus himself who is the original owner of the body, who resurfaced after the ego death of Pantheon the Aspect. He is just called Pantheon now because Atreus thought it would be a great idea to literally take the name of his then-slaver as his own after the latter's fall.

ChrisBrownze9/19/2019, 4:46:34 PM1 votes

Happy to see a better broken Pantheon

There you go, I made your title honest.