Hello everybody, welcome to the Champion Spotlight featuring Pantheon presented by Riot Games.
In this video I'll demonstrate the items, runes and masteries that I use as well as
some fun tricks that Pantheon can pull off.
Let's start with your pre-game build.
Pantheon is actually quite frail and does not have strong escaping abilities, so I plan
my runes, masteries and summoner spells around this fact.
I take Cleanse and Ghost as my summoner spells so that I get in and out of battles fairly painlessly.
My focus is built on doing as much damage with Heartseeker Strike as possible thus I
focus on physical damage and armor penetration and max Heartseeker as soon as possible.
I use armor penetration marks, dodge seals and magic resist per-level glyphs and health
quintessences.
This allows me to deal more damage with my abilities while also being able to take a
bit more punishment than my opponents expect.
For masteries I have 21 points in defense and 9 in offense.
I take every damage reduction mastery I can in the defense tree and then push down the
offense tree with 1 point in armor penetration.
With the Meki Pendant and two health potions I have a pretty strong lane even against Tristana.
I use Spear Shot to last hit minions for now.
Even though she's tried her hardest to harass me I'm able to get the first four minion kills
with minimal damage taken.
If your opponent is playing aggressively it is best to try to stay right next to your
ranged minions.
If you get attacked, they'll switch focus onto the enemy champion.
At level 3 I have learned all of my abilities and am able to start harassing my opponent.
As our minions start thinning out, I use Pantheon's standard 3 hit-combo, Aegis of Zeonia, Heartseeker
Strike and Spear Shot.
Because I haven't been casting anything but Spear Shot in lane, I have more than enough
mana to run this combo twice.
I harass her with Spear Shot until a leap comes back up again and then force her to
ghost and run away.
I grab Chalice of Harmony and Mercury's Treads with the interest of remaining durable.
I cast my ultimate against Anivia who isn't likely to move because she's defending her turret.
My combo of spells not only gets Anivia very low but also charges my passive shield twice
allowing me to take the turret quite effectively.
I disengage to let Singed finish her off.
When I return to the lane, Evelynn initiates.
I try to waste time and stun her as I wait for my team to show up.
I whiff Heartseeker Strike due to Fling, but I'm still able to finish her off with a point
blank Spear Shot and automatic crit on a basic attack.
I start buying damage items and get ganked as soon as I pull back from pushing the tower.
The most crucial thing here is that I actually save cleanse for Nasus' Wither.
Dark Binding naturally timed out by the time the other champions showed up, so cleansing
it would have been fairly useless.
I end up using Ghost as well as I start getting afraid of Evelynn.
I stay with the tower to help defend it and just kill time for my team.
As soon as Evelynn leaves her friends, I leap to stun Morgana and then hit both her and
Nasus with Heartseeker Strike.
Evelynn comes back in late and you can see just why I love my defensive masteries and runes.
After grabbing Brutalizer I farm some minions and manage to tag Nasus with the Heartseeker Strike.
As Evelynn shows up I have to play this battle extremely smart.
Once Nasus casts his ultimate I stun him and then position myself so that I can hit both
Evelynn and Nasus with Heartseeker.
I play defensively as I wait for my cooldowns.
Evelynn stealths and initiates on me again.
By maxing Heartseeker and grabbing Brutalizer, my spells cool quickly though I may make a
mistake in trying to cleanse the stun as opposed to the ignite.
I do kill her and level up just in time to survive everything thanks to my defensive
build pre-game.
Now I have Last Whisper and my team and I spot Morgana out of place.
Realizing that my team will probably not be able to catch her, I use Ghost to get me into
range with Aegis of Zeonia and an automatic critical strike for the kill.
Yes, it's a kill steal, but my team should probably get on my level.
Now I've got an Elixir of Fortitude.
As we saw earlier with Anivia, Pantheon is an extremely potent tower diver.
I barely catch up to Tristana and follow up with my standard Aegis/Heartseeker combo.
I do so much damage now that I can kill someone from over 700 health instantly.
One of the best traits of Pantheon's leap is that I can get an automatic shield to block
one of those tower shots every time.
I purchase Phage on my way to Frozen Mallet.
As I'm about to fight Tristana in mid Evelyn comes for me again.
I cleanse at the wrong time again but now my damage is so high that combining aegis
and the Heartseeker gets her extremely low.
The shield I get from my bash blocks one attack and the Spear Shot I throw at the very end
blocks another.
She gets dropped by an automatic crit again and I survive with 6 health.
The defense towers are extremely useful but the real hero here is the Elixir of Fortitude
that I drank during the Tristana kill.
This is the final most intricate battle.
If you're going to take notes do it here.
I keep myself behind the tank and when Evelynn wakes up unsigned I blow her up with Aegis
Heartseeker, also damaging Morgana severely.
However, I can't chase down Morgana just yet cause my important spells are on cooldown now.
I see an opening on Nasus and dive right in to crit and the death as well.
Now the other team doesn't have enough damage to actually kill me so I'm free to dive on Anivia.
I could have Ghosted after her once she Flashed but they surrender anyway.
Victory!
Thanks for tuning in to the Pantheon spotlight.
I'll see you next time.