Overview of Jungle Pantheon

PROS:
1. Great Skirmisher
2. Few If Any Unplayable Matchups
3. Great Teamfighter
4. Insane Scaling
5. Can't Be Ganked Like Lane Pantheon
6. Rare Pick In Jungle
7. Strong Early Ganks
8. More R Value Due to Being a Jungler

CONS:
1. Very Weak First Scuttle Contest
2. Very Weak First Clear
3. Will Struggle VS Tabis until Muramana
4. Pays a Early 400g Tax for Tear
5. Suffers VS Stat Checkers till Late Game

Jungle Pathing

Less Efficient 3 Camp:
Red > Blue > Gromp
(Smite Red, Chug Pots on Blue and Gromp)

Efficient 5 Camp:
Blue > Gromp > Wolves > Raptors > Red
(Smite Gromp, Smite Red. Chug Pots When Needed)

Smiting Red is OPTIONAL. Both clears are NOT HEALTHY. If you're in a situation where theres a good gank opportunity or if you have lane prio you can use your smite on red so you can be healthy for a fight. Avoiding a scuttle contest is IDEAL, it is better to look for a counter gank opportunity or a transition gank to the other scuttle crab if contested without prio. You don't need to do le funny flip the entire game at scuttle crab.

Hello, this is my first build guide. I started maining Pantheon around a month ago. I've always had a great love for the champions design and kit. However a big drawback is that I hated how he was a "Early Game Champion." Due to this I stayed away from Pantheon playing him only occasionally in the support role for fun.

However, I've always been a avid enjoyer of RTS games and I have a passion for theory crafting and finding a optimal or viable way to play a game/character/or strategy. I eventually came up with this Pantheon build to put to rest the issues of Pantheon being a Early-Mid game only champion. I also understand consistency is key in these type of games which is why I chose the Jungle with this set up.

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Here's a Overview of WHY I Picked these Core Items and Runes

ITEMS:

ECLIPSE
1. Relatively Affordable
2. A Great Scaling Mythic Passive
3. A Great Passive for Skirmishing
4. The Ability to Sustain in the Jungle
5. Allows the Fabled Dirk Early Purchase
6. Enables Pantheons Early Game While Scaling

MANAMUNE/MURAMANA:
1. Arguable the BEST ITEM on Pantheon
2. Passives Interacts Well With His Kit
3. Very High Gold Efficiency When Stacked
4. Caulfields Warhammer is a Good Component

BLADE OF THE RUINED KING:
1. This Item is NOT Balanced
2. Insta-Proc Siphon with Empowered W
3. Mists Edge Shreds Tanks with Empowered W
4. AS gives the DPS to finish off Tanks or Bruisers

RUNES:

INSPIRATION PRIMARY

FIRST STRIKE
1. Accelerates Pantheons Scaling
2. Bonus True Damage Great Against Tanks
3. Compensates For a Poor Clear Speed
4. Rewards Ganking

MAGICAL FOOTWARE
1. Free Boots allows you to rush Eclipse
2. Extra MS makes it harder to kite
3. Interacts well with Blue Smite & Empowered E % MS buff

FUTURES MARKET
1. Lets you get Power Spikes Like Dirk Sooner
2. Insurance Policy if Behind for More Stats

COSMIC INSIGHT
1. Its a Jungle Staple
2. Faster Smite Complete
3. More Flash W Plays for Easy Kills
4. Item Haste for Tear, Eclipse, & BORK

DOMINATION SECONDARY

CHEAP SHOT
1. Free True Damage
2. This ones Preference
3. You CAN replace this with Sudden Impact or Eyeball Collection

INGENIOUS HUNTER
1. Holy ITEM HASTE
2. Stack Tear By 16 Minutes or Under
3. Lets Eclipse and BORK Passives Come Up Sooner
4. Stack the Rune Fast as a Jungler

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Check out my OP.GG to see how the builds doing for me:
https://na.op.gg/summoners/na/Kicks%20for%20Kids