Pantheon Build Guide by Nightscare

Introduction

Hi to all! Thank you for Reading this.

First of all this is my first guide and id like to share my ideas of playing Phanteon on a Backdoor Style. So if you like it, or not, please let me know! and give me a feedback! I will keep it up to date if i got new ideas and working stuff.

If you like Playing Pantheon, like i do! Then you have to be Flexible! Pantheon is a insane laneing character in my Perspective. With the following runes, items, masteries, Skill Sequence and Summoner Spells you will get used to Pantheon how iam. As an insane ***-Kicking Early game char.

Runes

First of all i´ll explain the runes you have to use. (still open for feedback :D)

In this Build i choose Armor Penetration and Dmg Runes.

Lets take a look at the runesheet itsself:

At First we got the Greater Mark of Desolation nine times. This is the First Part of adding Armor Penetration to your Character. I also chose the Greater Quintessence of Desolation three times, wich also grants us Armor Penetration. The Armor Penetration is one of the Main Parts of yourEarly game. Your Armor Penetration Runes will let you deal enough Dmg to your enemys in the Laneingphase to let them keep Distance from you!
The Desolation Runes also grant you enough power to Lasthit Enemy Heros that are running before you with your Spear Shot.

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As Next we got two kind of Dmg runes. The first ones are the Greater Seal of Attack Damage nine times. Same Game at the Greater Glyph of Attack Damage ´s nine Times.
Let me Explain that to you! The Dmg Runes are necessary to put your Armor Penetration in Place. with this runes and the Doran's Blade you got enough Dmg at the beginning of the game to clearly show whos boss on the Lane!
Some Say that Dmg Runes aren´t the best for the Earlygame. They are in my Perspective. Because this Dmg you Deal isnt expected from your enemys. Shure they see your Dmg on your Character. This should be about 79 Dmg. But they dont know anything about your Armor Penetration and with this you can suprise them by a very delicius Dmg given to theire ***es!

Masteries

In this Chapter I gonna Talk about the Masteries of Pantheon. I will tell you about the Reasons i chose them and how they shoud work.
Lets have a look at them at first:

I would like to Start with theOffense Skilltree and explain the sense of the Single Masteries that we chose back at the beginning:

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Deadliness : This Masterie grants you some more Critical Strike Chance on your normal Attacks. We choose it because we dont need Ability Power for Pantheon and we need 4 Skill points in the first Line get the next one skillable. But the better Crit Chance isnt Bad at all! We can use it in the Laneingphase to Lasthit Creeps and to get a lucky Strike on a Enemy Champion! Cripple: This Masterie is very Usefull for your Summoner Spell that you chose! We gain some more endurance for our Cripple Spell, and also we grant a Armor Penetration for Magical and Normal Resistance by 10 for the duration of Cripple! Use it to do some extra Dmg at fleeing Enemy Heros! With 4 Points in Sorcery we reduce our Skill Cooldown by 3%. Thats not Much at all, but we still need to skill it for the Masteries that we are After. As next we put one Skillpoint in Archaic Knowledge . With this we get 15% Magical Armor Penetration, what is pretty useless for Phanteon but the same Story, we need it for the Masteries were After! (But your Aegis of Zeonia Skill and your Grand Skyfall both use Magical Dmg and this way this Masterie is not completly wasted!) Alacrity : This Masterie grants us some more Attack Speed, what isnt that Bad because we can use it when we try to do some Backdoor (Gay) Actions in the field.

Then we got an other "Need to skill" Sunder . We put one Skill point in it to get the other Masteries in the Next line. Yes i know it grants Armor Penetration and hey, doesnt he said:"Armor Penetration is as good as Hell?!" Yeah thats true but our Runes give us enough Armor Penetration so we dont need this Masterie at all and we can use the Skillpoints somewhere else. (and we need them!)

Brute Force : We gonna Skill this MAsterie to the max! we can use the extra Dmg (even its not much) to put the lots of Armor Penetration we got in place! So Tripple Click it ;)

Lethality First, take a Look at Pantheons E Spell, the Heartseeker Strike. With this Sell we Auto Crit against Creeps and Heros under 15% of Life. The extra Crit Dmg we get from this Masterie is very usefull in handle with its Passive. This can be the reason for a kill if it gets close!

Finally! We Skill our next Skillpoint in the Havoc Ability. This Gives us 4% More Magical and most important Normal Dmg! I think i dont have to explain again why som extra Dmg is usefull :D

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As next i would like to Talk about the Magical Skilltree, and its use!

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At first we need to set one Skillpoint in the Good Hands Ability. This gives us less respawning time and gives us the chance to get to the next line of Abilitys with 3 more Points spended. Perseverence : This Skill is giving us some more Mana and Health Regeneration. The important Part of this Masterie is the Mana Regeneration. See the Skill SeQuence for more information! As next we spend 4 more Points at the Awareness Skill so we gain more EXP what makes farming and lvling for you much easier. (pretty Awesome if Zilean is on your Team!) The Final and last Skillpoint that we spend, is going to Meditation Ability. This grants us some more Mana Regeneration wich is, like i said before, pretty important for Pantheon!

Items

In this Chapter, i´d like to tell more about the items and how i think you should use them. But first we look at the Items Purchase Order again. After this i will explain the single steps:


:The Doran's Blade is your first Item, it grants you enough dmg for the first blood, while giving you, like all the other dorans items, enough health for the next few laning lvl´s.

+ = : Speed is very very important at the beginning to chase the enemy and to not get chased by the enemy! Also this Boots Grant you some more attack speed that you will need at doing backdoor.

-> : As the next item you should buy the Brawler's Gloves that you should upgrade to the Avarice Blade as soon its possible. This will grant you enough Crit chance in trade with your Masteries to make Last hitting for you more easily. If we look at the Passive of the Avarice Blade we find out that he gives us some extra gold. Use this to get a gold advantage!

+ = : Then you buy the two Long Sword´s that give you the chance to upgrade em Both to The Brutalizer. This item grants you some more dmg that you will need out there to kick some more ***. ( The Brutalizer costs 1337 Gold!1! ZOMG!!1!)

+ = : Before upgrading Stuff to the Youmuu's Ghostblade first Buy Phage, build of a Ruby Cristal and a Long Sword. This will make you less Squishee. And gives you the oppurtunity to chase some Enemys!

or : After this you can buy the Youmuu's Ghostblade or you buy the Giant's Belt at first, your choice. It depends on how much kills you have, and if you need some more extra gold by the Avarice Blade! If you Buy Youmuu's Ghostblade as first buy the Giant's Belt as next, and the other way around!
There is one more Important information about the Youmuu's Ghostblade, this item will give you enough attack Speed for a short time to do a tower Backdoor, so dont forget its aktive! Its also usefull at junglin and Teamfights!

+ = : If you got both, the Giant's Belt and the Youmuu's Ghostblade, you now can upgrade your Phage and your Giant's Belt to the Frozen Mallet. This will make you less Squishee and thats pretty important for your Backdoor (Gay) Actions!

The next steps are Quiet Easy:

+ + = : Lets take a look at the Hexdrinker (one of my favorite items!) this item will grant you some very important things, the Dmg in the first place, but the Resistence isnt bad too! And its Passive can save your *** in some hot situations! (no not at N!ghts with your Girlfriend so stay at the Condoms!) The Shield is just 300 dmg, but these are 1 to 2 Tower hits. Also in teamfights its an suprising Effect that you get a pretty strong shield. (think of it, it only absorbes Magical DMG!)

Now you have to choose! It depends on in wich situation you are, you can choose between buying two The Bloodthirster´s, or one The Bloodthirster and one Infinity Edge, loock here if you like to see how its done:

If you like to choose the way of a Bloddy Double Penetraton, look at this side: + + = : If you buy The Bloodthirster, the Dmg output and the Life Steal will give you the opertunity to Hit the Tower some times and go back to the jungle and heal Ya self to the Maxx. But dont Forgett to Stack your The Bloodthirster on creeps to get the full 100 Ad it can give you! Repeat this Step for two Filled Bloodthirsters!

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If you like to choose the way of a Infinite Bloddy Edge Penetraton, look at this side: + + = : If you buy The Bloodthirster, the Dmg output and the Life Steal will give you the opertunity to Hit the Tower some times and go back to the jungle and heal Ya self to the Maxx. But dont Forgett to Stack your The Bloodthirster on creeps to get the full 100 Ad it can give you! + + = : The Infinity Edge will grant you some more necasarry DMG for doing Backdoor. (Also the Crit is very Helpfull in Teamfights Though!)

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Skill Sequence

In this Chapter i wont tell you this much about why you should skill this order, its more aboout the How to! But here u get the Sequence Again, if you like to look sth up:

First, Phanteons Passive, Aegis Protection:


2.) The next one is Phants Q Spell, his Spear Shot:


3.) His W Spell, the Aegis of Zeonia:


4.) His E Spell, Heartseeker Strike:


5.) The Grand Skyfall:

Summoner Spells

In this Chapter i gonna tell you sth. about his Summoner Spells, why i choosed them and why they are usefull!

1) Flash:

2) Exhaust:

Walk the Line

At first i would like to Thank you for reading through all my ****! And again its my Part to ask you for Feedback. And Now its you Part to give me some, because i really would like to improve it and trade it with others so they also know Phant as a powerfull *** kicking Char.
Also This is (like i said) my first Guide. If Someone Might finds a Writing Mistake or two, he can keep them!

Now thats all i Have to say about that. I Hope this has Helped you and did not make you mad bro :D or Jelly.

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