Pantheon is a melee assassin, that is essentially the solo-top twisted fate. Pantheon is strong due to the fact he can reach his team quickly through any positioning. Pantheon has a strong early game capable of winning most lanes. Pantheon is a pub-stomper, he is meant to win his lane and try and use the snowball to win his team the game.

Passive: Aegis Protection- After attacking or casting spells 4 times, Pantheon will block the next normal attack that deals more than 40 damage to him.
VERY STRONG PASSIVE for top lane. This is a Fiora riposte after every 4 attacks/skills. This skill can even block tower shots. So good in top where autos are a lot of the harass/Dps.

Q: Spear Shot- Pantheon hurls his spear at an opponent, dealing 65/105/145/185/225 + 140% of his bonus attack damage in physical damage. Certain Death causes Spear Shot to critically strike for 1.5x damage. Cooldown 4 seconds. Cost 45 mana. Range 600.
Spammable ranged poke. Allows you to wear down enemies very quickly to go in for the kill.

W: Aegis of Zeonia -Pantheon leaps at the target enemy champion and deals 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 / 150 (+100% of ability power) magic damage and stuns them for 1 second. Pantheon also instantly refreshes his Aegis Protection. Cooldown 13/12/11/10/9 seconds. Cost 70 mana. Range 600.
Now most people look at this skill and say "A gap closer that stuns SWEET". That is overlooking the best part of this skill! This skill REFRESHES your passive instantly. The best way to use this skill is to run up to an enemy auto them, let them auto your shield passive out (That you would have up from spearing), then stun them and keep autoing and once they break the new shield backoff. Best trade.

E: Heartseeker Strike- Passive: Pantheon gains 100% critical strike chance against targets below 15% of their max health. Active: Pantheon focuses and deals 3 swift strikes in front of him for 13/23/33/43/53 + 60% of his bonus attack damage as physical damage per strike. Deals double damage to champions. Channels for 0.75 seconds. Cooldown 10/9/8/7/6 seconds. Cost 45/50/55/60/65 mana. Range 400.
The passive on this ability is nice, makes you secure every kill =D. The active ability is strong, just not in lane. This skill has a great ratio (3.6 to champions if they get hit by the whole attack) and in team fights if you are able to make it into the enemy team so they get hit by this your team will most likely win the fight.

R: Grand Skyfall- Pantheon gathers his strength and then leaps high into the air for 2 seconds, crashing down at the target area 1.5 seconds later. Deals up to 400 / 700 / 1000 (+100% of ability power) magic damage to units at the center (down to 50% at the edge) and slows them by 35% for 1 second. Cost 150 / 250 / 350 mana. Range 5500.
Allows you to aid other lanes. This skill has a long CD and charge time. The important thing to remember is that 90% of the time aim behind the enemy, on very rare occasions will the enemy not be able to make it out of your circle. Eventually if you learn how to stun the enemies from your ultimate before you land you can negate this and ult on/nearby the enemy.

Skill Order:
Combos:

From afar

Q-W-E-Q

From melee range

Auto-Q-W-E-Q

From base/jungle

R-Q-W-E-Q

Gangplank (Passive blocks pistol shots, spear is more manly then his gun), Wukong (Spear all day, shield his harass combo), Fiora, Tryndamere (All autos easy lane, fiora especially due to the lack of sustain), Jax (Spear all day, Poke him so he WONT jump on you), Darius (Unless he gets his pull off you can win this with just Q), Teemo (Spear whenever he tries to auto you, your shield blocks his auto so only his blind dart lands), Nidalee (she can't out sustain your spears).

Malphite (Builds armor and does not die while dealing tons of damage), Yorick (He has a better long range trade), Riven (Blocks your spears with her shield, goes in when you are oom), Mordekaiser (Beg for ganks), Shen (Qs when you do, he will sustain your harass of though), and Lee Sin (shield and sustain).

• Let your passive shield burn before using your W
• Only build tanky if you are behind.
• Save your ultimate to ult in on the squishy lines in team fights.

• Get early armor and pots, do not let pantheon get an early lead.
• Pantheon has no escapes ask for an early gank to help.
• A little sustain goes a long way in this matchup.

Bloodthirster- Sustain, Damage <3.

Last Whisper- Screw Armor

Maw of Malmortius- Good vs AP lane, gives you a strong lategame when you hop on the enemy ap carry.

Infinity Edge- Makes you passive 100% cirt even better =D

Youmuu's Ghostblade- Rushing the bruta in lane allows you to spam spears, the crit is useful end game for bursting carries.

Sword of the Occult- If you get ahead in lane buy this and snowball the game.

Pantheon stomps here. He will typically win lane, and with his ultimate he can make others win lane. You need to snowball the game in SoloQ otherwise panth will fall behind.

Pantheon CAN be used here, but he is more of a counterpick then anything. If the enmy does not have a good guard line pantheon can be picked and can be pretty strong.

This was my top facts pantheon. I hope you enjoyed, and that this facts gave you a little more respect of the very fun, very situational, and very snowbally pantheon. As always I hope you have a good day and good luck on the fields of justice.

SERIES UPDATE:
I plan on releasing these every day/other day until I get all of the top lane picks in the league ( about 50-60 of them) if there are any requests leave in the comments below and ill work on them. I want to make this series for others to better understand the champions of top lane. Once I am done (Or once I have a few top facts out) I will release some Facts about top lane mechanics, eventually I will probably put everything into one generic top lane guide, however until I do that I will continue to watch and update my blogs as needed. Tips and tricks I missed under my Top Facts would be helpful if you put anything I don't have in the comments I will be sure to add it. I will be forming a guide called The complete guide to Top lane or something in that nature. The intention of this series is not as a "Build guide" or a "play guide", these are more like facts you should know about the champion. These are to inspire people to think of new champion possibilities they might not have thought of or to help a new player with the champion. I do not list runes masteries or a set build ( I give a kind of recommended items) in here due to the fact I want people to think of that for themselves and try new things. This series is an attempt for the LOL community to try new things and have fun in a fun game. Thank you for reading and have a nice day :P