Talk:Pantheon/@comment-25364408-20160218144047/@comment-25447003-20160219162047

There are several reasons:

+ melee champions tends to fall off late game, due to short range they are likely to get CC'ed and then focus dmg.

+ Pantheon has no built-in escape, once he dives with ult he may die soon after, hardly have any influence (unless your team follows up nicely or Pant built tanky)

+ His Q dmg is single target which is not useful in teamfight as AoE abilities, not to mention short range cast. His E is great but interruptible (very likely in teamfight there are several hard CCs: stun, knock-up, ...), or they can flash/dash out of the dmg range.

+ Also he is mana hungry, in laning phase he needs kills to snowball later on he also relies on AA because mana and CD are just enough for 1 target.

Talon or Zed can escape pretty well with their ult, their pokes are AoE dmg and can engage more reliably (better range and easier to follow up).