Talk:Pantheon/@comment-20434720-20140406164322/@comment-9771997-20140510055246

Play Poppy, win the lane. Her passive makes his spears hit nothing and he wastes all of his mana, then it's just a matter of cs until you outscale him and overpower him in the lane, or at least that's how it went in my last ranked as Poppy. If you don't want to play Poppy, I'd say your best bet is either to build sustain and/or armor so you can try to wait for his mana to dry up, or get a gank to try and get ahead in the lane. Armor would probably be an incredible help against him too.

His mana costs are high because of his awful mana pool.

Fun fact: He has less base mana, mana growth per level, and mana regen than Draven.