User blog comment:AtheistUntoDeath/Which of these Champions would win? part 6/@comment-24073465-20140607202953

Love both champs, love both lores and playstyles, so gonna be difficult to pick a winner from the two; That being said, I believe the distinct advantage will go to.....

Damn....seems even I'm gonna have to write the facts for myself to pick out the winner...

1) Physical Nature: Both Olaf and Panth are damn strong...both come from inhospitable regions (super-high mountain region vs a coastal area "amongst the most brutal places in the Freljord"), so they both have some damn-good endurance as well. Both also fight and train quite well and have the physical attributes showing such ( 8 pack abs, superb pecs and muscules any 'roid raging athelete would be envious of)...In addition to that, they are the best of their respective groups (Panth is a paragon of the Spartans, I mean Stanpar, I mean Rakkor; He's also taken out a battalion (300-1300)of soldiers (however, whether this was alone or in a group is debateable as it's not given; it's only given that he was standing on their remains asking for more fodder to slaughter). Olaf has had a ton of glories, has slaughtered tons of beasts including a snake known to destroy SHIPS, and fought an entire TRIBE of the most fearsome warriors of Freljord to a stalemate i.e. he started slaughtering them, so Sejuani cooled him down enough to agree to his demand of finding him a good death).....thus it's difficult to decide who's stronger....

If anything, I'd say Olaf is probably slightly stronger because of axe throw...he throws axes further than panth throws spears (and not throwing axes, but rather WIELDING AXES), which manage to embed themselves into the ground/wall....this shows quite a considerable amount of strength....On top of this, he can easily pick up the axe while moving which shows quite a bit of dynamic as well as static muscle strength...

Thus, physical strength: Olaf

2) Mental Nature: Both have the nature of a warrior and a "Kill them or die while killing them...either way, they're a corpse" mentality....The difference being that Pantheon lives for war, and that while he accepts death and tries to avoid it, Olaf YEARNS for death, and a chance to go out with one hell of a bang.....thus advantage in sanity goes to Pantheon.

During fighting, their mental nature will also be different....Pantheon will be disciplined and fight like a soldier, while Olaf will enter the field looking like he dropped a pound of Acid or Crystal Meth before entering (Actually, many historians believe berserkers got to their mental state by consumption of Psychoactive substances before or during battle)...However, unlike the previous fight where Yi's calmness helps beat Yasuo's emotional turbulence, Olaf's mental instability will actually help him out in this fight....it will make him unpredicatable, make him hit harder and faster (faster, at least if in game tooltip is believed), and ignore pain at least temporarily....

Again, hard to actually decide a winner, since Olaf's mental nature actually works FOR rather than against him, but I'll give a slight advantage to Pantheon here, due to his mental stability (despite being slightly arrogant, pompous, cocky, etc (look at his quotes))

3) Battle Skills: Again, here it's difficult to tell...Panth's been highly trained in unarmed combat ("as lethal with their bare hands as the most capable martial artists" in the lore), as well as superb training in shield and spear combat ( and possibly other forms as well; but am sticking to these two only since he's never seen with other weapons)....For ranged attacks, he throws spears (probably pilum or the like) and can easily bring a quiver filled with this for use. However, these are usually one time use, since ancient pilum would bend or break after throw, thus preventing the enemy from using them. This means after enough tries, he will run out of throwing spears.

Olaf hits like a truck with both axes. He can also throw an axe, which hurts HARD, as well as pick it up for easy reuse. Also, the fact that he can throw it further than Pantheon gives him an advantage in ranged weapons. Now HERE I will have to make a couple of assumptions, so the MAY be wrong, the COULD be discounted/debatable....first assumption is that we see Olaf has no power loss or fighting problem even after throwing one axe, thus he should be proficient in Single-Axe combat for the loss to not matter (I know, I know, in game he's still holding both axes; but given how in game, adcs have infinite ammo, an overgrown, mutated squirrel with a blowgun is considered dangerous and Morgana's top stays up despite having no back or anything to hold it up, we can consider it to be game/summoner magic or something)....Also, given how much fighting he does, I figure he's not too shabby at unarmed combat. However, since no info is given about this, I have to say Pantheon would be better in unarmed combat.

Thus, despite different battle styles, their battle skills are even. At least they're equal in armed combat, and Olaf has an advantage in ranged combat while Panth wins in Unarmed combat.

4) Weapons and Armor: Pantheon's shield and spear are relics handed down the generations and are magical in nature. Also, he'll probably have a quiver filled with Javelins for long range throwing. However, they are most probably made of Bronze, which is much weaker than steel. Also, unlike game, actual javelins wouldn't be of much use since they're unwieldy and inaccurate (during spartan times they were often used against armies rather than in single man combat).

Olaf uses 2 Axes which MIGHT be magical (He smites his enemies with LIGHTNING, for crying out loud)...on the other hand they might just be 2 very cool axes and the lightning is just a game effect. Going with the latter assumption, one thing they DO have going for them is that they are made of steel (Olaf himself goes "Death by STEEL", and actual viking axes usually were made of steel, at least at the sharpened tip), which is MUCH stronger than bronze. Thus, they can easily cut through Panth's weapons unless those have some durability spell on them. However, since Panth's weapons have gone through the ages, I'm not too worried about that.

Now, considering armors. Olaf has an Iron helmet, which might stand a couple of spear blows, and nothing else other than a bear/wolf pelt. This pelt can block a few javelin shots and provide a bit of cushioning against shield blows. A good enough javelin throw might pierce through the bear and Olaf hide, but it is unlikely to provide more than a flesh wound or minor injury. On the other hand, the spear can easily draw blood due to Panth's direct control on it, and force behind it.

Pantheon has a bronze helmet and Cuirass, neither of which are indestructible (Armor is not arms, plus unlike arms which can often be reused, armors are usually made as per warrior size). These might stop a couple of fatal blows, but they aren't too durable. Plus, even if they block the FATALITY of the blow, the steel can pierce through and at least cause some damage.

However, the one thing that could be considered a game-changer is Pantheon's SHIELD....as seen in Deadliest Warrior, a shield hit with the side would generate about 45Gs of force, equivalent to a low impact crash. Hitting a bone hard enough could break it, and hitting a guy in the head/neck could probably kill him. Olaf's pelt and helmet MIGHT provide some cushioning, but it can still blow through and harm him. However, it depends on where Panth hits. If he hits Olaf's neck, Olaf's next trip is in a river on a burning boat to Valhalla. If he hits the arm, it might break, but Olaf's berserker rage would probably cause him to ignore the pain. If not at least permanently disabled due to the hit, he will fight on as if nothing much had actually happened.

Thus, weapon-wise, Pantheon gets advantage ONLY due to the shield.

Overall, looking at these traits, I feel that the whole match depends on how well Pantheon uses his shield....IF he uses it well, he wins and Olaf parties with LOL-version of Odin in Valhalla (Win: Pantheon, Moral Victory: Olaf).....If he doesn't use it well enough, we watch the Viking tear the spartan a new a**hole, followed by tearing him in two (Win: Olaf)....Either way, it seems Olaf somehow in a weird way wins....

Jokes aside, I figure that Overall advantage goes to Olaf simply because his Berserker Rage and mentality allows him to absorb much more punishment that Pantheon could....and unless Panth utilizes shield power to the best of his abilities and kills him before he realizes it, he'll just power through and murder Panth....

Damn, that was a long post....