Talk:Pantheon/@comment-26808509-20160802205207/@comment-25301945-20160826163310

Pantheon's Q & E scalings need to be higher than average because they're the only reliable damage-dealing abilities in his kit. Look at other fighters and assassins; between their kits and their passives they usually have three (or more) sources of damage to choose from. The power budget of W & R is already devoted to other things, meaning their damage has to be kept negligible/unreliable to compensate.

As far as his passive goes, it needs to be there because Pantheon's kit is all about engage; he has no escape tools like "true" assassins, so he needs some durability to survive whatever fight he gets himself into. Even then, Aegis Protection isn't perfect. It doesn't block abilities, making it dead weight against champions like Vlad and Rumble. It also doesn't block DoT effects, meaning the likes of Fizz, Darius, Teemo, GP, etc can actually still deal plenty of damage even if some of their attacks end up being blocked