Talk:Pantheon/@comment-86.171.60.90-20120314091936

panth is one of the few champs that you just want to go balls-out glass cannon 24/7 aggro as. if you want a placid farmer or a tanky dps or whatever you should really play someone else because he's literally the leblanc of ad casters.

it's common to go 10/3 as panth and still lose the game because he drops off so hard once the enemy has their items. to counter this you have two options:

1) build pure metagolem. last whisper, atmogs/fratmogs, triforce is nice and synergizes well since he has very low CDs but you'll be a lot squishier. if you want to be a massive asshole you can get the atmogs/fratmogs as well as a FoN and just become this unkillable juggernaut.

2) use brutalizer and an early bloodthirster (start with the vamp sceptre before the BF sword) to win your lane and rack up gold. sell the brutalizer to make way for last whisper (ghostblade isn't that great on panth anyway) and then get a *second* bloodthirster, building some resistances as necessary. panth is one of the only champs in the game that can use a cheese double-BT build because it gives him an option (agonizingly strong sustain) other than the metagolem for surviving in late game, which doesn't really work that great for him.

note that he does do well with attack speed due to his passive (don't underestimate the amount of damage this soaks, in late game it can number easily into the thousands), and you can pull off some neat turret-diving tricks by carefully timing your attacks and skill casts. against a ridiculously CC-heavy team i'll take merc's but greaves are great just for proccing that passive too.