Guide · Support

Pantheon Guide

the Unbreakable Spear

Fighter

Assassin

Tier S Support

Pantheon, the Unbreakable Spear, is a fighter and assassin champion of medium difficulty. Across our 1025 analysed ranked games, Pantheon is mostly played as Support (43% of its games), and more rarely in Top (32%) and in the Jungle (16%), with a 51.7% win rate in that role: tier S among Support champions (#2 of 38, ranked by win rate). Pantheon's damage is mostly physical (89%): armor is the best defensive answer against this champion. Win rate varies with game length: 58.2% in long games (over 35 min, 55 games) versus 50.6% in medium-length games (25 to 35 min).

Updated Oct 10 2026 · Patch 26.22

Average KDA

5.9 / 8.4 / 10.2

ratio 1.9

Damage / min

659

CS / min

1.3

Gold / min

355

Kill participation

50%

Vision / min

2.70

Averages measured over 439 Support games played with Pantheon, from our ranked Solo/Duo data collection.

How to play and combo preview

Written guide · based on the official ability texts

Pantheon is an aggressive fighter-assassin: after several abilities or attacks, his next ability is empowered. Shield Vault stuns, Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable to the attacks he faces, and Grand Starfall lets him leap to a chosen spot and land with area damage.

The trade

W AA AA

Q AA AA

When: An enemy is within range.

Shield Vault dashes you onto the target and stuns them, your attacks build up your passive, Comet Spear (thrust or throw) benefits from the empowered version.

The block

E AA AA

When: An enemy is attacking in your direction.

Aegis Assault makes you invulnerable to the attacks you are facing while delivering rapid spear thrusts. Point the shield at the source.

See all 3 Pantheon combos: key order, when to cast them, cooldowns →

Laning phase

Build up your passive with attacks and abilities to get an empowered ability. Shield Vault stuns: place it for a trade, but keep Aegis Assault to block an important attack.

Common mistakes

Using Aegis Assault with no one attacking you head-on.
Forgetting your passive's empowered ability.
Casting Grand Starfall with no plan for what follows: you land in the middle of the enemies.

Riot's official tips for playing Pantheon

Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
If an enemy is going to get out of range of your Aegis Assault, you can recast the spell to immediately fire the shield slam.

Build, runes and summoner spells

The most-played core build is Black Cleaver, Umbral Glaive, and Eclipse (14 games, 50.0% win rate).

Black Cleaver

Umbral Glaive

Eclipse

14 games · 50.0%

12 games · 41.7%

Eclipse

11 games · 63.6%

Skill order

Max order : Q > W > E65.5% · 29 games

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Q		●		●	●		●		●
W	●							●		●		●	●
E			●											●	●
R						●					●

The order shows which abilities reach rank 5 first; the grid shows the most-played level-up sequence with that order (measured over 73 games).

Starting items

Health Potion

Health Potion47.1% · 68 games

Laning phase (averages)

At 10 min: 3108 gold, 14 CS, 2525 XP. At 15 min: 4886 gold, 21 CS, 4162 XP.

Summoner spells

Flash + Ignite52.2% · 410 games

Exhaust + Flash45.5% · 22 games

Most-played runes

Press the Attack + Domination

53.8% · 184 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph98%

Legend: Haste96%

Coup de Grace89%

Secondary tree · Domination

Relentless Hunter92%

Cheap Shot76%

Shards

Adaptive force98%

Health scaling71%

Conqueror + Domination

44.3% · 70 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph97%

Legend: Haste93%

Coup de Grace67%

Secondary tree · Domination

Relentless Hunter84%

Sudden Impact51%

Shards

Adaptive force96%

Adaptive force97%

Health66%

Press the Attack + Inspiration

55.4% · 65 games

Primary tree · Precision

Triumph97%

Legend: Haste98%

Coup de Grace92%

Secondary tree · Inspiration

Cosmic Insight94%

Hextech Flashtraption88%

Shards

Adaptive force95%

Adaptive force92%

Health scaling83%

For each row, the most picked rune among the games played with this page (share of games in brackets).

Which items to build against the enemy team?

We sort every game by the enemy team's damage. These are Pantheon's completed items and their win rate in each situation; "▲" marks an item that does at least 3 points better than its usual win rate.

Mostly magic-damage enemy team55.3% · 132 games

At least 50% of their damage is magic

Sundered Sky 54.2%

Black Cleaver 64.6% ▲

Umbral Glaive 61.4% ▲

Eclipse 53.7%

Serpent's Fang 54.5%

Voltaic Cyclosword 55.0%

The item that stands out most is Umbral Glaive: 61.4% win rate, +10 points versus its usual win rate.

Mostly physical-damage enemy team54.1% · 98 games

Less than 35% of their damage is magic

Black Cleaver 53.1% ▼

Eclipse 55.0%

Umbral Glaive 40.0% ▼

Sundered Sky 56.2%

Voltaic Cyclosword 69.2%

Serpent's Fang 70.0%

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Balanced enemy team48.3% · 209 games

Mixed physical and magic damage

Sundered Sky 53.3%

Umbral Glaive 52.2%

Black Cleaver 55.1%

Eclipse 52.2%

Voltaic Cyclosword 54.8%

Serpent's Fang 48.4% ▼

No item clearly stands out in this situation: the usual build remains the reference.

Counters and matchups

Who counters Pantheon as Support

Nautilus Pantheon: 70.6%17 games

Nautilus has the edge in 29% of the 17 Support duels against Pantheon. See the Nautilus guide.

Who Pantheon is strong against

Nautilus70.6% · 17 games

How to play against Pantheon

Pantheon's Aegis Assault makes him invulnerable from the front. Get behind him or wait it out.
Be careful near Pantheon if your health is low - a thrown Comet Spear executes low health enemies.
Grand Starfall gives several seconds of warning before Pantheon arrives. Use this time to get out of the way or to form a plan to deal with him.

Riot's official tips.

Win rates measured over direct same-role duels; only matchups with more than 15 games are listed. See all of Pantheon's matchups.

Pantheon Support: what our games say

Laning phase against the Support average

Measure	Pantheon	Support average	Gap
Gold at 10 min	3108	2918	+190
CS at 10 min	14	14	+0
XP at 10 min	2525	2711	−186
Gold at 15 min	4886	4507	+378
CS at 15 min	21	20	+1
XP at 15 min	4162	4325	−162

Measured over 73 Pantheon games with a timeline; the average covers 51 champions played Support in our ranked games.

Win rate by game length

short under 25 min51.1 %133 games

medium-length 25 to 35 min50.6 %251 games

long over 35 min58.2 %55 games

Best result: long (over 35 min). Only groups of at least 30 games are shown. A gap of several points shows the phase where the champion is the most reliable.