Pantheon

Pantheon is an AD bruiser in the mid, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a strong pick — a 53.3% win rate, 0.8% pick rate, 8,973 ranked games sampled. On the power curve, Pantheon is front-loaded: at peak strength early and falling off the longer the game runs, so the win condition is to convert early pressure into objectives and leads before the 25-minute mark.

How Pantheon wins: roaming out of lane to snowball the rest of the map, and landing engage and starting fights on Pantheon's terms. The kit grades 10/10 roaming, 7/10 engage. Pantheon grades low on siege and mobility (3/10, 2/10), so don't take fights that turn on those dimensions.

The most-played core build is Eclipse, Sundered Sky, Black Cleaver, which holds a 57.4% win rate across 265 games this patch. Pick the enemy team to adapt each item slot to the specific matchup.

The matchup to respect is Darius, where Pantheon sits at just 45.2%, the lane swings the other way into Briar (62.7%), and on the team side, Pantheon gains the most from a Singed (+9.7% pair win rate).