Pantheon

Pantheon is an AD bruiser in the support, and on patch 16.17 they grade out as a solid mid-tier pick — a 50.4% win rate, 3.7% pick rate, 43,427 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 Bloodsong, Umbral Glaive, Eclipse, which holds a 46.5% win rate across 2,155 games this patch. Item order and defensive swaps update against whichever enemy comp you select.

The matchup to respect is Xerath, where Pantheon sits at just 43.5%, the lane swings the other way into Mel (60.2%), and on the team side, Pantheon gains the most from a Vladimir (+12.1% pair win rate).