[2.3] Pantheon Guide - Pantheon Support Season 2

 Starting Items

• Buy Long Sword for additional damage on your Comet Spear . 
• On your first recall, make sure you have enough gold for either Plated Steelcaps or Bramble Vest . If the enemy has hard cc, buy Mercury's Treads instead.
• The Bramble Vest is necessary for support Pantheon so that when you go in for a trade, the adc will have reduced healing which is very crucial especially when they have [heal].
• Make sure to upgrade Long Sword into Phage .
• Don't worry about rushing your First Core Item.

Core Items

• After you have bought the 3 starting items,  upgrade your boots into Gargoyle Enchant . This is very important since you will be setting up most of the fights, diving under turrets, and soaking up most of the damage.
• Next is to build Black Cleaver . You can easily stack the passive up to 5 times with a simple Shield Vault with [pantheon:passive], AA, and Comet Spear .
• The Thornmail gives you a lot of armor, and anti-healing. This will force the enemy ADC to either ignore you as you dive in, or hit you at the cost of having [grievous wounds] and reflected damage. Either way, it's a win-win situation for support Pantheon .
• Youmuu's Ghostblade gives you 10 Ability Haste. Every Ability Haste you can get is important to Pantheon since you need to keep gaining presence on the map and in teamfights. Youmuu's Ghostblade also gives you bonus movement speed which will allow you to go around the map easily.
• Sterak's Gage is probably one of the best items for Pantheon . It gives you 400 health for extra tankiness, 50% bonus AD, and a Lifeline passive to heighten your survivability even more.
• Death's Dance converts 30% of damage taken as bleed effect, gives you Ability Haste, AD, and Health, which are all very useful as you initiate fights for objectives and diving under turrets

Situational Items

• You may Teleport Enchant if you need to keep supporting the baron lane most of the time. Pantheon 's [pantheon:ult] has limited range so it wouldn't be efficient to walk to Middle Lane for you to cast ultimate.
• Mortal Reminder is a good alternative for Thornmail if the enemy team consists of ranged and AP champions with high healing capacity.
• Guardian Angel gives additional AD and Armor, and a resurrection passive to keep you alive during teamfights.
• Mercury's Treads is the go-to option if the enemy has hard cc champions like Leona and Braum .