First Strike Pantheon Build

First Strike Pantheon Build.

First Strike Pantheon build with runes and items. First Strike Pantheon guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play First Strike Pantheon build in League of Legends Patch 25.21!

Author: Nxal

TLDR

Starting items
Serrated Dirk should be final item in your build.
Quick Skill Order
Pantheon ability Comet Spear should be leveled first.
Q
Pantheon ability Aegis Assault should be leveled second.
E
Pantheon ability Shield Vault should be leveled third.
W
Final items
Berserker's Greaves should be final item in your build.
The Collector should be final item in your build.
Blade of The Ruined King should be final item in your build.
Hubris should be final item in your build.
Lord Dominik's Regards should be final item in your build.
Infinity Edge should be final item in your build.
Quick Runes
Major rune First Strike from Inspiration tree.
Minor rune Domination.
Summoner spells
Pick Mark as your Summoner Spell.
Pick Flash as your Summoner Spell.

First Strike Pantheon Runes

Inspiration
Inspiration major tree Glacial Augment rune.
Inspiration major tree Unsealed Spellbook rune.
Inspiration major tree First Strike rune.
Inspiration major tree Hextech Flashtraption rune.
Inspiration major tree Magical Footwear rune.
Inspiration major tree Cash Back rune.
Inspiration major tree Triple Tonic rune.
Inspiration major tree Time Warp Tonic rune.
Inspiration major tree Biscuit Delivery rune.
Inspiration major tree Cosmic Insight rune.
Inspiration major tree Approach Velocity rune.
Inspiration major tree Jack Of All Trades rune.
Domination
Domination minor tree Cheap Shot rune.
Domination minor tree Taste of Blood rune.
Domination minor tree Sudden Impact rune.
Domination minor tree Sixth Sense rune.
Domination minor tree Grisly Mementos rune.
Domination minor tree Deep Ward rune.
Domination minor tree Treasure Hunter rune.
Domination minor tree Relentless Hunter rune.
Domination minor tree Ultimate Hunter rune.
Passive
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Attack Speed rune (+10% Attack Speed).
Passive tree Ability Haste rune (+8 Ability Haste).
Passive tree Adaptive Force rune (+9 Adaptive Force).
Passive tree Move Speed rune (+2 Movement Speed).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).
Passive tree Health rune (+65 Health).
Passive tree Tenacity And Slow Resist rune (+10 Tenacity and Slow Resist).
Passive tree Health Scaling rune (+10-180 Health (based on level)).

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How it works

General

  1. You play around First Strike to farm gold and deal extra damage.
  2. You build AD and Crit items.

Champion

  1. Crit is used to increase the damage of the 3 auto attacks from empowered Shield Vault (W).
  2. Infinity Edge doesn't increase Comet Spear (Q) damage, but you rely on auto attacks from empowered W for your main damage.
  3. You farm gold with First Strike. Early game, you can farm with empowered Comet Spear (Q) before transitioning to crit.
  4. Empowered Q does more damage before Infinity Edge (when you have empowered W). So use this to make gold with First Strike, then go crit.

How to play

General

  1. Your main damage comes from AD, Crit items and auto attacking. You can build 50-100% crit depending on the game - adapt based on what you need (damage, survivability, countering tanks, etc.).
  2. You farm gold with First Strike. Early game, you can farm with your abilities to earn gold and scale faster.

Items

  1. Core items are The Collector, Infinity Edge, and Hubris. For the last items, you can choose anything based on the game.
  2. If they have tons of CC, get Mercury's Treads, Edge of Night or even Mercurial Scimitar to counter that.

Counter tanks

  1. If you are against a lot of tanks/bruisers, you can make it work by:
    • You can get Lord Dominik's Regards early (#1-#3 item).
    • If they are stacking HP you can buy Blade of The Ruined King. You don't need 100% crit - adapt your build to the game situation.

Champion

  1. Early game: Farm gold with First Strike using empowered Comet Spear (Q). Empowered Q does more damage before you get Infinity Edge (with IE, you just farm with empowered Shield Vault (W)), so use this to make gold with First Strike.
  2. Your main damage comes from empowered W's 3 auto attacks with crit. Infinity Edge doesn't increase Q damage, but you rely on auto attacks from empowered W.
  3. After getting Infinity Edge, transition to using empowered W for the crit-enhanced auto attacks. Your empowered Q was stronger early, but now your empowered W with crit is your main damage source.

Combos

  1. Combo before Infinity Edge: Get four stacks on your Mortal Will (Passive), then do Shield Vault (W) > Comet Spear (Q) > Aegis Assault (E) > walk off.
  2. Combos after Infinity Edge: Get full stack passive, then do either Shield Vault (W) > empowered AA > Comet Spear (Q) > Aegis Assault (E), or Shield Vault (W) > empowered AA > AA > Aegis Assault (E) > Comet Spear (Q).

Tips and Tricks

Champion

  1. You can dodge a lot of skillshots with Aegis Assault (E). Even global ultimates. Just make sure you are facing the right direction!
  2. Plan combos around empowered abilities (after 5 spells/autos): empowered Shield Vault (W) for auto attack burst, empowered Comet Spear (Q) for execute or poke, empowered Aegis Assault (E) for Armor/MR and being tanky.

Riot

  1. Mortal Will activates after 5 spells or basic attacks - plan your way through fights to allow you to activate it more than once.
  2. Whittle the enemy down with Comet Spears before you jump in.
  3. 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.

Skill Order

  • Pantheon [object Object] ability.
    Q
    Comet Spear
  • Pantheon [object Object] ability.
    W
    Shield Vault
  • Pantheon [object Object] ability.
    E
    Aegis Assault
  • Pantheon [object Object] ability.
    R
    Grand Starfall

Items

Starting items
Serrated Dirk item.
Good first items
The Collector item.
Hubris item.
Infinity Edge item.
Boots
Ionian Boots of Lucidity item.
Mercury's Treads item.
Plated Steelcaps item.
Berserker's Greaves item.
Good items
Infinity Edge item.
Navori Flickerblade item.
The Collector item.
Hubris item.
Bloodthirster item.
Phantom Dancer item.
Spectral Cutlass item.
Situational items
Mercurial Scimitar item.
Edge of Night item.
Immortal Shieldbow item.
Maw of Malmortius item.
Situational vs. tanks
Lord Dominik's Regards item.
Blade of The Ruined King item.
Situational vs. healing
Executioner's Calling item.
Mortal Reminder item.
Situational vs. shields
Serpent's Fang item.
Good MR/Armor items
Death's Dance item.
Wit's End item.
Edge of Night item.
If you need to go tanky
Kaenic Rookern item.
Sunfire Aegis item.
Thornmail item.
Warmog's Armor item.
Jak'Sho, The Protean item.
Force of Nature item.
For the last fight
Additional considerations for these items is advised!
Elixir of Iron item.
Elixir of Wrath item.
Example final build
Berserker's Greaves item.
The Collector item.
Blade of The Ruined King item.
Hubris item.
Lord Dominik's Regards item.
Infinity Edge item.