Pantheon vs Ryze TOP Matchup Guide

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Pantheon into Ryzemedium

Overview

Use Pantheon's early empowered trades to deny Ryze safe scaling and force short trades.
Prioritize crashing waves after winning trades to create roam windows with .
Maintain lane dominance by threatening empowered and point-and-click stun .

Start trades with stun and follow up immediately with empowered for burst.
Use to block Ryze's main retaliation damage and disengage safely.
Punish Ryze when his root is on cooldown or when he is low on mana to prevent sustained trades.

Respect Ryze's root combined with spread when he has mana and cooldowns.
Avoid trading immediately after using as your engage becomes predictable and punishable.
Do not trade when is down to avoid taking Ryze's burst damage without mitigation.

Exploit level 2-3 empowered , , and to force Ryze off the wave.
Avoid using into large minion waves to prevent counter trades.
Crash waves aggressively after winning trades to reset before Ryze hits his first item power spike.

Level 2-3 empowered , , and create strong early all-in windows; use them to build health leads.
Level 6 unlocks for impactful roams; crash waves first to maximize map pressure.
Respect Ryze's first mana/AP item spike by avoiding extended trades and punishing his lower mana windows.

Use early empowered trades and stun to deny Ryze scaling and control the lane.
Crash waves to enable roams with and convert lane pressure into map advantage.
Snowball early leads to close the game before Ryze's scaling and item spikes become threatening.

Tactical tip

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