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If the toplaner has distortion by lvl 6 they're going to get dumpstered top lane for not buying combat stats at all.
The problem with the skyfall ring is that certain botlane matchups are only winnable buy outpushing the other botlane or you get your face bashed in under turret. It's not that you don't see the ring coming and can't get out of it it's that it's placed behind you so you're forced into a 2v2 coming 3v2 that you'll probably lose anyway once he hits.
You can tell your jungler all you want to countergank lvl 6 but it's soloqueue so whatever.
These nerfs are probably too hard but I'm just salty that Pantheon invalidates my ability to carry when I have to play super passive and can't snowball off lane when I go bot.
Sivir has spellsheild and ultimate to get out.
Vayne has her ultimate, Tumble and Condemn.
Caitlyn has her range in the first place, can plonk down a trap and use her net to get back.
Lucian can dash out of the ring and R as he backs up.
Jinx can put down chompers and run, and has zap.
Grand Skyfall has a 150 second cooldown. All of those abilities have far shorter.
Not xactly many other AD's were played before Pantheon, or now. Even the lesser played ones that are played, Ezreal, Corki and Tristana, can easily get out. All of the common AD's can easily escape Grand Skyfall, and this is before accounting for things such as a Thresh' Dark Passage, or a Morgana's Black Shield.
If the ring is placed significantly behind you, it's usually a reactionary ultimate and you are already fighting a winning battle. Finish it and you can probobly run past Pantheon with the other two too weak. If you're shoving that hard and you are not ahead in the first place against a Pantheon, you deserve to be ganked like that, because you are being dumb.