The difference between ping and pathping command? [duplicate]
Its as you said, the Ping utility pings the address you provided, the Pathping utility does a traceroute then pings all the hops. Both pings operate in the same way.
The main difference is that ping shows ICMP availability of the end point, which consist of the availability of hops in the middle and health of the endpoint. While pathping shows you health of the entire route.