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Shoes of Focus
Breastplate of Valor
Rod of Asclepius
Void Stone
Gem of Isolation
Bancroft's Talon
Rod of Tahuti
Hide of Leviathan
Magi's Cloak
Sovereignty
Heavenly Agility
Purification Beads (Old)
Shell of Absorption
Fist of the Gods
Salvation
Shoes
Purification Beads (Old)
Heavenly Wings
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At first sight, the lack of AoE heals and the clunkiness of her Kiss might make Afro-titties seem poorly designed for Arena, butt delving deeper into her reveals that even with that bondage, she can still excel in the orgy we call Arena.
When things get heated, she can cast Undying Love, making it easy to pull out of a dangerous situation. In addition, she's also the only support god with hard CC on a short cooldown. Add an extra soft CC and the strongest single-target heal in the game into the equation, and you can clearly see that she's got great assets. She might not be well endowed with the tools to tend to every single ally during an orgy, but this problem can be assuaged by purchasing actives such as Heavenly Agility.
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+Very safe to play.
+Excellent mobility. +Can cripple an enemy offensive. +Only support with hard CC on a short cooldown. +Can ensure the safety of herself and one teammate with her ultimate. |
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-Relies heavily on a soul-mate.
-Passive loses its usefulness in arena. - Kiss is very clunky, which affects her other skills.
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Searing Flesh, and a minus five to the ticket count seems imminent. Unfortunately, you're not linked to said teammate, so you don't have time to: Love Birds to heal said teammate.
Across The Sky had his eyes set on your teammate, and took him out behind you. Back Off! is because you and your soulmate's passive movement speed is increased with each rank. The slow on Back off, on the other hand, is constant. Oh, and it gives a damage buff to your butt-buddy when you hit an enemy god with it, too. Furthermore, its cooldown decreases with each additional rank, just like Love Birds, while the cooldown of Back Off! remains constant.|
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Moonflower Dance, which you would want to delay in order to avoid over-healing. Gem of Isolation, giving you:|
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Release The Kraken!, or has he fallen prey to a Transgressors Fate, with Artemis ready to ambush him? Do him a favor and help him out, thanks.|
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Your build should be flexible, meaning that it should change depending on the enemy team's composition. However, there are certain stats that are necessary to build towards every game, and they're obviously listed below - that's kind of the point of this chapter.
What better section to follow one explaining the stats to gear towards than one that provides a list of items with said stats?
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Love Birds heal extremely well. The cooldown reduction is also essential for her, and combined with Breastplate of Valor, cap you at 40%. In addition, you gain a bit of extra mana for sustain.|
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Shoes of Focus, you will have your cooldown reduction maxed out. Finishing CDR by the second item not only means you'll have both a hard CC and your heal on anywhere from 8.4 to 7.2 second cooldowns, but also your ultimate on anywhere from a 51 to 42 second cooldown.|
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Void Stone before Breastplate of Valor. The two items are both essential for her and it is up to you which one you buy first.|
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Breastplate of Valor and 
Focused Void Stone, gives you all the defense you need.|
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Back Off! and Love Birds) apply a 25% slow for two seconds. It's very easy to land your birds on an enemy after stunning them with a kiss, and the slow will constantly be reapplied as your birds inflict damage.|
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Kiss and Love Birds will have a 7.2 second cooldown (with 40% CDR), you will essentially be able to cast two back-to-back stuns and heals.|
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Heavenly Agility or 
Purification Beads; negating some damage that you could've avoided with Heavenly Agility anyways is all fine and dandy until you realize that two seconds of no movement on a god without a dash or leap means you're about to get wrecked.|
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Searing Flesh, but considering you already have hard CC on a low cooldown, there are usually better choices.|
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Afro-titties plays best in a fairly unique zone. She is constrained to her butt-buddy, but has long-ranged spells, so you want to be far enough back to not be focused, but close enough to help your butt-buddy.
Unless your team has no capability to initiation, refrain from using Kiss to do so; it's best used defensively by CC'ing an enemy god that is channeling a spell, and it's always nice to have it off cooldown so you can switch soulmates.
Minions are, sadly, very important in Arena, so if you don't need Love Birds off cooldown in the near future, use them to clear minion waves.
Because her heal is not instant, make sure to use it preemptively, and assist your butt-buddy whenever he/she goes in for the kill. It's often best to use this spell as, or very soon after, your teammate initiates. This way, any damage they take in the near future will be restored, and the sooner the cooldown begins, the sooner it ends.
Healing Reductions can be applied through certain skills, or through the use of specific items or actives. It's obviously very important to be aware of them as a healer. Here's a list of all the different healing reductions:
Brawler's Cudgel, has been temporarily removed, but is likely to apply its effect in a similar fashion to Divine Ruin.
Brawler's Beat Stick, it applies a 40% healing reduction each time you or your teammates are hit by the enemy god's abilities. Because its duration also lasts eight seconds, use the same advice I gave for Brawler's Beatstick. Fortunately, the effects of Beatstick and Ruin do not stack even when built on different gods.
Divine Wrath, has, like Brawler's Cudgel, been temporarily removed. It will be likely to apply its effect similarly to Brawler's Beatstick. Rod of Asclepius, but be aware of it. Creeping Curse which applies a 100% healing reduction for its duration. What's there to say about this, really? Your heals will be completely negated, so the best you can do is keep your heals off cooldown and hope you or your teammates survive its duration. The enemy team typically uses this to initiate, which means a whole heck 'o a lotta burst is coming - Undying Love is usually a good idea if it looks like you or your soulmate is about to be focused, and Heavenly Agility is a strong counter to it. Seriously, if you don't have HA and aren't begging your teammates (on your hands and knees, of course) to build it as well, then you're doing something very, very wrong.
Sobek's third skill. It applies a 50% healing reduction on all affected targets for four seconds. Many Sobeks will purchase both 
Divine Ruin and Creeping Curse in order to rotate through pretty insane healing reductions. For instance, a Sobek could 
Charge Prey>
Tail Whip to apply Divine Ruin, and then cast 
Sickening Strike to apply 90% healing reduction. He can then apply Creeping Curse a few seconds later for an increased duration of healing reduction. That's a long time without a heal.
Bacchus's third skill. It applies a 25% healing reduction to all affected targets for two seconds when the belch ends (when the stun occurs). It's not quite as dangerous as Sobek's Sickening Strike as it's an easily preventable CC and you'll have a three second warning before it comes in to effect. However, a Bacchus with Divine Ruin can still be very dangerous because his Belch constantly reapplies Divine Ruin over the course of its duration. This means that simply by building DR, Bacchus can have a three second long 40% healing reduction, followed a three second long 65% healing reduction and then a five second long 40% healing reduction. Kiss (or, when unlinked, interrupting him with Back Off!!
Chang'e's third spell. Not only does it heal all allies, but it applies a four second 50% healing debuff to all enemies for four seconds: exactly the same as Sickening Strike. Due to her ability to spam her spells, she could easily stack this spell with a Divine Ruin and really mess up your day. Fortunately, the spell effect has rainbow colors and it is cast with her in the center, so it should be very obvious and she has to risk getting in closely if she uses it offensively.
Ao Kuang who has Divine Ruin built and he's also under the effects of Bacchus's 
Belch of the Gods. This means that he will have a combined healing reductions of 65% from the 40% healing reduction from Divine Ruin added to the 25% healing reduction from Belch of the Gods. In addition, negative healing (taking damage from receiving a heal) can never happen.
Aegis Amulet not only prevents all damage, but also prevents heals! If you see an ally pop Aegis DO NOT HEAL THEM until the effect wears off, as it will unfortunately do nothing. Purification Beads reduces all cooldowns by five seconds, meaning you have the potential to stun and heal twice in a short time period.
Undying Love can be used to bait a faulty initiation; have your butt-buddy charge into the enemy team, and when they all blow their burst on him/her, loltimate them out of there.
You don't need to hit anyone with Love Birds to receive the heal, so if you're fighting in the middle, you can always just aim it at an incoming minion wave. Two Stones with one bird?*
If you have good reaction time, you can Kiss a Loki out of stealth the moment he enters it.
Any updates not mentioned in the changelog are simply grammatical/spelling fixes.
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Pestilence
Weakening Curse
I prefer putting two points into
I definitely should add a section about buffs, explaining to attack the first two left buff camps so you can get the mana buff and your butt-buddy can get the power buff. But this is an Arena, guide - I might update all my guides to include Conquest in the future.
You're definitely right about dying not meaning you messed up, but I personally hate dying :P and fortunately two defensive items have other stats that go perfectly with her (CDR and Magic Power, as well as an "offensive" aura).
I'll leave the solo lane suggestions for someone else :P I rarely play Conquest, and if I do I play Hel.
And thanks for your post, I always welcome feedback.
For the skill order i would suggest for the first 3 levels would be to get Love bird, Kiss and then Back off then continue with Lovebirds except for the Ult at level 5 then ones that is maxed to get up back off and Kiss.
For Starter players if you go around and help people get buffs you'll be level 2 by the time you get back to your lane so that you will be able to link to your partner.
I really like the new rod that they have placed in, its a good "Must have" item and the other items you have picked are good as well, i also like the Book item (can't remember the full time) i find sometimes that can be a help but most of the time you buy the gear based of how the match is going, but defensive items are good as you need to try and stay alive to help your partner out.
But don't always be sad or angry if you die because if you die and your partner still gets the kill or if more then its good because you are a support your not meant to be kill but helping out other!!
If you are soloing it would be good to get damage items first as your trying to go against someone else with not that high damage at the start, If your fighting someone who can heal themselves, then Good luck! i find that really annoying a lot, most of the times you'll have to call Ganks as its hard to get the final kill!
Sorry to write so much this is your post but is good! i enjoyed reading it :)
<3 Miss.