Ares? More like "Sc-Ares" [No full item build] (Credit to Mattelite)

Hello again, my name is JeepCrew. I wrote a guide for Aphrodite in arenas and this is my second guide. Please feel free to comment or message me with any suggestions in regards to the structure of the guide.

That said, all content of this guide was written by Mattelite. He/she posted this guide on Reddit and I received permission to put it up on here for more people to view. Any questions or comments about the content of the guide should be directed towards Mattelite. I have no personal experience playing Ares so I won't be able to help you :P . That said, please enjoy this guide by Mattelite:

My IGN is Mattelite. I started playing this game about 4 months ago and Ares was the first god I unlocked. I have since grinded my way up to 7 masteries with him. It's been tough. Before I had any feel for building and counter building, I racked up so many deaths that I have just now broken even in terms of K/D Ratio. Ares is unique. He plays differently than any of the other guardians. In this guide, I will be going over items that I personally think work best for Ares and will list some good situations to pick them up. I will attempt to be as in-depth as I can. Forgive me if the formatting isn't perfect. If this takes off, I may try and consolidate it all into a video. Let's sound the drums of war!

• 400 health
• 65 Physical Protection
• Aura: 20 physical and magical protections to all allies within 70 feet

Sovereignty

• 300 Health
• 60 Physical Protection
• Aura: Deals 40 Magical damage per second to enemies within 25 Units

• 45 Physical Protection
• 15% Attack Speed
• 15% Movement Speed
• Aura: All enemies within 55 feet have their attack speed reduced by 15% and their physical power reduced by 25

• 40 Magical Power
• 50 Magical Protection
• Aura: All enemies within 55 unites have their magical protection reduced by 15

Ares

• 65 Magical Protection
• 300 Health
• Aura: The healing and regeneration of all enemies within 55 units is reduced by 20%

Aphrodite

Aphrodite

Chang'e

Hel

Weakening Curse

• 75 Magical Power
• 200 Health
• 10% Movement Speed
• Aura: The healing and regeneration of allies within 70 feet is increased by 15%

Ares

• The opposing team is made up of either all physical, or all magical characters
• There is a healer on my team that does NOT pick this item up

• 70 Magical Power
• 15% Magical Lifesteal
• Aura: 20 Magical Power and 10% Magical Lifesteal to all allies within 70 feet

• 75 Physical Protection
• 550 Mana
• Passive: 25% Cooldown Reduction

Ares

• 40 Physical Protection
• 300 Health
• 10% Cooldown Reduction
• Passive: You gain 10% of your maximum health and mana over the next 5 seconds when you get a kill or assist against an enemy god

Ares

• 10 Physical Protection
• 50 Magical Protection
• 125 Health
• 10% Cooldown Reduction
• Passive: You gain an additional 15% damage mitigation for 3s whenever you are hit with a hard crowd control ability. This can only occur once every 10 seconds.

Ares

• 50 Magical Power
• 250 Mana
• 18% Movement Speed
• Passive: You gain 15% Cooldown Reduction

• 75 Magical Power
• 25 MP5
• Passive: Your ability cooldowns are reduced by 25%

Ares

• 350 Health
• 10% Cooldown Reduction
• 10% Attack Speed
• 10% Movement Speed
• Passive:When hit by a slow, you are immune to slows and your movement speed is increased by 20% for 4s. Only occurs once every 30 seconds

• 450 Health
• 65 Magical Protection
• Passive: If you are below 25% Health, you gain a shield that reduces damage by 50% for 1 second. Can only occur once every 60 seconds

Pestilence

• 15 Physical Protection
• 15 Magical Protection
• 350 Health
• 40% Crowd Control Reduction
• Passive: Absorbs a single hard crowd control effect once every 45 seconds. When this occurs, the owner also receives 1 second of cc immunity

Ares

Spirit Robe

• 45 Physical Protection
• 45 Magical Protection
• 250 Health
• 250 Mana
• Passive: You gain +2 protections for each god kill or assist (max 10 stacks)

• Allows you to teleport short distances instantly. You must be out of combat for 3 seconds before it can be used. Also, you gain 40% movement speed for 1 second after blinking
• 45 Second cooldown

Combat Blink

• Buffs all allies ground speed by 40% in a 70 foot radius for 6 seconds and makes them immune to slows. Their healing is also increased by 25% for the duration
• 90 Second Cooldown

• Removes crowd control effects and makes you immune for 3 seconds. This also reduces all god cooldowns (currently on cooldown) by 5 seconds
• 90 Second Cooldown

I'm not going to hold your hand. I'm not going to baby you by giving you a set build or builds that you should follow. Instead, I'll give you some simple guidelines to follow. It's up to you to experiment. Learn a thing or two about counter building. It WILL make you a better player with ANY god. On to the guidelines:

• A minimum of two aura items. ares]' passive grants him 30 magical power for every completed aura item he owns. I see a lot of [[ares players building four or five aura items. That's really not a good way to go. There is only one aura item that provides magical protection. You should have at least two stacks of his passive but don't get carried away. Building too many aura items is going to limit your overall utility.
  
  
• Protections, protections, protections. You need these, people. They are your last line of defense. Ares does not benefit from a high power build like Ymir, Athena, or Hades. He's not bursty enough to be a mage-like guardian. He also gains power from some protection items. I would say a minimum of 150 of each protection is what you should be shooting for.
  
  
• A minimum of 25% cooldown reduction. Ares is not all about his ultimate but it is a huge part of his team-fight presence. You want to increase his chances of actually pulling in your enemies. The best way to do that? Cooldown reduction. I usually end up with 35% but 25% puts you well under Greater Purification cooldown. It also helps that a lot of cooldown items have great passives for survivability.
  
  
• A minimum of two movement speed items. This one might seem silly but I firmly believe that movement speed may be the most crucial stat in this game. Team-fights are all about positioning, zoning, and mobility. Knowing how to maneuver and doing it quickly is more important than protections. Your enemies can only harm you if their skills and attacks actually land after all.

Shackles

• Chains extend from Ares' shield, doing damage to all enemies in its path. Hitting a god shackles them to Ares, cripples them, preventing movement abilities, dealing the same damage every second while slowing them and buffing Ares. While shackled, Ares can fire another chain for free within 2 seconds

Bolster Defenses

• Ares strengthens the defenses of himself and all nearby allies, granting protections and reducing crowd control durations. For each shackled enemy, the protection buffs are increased

Searing Flesh

• Flames pour forth from Ares' shield, engulfing enemies in a cone in front of him damage every .5 seconds for 4 seconds. Ares is immune to knockback for the duration.

No Escape

• Ares throws chains out to all enemy gods in an area around him. All enemies hit by the chains are pulled to Ares after 2.5 seconds, taking damage, and are stunned plus additional time for each enemy god hit by the ability

Greater Purification

Aegis Pendant

Ares

I hope this helps all of you Ares fans out there. Please feel free to make suggestions or ask questions. I'm always happy to hear from fellow Ares players. Have fun ruining people's days. I know I do.

VVGL

VVGF

--Mattelite via JeepCrew

• Major credit to Mattelite. He created all of the content and opinions of this guide.
• Jhoijhoi. As with most new guide writers, I couldn't have made this without the help of her guide(s).

Changelog

• 5/25/14 - Published
• 5/25/14 - Added paragraph to "building guidelines" and fixed spelling error