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Smite God: Aphrodite

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Aphrodite Build

Notes Not to be used in ranked. My personal build to be used with cernunnos carry, full cdr. Buy whatever potions or relics you think you need

Guardian's Blessing

Chronos' Pendant

Shoes of Focus

Pythagorem's Piece

Warlock's Staff

Rod of Asclepius

Lotus Sickle

My personal build

This is NOT for use in ranked and this is my personal build to be used with my cernunnos carry.

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(7) |

Bran, can this be considered for archive? I feel like we are just talking to ourselves here. The author has not responded to a single comment.

(72) |

Why people insist using Aphrodite as a support?

(401) |

Because it can be fun and because this person plays it in Support with her boyfriend and that's romantical and stuffers and it's CASUAL.

(72) |

I'm with Kriega this time. Unless the enemies are brainless is a really painful experience. You can even "win" the early game and early laning phase but they make two antiheals and the character dies (literally). It's just cute for the first five or ten minutes, until the hell begins, at least all the aphro supps I get are like this.

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(401) |

I'm not with or against Kriega... just offering potential reasons. And obviously this is subjective because it's apparent the build poster enjoys playing her. To each their own.

(143) |

Nah, it wouldn't be fun unless your opponents were of a much lower skill level. Your carry would have to be dominating in lane for it to be even a passable experience.

(13) |

is my most played god, so I think I can give you some useful feedback. Like you, I love to play her as a support, even with her weaknesses (mana hungry, poor early game and long cooldowns), but it’s been a while since I played her like this, because she’s much more useful in solo and maybe in mid.

Now, looking at your build... I believe you have too many damage items and only one defense item (Lotus Crown). Also, the buying order you made isn’t optimal. I’ll give my opinion on what I’d build for her.

Start: , , 2x .

Final Build: , , , Lotus Crown, , .

Other option would be: , , Lotus Crown, , , .

These builds will give you 40% CDR and will make you super tanky.

However, if you want to build damage items to increase her heals, I’d consider items like , , , and . But again, if you’re gonna build full damage, you might as well play mid and be an utility mage. Supports need to be able to take some damage, especially in the endgame and if your solo isn’t tanky enough.

(143) |

Not sure I would get in a support build. I would rather get the Lotus Crown after boots. So I think Focus shoes, Lotus, genji's, Sov, asclepius, mantle.

Also don't get mana chalice in support role. It's a waste of gold.

Go guardians, tier 1 shoes, and 3 health pots/3 mana pots. With Guardians and blue boots you shouldn't need mana chalice past the first couple of levels.

(401) |

You could also start..."not sure I would play in a support role."

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(143) |

Oh I definitely wouldn't. But I don't know if it would be worse than Hel support. Hel support will have no mana after 2 waves or so (altough early clear is ok), while aphro support does almost nothing in lane but has enough mana. Aphro can survive ganks (and help her carry), while Hel would certainly be dead. Lategame, Hel support can do work, but early to mid is a slog. Aphro support also can't peel reliably for more than 1 teammate, while Hel has a AoE CC cleanse but no Hard CC herself.

(13) |

I also dislike on support builds, because it’s too selfish. But ’s cooldowns are a pain, and she needs her abilities to be up as much as possible, so in this case I’d build BoV on a support.

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(143) |

But why? Genji's fufills the same purpose while Lotus crown already offers some physical defense. Add shoes of focus for Aphro support preference (as opposed to reinforced) and cooldowns should be fine.

(13) |

On , you NEED high CDR as soon as possible. I agree with you that Lotus into Genji’s looks like a more reasonable option, but in practice she’s terrible without high CDR.

Also, Genji’s offers 10% less CDR than BoV.

(143) |

I know but it also can be your first dedicated magical defense item, and it gives 3 seconds off abilities on cooldown if you're hit by magical damage.

(401) |

Good suggestions overall. Good general options as alternates, and good summary of her effectiveness in the role. Glad to see you're starting to offer feedback to others =)

Some individual comments:

Lotus Crown: I feel this item is less "efficient" for Aphrodite as opposed to most other healers. Aphro is the only group healer that has a hard limit on how many people she can heal at once. It's an option, but not one I would consider core, as the rest of the stats are okay but not amazing.
With regard to Aura, Heartward Amulet probably works better for Aphro than other Supports, due to sharing mana regen. That said, sharing 15 magical protection isn't all that much, and unless you're in a situation where you're facing 3 magical gods (which probably isn't the case in your 1st build example since you got BoV first), it probably wouldn't be one I'd pick up. I still see Sov as having more function...yes, the HP5 isn't going to be a big deal because you've got healing, but physical protection is typically worth more (since all map-based damage sources are physical).
As such, the 2 protection items you might get after you get shoes online are important choices. Here are some options:

Balanced, Phys focus #1: Breastplate of Valor + Oni Hunter's Garb. BoV prioritized due to need for phys protection earlier, and the importance of CDR is obvious. Oni Hunter's is pretty synergistic (similar application) to Aphro's passive, and the mitigations will help with ALL incoming damage, not just magical. Has great CDR, and also CC reduction which will be helpful for her since she has no escape.

Balanced, Phys focus #2: Sovereignty + Genji's Guard. Sov for the aura, Genji's for the CDR and mana regen.

Balanced, Mag focus: Genji's Guard + either Celestial Legion Helm or Breastplate of Valor. Not all that optimal...Genji + BoV is almost like mana overload. Celestial is okay if not facing a lot of ticking damage. Sov and Lotus are alternate phys protection options, or Spirit Robe perhaps if magical protection is by far the more dangerous threat.
I like where you suggest Asclep in the Support role. She'll be attached more often to someone in Support than in Solo, so she'll have the early benefit of MS...so Asclep there isn't as needed. If you rush CDR and have enough mana regen as typically suggested, you don't need the healing boost quite as much until later, when they're more likely to have anti-heal items you need to counter.
For the OP's build, Warlock's Staff is just not optimal for Support, due to high stacking, building late for high stacking, and the fact you typically want your ADC or other people to get farm with last hits instead of you. Also agreed...way squishy for too juicy of a target. Protections are appreciated.

(13) |

I had an excellent teacher :D

So, I thought about picking instead of for the second defense irem, but unlike more aggressive supports or warriors, should be in the backline, healing teammates and switching between targets, not in the enemies faces. With that in mind, I considered Oni Hunter’s to be less effective than Heartward, simply due to the effective distance (55 vs 70 units). But of course, it can be effective in certain situations.

I know you dislike Lotus Crown on Aphro, because she’s a single-target healer, but the 20 protections can make a difference, both for her target and for herself. Besides, her healing is a 3 second DoT (or HoT, in this case), so the additional protections would last 8 seconds total. With 40% CDR, she can proc the Lotus passive 100% of the time, because her 3 wll have a 8 seconds cooldown. So she basically has 20 additional protections 100% of the time.

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(401) |

You're right, but there are other ways to consider a fight that might make Oni more functional.

Consider that you and your link can be in two places at once. That means you can hit on multiple enemies if you're spread out in a teamfight a bit. Staying in the backlines and just healing is also both an optimal situation for you (e.g. they're not focusing and killing you) and a non-optimal situation for your teammates. Why? Well, when you build like this, you're probably one of the tankiest people on your team. You can take more hits, and you getting hit means your squishy teammates are not. And as you all know, you're not necessarily going to be left alone anyway. They might be focusing you no matter what, in which case...Oni brings more to the table.

And although you'd prefer not to get hit in the face, the fact of the matter is, is both healing and damage, and if you're only using it for heals, you're not getting the most out of it. And to confirm hits more easily, you need to be closer...both for that AND Back Off. So, if you're tanky enough, being in the midst of a fight, soaking damage for teammates, and getting your 2 damaging abilities off here and there is actually not a bad position for you.

Regarding Lotus Crown, unfortunately, that's not how it works. It doesn't refresh on consecutive ticks of healing. Once it triggers, it's a straight 5 seconds of duration, and it cannot trigger again for 10 seconds (meaning it can only be up at max 1/2 the time, if your CDs are able to match the CD of Crown. Hence why I continue to feel it's a fine item in general, but not core.

(13) |

That’s odd, because I tested Lotus on jungle practice and I could keep the passive up 100% of the time, despite the item description saying otherwise.

(401) |

Well **** it looks like that part of the passive changed sometime, but I don't know when. I'll investigate and change the database on it when I confirm.

*edit* Well, the change in Wiki happened on July 24, 2017, but the corresponding patch notes didn't change anything about Lotus. I went back through all of 2017 and couldn't find anything, though I scanned fairly quickly and could have missed something.

In any case, notes now don't say there's any cooldown. Changing that. Sorry to everyone for the stats to have been incorrect for so long.

(13) |

Wait, so now Lotus’ passive doesn’t have a cooldown?

I’d login to test it, but the servers are under maintenance.

(401) |

Well, you had sort of confirmed it via your jungle practice. And the wiki doesn't have that cool down notation any longer. Testing from other people would be appreciated to confirm.

(13) |

I’d like to have someone else confirm this as well, because sometimes jungle pratice feels bugged for me. One time I was testing some builds for and wouldn’t proc on any of her abilities or basic attacks.

That’s why I wanted to have a second opinion.