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Shoes of the Magi
Shoes of Focus
Book of Thoth
Chronos' Pendant
Rod of Tahuti
Spear of Desolation
Spear of the Magus
Warlock's Staff
Divine Ruin
Hide of the Urchin
Void Stone
Spirit Robe
Breastplate of Valor
Breastplate of Regrowth
Rod of Asclepius
Lotus Sickle
Gem of Isolation
Heartward Amulet
Sovereignty
Gauntlet of Thebes
Sands of Time
Soul Stone
Dynasty Plate Helm
Shoes of Focus
Rod of Asclepius
Void Stone
Gem of Isolation
Spear of Desolation
Rod of Tahuti
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Aphrodite
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Aphrodite and am enjoying her as a support god. Looking at other SEASON 4 guides here, there are not to many that go in depth on how to build her or how to play her. Hopefully with this guide, it will give a sense on what I try to achieve with her. Aphrodite is an ability based mage who is mostly there to heal herself and her soulmate. The best items for her to focus on are cooldown reduction items and also items that help with healing herself and teammates.|
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- Has an incredible heal that can heal yourself and 1 teammate at a time - Decent damage if built - Provides support through her kit |
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- Low defense - No escape - Heavy focus by enemies - Easily countered with Anti-heal items |
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Center of Attention
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Aphrodite gains 4 physical and 4 magical protections for each god withing 70 units of her. Stacks up to 9 times. This passive is meh in my opinion. You will usually always have at least 1 ally nearby to give you a couple of protections early game. But otherwise, you can only gain an additional 36 protections which isn't much and can only happen in 5v5 matches. It also makes you have to get in the thick of things as well to get more protections.
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Center of Attention
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Kiss
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Kiss attaches yourself to a teammate which increases both of yours movement speed. When attached to an ally, whenever you use Love Birds it will heal the both of you. When attached and you hit an enemy with Kiss, it stuns them and it increases the damage output of your ally by as much as 20% for 5 seconds. It is also a way for you to escape since it stops the target in it tracks for 1 second. Very helpful when in duo lane to help increase your allies damage output. Attach to your more aggressive teammate since they will need the health regeneration after engaging. If you attach to a more passive partner, you have to be the instigator which can cause issues.
I max this out 3rd.
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Kiss
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This move is useful for both you and your soulmate ally. When attached, you can blast away enemy gods that are nearby you and your soulmate simultaneously slowing whoever is hit down by 25% for 2 seconds. This can be helpful to both them and yourself to get away from an attack. You can also use it to push the target further away from their safe side. However, it can also backfire because it could knock away enemies that your soulmate is attacking, screwing things up.
I max this second as it is her 2nd main damage ability.
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Back Off!
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Love Birds
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This is her main wave clear. When she uses it, doves surround enemies that are caught in the pathway damaging them every .5 seconds for 3 total seconds. This does damage over time so if hit and low enough it can finish them off. The main thing with this ability is the heal. You can heal up to 228 + an additional 90% of your power. So with your power at 500 (just a number), you can gain a base total of 678 HP every 12 Seconds (if no CDR) for you and your soulmate. Which can help you sustain longer as long as you have enough mana to support yourself.
I max this first as it provides healing for you and soulmate and damage to enemies.
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Love Birds
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Undying Love
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This can get you out of sticky situations. Early game it has to be timed well since it is very short in duration but late game, you and your soulmate are invulnerable to damage for 2 seconds when fully upgraded. It also removes crowd control effects when activated. So if caught by
 Ares you can use this to save yourself and you soulmate instead of using  Purification Beads
You can max this in different ways if wanted. The duration is very short in its early levels so it has to be well timed, but also since the duration is so short and the increases are small as well it might be better to prioritize
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Slightly less power than
Shoes of the Magi and no penetration, but it has 10% CDR which is extremely beneficial for her. The mana increase is also vital since she is ability based.
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Replacement / situational items| Warlock's Sash |
Not as much base power as
Book of Thoth but it gives you more health which increases your survivability. This would be ideal for Solo lane if in Conquest. The downside is that it takes forever it seems to build full stacks, but is a very good item still even when not stacked up. It is a tossup between Thoth and Warlocks as both will help you sustain longer. It all depends if you want more Mana or more Health.
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Gives decent power (+50) and some flat penetration (15).The best thing about this item for her is the passive. If you hit someone with
Love Birds, it will trigger the passive which will end up reducing up to 50 magical protections, making this a great team fight item.
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What I like to call the finisher. +125 power, +30 MP5 and a passive that increases magical power even more. A must for most every magical god. You will see a huge increase in damage when this item is purchased
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When fully built, it provides an additional 30 physical and 30 magical protections to go on top of the base 35 protections for a total of 65 magical and physical protections. In addition it gives +250 health and +250 mana, which helps your sustain even more. It does take awhile to get online as it is dependent on killing the other team, but the price is affordable compared to the other dual protection items. Would not recommend for solo lane. Would be better used as an early item and the only protection item as well
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Gives an increase in power, health and movement speed. The passive also provides additional healing and regeneration within your aura. This item is pretty much core for her. Since she has no escape, the additional movement speed is critical for her. Since this item also provides power, her damage output is not hindered as much as well.
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Cheapest CDR item in game. Gives some power and MP5 plus some additional MP5. Solid starter for any role.
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Replacement / situational items Gem of Isolation) and damage (protection reduction items can help both your damage output and that of teammates). Sovereignty / Heartward Amulet / Gauntlet of Thebes, or you can get protection items like Hide of the Urchin and enhance your health via utility items like Rod of Asclepius and Gem of Isolation. Kiss to someone and use Love Birds to heal your soulmate and yourself while helping take out the minion wave.
Watcher's Gift can be nice for sustain, but you may get a bit more use out of Sands of Time for the relatively cheap CDR. Love Birds as soon as possible to help waveclear and possibly outpush the enemy Duo. Help with early rotations in taking/contesting camps, but be very careful with your positioning. You're a squishy god with low-duration CC. Only push if the minion wave is clear and you've got a strong early-game partner. Back Off! and Love Birds. You should generally switch Kiss targets when teammates need healing, so keep an eye on all of your teammates at all times. Don't forget you can also use it to stun enemies and enhance your teammates' damage output. Gem of Isolation can help keep enemies slow and close, while Rod of Asclepius will provide increased healing for teammates, while also giving you added health and move speed for your own survival. Adding protection reduction, either via Void Stone or Spear of the Magus, will greatly enhance your own damage, while also helping any other magical teammates with their damage. Gem of Isolation) and enhanced healing ( Rod of Asclepius). If you don't have teammates that are using stacking items (e.g. 
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Devourer's Gauntlet, etc.), this gives you the opportunity to get Warlock's Sash, which gives you the largest health boost of any item, significantly enhancing her survivability. This option is entirely possible since you are in the solo lane, you can build stacks quicker since you are not sharing minions. Sands of Time is a safe bet for cheap CDR and mana sustain, while Soul Stone is a more aggressive option that will help wave clear, which should be your main focus. Supplement with potions. Spear of the Magus, if you are struggling get a defensive counter item depending on your enemy solo laner. Magical opponent get Void Stone, Physical opponent get Dynasty Plate Helm or Breastplate of Valor then go with penetration. Undying Love use).
Wards are important to help avoid gank attempts, and you should stick close to your tower unless you know exactly where enemies are.8/14- Updated through 4.15. Removed Celestial Legion Helm. Fixed arrows.Added Obsidian Shard
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I see you did a guide for one of my favorite characters in the game.
Allow me to point out some .... core.... mistakes.
1. " Looking at other guides here, there are not to many that go in depth on how to build her or how to play her. " What ? Really ? Disappointed.
2. " Easily countered with Anti-heal items " False. She's one of the best healers againts Anti-Healing, specially with
3. " This passive is meh in my opinion " Literally is one of the best passives
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5. You forgot to mention that if the enemy hit by the soulmate's
6. " Aphrodite is not the most combo orientated god because she does not have the abilities to burst people down to often. " Literally the only reason she's viable in Solo, except her healing, is that she can burst down enemies really fast with
7. " She can become a nearly indestructible tank " Another lie, she can't heal the damage from the enemies, thus causing her to fall. She might have some more health/protection, but it won't be enough to help a teammate. Also, decide if you're going to support the Bruiser Aphro way or the Tanky Aphro way, cuz this guide looks like a big contradiction.
8. Your " build " is nowhere near good enough for the meta atm. I would recommend
9. " As a support, your early game's primary focus is making sure your teammates stay alive. " Yet again, wrong. Early game, your primary focus is to secure farm, so you can get your items and stay relevant. If you keep suiciding to keep your allies safe, you'll get 0 farm, and the enemy team will overpower you.
10. " She won't probably take the tower down by herself. " This shows to me you've never played
11. " You SHOULD NOT push your lane unless you have help from another teammate." Contradiction? If she can hold her own, she CAN AND SHOULD push lane on her own, that's part of why healers are so hated by the smite community. They provide PRESSURE. A good
12. NEVER EVER EVER EVER BUILD STACKS ON
13. "could be very rough early game" No matter the role
Overall, I must say that you need to take a deep breath and take more time into mastering
DISCLOSURE : I sound really hostile BECAUSE this guide just yells in my head minor mistakes that snowballed into the biggest concept mistakes. And it annoys me to see someone so sure that they are giving the best strategy, but they are forgetting or they are ignoring a core concept.
~Prism.
(PS: I'm also not in a good mood, that might've had an impact in my critic.)
(PS²: It wasn't intended for the critic to have 13 reasons, but I'm proud of it XD)
Again, sorry for the hostility.
But now you shifted your pros and cons to the right. Also, to keep things even with lines, maybe a slight reduction to the wording on the first pro: "Incredible heal for yourself and 1 ally"
Oops on the slow...you're right, I was thinking of it on
To clean up the starter section in build 4, I would suggest choosing the one you prefer, and in the title where it says "possible solo starter," rename it to "Starting Items (name of alternate starter if preferred)" or something like that...and just get rid of the other starter list altogether.
Yeah, on
Regarding Warlock's Sash, it's difficult to make up between 300-600 health with other items. I'd consider a protection item like
Consider the total added function of
I'll PM you on gameplay =)
Thought so.
Put
I have yet to actually buy
You could get
Agreed the power difference isn't much, all depends if you want the more health or more mana. If you feel you could supplement additional health with other items, Thoth would work. If not Warlock's all the way.
An alternate to
Another consideration, and I know you like the double pen, but
Your introduction chapter all the way up to your Combos chapter is really great. I don't have much to say on that. However, after that I think you go a bit to bare bones with the spoilers.
Everything from the introduction to the combos is colorful and has those icons creating a nice and attractive look. After that, however, you hide all of that color and those icons behind spoilers.
What I think you could do is the following:
The items section:
Instead of hiding everything in the spoilers, I think it'd be better to split your tables up. Take the core items, and put that table in the main guide's frame. The table of the situational items or the replacement items, you can put those in spoilers. Here's an example (everything in the yellow table:
This way you keep the colorful aspect in the main guide, and immediately bring to light your "main" items, and those who wish can open the spoilers to read up on the situation / replacement items.
The gameplay overview:
I also wouldn't use the spoilers here. I don't think it fits well with your first 3 chapters and, if you change the items chapter to what I suggested, will fall even more out of line.
Instead I would grab all the information in the spoilers, out of the spoilers, and use the kind of layout that I use in my S4 Artemis guide, with your color scheme, of course.
How you decide to transform your information to fit this template is something you'll have to figure out if you do decide to change your gameplay section.
Should you, for whatever reason, not agree with these suggestions, that is entirely possible as each person has other preferences, then please do let me know and perhaps we can figure something out together.
Kind Regards,
~ Zero
I agree with the use of the spoilers. I was more worried with it being so long that it would be a lot of scrolling. I have removed them for now to make it a little nicer to read, until I figure out a way to spruce it up a little more. That section is still a work in progress as well since I have just started out with her so it should be able to be expanded in future guide updates.
I like your idea for the item sections. Might have to use that if you don't mind. The game play part I am still stuck on. I like the way you set up your information in your Artemis guide, but not sure how that would translate over to the different roles she can play. I think I could make it work though after a lot of cussing I am sure haha