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The healing machine - Aphrodite - Full guide - Conquest solo lane

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by TopNoobEU updated July 1, 2015

Smite God: Aphrodite

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Aphrodite Build

Starting items #1

Build Item Vampiric Shroud Vampiric Shroud
Build Item Uncommon Staff Uncommon Staff

Core items

Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Rod of Asclepius Rod of Asclepius

Situationals

Build Item Lotus Sickle Lotus Sickle
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Book of Thoth Book of Thoth
Build Item Shoes of the Magi Shoes of the Magi
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Obsidian Shard Obsidian Shard
Build Item Winged Blade Winged Blade
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece

Possible Final Build #1

Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Rod of Asclepius Rod of Asclepius
Build Item Spear of the Magus Spear of the Magus
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Possible Final Build #2

Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Shoes of the Magi Shoes of the Magi
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Rod of Asclepius Rod of Asclepius
Build Item Winged Blade Winged Blade
Build Item Rod of Tahuti Rod of Tahuti

Actives

Build Item Greater Purification Greater Purification
Build Item Weakening Curse Weakening Curse
Build Item Aegis Pendant Aegis Pendant
Build Item Heavenly Agility Heavenly Agility
Build Item Shielded Teleport Shielded Teleport

Aphrodite's Skill Order

Kiss

1 X Y
Kiss
2 15 16 18 19

Back Off!

2 A B
Back Off!
4 8 11 12 14

Love Birds

3 B A
Love Birds
1 3 6 7 10

Undying Love

4 Y X
Undying Love
5 9 13 17 20
Kiss
2 15 16 18 19

Kiss

1 X
Aphrodite blows a kiss to an allied god, making them her soul mate and giving them both increased movement speed. If it hits an ally, it has a reduced 1s cooldown. If the kiss hits an enemy god, they are Damaged, Stunned and Aphrodite's soul mate gets jealous, increasing their damage. Also, Aphrodite's soul mate gains 50% of her MP5 and 10% of her Physical and Magical Protections.

Ability Type: Line, Buff
Damage: 40/60/80/100/120) (+25% of your Magical Power)
Movement Speed: 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10%
Stun Duration: 1s
Jealousy Damage Increase: 5 / 7.5 / 10 / 12.5 / 15%
Jealousy Duration: 5s
Cost: 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70
Cooldown: 14 / 13.5 / 13 / 12.5 / 12s
Back Off!
4 8 11 12 14

Back Off!

2 A
Agitated by all the attention, Aphrodite commands enemies to get away from her, doing damage around her, slowing them by 25% for 2s and knocking them back to 25 units from her.

If Aphrodite has a soul mate, an explosion originates on them in addition, dealing the same damage as well as slowing enemies.

If an enemy would be hit by both blasts, they will only be affected by the one originating from Aphrodite.

Ability Type: Circle, Knockback, Damage
Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+85% of your Magical Power)
Damage (Soulmate): 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320 (+70% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 25%
Radius: 20
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 12s
Love Birds
1 3 6 7 10

Love Birds

3 B
Aphrodite calls forth a flock of beautiful doves that fly forward in the area in front of her. The doves circle around all enemies in the path, damaging enemies every .5s for 3s. Aphrodite and her soul mate also receive healing when cast and decreased ability cooldowns.

Ability Type: Line, Heal, Damage
Damage per Tick: 15 / 25 / 35 / 45 / 55 (+15% of your Magical Power)
Heal per Tick: 7 / 10 / 13 / 16 / 19 + 2 per Level
Cooldown Decrease: 0.2s per Tick
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 16s
Undying Love
5 9 13 17 20

Undying Love

4 Y
Aphrodite pledges undying love to herself and her Soul Mate. While this is active, she and her Soul Mate are invulnerable to all damage and gain the Jealousy effect for a short duration. All Crowd Control effects are also removed when activated.

Ability Type: Buff
Invulnerability Duration: .8 / 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2s
Cost: 100
Cooldown: 90s

Introduction

Hello everyone,
This is my first guide here, and it'll be about my favourite goddess Aphrodite.

Aphrodite is a great mage, with great sustain, due to her healing and can also do some great damage to squishy targets.

In this guide I'll focus in the solo lane, even though you can also take Aphrodite to the mid lane or even as a support.

About me

Hi everyone, my in game name is WhoCaresXD, and I main Aphrodite. I also like gods like Awilix and Chaac.

My current stats with Aphrodite are (loading sreen): 2271 kills 5591 assists 298 wins.

I'm from Portugal, and I'm a smite addicted.

Oh and also English is not my main language so feel free to correct me in the comments. :D

Pros / Cons

Here I'll be talking about Aphrodite's pro and cons


Pros

- Very high sustain with heal
- Can do very high damage
- Has a pretty good wave clear

Cons

- Has to be near the target to use Back Off!
- Squishy if you build no defensive item
- Healing is easily countered
- Damage is very easily avoidable

Items

So, here I'll be talking about the items I've put above in my build and say why they are good on Aphrodite. Also one thing you might notice is that you will ALWAYS want your cooldown reduction to be 35-40% since you will be able to heal more often. Here I'll show you some ways of getting cooldown reduction while being a little tanky or doing a lot of damage.

STARTERS


Click here to see what my starter items are


CORE



Click here to see which items I consider being the most important


SITUATIONALS



Click here to see which items you might consider having



ACTIVES



click here to see what actives I consider fitting Aphro the best


Who needs defense anyway build



Click here to see the reason behind that build

Skills

Here I'm going to be talking about Aphrodite's skills


ABILITIES



Loving Embrace Passive Loving Embrace

Aphrodite's passive is that it gives her soul mate (the one she is linked with) 30% of all the mana she gains.

click here to find out more about her passive


First Ability

Kiss is the ability that makes Aphrodite different from other healers like Hel. Hel can heal everyone in her heal radius making her an aoe healer, but Aphrodite, needs to Kiss someone before she uses her Love Birds to heal someone or she will be the only one healed.

click here to see more about her first ability


Second Ability

Aphrodite's second ability is Back Off!, and it does damage to all enemies in Aphrodite's range, knocking them away from her and slowing them for 25% for 2secs.

click here to see more about her second ability


Third Ability

Love Birds is the heart of Aphrodite. This is the ability that allows her to heal herself (if she isn't linked with anyone) or her teammates, and also do some decent damage.

click here to see the cons of her third ability


Forth Ability
click here to see something about her ult!


COMBOS



Now time for some Combos

Simple Combo


Click here to find out about the Simple Combo


RETREAT! combo (against melee gods)
icon=Kiss size=50

Click here to find out about the RETREAT! Combo


HEAL HEAL HEAL combo (complex combo)



Click here to find out more about this complex combo


This concludes our Skills section

Match-ups

Now in this section I'll give you a brief idea which goods counter/get countered by Aphrodite and why


EASY



Anubis

Click here to see why Aphrodite has an easy match-up against Anubis


Cabrakan

Click here to see why Aphrodite has an easy match-up against Cabrakan


Guan Yu

Click here to see why Aphrodite has an easy match-up against Guan Yu


Loki

Click here to see why Aphrodite has an easy match-up against Loki


MEDIUM

Here are some gods I consider medium difficulty to go against in lane.

HEL

Click here to see why Aphrodite has a medium difficulty match-up against Hel


Odin

Click here to see why Aphrodite has a medium difficulty match-up against Odin


Hercules

Click here to see why Aphrodite has a medium difficulty match-up against Hercules


TYR

Click here to see why Aphrodite has a medium difficulty match-up against Tyr


HARD

Here are some gods you will want to avoid.

Chang'e

Click here to see why Aphrodite has a hard match up against Chang'e


Bakasura

Click here to see why Aphrodite has a hard match up against Bakasura

Items that counter aphro

Here are the items that counter Aphrodite:




This is a physical god item, that reduces your heals by 40% when hit by a basic attack.

Note: This item doesn't stack heal reduction with Divine Ruin

Click here to see how much this item hurts aphro




This item does the same thing Brawler's Beat Stick, except that it is a magical item that procs when mages hit you with an ability.

Not going to do an example for this one, since it's the same heal reduction as Brawler's Beat Stick.



This item reduces the healing, but only when the person is on the range of the person who has it.

This is an item that you shouldn't worry about as much as Brawler's Beat Stick or Divine.

See on the example why.

click here to see the example




This active basically disables your heal while also slowing you by 40% for 5secs.

5 seconds without healing in a team fight is most likely a dead so you should always remove the effect from this active by using Greater Purification or even your ult Undying Love.

Tips/Tricks

Here are some tips and tricks when playing Aphrodite:

- Always be linked with someone with your Kiss. It makes you and your soulmate faster.

- Never be alone. Aphrodite being alone is not always going to end well in late game, just stick with your team.

- Don't rush using Undying Love. Save it to when someone is ulting you or your teammates.

- Always buy Greater Purification. It gives you not only cc immunity but also cooldown reduction.

- Always buy wards. Since Aphrodite has no escapes, it's always good to know if the enemy jungler is coming to gank you.

Summary

This concludes my guide, hope you enjoyed it, it took me quite a bit of time writing all that.

Thanks for reading.

Feedback always appreciated.

Let me know if you want me to add more sections :)

Change log

13/04/2015


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SmartDumbAzz | September 9, 2015 9:55pm
Great guide but one question. Why no Divine Ruin as a counter against other healers? You mention Hercules as: "so he's pretty much immortal against you" but Divine Ruin will counter him quite nicely.
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Covertactician (4) | July 1, 2015 1:29pm
Covertactician wrote:

So my main question about this guide, is why Rod of Asclepius? You mention how the passive is really good, but is it? Have you done the maths around how much extra healing it gives?

Lets say you have got all of your core items. With warlocks fully stacked, you have 290 power. 15% of this contributes to your healing. That's 43.5 ontop of your 38 base scaling. So your heal does 81.5 per .5 right now. With Rod your healing increases by 15%, meaning you get an extra 8.15 per tick. That's an extra 51 health... OVERALL.

The passive is useless, you're better off getting winged wand as it offers Movement speed, cooldown, and it makes you hard to pin down.


Ontop of which allows you to get Penetration boots, which is really strong right now.
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Covertactician (4) | July 1, 2015 1:27pm
So my main question about this guide, is why Rod of Asclepius? You mention how the passive is really good, but is it? Have you done the maths around how much extra healing it gives?

Lets say you have got all of your core items. With warlocks fully stacked, you have 290 power. 15% of this contributes to your healing. That's 43.5 ontop of your 38 base scaling. So your heal does 81.5 per .5 right now. With Rod your healing increases by 15%, meaning you get an extra 12.225 per tick. That's an extra 73.35 health... OVERALL.

The passive is useless, you're better off getting winged wand as it offers Movement speed, cooldown, and it makes you hard to pin down.
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TopNoobEU | April 30, 2015 2:25pm
ThePerfectPrism wrote:

I noticed the guide updated ... care to tell what you added ? ^^



Just some minor adjustments, also looking to see if my guide gets a little more attention :D
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ThePerfectPrism (56) | April 28, 2015 6:15pm
I noticed the guide updated ... care to tell what you added ? ^^
1
TopNoobEU | April 15, 2015 1:51pm
ThePerfectPrism wrote:

Omg ... I just found my own soulmate !

Aphro is also my main god, mainly play her on Support/Solo ( Play more solo chang tho ) and I must say ... You build EXACTLY ( the order is diffent, but still ) how I build her for support and solo. I don't think people should build protections on aphro, so, when I saw this guide I was like :" Well ... let's see the procs and be mad " * Sees main build " " Oh ... My ... Gods ! " XD

Nice job ... but I'm no position to say that ... my starts are lesser then yours -q

But I play with aphro since before the beta so yeah ...

Congratz on this amazing guide ^_^

~Prism


Wow thanks for your feedback, glad to see other people who main aphro approving my guild :)
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ThePerfectPrism (56) | April 14, 2015 4:56pm
Omg ... I just found my own soulmate !

Aphro is also my main god, mainly play her on Support/Solo ( Play more solo chang tho ) and I must say ... You build EXACTLY ( the order is diffent, but still ) how I build her for support and solo. I don't think people should build protections on aphro, so, when I saw this guide I was like :" Well ... let's see the procs and be mad " * Sees main build " " Oh ... My ... Gods ! " XD

Nice job ... but I'm no position to say that ... my starts are lesser then yours -q

But I play with aphro since before the beta so yeah ...

Congratz on this amazing guide ^_^

~Prism
1
TopNoobEU | April 14, 2015 2:59pm
TozFiOmek wrote:

Good Work with the Guide Buddy. Once again a great guide ;)


Thanks for your feedback appreciate it :)
1
TozFiOmek | April 14, 2015 2:31pm
Good Work with the Guide Buddy. Once again a great guide ;)
1
TopNoobEU | April 14, 2015 6:55am
Zilby wrote:

For someone named TopNoob you made one hell of a guide. Great sections, details, matchups, combos, items, it's all there!

I only have one bit of criticism and that's in regards to the item build. If you intend to do any damage at all late game you MUST build a penetration item. I noticed that this wasn't made a requirement, but it really should be. Just from the way damage is calculated in Smite, penetration is a huge factor that cannot be ignored. The general base magical protections for gods is 30. Most gods will also have this scale with their level. Just having 50 protections reduces incoming damage by thirty three%.

On Aphro, I'd highly recommend using Spear of the Magus in your build. It will bypass 35 protections +20% of the remaining protections, which will allow you to attack both bulky and squishy gods more effectively. Its passive is also very easily proc'd by Love Birds since it hits 6 times in rapid succession giving the full penetration to the last 4 hits.

Overall though, very impressive guide. +1 from me

Thanks for your feedback. Will take care of that, thanks for pointing out.
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Zilby (132) | April 13, 2015 4:14pm
For someone named TopNoob you made one hell of a guide. Great sections, details, matchups, combos, items, it's all there!

I only have one bit of criticism and that's in regards to the item build. If you intend to do any damage at all late game you MUST build a penetration item. I noticed that this wasn't made a requirement, but it really should be. Just from the way damage is calculated in Smite, penetration is a huge factor that cannot be ignored. The general base magical protections for gods is 30. Most gods will also have this scale with their level. Just having 50 protections reduces incoming damage by thirty three%.

On Aphro, I'd highly recommend using Spear of the Magus in your build. It will bypass 35 protections +20% of the remaining protections, which will allow you to attack both bulky and squishy gods more effectively. Its passive is also very easily proc'd by Love Birds since it hits 6 times in rapid succession giving the full penetration to the last 4 hits.

Overall though, very impressive guide. +1 from me
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