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Watcher's Gift
Mana Potion
Cloak of Meditation
Shoes of Focus
Chronos' Pendant
Rod of Tahuti
Rod of Asclepius
Cloak of Meditation
Gem of Isolation
Hide of Leviathan
Void Stone
Wall of Absolution
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Sobek.
Watcher's Gift
Eye of Providence
Shoes of Focus
Boots of Celerity and Midas' Boots simply do not compare, as the cooldown reduction has been removed from Celerity and the price of Midas' Boots make them simply a waste of gold.
Chronos' Pendant
Rod of Tahuti
Rod of Asclepius
Ra or 
Guan Yu. With a full build, this provides a little over 15 additional healing per tick of your Love Birds. This is equivalent to 100 magic power. In addition to this, the 75 magic power provided is not a small amount, and as such this item greatly increases the strength of your heal. The second reason that this item is a great choice is the 10% movement speed bonus provided. Along with Aphrodite's already great movement speed due to the passive benefit of her Kiss, this allows you to evade enemy attacks with greater ease and prolongs your life through greater mobility and ease of positioning. It will also increase your chasing and fleeing capabilities for obvious reasons.
Hide of Leviathan
Gem of Isolation Love Birds to slow. 25% may not seem like a great deal, but consider this. The slow is reapplied with every tick of damage. That's 5 seconds of a 25% slow. This item is a must have.
Wall of Absolution
Void Stone
Kiss before you are under any real threat.
Love Birds will heal your soul mate as well as yourself. Secondly, it has offensive capabilities. When not aimed at a friendly, kiss becomes a projectile stun which, upon connecting, provides your soul mate with a large damage buff, up to 20% at rank 5. Using kiss to stun does not break your link to your soul mate.
Kiss to run in front of fleeing enemy gods and push them back into your soul mate, or team in general, condemning them to certain death.
Arachne. When running, if you knock the enemy back with back off then stun them with kiss you should have plenty of time to escape.
Aegis Amulet it has none of it's limitations. You and your soul mate can attack, cast spells and move during the duration, allowing you to safely tower dive, run out of 
Hades' ult and even prevent 
Ares' ult as a normal aegis would. Boots of Celerity and Chronos' Pendant quickly secure, at rank 5 this spell has a mere 45 second cooldown. This is great as it allows you to use it extreme frequently, making you and your soul mate both extremely hard to bring down and extremely dangerous to the enemy team, as situations that would usually be suicide can be chanced with Aphrodite's ult, particularly as it can be activated while stunned, breaking the stun in question immediately.
Jungling is not something you should be doing as Aphrodite, although you may take a camp before moving into lane, as is fairly typical at the moment, however I will cover which buffs you should take and which you should leave to your soul mate.
Sun Wukong, as it allows you to keep up with them. This buff is not always yours, however, and whether you or your soul mate takes it will be down to a judgement call at the moment.
Love Birds to allow your partner easier last hits. Do not attempt to take last hits unless your partner has no chance of taking them, as every little bit of gold counts. Remain bound to your partner at all times and use your Kiss to deny aggression, such as by stunning an incoming 
Ymir or a Hades just after his burrow but just before his AoE. Chronos' Pendant, ensure that you make use of your Mana Potions, and return to retake mana buff whenever it respawns. If you are struggling to maintain your mana, considered backing early to pick up meditation, as it will cost a mere 250 gold. Love Birds is to heal yourself and your soul mate. However, as the heal will take place regardless of where you aim, it is important to make the most of this spell, and your mana. While laning, aim to hit as many hostile targets as possible. Position yourself so that you can damage an entire minion wave as well as putting down some light harass on the enemy gods. Kiss. Whenever an enemy steps out of position, attempt to stun them - assuming your partner is in the vicinity. If your soul mate decides to take the oppurtunity then you should drop your Love Birds over the enemy god to help sustain your partner throughout the fight, as well as dealing some additional damage to your target. Back Off! to help contribute to your soul mate's initial burst of damage, as well as pushing the enemy enemy god into a worse situation to help prevent their escape. Be careful when using this spell on low health enemies, as you should try to avoid stealing kills unless it is absolutely necessary to ensure that they die, such as if 
Thor has just thrown his hammer and is about to teleport. One use of Back Off! is when you are escaping it can be used as a knockback to aid in your escape, or it can be used if an enemy god is attacking your partner and you want to put distance between your soul mate and the enemy. In this situation, it's knock back can be used to help your partner kite or escape the enemy, or it can simply contribute to the damage output of your partner. Kiss to stretch the furthest, and it will help them to survive the inevitable focus fire they will receive, being the biggest threat on your team. Kiss on a friendly god does not put it on cooldown, and as such you can quickly switch from god to god in order to heal other people. However, be careful not to miss, or use Kiss offensively, when you are attached to the wrong person, as this will prevent you from supporting your partner for the next 10 seconds or so. This could be fatal. Love Birds every time it is off cooldown, as during a fight there will always be incoming damage, and as such you should be putting out as much healing as possible. Good use of Kiss offensively to stun dangerous enemies or catch out vulnerable ones can greatly help your team and a well placed Undying Love can save a life or turn around a fight. Back Off! in team fights to cause the maximum disruption and damage to the enemy team. You can use it to interrupt the casting of enemies with heavily telegraphed attacks, such as Ymir's freeze or 
Hercules' ultimate. This can prevent a lot of incoming damage and rescue team mates who would be caught out of position. If you have missed your opportunity to interrupt important spells, use Back Off! to draw attention to yourself, keep yourself alive, or help burst down squishy enemies. Drawing attention to yourself may at first seem foolish, but you must consider that if you are not being damaged then half of your Love Birds' healing is wasted, so if you can ensure at least some damage is absorbed and healed by you, do so.
I have tried and tested each of these combinations and found all of them to be good choices, both theoretically and practically. These are made under my firm belief that lanes ought to contain both a magical character and a physical character, and that carries are the best characters to work alongside Aphrodite.
Enfeeble
Shifting Sands
Impale
Disperse
Desert Fury Disperse. Successful use of Kiss will make it far easier for Anhur to land his Shifting Sands and Impale combo, as well as greatly increase the damage done by Impale, allowing this lane to easily take first blood and proceed to dominate the lane. More to this combination's credit, it scales well into late game as the Anhur can easily become fed quickly and greatly benefits from it.
Broken Weave
Spirit Arrow
Unravel
World Weaver Kiss can remove the posibility of any misses with Spirit Arrow, and enhance the damage of this already very powerful spell. With both Love Birds and Unravel, this lane has so much sustain that your biggest problem will be finding a reason to go back and spend your gold. The capability of 
Back Flip to escape from almost any situation, even 
Odin's ultimate, means that even in a situation where you may die, your Neith can get out without even a scratch. Finally, World Weaver allows this lane to support all of the others and helps Neith to become fed extremely quickly if she manages to catch out most of the enemy gods who would otherwise have escaped on low health. Neith does not scale as well into late game as other physical carries, but with the help of Aphrodite she can become almost unstoppable.
Birds of Wisdom
Lunge
Odin's Shout
Gungnir's Might
Ring of Spears Love Birds can allow him to effectively use Lunge as a poke, to both farm and soften up enemy gods before going for the kill. This will result in either an engagement, which enemies without escapes will regret due to Ring of Spears, or the enemies will back up, allowing your Odin to freely farm and force the enemy lane under their tower. This lane can easily rack up the kills, and the combination of a tanky character with a healer is extremely durable, yet this lane also has a huge amount of damage potential. The passive of Gungnir's Might provides extra sustain and due to Odin's tanky nature it is easily possible to quickly and safely take jungle buffs, especially Mana Buff, when moving back into lane. A fed Odin is extremely dangerous, and as such this combination can carry very well into late game.
Dead of Night
Branching Bola
Poison Darts
Rising Jaguar
Darkest of Nights Kiss can allow Xbalanque to easily move into range and Darkest of Nights allows this lane to engage, leave lane, or gank with ease. Xbalanque's damage scales well into late game and Aphrodite's increase to his movement speed allows him to supplement his otherwise lacking mobility. The combination of damage over time from Poison Darts and Love Birds provides a very dangerous tool for harassment, and the use of Undying Love and Rising Jaguar makes this combination very much capable of safely tower diving where under normal circumstances it would be inadvisable.
In summary, 
Aphrodite provides three major perks to a lane:
Chronos' Pendant and meditation in hand, your lane will never be lacking mana, and Love Birds will always keep you topped off at full health, providing a significant buffer to any attempted ganks and a clear advantage in engagements in the lane. Kiss can easily catch fleeing foes, boost your soul mate's damage at a crucial moment, aid in escapes, save lives and is the defining factor between a good Aphrodite and a superb one.
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Necro, The guidemaker isnt on this site currently.
Then someone did something dumb.
Great guide to. I was just soul mating tanks, but now I know who to look for.
Quite a guide. I main Aphro (even I didn't see that one coming), so this is what I needed to see. I always suspected it was bad or just not optimal to use Auto-Buy, so I needed good advice on where to start when I turn that off and do things manually. Wasn't really comfortable or brave enough to try it yet, but now I can get started doing things right with some sort of confidence.
I just wrote everything on a piece of paper so I can refer to it in-game. Time for Aphro to be reborn.
Thank you for the guide. +1 Brownie Point.
Add me if you need an Aphro on your team. The Goddess, not the hairstyle.
~AwfulArchdemon
now one question: are the fabulous shoes black and blue or white and gold?
Anyways I finally read through your tactics and found some very good Tips I was missing abd can't wait to try them out. I main Aphrodite in conquest and have mastery 10 diamond skin with her so anyone that wants to conquest with me (or any game mode, though I usually save her for conquest) just add me. My ign is Myzfit.