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The Mana Pots are there to help you stay in lane until you have 2250g to upgrade your Lost Artifact to a chronos' Pendant
This is up to the individual. Each of these having merit with large boost to dps, shield for initiations, and an aoe heal to go along with the buffs that Lotus Crown and Shield of Regrowth give. Its mostly situation dictating and comfort.
Anybody with a brain knows that if a healer pops up in support, anti-heal is a must. And they are right to think that. Aphro especially suffers from this being that her heal is single target. But we’re not here to heal, we’re here to support. While healing will play a factor in this its not solely on your skills merit alone. End game you are responsible for mostly your own health with regards to both Love Birds and lifesteal. With you team however you are more focused on an actual support stance based off aura items, maneuverability, and sustain.
Also healing . . . . .
Wait what?!
Early Game is basically consisted of keeping you and your carry alive and have a nice little farm. Its pretty slow but once you are around level ten if everything goes right you should be just about clearing your lanes tower or in worse case yours is taken down first. Regardless around this time should be the time you start to rotate. Jungle with their speed works really well during the early to mid game transition since your Shield of regrowth will help with map coverage getting them kills and you assists.
BONUS if you have the lotus crown build during said game.
Mid game is where you start to be a bit cheeky. Its around this time that you should be able to move fairly smoothly between lanes while maintaining a bit of durability while patrolling. This is when you start to support your team. No slow push or farm. Nope you are there to make sure nobody dies. Being aggressive can pay off in dividends but make sure you don’t lead your current smoochy smooch to a death trap. You may survive but they have 1 extra kill.
Supposed everything goes well up to this point and you’re now in late game. You are now a HUGE role in your team fights because at this point your purpose isn’t to heal or do damage, its to be annoying. Landing kisses can be a game changed during this phase since your birds are on about a 3-4 second CD giving you a nasty means to not only heal a chunk but to speed and def buff your team. With your speed being near if not at cap getting pinned down is hard especially with smart use of your knockback and shield. If your relics are upgraded at this point even better.
!AND VERY IMPORTANT!
Do not stop casting anything. Period. Mana regen and pool should be enough to offset any team fight at this point.
Being an annoyance is this purpose. Chaotic movements to dodge attacks. Low CD shields. Buffs out the butt. Being a distraction as a normal support should be but doing some dumb healing mechanics woven in.
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They didn't though?
So essentially, follow your jungler around, and force him to split exp from his camps? Isn't that going to make the jungler fall behind??
Rushing Chronos' Pendant on Support Aphrodite? Because not as if she already usually ends up losing lane and feeding?
Overcapping CDR in the first 4 items!?!?
Meditation Cloak on a Healing Support?
No...
You need to answer for your crimes.
In order to cleanse your satanical spirit I have a video formatted version of holy water that attempts to make an actual effort towards making Aphrodite support viable:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1joRk0N8WH0
Did you forget that lifesteal is based on damage? And that this build has no pen, so therefore won't get much out of lifesteal? And you mention yourself that people buy anti-heal which makes me dumbfounded that you even consider Bancroft's Talon on Aphrodite. Oh and the fact that AoE mage abilities only let you lifesteal for 33% of the total amount.
For your own and the benefit of others, please use the following resources to improve your knowledge of Smite:
https://www.smitefire.com/smite/blog/kriega1/online-text-link-for-online-linking
As for another example of what an Aphrodite support build should possibly look like:
https://www.smitefire.com/smite/guide/aphrodite-support-builds-all-modes-s6-21492
I'd get: CDR Boots, lotus, genji's/shoguns (if more than 1 AA-based teammate), thebes, mantle, situational (e.g. Magi's cloak or emperor's armour).
I'm dead.