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Hi! My name is FootFetish, but my real name is Diego. I was born in Uruguay, a beautiful and humble country in south america. I do dedicate a lot of time into my guides and I love helping people with them. I enjoy singing and I'm studing for it, and I love smite!
Aphrodite has always been my number one. She was my first mastered god, and now I don't play her as often as I used to. But I do know a lot about her and I want to share my knowledge with you!
I don't play smite since 2020 started, but this specific Aphrodite guide it's a guide that i worked on a lot and i just can't let it go. But for my luck, things haven't changed a lot for her since the last patch where this was updated. So let's get into it and share your doubts or let me know any mistake in the comments!
Also, before getting into the guide, beware that 
Aphrodite is a very controversial god. Maining Aphrodite brought me a lot of problems such as people abandoning games because allegedly aphrodite sucks [which is not 100% false], people going AFK because it's your fault, even "being gay" (?) or being always yelled at and reported for missing opportunities, abilities and more. All of this is because Aphrodite is mostly played incorrectly. She has a very strange/hard style of play, and all your abilities are lifesaving for you and your teammates. So pay attention to all details carefully to have a more peaceful life.
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Aphrodite guide! I hope you enjoy it and i hope this guide is useful for ya. Now let's get into it!
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Health: 448 (+68) Mana: 283 (+43) Movement speed: 355 (+0) Range: 55 (+0) Basic attack speed: 0.88 (+0.95%) Basic attack damage: 33 (+1.45) +20% of Magical Power Progression: None Magical protection 31 (+0.9) Physical protection 12 (+2.7) HP5 6.45 (+0.45) MP5 5.21 (+0.41) |
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PASSIVECenter of Attention
Ability Type: Buff Aphrodite gains 4 Physical Protections and 4 Magical Protections for each friendly and enemy god within 70 units of her. Stacks up to nine times. |
FIRST ABILITYKiss
Ability Type: Proyectile 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 Stunned and Aphrodite's soul mate gets jealous, increasing their damage. 70% of her all Mana regenerated is granted to her soul mate. Stun duration: 1s. Jealousy damage increase: 8%/11%/14%/17%/20%. Movement speed increase: 8%/11%/14%/17%/20%. Cooldown: 16 / 15 / 14 / 13 / 12s. |
SECOND ABILITYBack Off!
Ability Type: Point Blank (Area) Agitated by all the attention, Aphrodite commands enemies to get away from her, doing damage around her, slowing enemies, 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 and slow. If an enemy would be hit by both blasts, they will only be affected by the one originating from Aphrodite. Damage: 80/140/200/260/320 (+80% of your magical power). Slow: 25% at all ranks. Cooldown: 12s at all ranks. |
THIRD ABILITYLove Birds
Ability Type: Line, Heal 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 0.5s for 3s. Aphrodite and her soul mate also receive healing when cast. Damage per tick: 15/25/35/45/55 (+15% of your magical power). Damage (Total): 90 / 150 / 210 / 270 / 330 (+90% of your Magical Power). Healing per Tick: 10 / 17 / 24 / 31 / 38 (+12.5% of your Magical Power). Healing (Total): 60 / 102 / 144 / 186 / 228 (+75% of your Magical Power). Cooldown: 12s at all ranks. |
ULTIMATE ABILITYUndying Love
Ability Type: Buff Aphrodite pledges undying love to herself and her Soul Mate. While this is active, her and her Soul Mate are invulnerable to all damage for a short duration. All crowd control effects are also removed when activated. Invulnerability Duration: .8 / 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.7 / 2s. Cooldown: 90/85/80/75/70s. |
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Aphrodite counter. These gods have antiheal included in their kits, so when they hit you with their damaging abilities, if they have Brawlers beat stick or Divine Ruin they will boost the antiheal effect to 90% (or 100%)
Purification Beads, Undying Love or healing with a reduced ammount. There is nothing you can do about it more than that, or avoiding the abilities. Aphrodite. Applying a 40% healing reduction for 8 seconds, Aphrodite will heal almost 1/2 of what she should be healing. It is still a good ammount of healing, but this debuff is really dangerous.
Rod of Asclepius, though. It gives you a 15% healing increase, which can somehow be useful, but its not a direct solution. (You will be healing for the normal ammount of healing + an additional 15% - 40% from antiheal effects)
Rod of Asclepius, though. It gives you a 15% healing increase, which can somehow be useful, but its not a direct solution. (You will be healing for the normal ammount of healing + an additional 15% - 40% from antiheal effects)
Cursed Ankh is not any popular relic this season. Its not bad, but its not your best options since you're replacing other cool buffs and debuffs for an item with a situational use. It is still, inside the pool of Aphrodite counters. It grants 50% healing reduction, and a 20% damage increase to all enemies if you heal while this is active (it deletes 20% of your protections for explaining it in an easy way).
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And that's all! Let me see what you think about my guide. This took me a whole week to write, noice.
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Also you still haven't fixed your 2nd support build. An easy solution would be get genji's third instead of breastplate, and get Gauntlet of Thebes 4th (which is also getting buffed next patch).
and i oop-
Also in your 2nd solo build, you mention swapping pestilence for breastplate, thing is breastplate + genji's + spirit robe is 40% CDR, and as I mentioned the potion earlier (and solo lane you can get blue buff which gives 10% CDR), you only need 30% CDR max in your build.
But yeah i'm kinda stupid since i apparently don't see a difference between 40 and 50
The first Solo build looks fine to me overall, but the 2nd build (against magical/healer) doesn't balance CDR and protections well enough for my liking. In the first 4 items, 2 are magical protection, which means you're ignoring the likely need for physical protection as well against a physical jungler, or when you start rotating and encountering other physical enemies, etc. And that is perhaps too strong of a commitment to anti-heal and pen.
Note that when the Mid-Season patch hits, if you wanted a defensive anti-heal item, the new one,
Rather than just showing 2 builds, I think adding in situational items to consider would be helpful. Depending on the situation,
The Mid build layout is definitely more organized in terms of what I was talking about above.
For the example build though, I would personally get rid of
I definitely wouldn't commit so many damage / pen items to
For Support, I like that you're actually building Supporty, rather than some of the others, but I think in the first example build, there's an over-commitment to aura items, at the expense of more CDR/utility. Guardian to Focus to Thebes (OR Sov OR Heart) would be fine, depending on situation, but after that, I would probably want to commit more to some form of CDR/mana sustain. So, for example...
- Standard 3 phys / 2 mag enemy team comp: Focus, Thebes, BoV.
- 3 mag / 2 phys: Focus, Thebes, Genji
- 3 phys (2 phys duo lane): Focus, Sov, situational (consider Lotus, Asclep, maybe even Spirit)
- 3 mag (2 mag duo lane): Focus, Heart or Genji, situational
One thing you need to ALWAYS keep in mind is a way for you to have strong mana sustain. You need to build in enough base mana, or make sure you have at least 40 MP5 so you don't run out as you're keeping your team alive with constant heals, switching targets withIn pros and cons, you state she has good burst. I would completely take that off. Her only burst is from
I don't think sacrificing 2 seconds of cooldown reduction in each ability for a potion is a good invertion at all (Mostly since she needs full cooldown reduction ASAP so she can start kissing enemies without any worry, and have her ultimate most of the possible time up).
Yes, you can get
More even, as
When you go for an item with CDR, you're probably missing out on another stat that might be more beneficial. Overloading on any one stat usually means you're losing efficiency as well.
Remember, if you're not using your abilities immediately on cooldown, you're losing efficiency for every extra second it's not used. And you have other options for possible increase in CDR anyway, not just with replacement items for Shoes, but also if you end up passing by a mana buff, or it's late game and you do decide you would like a
I'm not saying having 40% CDR all from items is a terrible thing. It's nice because it gives you reliable max CDR. But I feel that if you itemize that strongly into CDR, you're really losing out on something that will probably benefit you more.
Example scenario: you've destroyed enemy Phoenixes but enemy hasn't destroyed your Phoenixes.
Well... That has a full explanation i think.
Aphrodite's kit is really support-ish, no matter in what lane you are. If you are from behind with for example
Now, if you get ganked in the early game by (idk, for example)
Also, yeah.. I'm still learning a lot of english. I thought "burst" was just the capability of doing a lot of damage, either way over time or not. But thanks for your long feedback, i'll try to correct ASAP
Solo Build 1: Urchin third item is not... ideal (especially on Aphro, like are you sure you're going to dominate that much that the pickup third would be fine?). Would prioritise it after void stone (or maybe even lotus crown). Also could consider pen boots since you're getting breastplate second. Iso for boots replacement is fine.
Solo Build 2: pen boots into pestilence into divine. Why not CDR boots? You're going to suffer early mana issues anyway but cdr boots would make it better. I would swap Genji's for lotus crown since you have no physical defense until 5th item, and it's spirit robe which only has 40 phys prots which is just bad. Swap genji's for lotus crown, then get spirit robe, and last item you can get genji's/mantle. So CDR boots, pestilence, divine, lotus, spirit robe, genji's/mantle. Void Stone for boots replacement is fine.
Support Build: Don't know why you're trying to build her like a guardian save for the Chronos' pendant (which itself - why is this in a support build???). Consider swapping heartward for genji's, and sov for lotus crown. Thebes second might not be ideal on Aphro either since her early lane phase is rough in support. Suggested example build: cdr boots, lotus, genji's, thebes, shield of regrowth (or winged blade, or situational) , mantle of discord (or spirit robe or situational). Sell boots for Gem of iso or alternative.
Mid Build: Fine, but you could consider a Book of Thoth route if you want to itemise into
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No more of these comments. I seem to have to keep repeating myself.
I do feel in the Supp build that in place of Sov, BoV might be a better option at least in that build order with Thebes 2nd. Could allow you to get Reinforced or Traveler's for different shoes utility function. Of course, you wouldn't then get Chronos' later in the build, but I think that's actually fine for a Support function...instead, get some additional CDR from Shield of Regrowth
In the Mid build, a bit too squishy IMO. Would think at least one protection item would be helpful.
Also, instead of a single build, I feel a build example should be provided, along with a listing of situational items to consider.
The writeup is fine. Covers general strat well, identifies her weaknesses and how to cover for that, with positioning, warding, etc.
I don't see the thing in getting defense as a mid laner. if you're getting deeply focused then yes, mage's cloak or
yeah, i wanted to cover all the aphrodite aspects :) she was never really meta, but in this season 6 she's getting a little more stronger! and you should ward in every god really.
thanks for reading my guide!
That said, outside of combat, the power will help get people back in the fight more quickly.
Being Aphro usually automatically means you're forcing the enemy to build anti-heal. If you don't, you get the last laugh for them being stupid, but when they do (as they should), this just means you want to figure out ways in which you can still be useful even with your healing nerfed.
Hello. I see theperfectprism already commented on your guide. He is one of our aphrodite experts.
I also recommend talking to Vini since he's played a good amount of Aphrodite as well
The only thing that Pris and I have different opinions on is about Lotus Crown/
With the fact you can now continue building past 6 items (significantly added cost including
In addition, although when you play Solo you should have that buff for the laning phase, you're not necessarily going to have it for the majority of the rest of the game.
Having CDR capped by items isn't directly an awful idea. It provides consistent CDR that never goes away.
However, i will add that certain items to max cdr aren't good together.
Ex: BoV and chronos pendant together.
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- I personally never liked the idea of Lotus Crown on her, and there are better items you could put here (
I agree with your mid build, but I would put
Now for a personal question from aphro main to aphro main. I've been trying
EDIT: I would actually take
Well, i'm really new here so idk how to get all those item and god codes oh jeez.
but i can tell you that celestial legion helm has never been an interesting pick for me, i really don't understand the passive (Removes protections when it takes damage? wut)
Lotus crown is ehh... cool, i mean she can't proc it as other gods can, but she can make a fair use of it with the mp5 and the protections are always useful! you can get other utility items, like winged blade or stuff.. meh.
yeah, you can allow yourself and get damage, since if you don't get any penetration (Magus is perfect) the lane will be boring as hell and your lategame potential will be ruined.
Aaaand yes, when i feel lucky i do play with warrior's blessing, i've even used guardian's blessing, but just in certain games, i really do like the mp5 on mage's blessing but that is something that grew up in me, warriors blessing is perfect!
And yes, gem of isolation is a good item now with the back off they wouldn't be able to even move, but thanks for the support! (wink)
will transition into:
Anyway!
YES,
The passive for
No problem sis (wink)
i'll see if that works lol
Well in that case you can get
In a long sustained fight breastplate will mitigate more however won;t increase your damage as much, which CLH will give you.
During short trades/poking it excels or when an assassin comes around that relies on his abilities
First of all, I don't think aphro can be a support, she doesn't have everything a support needs, but if I would do it, I'd mix damage and defenses (bruiser) I would build:
You're right, she doesn't. Only a 1 sec stun with
I don't know why the community resists so much to the idea that mages can be supports just as well as guardians/warriors, especially when we have ASSASSINS being supports in the current meta.
I am not resisting to the idea of mages being supports, I'm resisting the idea of Aphrodite Support.
Her kit already works for the support role, and she's a mage, not a guardian. It's the same thing to ask for Ne Zha's kit to be more supportive.
Some players are too dumb to properly build and it can happen with any god in any role. This fact doesn't rule out Aphro's viability as a support. As a matter of fact, if Aphro got recognized more as a support, people would actually learn how to build her properly for this role.
I already met support Aphros that followed an acceptable support build path, and they did their job like any other guardian would. The same way that I met people building full damage guardians and not doing their job. Should I also rule out Ymir, Cabrakan and Jorm as supports, since I saw people going full damage on them while in the support role?
Well, then you're just being subborn.
No it's not because absolutely nobody resists to the idea of
Well, all of your options are working better outside the support role. I would rather have all the options as solo laners than supports :p
Well, maybe, but my opinion stay the same:
Plus, my following comment says all my thoughts in some few words.
First of all, I don't think aphro can be a GOOD support, she doesn't have everything a GOOD support needs.
The build is because aphrodite support altough not being very effective in some cases, it can work decently.
aaand i don't think ra can be support. neither can chang'e be. aphrodite and hel are understandable, but chang'e has directly no cc, only in her ultimate. and Ra might be better than chang'e, but still bad.
She's got a short stun. A small knockback with slow. Aegis + Beads in her ult. Increased MS and damage increase. Stacking protections (16 of each in early Duo lane, which is NOT BAD). And of course a significant heal, now with only 12s base CD.
If you do this in Duo, she doesn't have the same AOE control as some other Guardians, or individual control of the aforementioned Ne Zha/Serq, so maybe you have to consider balancing with certain gods in other roles. Instead of a pure damage mid or jungle, a god that typically builds bruiser with some good CC function, perhaps. Paired with a hunter who has some good CC of their own. Things like that.
And for that Duo, you change focus. It's more aggressive poke but perhaps with less purpose in killing early, but doing enough damage to force them back, while you get to heal up easily. Outlast, out-farm, get ahead.
I'm not saying Aphro is now a great Support...but saying she can't support given a proper playstyle and appropriate comp is, no offense here, uninspired and repetitive.
There-in lies the crux of the matter. Sure, any character can be played in any role, but not every player can play any character in any role. I don't want to harp on the
That's exactly the point, Bran! I'm not saying that Aphro is the best support in the game (she CLEARLY isn't lol), but the fact that people doesn't even consider her as a support (even with pro players like EmilZy and Hi-Rez itself saying that Aphro can be played as a support) is what bothers me the most.
She's probably a B+/A tier support, but is viable as a support nonetheless. The team comp needs some adjustments (a more CC focused jungler/solo), but she does the job just fine. Her laning phase in duo is solid and in teamfights she can keep an hypercarry alive through anyting. Out of combat healing is also very strong.
With my build you get 55 from boots + 60 from legion and a very good defense against the ADC and JG (if physical) and + 20 from