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Ares, the god of war, was a complex yet popular fixture in the original SMITE. A support god that can nonetheless do great damage, he's well-rounded but with plenty of subtleties you need to master if you want to use him optimally. A perfect subject, then, for a guide!
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Empen9/19/2024
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Quick Ares guide for the beginners out here!
TheMortonMan9/19/2024
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JHenckes9/19/2024
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Ares was always my favorite god in the first smite, and I've really enjoyed most of the changes he's received, so it's going to be really cool to talk about him.
For me, Ares is, and remains, one of the best supports in the game, he manages to bring a very unique control to the lane (especially at the start of the game), trapping enemies, slowing you down, silencing abilities and still doing a lot of damage!
One thing you need to bear in mind when playing Ares is that he has several development paths. It works with both protection and cooldown because of its passive. Ares is focused on magic damage, but that's not usually his focus. Try to give him protection, less cooldown and a lot of resistance, since he also works as a great tank, bringing even more control and dominance to the game.
Let's talk about each of his skills:
Passive (Blessed Presence): Ares gains an aura of strength or intelligence, depending on the character's focus on protection or cooldown, giving the character more status.
Ability 1 (Shackles): Throws a chain at the enemy like a projectile, dealing damage, slowing them down and increasing their attack speed.
Ability 2 (Bolster Defenses): This skill is a buff for you and your allies, providing magical and physical protection as well as increased damage. It's especially useful in team fights.
Ability 3 (Searing Flesh): It's a skill that deals continuous magic damage to enemies in front of you. Personally, I think it's great for helping to advance troops and clear the jungle.
Ultimate (No Escape): This one I love hahaha, it's his most important skill, totally possible to turn a match upside down. It consists of chaining all the gods around you for a few seconds, pulling them towards you, dealing a lot of magic damage and stunning them. Not good enough? What if I told you that you were IMMUNE all the time? Pretty good, huh? Hehe.
After the skills, I'll try to talk a bit about the builds for Ares. The auto-builds are very well done for them, but for those who are already more experienced, you can and should create the builds manually to adapt to each match. As this guide is intended to help people who don't know the character that well, I'm going to focus on talking about auto-builds:
Active Support: It's the best build, since it's going to guarantee that you dominate the duo lane at the start of the game. As Ares is a support character, this build is the one that will most enhance his ADC support role.
Hybrid Tank: This build is an alternative to “active support”, the main difference is that it will enhance the protection aura of the character's passive and allow the character to deal more damage with the ADC in the duo lane
Bruiser: This is already a more risky build and requires even more skill from the player. Because it's a build that values the character's damage, it's used on solo lanes and is great for pressuring the enemy throughout the game, as Ares has great troop clearing and tower pressuring skills.
High Ability Damage: It's the most offensive build to use on Ares. It makes the “Searing Flesh” skill deadly. Like Build Bruiser, this build is also very tricky to play, as any wrong decision is certain death. Ares is very fragile, as his passive isn't as highly valued. Even so, it's a build that can work and is a lot of fun to play!
I believe that knowing this information, you can have a good gameplay with the character. Other things, such as positioning, when to start a team fight and when to attack other lanes, are acquired through training. So focus on practicing! I hope you find this guide useful.
Cloggedbean9/18/2024
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Toretto 709/18/2024
Ares is fun to play. especially if you can control battle and support your team.
Ability 1 is your primary crowd control tool, use to lock down mobile enemies and set up skill for your team.
Ability 2 is ability provides protection to your nearby allies.
Ability 3 is deals damage over time in a cone in front of you.
Ultimate is pulls all nearby enemies to him,stunning and damaging them.
and don't forget to focus on items that enchance your tankiness and crowd control, like Gauntlet of Thebes, Spirit Robe, Void Shield, Mystical Mail, etc
