Taking a bit of historical context in real life, Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty and sexuality in the ancient Greek religion. Her story is somewhat... curious... She was born when Kronos cut off Uranus' genitals and threw them into the sea, and Aphrodite was born from the foam that emerged.

Moving on to the goddess in the game, I think Aphrodite has everything I like in a good support god, giving buffs to the team, crowd control and obviously healing, everything you want.

Skills

Passive - Center of Attention: You gain physical and magical protection for each god, whether ally or opponent, who is close to you.

Skill 1 - Kiss: Here we have two interactions, but you will fire a kiss in a straight line. 1st interaction: If you hit an ally, you gain movement speed, making them your soulmate. 2nd interaction: If you hit an opposing god, you deal magic damage and stun them. If you are connected to a soulmate and kiss an enemy, you will generate the jealousy effect, making your soulmate deal more damage. If the skill hits an enemy, it passes through them and can connect to a soulmate behind them.

Skill 2 - Back Off!: Generates an impact that deals damage and pushes the opponent away. If you're with a soulmate, it will have an impact around it too.

Skill 3 - Love Birds: Shoots doves in a straight line that damage the enemies they hit. You and your soulmate will heal.

Ultimate - Undying Love: You and your soulmate become immune to any damage and cc, as well as gaining the jealousy effect.

Build

I always follow Frgotenpower's builds

Ability Leveling Order

4 > 3 > 2 > 1

Play style

You have the ability to power up a god ally, boosting their damage while leaving them invulnerable in situations that would kill them. Choose who has the most potential to carry the game and stick with them, abuse jealousy and use your ultimate wisely.

I haven't played her much, but for some reason I always have to play her against a Ra or an Aphrodite when I'm in the mid lane. (I don't play her much because I think she's unbalanced.)

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Guide for Aphrodite Support

Aphrodite, one of the most versatile gods in the game Smite 2, has various ways to be used, whether for greater resistance or for dealing more damage and healing allies. On this occasion, I will show you how to implement a build for resistance with life restoration for allies.

1. Start with their abilities , as support we will prioritize the survival of both our hero and our teammates, but at the same time, we will provide sufficient endurance support to our teammates, especially to our Duo ADC and the middle lane.

- Kiss.

Ability that allows us to link to a teammate we are going to heal, or incapacitate an enemy in combat, which will be very useful to us.

-Back Off

Area attack that deals a bit of damage and pushes enemies in the opposite direction of the same target.

-Love Birds

Our key ability allows us to deal a certain amount of damage and healing based on your intellect statistic, and if we have an ally with a kiss, it allows us to heal our companion.

-Undying Love

Ultimate ability that allows us to have immunity for a period of time, and if we have a partner with a kiss, we share this immunity with our ally.

-Passive ability, Center of Attention

Gain Physical Protection and Magical Protection for each friendly or enemy God nearby.

2. Started with team building.

We will start with a resistance starter kit, for which we will buy "Selflessness" that provides us with health and mana regeneration as our ally eliminates enemy minions. With this item, we will maintain support so that our teammate can heal and keep minion lane control to a minimum.

Next, we will start with medals as the first item, which provides us with a bit more health to withstand enemy attacks in the early minutes of the match. After that, depending on the situation and the enemy gods, we will upgrade to "Amanita Charm" if we need to perform area healing, or to "Talisman of Purification" if we need to remove area character control to make an escape or a sequence attack to achieve kills on the other team.

Our second item will be general Armor along with cooldown reduction. For this, we will use the "Breastplate of Valor", which provides us with mana regeneration along with physical protection and cooldown reduction. This item is very useful for being at the front in battle while performing more frequent heals and enemy control, as well as having our ultimate ability available in less time to protect our teammate.

Our third item, we will make a mixed protection variation to have magical and physical protection and help reduce healing for enemies who may have healing abilities or equipment that provides healing or lifesteal. This item will be "Ruinous Ankh", a very good item to complement our defense.

Fourth item, we will continue with another item for physical and magical protection along with more cooldown reduction. The item "Glorious Pridwen" provides us with both physical and magical protections, as well as cooldown reduction for skills. But it also gives us an active ability that helps in case we are the main target of the enemy. When activated, it provides us with a shield equivalent to 55% of our defenses converted into health, which in this case corresponds to 15% of our Aphrodite's total health.

I remove the item, at this point we will need more healing which we will compensate with "Rod Of Asclepius" that provides us with life regeneration, intelligence to increase the healing of our ability "Love birds" along with the passive ability that provides 15% more healing to our allies and an active ability, which helps us to be immune to items or abilities that reduce our healing done.

Sixth and final item, for this point the last item can vary depending on whether we want more intellect for greater healing or more defense, in this case, being defensive, we will implement the item "Magi's Cloak" which provides us with magic and physical defense, along with activation reduction and its useful passive if we are the center of attention of the enemies, which provides instant immunity to a loss of character control with an immunity of 1.5 seconds during that time, but with a reactivation time of 90 seconds.

Now a good practice for skill improvement when being in support.

3. Rotation of habilities

we will raise the levels as follows:

kiss: 2, 15, 16, 17, 18

Back Off!: 4, 8, 11, 12, 13

Love Birds: 1, 3, 6, 7, 10

Undying Love: 5, 9, 14, 19, 20

With this method, it will allow us to maintain the healing and enhance it as the game progresses.

4. How to play.

Aphrodite, being a god neither too easy nor too difficult, has a calm rotation compared to other supports.

We will start by reaching the lane with our ADC partner, whom we must help eliminate as many enemy minions as possible, using only ability 3. We will try to help kill minions and hit enemy players.

Following that, we will maintain contact with our colleague to help restore their life until they become fully independent.

Once we reach level 5 or before the 8-minute mark of the match, we should approach our teammates elsewhere on the map, preferably the mid lane, to heal them and push the lane to gain an advantage.

We will carry out the same process, linking up with the teammate and keeping him healed since it is one of the most likely places for enemies to attack through the jungle.

According to the situation, we will head towards the line with the least resistance to help maintain it or to push, whether it is the right or left, we follow the same process, link, maintain the cure, and help resist or press the line.

Since you are going to be support, it is preferable to buy wards to check the jungle, especially the Gold Fury and the Fire Giant, as well as to check the different routes that enemies can take to attack us and our teammates.

Take into account that by the time you reach item 4, you will already have enough defense to carry out the process of attacking head-on, as you will have many resistances and will be able to perform consecutive healings on your teammates.

For the moment, I will leave this guide here until new changes are made to the god and changes to its object construction need to be made.

How to play Aphrodite Goddess of Beauty in SMITE 2!

Aphrodite, since Smite1, is one of the best magical gods that can play as support because her kit gives the team huge sustain, including healing, stun, immunity, and movement speed.

Aphrodite Passive and Abilities:

passive(Center of Attention): Gain Physical Protection and Magical Protection for each friendly or enemy God nearby.

Abilities:

1. Kiss: Fire a kiss at an allied God to link a Soul Mate, giving you both increased movement speed, and reduced Kiss's cooldown, if the kiss hits an enemy God, they take Magical Damage, are Stunned, and your Soul Mate becomes Jealous, increasing their damage dealt. The Soul Mate gains 50% of your MP5 and 10% of your Protections.

2. Back Off: Deal Magical Damage, Slow, and Push away enemies around you. If you have a Soul Mate, Deal Magical Damage, Slow, and Push away enemies around them as well

3. Love Birds: Fire a doves projectile that deals Magical Damage over time to enemies hit, if you are linked with a soul mate, Aphrodite and her Soul Mate start Healing over time and have their active cooldowns decreased per tick.

4. Undying Love: You and your Soul Mate become Damage Immune, CC Immune, and gain the Jealousy effect for a short duration. Reactivate to Leap to your Soul Mates location.

Abilities leveling up order:

1. Kiss: 2.12.16.18.19

2. Back Off: 3.7.11.14.15

3. Love Birds: 1.4.6.8.9

4. Undying Love: 5.10.13.17.20

This build for Aphrodite support

This one is pure magical damage, works in mid lane.

When you play Aphrodite:

• Make sure you are always linked with someone in your team, your movement speed and defenses will increase as long as you are linked to someone.

• Your ultimate, you have to use it carefully and you should know which ally you will save. This can flip the game to your favor.

• Stay behind your team if you play support, focus on healing them, help them with your second ability (back off) and your ultimate.

Aphrodite Goddes of beauty

Aphrodite is an iconic character from Smite 1 which can be used in several roles, for example midliner Sololane and support, thanks to its various healing abilities, stunning and immunity to cc they make her a great character to help and fight in many ways in the games.

Abilities

Passive: For each god, whether enemy or friendly, near Aphrodite she gains stacks of Physical Defense and Magical Defense in stacks of 4 per god.

1. First ability (Kiss): Aphrodite Throws a kiss in a straight line that, when it hits an allied god, they become soul mates, gaining movement speed and reducing the cooldown of this ability, However, if it hits an enemy god, it will cause magic damage, stun them, and your soulmate will become jealous, which causes them to gain an increase in their damage.

   Soulmates gain 50% of Aphrodite's Mana regeneration and 8% of her protections, If you are stuck to a god for 5 seconds and then switch allied gods, both gods will have the Jealousy Buff.

2. Second ability (Back off): Aphrodite slams her staff into the ground dealing magic damage, slowing and pushing away enemy gods around her, if she is attached to a Soul Mate, this god will also do the same as Aphrodite with the difference that he did not push the enemy gods

   If an enemy is hit by both areas, the second area will do less damage

3. Third ability (Love Birds): Aphrodite fires projectiles forward in the form of birds that deal constant magic damage per tick to enemy gods hit, When casting this ability, Aphrodite and her Soul Mate will begin to heal themselves repeatedly little by little.

4. Fourth ability (Undying love): Aphrodite and her Soul Mate become immune to CC and gain the Jealousy Buff for a short time, also if this ability is cast again while it is still active, Aphrodite will fly directly towards her Soul Mate's location and the cooldown of the third ability will be reset.

Build

Aphrodite can be used in several roles, I will show some builds for solo and support and optional items.

Support

Solo

Optionals items

How to play?

As you can see from her abilities Aphrodite can help her allied gods in many ways and annoy enemy gods, I will give you some tips for using it

• The first ability or the kiss, is a great tool to gain Buff and heal allied gods during the game, this makes it so that when used as support Aphrodite You can support your lane partner so that in the early game they can play more aggressively and take quick advantage of this. Also remember that it can be used to stun enemy gods which can help kill one or escape from one.

• Taking advantage of the Soulmates mechanic, Aphrodite can constantly change soul mates to give them the Jealousy Buff for a team fight or to slowly heal her team individually, Plus using the second ability together is a great way to push waves of Minions quickly.

• Her ability card is a great tool to help save allied gods or to save herself, as it can be used to help an allied god not get killed by strong CC or escape of certain death when using the ability for the second time while attached to an allied god.