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
- 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.
