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Shoes of the Magi
Sovereignty
Heartward Amulet
Mystical Mail
Void Stone
Rod of Tahuti
Shoes of the Magi
Mystical Mail
Void Stone
Witchblade
Rod of Tahuti
Pythagorem's Piece
Watcher's Gift
Shoes
Ward
Multi Potion
Sundering Spear
Cloak of Meditation
Heavenly Wings
Cursed Ankh
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Ares is not the best in Setting up Kills but he is definitly one of the most damage dealing Supports!
Your Job always is being Present. Not too salty but when u stand next to your Teammates Enemies need to respect your Presence, because if they invade you will punish by chaining them and thou denying their escape tools and once they are in the fight make them lose it by turning tides with your Protection-Aura-Ability and Damaging them with your Fire and Chains.
If you want to set up a kill you will want to CHAIN one or more mostly squishy targets and the Movement-Speed-Steal will help your teammates close the gap while the taget is slowed and the chained enemy is not able to use leaps or other escape tools.
In Terms of Ult Ares is difficult especially in Ranked! Enemies usually get Purification. So you really need to watch for enemies who do not have Purification. They will always be your first targets to Ult into a Kill-Set-Up for your teammates in team fights. Still you need to be watching the enemies purification's cooldowns. If you Ult them and they all use it not to be pulled in exactly 100s your Ult will be up again, their purification won't, if you not what i mean.
To deal damage yourself you will always need to get all three chains on your target, otherwise a lot of your damage potential is lost. Finishing Enemies who are getting away with very few HP can be secured with "Sunder"-Relic or Ult too, dont forget this deals a lot of damage too!
I personally don't like Cooldown-Items too much, because i want my stuff to hit hard and not hit often. Penetration is key to deal a lot of damage. Always buy Rod Of Tahuti as 5th or 6th item because his passive scales with the +25%, so 400-500 DMG is nothing special for a Late-Game-Ares who buys Rod of Tahuti, what will make u able to kill targets completly on your own easy.
Putting three Points into FIRE-Ability gives you the 2% instead of 1% HP-scaled Fire-DMG, what makes it at least viable. Your best damage dealing ability still is CHAINS, if you hit all three of them. Take your time aiming, if you do CHAIN-wait2s-CHAIN-wait2s-CHAIN-tick4s you can get a total of 8 seconds of DOT-Time and the biggest damage possible.
Usually your Ability-Combo will be:
CHAIN, CHAIN, CHAIN, AURA, FIRE, (Ult or Sunder for finishing blow)!
Teamfight Ability-Combo if target can't use Purification:
Invade with CHAIN-Movementbuff/Speed-Relic/Blink, ULT, CHAIN, CHAIN, CHAIN, FIRE
Fun Facts:
Blink is not as strong on Ares as most think. Sure it is a great initiation tool, but i find myself too often with a penalty on Blink because one of those nasty archer minions did hit me suprisingly... You know what i mean. Buy Sprint what also can be used to help yourself or teammates retreating or be cleansed from slow effects. Just so much more utility in Sprint...
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Having flat 30 Pen pretty much is the perfect amount
Well you certainly have a point there, it's just that I saw an additional opportunity- let me explain a bit.
The thing is that majority of the characters also have an increase in protections every level- and while everyone atarts at 30-31 magical protection: guardians, warriors, but assassins AND hunters as well will also gain 0.9 point of magical protection every level. That also applies to many mages excluding the squishiest-
That means that at level 20 they will have approximately ~50 magical protection- so with 30 penetration they'll be left with 20 points; it might seem irrelevant but the less protections a target has, the more valuable they are regarding their effectiveness in reducing damage taken.
While taking
-20 from the
That being said, it comes down to personal preference I guess.
Damage through Penetration not Tahuti: basicly I agree, but as I explained Tahuti's passive scales with Ares Passive Skill, so he just benefits so hard from Tahuti that I must buy it, but that is just me. We are talking late game thou, so a high power will definitly help! Penetration is key definitely, but having 30 (10 boots, 20 voidstone) is the perfect amount in my opinion. what you want to do in terms of dealing damage, is dealing damage to the squishy targets. Even with Spear of the Magus you wouldn't engage on a Khumbakarna, you would focus on the enemy mage or hunter. Most Hunters and Mages don't buy magical protections and end up with 30-40 magical Protection in the late game. Having flat 30 Pen pretty much is the perfect amount, because you don't want to waste a precious item slot for spear of the magus and cooldown boots when you can have Pen boots and voidstone there!
Gem Of Isolation is a great tool for Ares I agree. I just don't like to buy it too often, because I already am slowing the target, setting up the kill for my teammates right next to me. I hope my teammates can do some CC themselves, too. Either they can use my usual slow, or they CC on top of my slow, if not one of both they just don't deserve to get the kill, but I will because I focus on damage in my build and Gem of Isolation is not the best item in terms of damage dealing. The only time I would really recommend Gem Of Isolation is, when the whole enemy team has 2-3 movement speed items. I would get Gem Of Isolation then myself because I wouldn't even hit the second or third chain when they keep running like this...
All in all I like this build; it's very similar to my
Therefore I would suggest considering
Another option would be to get some cooldowns, even if you're not a big fan of them. After all, having used all of his abilities Ares is very fragile until his cooldowns come back online.