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Alii bella timent, ego bella gero! - Ares Arena
Purchase Order
CDR Core
Shoes of Focus
Breastplate of Valor
Spirit Robe
Suport (w/ Auras)
Heartward Amulet
Sovereignty
Void Stone
Bruiser (no Auras)
Hide of the Urchin
Rod of Tahuti
Spear of the Magus
Tanky (no Auras)
Hide of the Urchin
Hide of the Nemean Lion
Bulwark of Hope
Mandatory (Obrigatório)
Blink Rune
Ares's Skill Order
Intro - Introdução
[EN]
Briefly the mechanics of this build emphasizes the use(or abuse) of Ares Ultimate skill. This build will max your CDR. You'll be able to Ult faster and create great killing opportunities to your teammates. Basically you'll break down the enemy team (even if they buy purification relic). But, its important to say that this build require fellowship and TEAMWORK! Warn whenever your ULT is ready, call a "group up!" and say "surprise motherf..." to your enemies!
Post Scriptum: "Alii bella timent, ego bella gero!" is Latin, and means "The others fear war, I create (or generate) war!"
[PT-BR]
Basicamente a mecânica dessa build enfatiza o uso (ou abuso) da Ult do Ares. Essa build vai maximizar a sua redução de intervalo. Você será capaz de ultar mais rápido, criando grandes oportunidades de eliminações para os seus companheiros de time. Basicamente você vai desmantelar o time adversário (mesmo que eles comprem a relíquia de purificação). Mas, é importante ressaltar que essa build necessita de muito entrosamento, camaradagem e TRABALHO DE EQUIPE! Alerte sempre que sua Ult estiver pronta, peça para eles "agruparem" e diga um "surprise motherf..." para os seus inimigos.
Post Scriptum: "Alii bella timent, ego bella gero!" é Latim e significa "Os outros temem a guerra, eu crio a guerra!" (Foda né não?)
Ask, and you shall receive...my long-winded comments.
- Just clarifying here...your first 3 items are meant to be those 3 core items? And then you finish up either with the Support or Bruiser combos?
- With regard to the core, here's what I'd say...as an ult-bot, I feel it's really important to get at least SOME health, as he can be focused during the ult process...he needs to stay alive, and sure, natural reaction would be to turn and run, but if the enemy team knows what they're doing, they may look to burst you down before it completes. As such, although I get your point of getting CDR as quickly as possible, I think one item that adds health, perhaps immediately after boots, would help.
- As a slight alternative, you might even consider an early
Sands of Time to get your CDR to 20% between it and 
Shoes of Focus. That 20% really early is still going to be very nice for quite a while. This allows you to get that other protection + health item...
Sovereignty or 
Heartward Amulet (depending on team comp) would be a good choice there.
- Unless another magical teammate gets
Spear of the Magus, I would consider that basically core for him if you're looking to output damage as well...rather than putting it with core, though, I'd suggest a separate grouping called "penetration" or something, and putting both 
Void Stone and 
Spear of the Magus there as the options.
- I probably would not consider building
Rod of Tahuti on him...his base damage is so high, the pen is way more important. Also, his 
Searing Flesh has additional damage that's similar to 
Qin's Sais (and independent of your power). I think other protection items would be better on him...but that's me.
So, might I suggest, at least as an option, an alternative to this build structure?Perhaps in this order:
Sands of Time + 
Shoes + Potions + 
Blink Rune
Shoes of Focus- (Look to upgrade
Blink Rune at this point, to keep up with the ult's CDR)
Sovereignty or 
Heartward Amulet- Alternate phys/mag protection if needed, doesn't have to be Sov or Heart
Spear of the Magus- Get
Breastplate of Valor or 
Genji's Guard or 
Spirit Robe (sell 
Sands of Time at this point if you're going to overcap CDR)
- Situational last item
Thoughts?I'm at work now ( or suppose to be :D ), so i'll be short.
I loved the tip of Sands of Time, it really fits on my build!
I never thought before in build health instead of protections. I'm a casual player, most of enemies I face on arena try to flee when I ult in front of them. But, thanks for the Tip! I'll heavily consider your opinion.
The tip regarding spear of teh magus/rod of tahuti/void stone opened my eyes to a little problem I experienced. Rod is expensive to build when you are just a Guardian (even if you are a bruiser one). When I manage to finish the Rod the match is near the end. The combo void stone + spear of the magus is cheap and provides a better way to damage my enemies before the match ends =).
Thank you for sharing your useful opinion!
Glad you liked the Sands suggestion...for the price, you can't beat it for extra CDR, and in an arena setting, you're sort of playing against the clock, so build cost efficiency is absolutely a thing...as you recognized with your comment on the high price of
And just speaking about the ult...his base CD is 100 seconds...by the time you finish Sands and Focus, it's down to 80 seconds, which already beats out an upgraded
Would love to hear how it works for you!