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Shoes
Rod of Healing
Mana Potion
Healing Potion
Rod of Asclepius
Shoes of Focus
Shoes of Focus
Rod of Asclepius
Rod of Tahuti
Polynomicon
Obsidian Shard
Spear of the Magus
Soul Reaver
Chronos' Pendant
Bancroft's Talon
Gem of Isolation
Void Stone
Girdle of Inner Power
Greater Purification
Heavenly Agility
Aegis Pendant
Breastplate of Valor
Bulwark of Hope
Shoes of Focus
Rod of Asclepius
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of the Magus
Void Stone
Rod of Tahuti
Shoes of Focus
Rod of Asclepius
Chronos' Pendant
Spear of the Magus
Gem of Isolation
Rod of Tahuti
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Hi, I'm a bird, but on the internet, no one can imagine it !
More seriously and as you can guess, I'm a smite player, and my main are Ra, Anubis, Ao kuang , and a new one : Aphrodite
I played her only a few time , but since now ( the moment i write this guide), I never lose with her.
So, I was thinking of sharing love with everyone, but it's illegal to harass people, so i'll just share my build...
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ADVANTAGES
- High heal - Great move speed - Can cancel enemies's ultimates |
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DRAWBACKS
DRAWBACK
- Only 1 real damage ability - Rely on CDR - Short ranged ability |
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Aphrodite was originally made for support, wich mean she have ability "made" for this job. However , She can be a very good mid, or a solo laner, because even if her 1 buff her only if it touch an ally, it's also a stun that can be used on fleeing opponent, or harrasing ones. Aphrodite, because ally will rely more on you since thay all think you will heal him instead of the others. In the begining of the game, establish a code with your team (For example : you always heal ADC, except when someone use the command "Need healing!", and if it's an emergency, they should press it two times)
A small reminder : In Joust, there's no left and right lane, only one middle, with 6 jungle camp placed on the side of this middle lane ( Mana and speed next to the phoenix, and damage situated around the middle of the map )
This placement affect the gameplay : you'll constantly face each other, all together ! But there's small trick to know.
Shoes of the Magi because with Obsidian Shard, you have enough magic penetration in mid game.
Shoes of the Magi and Breastplate of Valor. Why ? if you don't need physical defense, you won't take the Breastplate of Valor. In that case, you'll have Shoes of Focus and Chronos' Pendant that'll max your CDR. And if the enemy team build MR ( magic resistance ), you'd take Obsidian Shard , wich will give you enough magic penetration , so you won't need Shoes of the Magi, and then, you could max your CDR with Shoes of Focus and Chronos' Pendant. Why did I max Aphrodite CDR ? because her Kiss have a long cooldown : if you miss it on enemy, or on your ally, that will simply mean you failed the CORE of Aphrodite, and 12sec. of cooldown is way too long in a team fight to get your "main ability" back ( Here, it will mean the death of an ally without this ability ). With max CDR, you get 6 sec. cooldown, which is prety decent.
Soul Reaver. Why ? The purpose of this combo is to poke the tank. If he max Hp , you'll take 15% of his hp. If he max MR, you ignore 33% of it. Of course, a Tank will mostly play on the two of them, plus the physical resistance, but it's still is a great combo, even if he didn't max MR and health..even against non tank. Look : I often get 700 ap, wich mean with Aphrodite , my Love Birds make in total 960 damage. With my combo, my damage will penetrate 33% of the enemy's MR, and will also make a bonus 15% of his max health as damage.
Back Off! ) except if the god you support is a melee one). This is quite usefull if you support a mage or a guardian ( especialy guardiant for the reason seen above).
Bancroft's Talon later on. With Aphrodite, it'll just increase your healing with your Love Birds. It could be usefull, but I think it isn't the best item for her
Ethereal Staff will give you a bit of AP , a great amount of Health and Mana, but will also convert 2% of your maximum health into AP. If you can't really imagine ow much it'll give you AP, just think that you'll have around 2500 HP, So, 2% of 2500 is 50, wich meant this staff would give you 80 AP in the end
Gem of Isolation is an item that give a great amount of AP, health and mana for a mage, it'll also give your damaging ability a slow effect.
Hide of the Urchin....? NOOOO!
Shoes of Focus and buy the Breastplate of Valor and the reinforced greaves M, you'll have a little bit more of substain while keeping your CDR so you can Kiss everyone (Don't do it in real life, you'll just go to jail).
Breastplate of Valor. It'll allow you to resist more, and so, support more your allies in early/mid game
Hide of the Urchin, wich will greatly improve your defensive stat !
Sovereignty, It'll grant an aura of protection to your team, and perhaps, help you to come back !
Rod of Tahuti. It's well know passive will grant you more AP. Like I said again and again, the more AP, the better your heal will be !
Ethereal Staff. It'll give you +80 AP when finished ( If you have at least 2500 hp, wich is given by the item i showed you in this guide), but it will also give you mana and AP, giving you more sustain, and again, a better heal.
Love Birds, and you need to Kiss more (wow....that sound horrible...)! SInce there's no magical version of the Breastplate of Valor, you'll take Chronos' Pendant wich will max your CDR, and also give additional power and MP5.
Sovereignty is a great choice, but if the enemy is tanky, take the Bulwark of Hope for obvious reason said above.
Hide of the Urchin. Losing ? Take the Void Stone to replace the MR it'd have given you (even if you won't reach what it'd have given you at full stack)
Rod of Tahuti will be your last item in this case. once finished, you'll have a better heal, better damage, and better MP5 with a passive that'll boost your total AP : That's why it's a core
Chronos' Pendant should be your third Item with Aphrodite.Even if we don't play much support, the fact that Kiss doesn't have a cooldown if it reach an ally allow you to be aggressive as a mage , but also give a great amount of heal without especially focusing on it. Chronos' Pendant will help you to max your CDR and give you a great amount of MP5 and power. Wich will be helpfull to your ally in heal, and for you in damage, because you'll be able to spam (litteraly) your Love Birds and Kiss , transforming Aphrodite in a hard CC machine having a constant heal
Spear of the Magus. It'll apply, if you manage to place your two damaging ability on him, a 20+20% MR debuff on him, allowing both of you and your allies to kill him.Don't frget it also give a small amount of power, wich is also good for both your heal and damage. If you see you are unable to place your 2 damaging ability on him, you can try Obsidian Shard, it'll allow you (and you only, sadly) to penetrate 33% of the enemy MR, and it'll also give you a great amount of power.
Soul Reaver will make your damaging ability do a bonus 15% of the target max health as damage (only occur once every 60 seconds). The cooldown is very long, but the damage it does on a tank are huge, because it'll make your Love Birds or Back Off! do AT LEAST 15% of his health as damage. Polynomicon, him, will make your next basic attack (after casting an ability) make additional damage equal to 50% of your magical power (can occur every 4 sec.). It also give you a lot of lifesteal, which will just make your Love Birds more powerfull on you. Obsidian Shard is a relatively good item if the ennemies are really tanky (exemple : MR guardian with a MR warrior), it'll ignore 33% of their MR. If you combine it with Spear of the Magus, you can ignore up to 53% of their MR. But if you and your team mate play well enough, you won't really need it. Gem of Isolation is an item that will suit your Love Birds, transforming this ability into a Heal/Damaging/slowing ability. With that, and the fact your Love Birds do damage over time, enemies will have real hard time to flee , and chasing them would be a lot more easy
Girdle of Inner Power is a good temporary boost that'll help you to secure a kill, to harrass, but also HEAL ! How ? it boost your magical power, so your Love Birds heal will be affected ! In fact, this item mean a better substain for you and your allies ( more your soulmate, because he is the one who will benefit from the lover's heal), and also greater damage.
Greater Purification is simply an emergency ultimate with Aphrodite. Why ? most of the time, you'll use your Undying Love to Escape from enemies's ultimates. With all your CDR, and if you play so, you'll always have your ultimate ready at the same time than their. BUT, sometimes, enemies are not synchronized to do their ultimate (it's a strategy for some gods), that would mean you could flee a Zeus's ultimate with your soulmate, and then fall into a Hades's ultimate. Since your invulnerability isn't very long at low levels, you'll occasionaly need Greater Purification to save your life. (it's also a great active in general)
Aegis Pendant is the second emergency ultimate. It'll allow you to flee from damage, but watch out, you're not CC immune ! Combined with Greater Purification, it'd really be, a second ultimate (except it won't affect your soulmate)
Heavenly Agility is a support active, yes, BUT! if you can consider Aphrodite as a mage, then why can't you consider it as a mage pick ? Most of your gameplay in mid/late game will be based on team fight, so[/color] Heavenly Agility will help you a lot ! And in early game, you can still benefit from the slight move speed boost it'll give you. It's definitly a good choice for a mage Aphrodite. With any Support god in Smite, you can consider this active as a Core.
Hel or another Aphrodite, prefer the 
Weakening Curse, it'll prevent any enemy healing and slow all the enemies in the radius. But if there's no heal possible in the enemy team, go and take the 
Enfeebling Curse, it has the same effect, except that it don't prevent healing, but it slow attack speed , wich is important to ADC or Assassin.
Heavenly Agility Will allow your whole team/group to retreat/chase and will also boost the effect off your healing by 25%. But watch out ! don't forget that the enemy tank will perhaps buy a Weakening Curse to counter your healing, so don't use it while this debuff has been activated
Girdle of Support will give your team a bonus of 20% in power( both physical and magical). This power will help you to heal, and help your team mate to kill the enemies. not much more to say about that
Spiked Shell will temporary play the role of a 
Hide of the Nemean Lion, but on your whole team/group. It will increase your physical protection, but also return a small amount of the damage to the enemy , wich are pretty high for ADC or Assassin
MY THOUGHTS
Kiss
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Back off!
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Love birds
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Undying love
MY THOUGHTSAphrodite poke combo
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Explanation Aphrodite is all about securing kill by keeping your ally alive, an pushing the enemy back where they can be damaged. But watch out ! Sometimes, it's better to let one of your ally die instead of using your ultimate on him : If his low health, has no escape, and is too far from your phoenix/turret , it'd be a waste of time and mana. Focus on your second ally ! He would need help when the first one will be dead. But there are lot's of other little tips you need to know if you don't want to lose a kill/assist : Back Off! when you chase an enemy : Kiss have NO cooldown when used on an ally. If you have no soulmate, and you need to engage, kiss an ally, and THEN ONLY an enemy. This way, you'll be able to Stun an enemy AND to have a soulmate to benefit from the move speed bonus.
Fenrir , 
Nemesis , 
Janus , etc... that'll literally jump/dash/teleport everywhere ! Kiss is a unique ability that only a god like Aphrodite could have ! It'll allow you to make splendid match-up and so, win a lot of games !...Well....yes and no. You need to FEEL who you kiss, and THINK about it. It's useless to kiss your tank for in the beginning of a fight if he his full life for example. Focus on kissing ADC, Mage and Assassins : They have low health, and are most likely the god that'll be killed first. If you can keep them alive longuer, your team will do more damage, wich are very important. Then, from time to times, kiss your tank for a few seconds, to heal him by using Love Birds, once he got the heal, Kiss back your ADC/Asassin/Mage (If you are the support of the team , kiss in priority the ADC).
Thanatos land will just cancel all the damage he would have done, but also the "one-shot" effect. It's not very usefull at the beginning, because in the first level, the threshold of his ultimate is really low (20% of your max health), wich meant tha if you can't instantly heal your ally with your Love Birds, or if you can't instantly kill Thanatos when he land, he will mostly kill you (or your soul mate, depending on who you try to save with your ultimate) with melee attack right after his 
Hovering Death
Ares pull back his chain from 
No Escape will cancel the effect on you and your soulmate. You won't be pulled toward Ares, and you won't be stunned
Undying Love will simply allow you and your soulmate to walk way from the damage zone, leaving hades doing the toilet flush of death alone....poor Hades
Ao Kuang,
Ra,
Ymir, ALL the damage and CC can be cancelled ! Feel free to tease them so they'll use it for nothing ! That will leave you more chance in gank.
Aphrodite, is one of the strongest healer in the game, but have only few way to damage enemy. In teamfight, she is the queen, and in solo she stay alive most of the time. Most of time, some people say "lol, OP god you noob, l2p a normal one !" . Never forget that there isn't any OP god, only OP player, it's how you play it that will define if the god is good for you to play, or not. Person who rely only on how good is the god, aren't playing like they should.
Anyway guys,feel free to comment under this build ( even for doing bad joke ! ) I'll try to update if you told me interesting stuff ;).
See you in game !
P.S.: For more information, search "IceBerserk" in Smite, and have a nice day !
25/07/2014
-Remove the "rainbow" in the active section
-Updated the "How to Aphrodite" section
-Cleared up "the Pro/Cons" Section
-Added Jordenito in the "Help" credit
22/07/2014
-Added new bbcoding stuff
-Updated credits
19/07/2014
-Modified build for more precise information
-Added a "How to 3 vs 3" part
-Added a "How to Aphrodite" part
-Modified some information in "Item description"
17/07/2014:
-Added new support build
-Added "Support situational items" section
-Added "Mage situational items" section
-Added "Active" section
-Modified some information in the "Item" section
-Modified Mage build, adding example of Full build
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Hades
Stay away from
heavnly agility is a core active on almost all healers, and for Aphrodite, it's a must.
Items explanations are okay. They are a bit long and repetative, but other than that, you explain very well the choices between them.
Skill section is as it should be. Nothing much to say. Though, the skill section is a bit lacking. Rather than explaining what the skill actually does, which most readers know by already playing her once or reading the skill description by mousing over the skill's icon, you should put more emphasis on the actual uses of those skills. When to use which skill, how to use, when not to.
For example, explaining how you shouldn't use
Another example would be that if you have an ally that you need to save, straight up kissing the enemy to stun them would put
Also, in the poke combo, you should put
Gameplay and teamfight is a bit lacking. In 3v3, there are constant fights. Who is the ideal soul mate, when to heal, when should you use birds to heal and when to damage, things like that. As you said yourself, Aphrodite is a support character who relies on allies. Her teamfights are her greatest aspect.
The guide itself looks nice. Good BBCoding, though there are quite some grammar and spelling mistakes. I would like to mention that in SMITE "resistance" is more often referred to as "protection", or "defense", but it's just a quality of life kinda thing.
Also, in the Advantages / Drawbacks section, you could try and make it a little bit more clean. Just writing general strengths / weakness, like "High Sustain", or "Long Cooldowns", would make it much more easy to understand and visually more stimulating. In the spoiler you could expand a lot.
Oh, and there are way too many colors in the Active section. It hurts my eyes.
Overall, I can't vote for this guide. It is incomplete, but has potential. I'll wait for you to expand it and improve and then decide.
You can level Love Birds both level 1 and 2, but since this is a 3v3 joust I'll let it slide since you start at level 3. Just know in the future, if you go into conquest, you can't level the same ability at 1 and 2.
As a support-ish type, don't get
Since you only have
As for the rest of your guide, you have solid reasoning. The grammar and spelling are average but you get your point across without too much trouble. I'd add more in about exactly how to teamfight - as a 3v3, there's very often skirmishes. Sometimes it takes more than just knowing what abilities do what - when should you be kissing your teams bruiser/guardian so you can follow up on his engage, vs kissing your assassin/mage/hunter so you can ult and keep them alive? It's things like that people REALLY need to know to be successful. So a section on that would help.
Also, I'd give a brief rundown of how to 3v3 Joust, since this is a guide solely for that. Mostly, what do you do when you've pushed them to tower or phoenix but they have waveclear. This can make a 10 minute game into a 30/35 minute game.
Nonetheless, good guide, and definitely deserves any upvotes it gets. Kudos!
On teamwork you could be more specific on what do you need to do stay back focus on doing damage focus on healing etc.
From the title I get this is a joust build. as you already said you can go support or mage (solo lane) aphro. this already results into 2 different builds (a lot of time under 2 building tabs) one with the support one with the mage build. Why because both can ave a different skill order (love birds is in both always prio and the the other goes for a more 4-3-1-2 prio (support) and the other with A 3-2-1-4 prio (more mage). Also because it joust you have two ways of things playing out what depends your role as aphro. 1 of the others will always be a hunter or assassin for the adc. and then you have the other player being or a gaurdian or warrior defensive (in this case you need to do more damage) or a mage and a warrior offensive (in this case your thew support).
now the build. as I already stated I haven't played aphro a lot but I can say soem things about it. also take the point about 2 completely different ones in account so both look more clean. well let's start.
First your starter and actives.
In the actives tab I see some actives that depends on what you are support or mage. and still I miss some (really rare in use) actives that can be devastating. Also as aphro you need to watch out for a
well you got the term core a bit wrong. this has 1 thing of the part of the support and mage in both different tabs. and the other are from the first back section. The core is mostly 3 items (the core by this god is
because CDR being important on aphro you will always make the item after shoes and rod another cdr item. this depends on the other team. has the team 2 phys then
the other 2 items depends on what am I playing support or mage. well I will start with the support items, because I don't know much of being mage aphro.
well because you already build shoes and rod and your cdr item you now get too choose 1-2 other items before your going too finish rod. this also depends on the other team mostly you will take hide of urchin when you have a mixed team because it gives a lot of protections and the 5 item being
Unless you have a full phys or full magical team then both items will be defense against the kind of team it is.
As mage you will pick a pen item and the other being or lifesteal or something else.
As Pen I would recommend taking
The other item would be poly or
(still I think support aphro works out a bit better)
about skills if I'm right when you hit
the bbcoding is fine (could always be improvement but it's good enough. (it isn't super important but I find the icons and double brackets, something that must be in it too make it understandable for other instead of searching the database for the item someone mentioned etc.)
Hope you can do something with this. It looks great and is pretty good but the build section is a bit messy what leaves for a no vote from me. 0