Ares Support Conquest Guide

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Passive - Blessed Presence Ares's passive allows him to get additional power off building aura items. So it's a good idea to fit auras in your build. With the build I provided, you should have at least 3 aura items, which grants you at least 90 extra power (30 power per aura).

Ability 1 - Shackles This ability is Ares's bread and butter. His chains cripple enemies and prevent them from using movement abilities. If you space out the chains correctly, you get additional damage off and can cripple a single target up to 8 seconds. That's my biggest tip, is to space out your chains instead of rapid firing them. You also get additional movement-speed for each person you chain, up to 3. So when trying to get away, try chaining multiple enemies to prevent them from closing in on you and to increase your mobility.

Ability 2 - Bolster Defenses Bolster Defenses I usually max second after his Shackles. Leveling this ability increases the HP5 and protections you and your allies get from it. You also get CCR (Crowd Control Reduction) while this ability is active. So make sure to activate this ability right before entering a fight or if you know you or an ally are about to get CC'd so you can reduce it's duration.

Ability 3 - Searing Flesh This will be your main clear on jungle camps and minion waves. I level this ability first and max it out last (before his ultimate though). You also get knock-up immunity when channeling Searing Flesh. So make sure to use it as an ability cancel if you're about to be knocked-up and you're trying to escape.

Ultimate - No Escape This ult is very simple, you latch onto nearby targets and after a couple seconds, pull them towards you into a stun at your location. My best piece of advice for this ability is to maximize the amount of targets you grab by getting into or as close to the center of them and popping your ult.

• Support should start purple and pull it outwards. In this time your ADC should be pulling Green and dragging it towards you (or vice versa). When both buffs are grouped, as you clear them pull them towards the lane. Watch out for invades!
  
  
• From here you should be sitting in duo lane for a majority of the early game. You want to stay there to contest protection (or shield) buff and pressure with your ADC. If you have enough pressure you can also invade their camps, such as Purple buff and their backcamps, even Green buff.

• Around the mid game you want to now start to play around the middle of the map as more objectives are spawning now.
  
  
• These objectives consist of Beacon, Oracle, and Pyromancer. Try to pressure mid t1 tower too if your team has the pressure for it. Once that's down it creates map pressure from mid lane.

• Here you want to make sure to use your kit effectively. Ares is great at starting a fight, especially if you have blink. Try to initiate a fight by blink ulting as many as you can. If you don't have blink, walking up and getting chains on a target is enough to also start a fight.
  
  Ares is really good at locking down frontline, so prioritize chaining enemies with dashes, especially solo laners and junglers. Ares counter most tanks because of this so you want to make sure you prioritize them.

That ward you're buying in the early game, you want to place it at the area between their purple and shield camp about 23 seconds or sooner before the game actually starts, if you think you'll have pressure.

If you don't think you'll have pressure, place that same ward on your side in the same area about 10 seconds prior to the game starting. This will give you early gank info.

If you're able to get 2 wards at the start, place one defensively and one offensively in the same spots.

As you're playing through duo lane you really want to ward their backcamps for info for your team. Get 2 wards, typically after you buy Thebes, and place them at their purple buff or their back camps and their green buff.

Try to refresh these wards as often as you can. They give very good info on where the enemy jungler is at and if the enemy team is mobilizing towards duo side to setup for a Gold Fury.

In the map below, the red circles indicate the spots that you should ward aggressively and the blue circles indicate the spots you should ward passively.



Of course this depends where you're at in the game. But around fire giant, same concept. Try to get high wards around their backcamps, red, and even blue buff to give your team info.

On offensive sieges, try to place a sentry ward between their phoenixes that you're about to siege to gain info on people playing that gap. These wards are indicated by the Red circles on the map.

On defensive sieges, place a sentry between phoenixes they're about to siege so you and your team can play that gap area without worry. These wards are indicated by the Blue circles on the map.