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Athena Magical/CD guide!

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by ItsOutrageous updated February 24, 2016

Smite God: Athena

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Athena Build

Primary build.

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Warlock's Staff Warlock's Staff
Build Item Frenzy Frenzy
Build Item Polynomicon Polynomicon
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune

Secondary Build

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Oni Hunter's Garb Oni Hunter's Garb
Build Item Mantle of Discord Mantle of Discord
Build Item Breastplate of Valor Breastplate of Valor
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Mail of Renewal Mail of Renewal
Build Item Frenzy Frenzy
Build Item Polynomicon Polynomicon
Build Item Cloak of Meditation Cloak of Meditation

Athena's Skill Order

Preemptive Strike

1 X Y
Preemptive Strike
3 8 14 15 19

Confound

2 A B
Confound
1 4 6 7 10

Shield Wall

3 B A
Shield Wall
2 11 12 16 18

Defender of Olympus

4 Y X
Defender of Olympus
5 9 13 17 20
Preemptive Strike
3 8 14 15 19

Preemptive Strike

1 X
Athena powers up for a dash. While dashing, Athena will pass through minions, stop and hit the first enemy god she encounters, dealing damage. If she hits an enemy, Athena gains a stack (max 3), reducing the next source of Basic Attack damage from any god that hits her. Athena may also gain these stacks by hitting an enemy god with Reach, once per attack.

Ability Type: Dash, Slow, Damage
Damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Range: 55
Cost: 60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100
Cooldown: 14s
Confound
1 4 6 7 10

Confound

2 A
Athena releases a shockwave of power from her shield, Taunting enemy gods and decreasing their Attack Speed as she forces them to fight or chase her.

Ability Type: Cone, Taunt, Damage
Taunt Duration: 1 / 1.25 / 1.5 / 1.75 / 2s
Damage: 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140 (+20% of your Magical Power)
Attack Speed Slow: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30%
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 18s
Shield Wall
2 11 12 16 18

Shield Wall

3 B
Athena summons a group of Athenian warriors who do damage and Slow upon arrival. After 2s, they strike again, dealing additional Damage and Slowing.

Ability Type: Circle, Damage
Initial Damage: 70 / 110 / 150 / 190 / 230 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Secondary Damage: 70 / 135 / 200 / 265 / 330 (+50% of your Magical Power)
Slow: 15%
Radius: 15
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80
Cooldown: 14s
Defender of Olympus
5 9 13 17 20

Defender of Olympus

4 Y
Athena picks a single allied god anywhere in the world, and launches herself up into the air, landing next to that god 3.6 seconds later. During that 3.6 seconds, both Athena and the allied god gain Damage Mitigation, and the allied god also gains Movement Speed. Enemies nearby when Athena lands take damage.

Ability Type: Teleport, Buff, Damage
Damage: 340 / 415 / 490 / 565 / 640 (+90% of your Magical Power)
Ally Mitigation: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Radius: 20
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
Cooldown: 120s

Information-

So, first of all, credits for the build goes to a young lad,EskibroLemur, I am just posting it, because I think it's a really cool build to play it, with another Guardian, for example like Ares,and possibly Isis. The thing is Athena has great crowd control,plus high mobility, which makes her able to zig zag on the battlefield easly.

With this build we focus on Cooldown Reduction and Crowd control + a couple of boosting for your team mates.

This is not a tanky build, it is actually very squishy if not played knowing that you will die faster than normally.

Primary Build

Primary build is pretty simple, you focus on CDs,and maxxing out your 2nd ability, Confound. Go with the Void Stone for some early ingame magical protection, and cool aura,than the order of the other items totally depends on you,and your group comp and skills.


This build played best with hel,and chung or w/e that god is called,wchich allowed for maximum magical damage .

Can swap Warlock Sash for Plinomycon , also.

With all the CD recution, and CCR , you will be awesome, Ultimate on teammate in the middle of the enemies(Activate Frenzy if not on CD), Shield Wall (3),Confound(2) , When they start running use your Preemtive Strike (1),and by then all your other skills (2)and (3) will be free, and be able to use them again. 45 sec later, Ultimate ready.

With high mobility and some decent dodging,you will be able to hit with your Ultimate for more than (5)800~ + (3)550~ +(2) + (1)450~ . All of them are (~) because it may vary depending on your group composition.

Secondary Build

This one, is focused a bit more on Surviving, if you are playing as the only Guardian and have no other support in group.

Still focusing on CD and CC reductions, like a boss, while getting some protections and even a bit of Magical Power. Not a total beast , like primary build, but still you will be able to hit decently.

You can swap Mail of Renewal for Polinomycon and even get a bit more of Power,+ because of its Passive, works stunningly with Passive of Athena ( The Ranged attack after using an Ability )

Items

The order of the items depends alot on your group composition,and your skills so be aware!

PS. The artifacts, I preffer Blink/Speed + Frenzy on Primary , and on Secondary Build little support with either Meditation or Shell + Frenzy .

Skills

The skills order is basicly MAX out your (2) ability, Confound, than (4) Ultimate ability(when able to), than the other two(1)and(3).

Pros / Cons

Pros

+High mobility,
+Massive Magical Damage ( for a guardian
+Very fast CD, and CCr.


Cons

+Squishy build, ]you will die very fast!
+Requires great group composition,and
some more dodging than normally.

Summary

So, please feel free to test it , and comment back. I would like to hear opinions and such,plus I really want to improve it!

I really hate guardians in generally, but I love playing Athena, she is so cool!

Thank You and Have a nice Day!

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CaptElfimis (5) | March 20, 2016 11:23pm
What game mode(s) were you running this in? I'm not going to say it's a bad build but it certainly raises a lot of questions even for a dmg/hybrid guardian such as taking Warlocks sash so late.
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