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War Flag
Iron Mail
Healing Potion
Mana Potion
War Banner
Sovereignty
Reinforced Shoes
Stone of Gaia
Ethereal Staff
Mantle of Discord
Elixir of Speed
Spear of the Magus
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Magic Shell
Purification Beads
Athena overall has a really good kit with some of the best abilities in a guardian that can benefit both herself and her teammates, especially in the early game. She works really well with most gods, especially the ones that can do a lot of damage. She struggles if its just her and a warrior teammate since they both typically have to be with reaching distance of the enemy in order to do anything. Although Athena is still a threat in the early game, Stone of Gaia is where it gets even more difficult to kill her due to it's passive, especially when you factor in the other protections from Sovereignty and Reinforced Shoes. War Banner during the end game is very useful for the team fight situations not only for the extra 300 health but also for the benefits that it provides your teammates. One of the downfalls of Athena is you want to be with another player, as it usually is as a support. This build is not made for Athena to wipe out enemies without a second thought. Overall, Athena is one of my favorite gods in the game to play with and her kit will not let you down.
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I'm not sure how the Spartan Flag interaction works with Athena's ult; whether it activates where she's starts or where she lands. If it's the former then it isn't worth it so just sell it for a different item.
For starters you have 2
Heres an example build of how to get
This build lets you have protections, good passives where you need them, and you have max CD you have 30% CD until you either sell boots, or purchase a
However even full defense with one damage item you still do a ton of damage, and help your team kill the players diving the back line.
Besides, shoes are needed so you can rotate faster and gank your allies lanes
This is interesting. I wanna include Bran here to hear his thoughts. When I play Athena, I usually clear the purple really fast, even Without hog.
The rest of his comments I also agree with, though I'm sure
Per Dubbs' comment, still finish shoes first. While stacking Thebes if you get it is nice earlier, the rotation speed is way more important at the time that you'd finish either Shoes or Thebes.
I'd go Thebes if I went Bene (or Flag), or probably Sov if I went Sentinel.
1) If you don't hit level 2 before the enemy
2) If you can't use your (very minimal) advantage to secure a quick kill
Consider that you often don't use Blink for a potential kill early in the game otherwise. You'll have it back up in a little over 2 minutes (4-5 waves) which really isn't that long at a point you're mostly just clearing. Sure, there might be the situational case where Blink use could get you a kill, but it's not all the time, so it's a tradeoff of sorts.
I personally don't do that...whatever works for you.