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Athena Supp TANK

Support Conquest
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by FaymousHat3 updated July 28, 2026

Smite God: Athena

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Athena Build

starting

Build Item Health Chalice Health Chalice
Build Item Health Potion Health Potion
2
Build Item Medallion Medallion
Build Item Selflessness Selflessness
Build Item Phantom Shell Phantom Shell

final

Notes can sub out yogi if you need more CDR w/ Breastplate.

If need more phys + CDR sub yogi for breastplate

Notes

can sub out yogi if you need more CDR w/ Breastplate.

If need more phys + CDR sub yogi for breastplate

Build Item Amanita Charm Amanita Charm
Build Item Draconic Scale Draconic Scale
Build Item Dwarven Plate Dwarven Plate
Build Item Heroism Heroism
Build Item Shifter's Shield Shifter's Shield
Build Item Warding Chalice Warding Chalice
Build Item Yogi's Necklace Yogi's Necklace
Build Item Health Chalice Health Chalice
Build Item Gjallarflare Gjallarflare
Build Item Phantom Shell Phantom Shell

God Aspect De-Activated

Aspect of War

Defender of Olympus now targets visible enemy gods instead of allies, dealing no landing damage but causing the enemy to take increased damage while Athena is channeling

Athena's Skill Order

Preemptive Strike

1 X Y
Preemptive Strike
3 16 18 19

Confound

2 A B
Confound
2 4 5 6 7 9 10

Shield Wall

3 B A
Shield Wall
1 11 12 14 15

Defender Of Olympus

4 Y X
Defender Of Olympus
8 13 17 20
Preemptive Strike
3 16 18 19

Preemptive Strike

1 X
Charge up, then Dash forward.
  • Deals Magical Damage and Slows enemies.
  • Gain Physical Protection and Magical Protection when you hit an enemy god.
Damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 230 / 280
Damage Scaling: 55% Strength
Slow: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30%
Slow Duration: 2s
Physical Protection: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 + 10% Physical Protections
Magical Protection: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 + 10% Magical Protections
Buff Duration: 4s
Cooldown: 14s
Cost: 40 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80

Additional Notes:
  • Buildup takes 0.66 seconds.
Confound
2 4 5 6 7 9 10

Confound

2 A
Taunt enemies in front of you.
  • Deals Magical Damage
Damage: 40 / 65 / 90 / 115 / 140
Damage Scaling: 20% Intelligence
Taunt Duration: 0.8 / 0.9 / 1.1 / 1.2 / 1.4s
Taunt Duration Scaling: 0.2s per 115 Item Protections, stacking up to 2 times.
Radius: 5.6m
Cone Angle: 90 degrees
Cooldown: 16 / 15.5 / 15 / 14.5 / 14s
Cost: 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80

Additional Notes:
  • Taunted enemies are Slowed by 25%.
Shield Wall
1 11 12 14 15

Shield Wall

3 B
Create a Phalanx of Soldiers that strike twice in an area.
  • Deals Magical Damage initially.
  • After a brief delay, deals additional Magical Damage.
  • Applies a 20% Slow on each hit.
Initial Damage: 60 / 100 / 140 / 180 / 220
Initial Damage Scaling: 45% Intelligence
Final Damage: 80 / 140 / 200 / 260 / 320
Final Damage Scaling: 55% Intelligence
Slow Duration: 2s
Radius: 3.2m
Cooldown: 12s
Cost: 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90

Additional Notes:
  • The delay between the first and second attack is 2 seconds.
Defender Of Olympus
8 13 17 20

Defender Of Olympus

4 Y
Teleport to the aid of target ally god, anywhere on the map.
  • Apply a Health Shield and Movement Speed to your ally.
  • Deal Magical Damage to nearby enemies upon landing
  • You are CC Immune while using this ability
Damage: 340 / 415 / 490 / 565 / 640
Damage Scaling: 90% Intelligence
Shield Health: 200 / 225 / 250 / 275 / 300
Shield Health Scaling: 15% Max Health
Movement Speed: 10 / 12.5 / 15 / 17.5 / 20%
Range: Global
Cooldown: 120 / 115 / 110 / 105 / 100s
Cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120

Additional Notes:
  • Channel lasts for 3.34 seconds.
  • If your ally dies before your channel completes you will still go to their location.

Athena Threats

Tap each threat level to view Athena’s threats

Max
0
Major
1
Even
1
Minor
0
Tiny
1

Athena Synergies

Tap each synergy level to view Athena’s synergies

Ideal
4
Strong
3
OK
0
Low
0
None
0

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1
FaymousHat3 | July 28, 2026 6:32am
nearly unkillable
1
Branmuffin17 (402) | July 28, 2026 11:15pm
I'm not super up to date on Supp builds, but my preference for build presentation is to provide a base build template for universal use and add a section for optional items to consider.

Comments:
  • Skill leveling: please fix this. I honestly don't know what is going on here but it's very obviously not possible to put 7 points into your 2. And while yes, the taunt is her defining feature of being a support, but you probably want to put more points into her 3 first. You don't have to max the 3 first, but I'd probably put 3 or 4 points into it before switching over to the 2.

  • Items: Obviously Heroism is fine. But I'd also consider War Flag depending on comp and enemy team. If you have more than one teammate that can benefit from attack speed and the enemy is lacking in mobility, Flag gives you some very obvious advantages in being aggressive.

    I don't know if you noticed, but you only have 5 main items (Amanita, Draconic, Dwarven, Shifter's, Yogi's).

    Shifter's is probably fine but you'll lack in utility with the build you have.

    You have 0 (0!!!) CDR for a god that has some long CDs.

    Yogi's at the end? I'd skip. Not anywhere near a core item. Sustain is great but you're lacking in so many other things that this is not the solution.

    I'd consider Thebes and Prophetic as optional 1st main items.

    Other items you should be considering: Breastplate, Genji, Oni, Screeching, Stampede, Ethereal, and counter items (Spectral, Midgardian, Contagion, etc.). Probably other items as well but I'm not going to list them all.
So no offense on this one, but this build needs fixing and work. 100% you should be adding some CDR, drop Yogi, etc.
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