Marki's short guide for Ares [Season 5]

This is a guide to farm easy elo when you have to support in low elo ranked games or just want to have some fun and press "w" on people. But you should have a solo laner with good peal, so not a Chaac if you want to win the late game.

And just one more thing. Everyone cries about Ares not having any peal when ever you pick him. That is not really true, yes you do not have any hard CC to peal with. But you do have a stupid amount of damage to peal with at least in the early and mid game.

But you definitely want some good CC from solo lane to make it in the late game teamfighta. It is not as bad as people try to make it aound though, cripple is also a really good form of CC even if it isn't a stun.

Pros

High single target damage
High movement speed
Beads burner
Auras

Cons

No peal
No hard CC
Not very tanky

In this chapter I will present the stats of each ability and give you a short explanation of how you can use the ability.

Blessed Presence (Passive)

Passive Damage Buff

Each completed aura item that Ares owns grants him 30 additional magical power.

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This gives every aura item an additional 30 power. So just buy aura items.

In this chapter I will present your starter items and your core items and give a short explaination on each of the items.

Starter items

Great for early pressure, you get great mana sustain and some damage. And when you get to 75 stacks, which you should do pretty fast if you get some god kills/assists. You get some cooldown reduction as well. You could also warrior’s blessing or guardian’s blessing if you are a *****.

Just some early movement speed is great for securing early kills (6% > 0%) and getting a heads start on travlers shoes is great because you should be rotating a lot. Trying to gank all the lanes and burning beads so that your jungle can have some get some easy ganks.

Two healing potions is normally enough for me but you can go for three if you want to. But I like saving the 50 gold.

Again I prefer going just two, but you can go three if you want to. Mage's Blessing should be enough mana sustain, so you should not need the Mana Potions.

In this chapter I will try to explain what you should be aiming to do in the different stages off the game.

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Early Game

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In the early game you want to be very aggressive in lane and try to deal as much damage as you can with Shackles. Without taking to much damage yourself, it can be a good idea to walk out of lane and come back in behind the enemy from the jungle. You can basically just repeat this over and over again. This will force the enemy ADC and support to retreat back to tower or force out a rotation. Or just give you some nice Shackles and maybe a kill.

If you manage to force them under tower or kill some of them you should invade the purple buff and red buff. And take the red buff to deal even more damage, but prepare for your mid/ADC to rage because he/she doesn't know how much damage you will deal with it compared to them.

As soon as you get 1100 gold you should back and get travelers shoes and maybe fill up on some potions if you have taken a lot of damage.

Now that you have travelers shoes you can start rotating towards mid an try and invade the enemy jungle.

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Mid Game

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Now you should have Void Stone finished and you can 1v1 everyone so just try and find the enemy jungle while he is doing some of his buffs and kill him. This will give your jungle a lead as well as giving your ADC solo farm so he/she should also get a lead.

Also try and burn beads in mid and on the enemy ADC. You should also try and look for some Blink Rune --> No Escape combos.

You want to just give your team a huge lead at this point by bullying the enemy team. Because late game you are going to fall of pretty hard. Also remember to ward, warding the enemy jungle is a good idea so that you can see when the enemy jungle is doing his buffs so that you can invade.

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Late Game

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You still want to try and pick off people 1v1, and force their Purification Beads or just kill them. Try and use Bolster Defenses in fights to help out your team and pick people you know do not have Purification Beads with your No Escape. Or just go ham and try to get some 5 man No Escape. But be careful so you don't just Blink Rune --> No Escape and die before you even get it off.

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