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The Almighty Ares - ARENA

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by Lumin0x1ty updated August 14, 2016

Smite God: Ares

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Ares Build

Build Item Shoes of Focus Shoes of Focus
Build Item Chronos' Pendant Chronos' Pendant
Build Item Heartward Amulet Heartward Amulet
Build Item Sovereignty Sovereignty
Build Item Void Stone Void Stone
Build Item Pythagorem's Piece Pythagorem's Piece
Build Item Blink Rune Blink Rune
Build Item Cursed Ankh Cursed Ankh

Ares's Skill Order

Shackles

1 X Y
Shackles
2 4 6 8 11

Bolster Defenses

2 A B
Bolster Defenses
1 14 16 18 19

Searing Flesh

3 B A
Searing Flesh
3 7 10 12 15

No Escape

4 Y X
No Escape
5 9 13 17 20
Shackles
2 4 6 8 11

Shackles

1 X
Chains extend from Ares' shield, doing damage to all enemies in its path. Hitting a god shackles them to Ares, Cripples them, preventing movement abilities, dealing the same damage every second while slowing them by 15% and buffing Ares. While shackled, Ares can fire another chain for free within 2s. Jungle Camps take an extra +40% damage.

Ability Type: Line, Cripple, Damage
Minion Damage: 70 / 90 / 110 / 130 / 150 (+15% of your Magical Power)
God Damage per Tick: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 (+15% of your Magical Power)
Speed Buff per Target Shackled: 15%
Duration: 4s
Max Shackles: 3
Cost: 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90
Cooldown: 15 / 14.5 / 14 / 13.5 / 13s
Bolster Defenses
1 14 16 18 19

Bolster Defenses

2 A
Ares strengthens the defenses of himself and all nearby allies for 6s, granting Basic Attack Damage, Protections, HP5, and reducing Crowd Control durations. For each shackled enemy, the Protection Buffs are increased.

Ability Type: Circle, Buff
Protections: 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40
CC Reduction: 30%
HP5: 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45
Shackle Bonus: 7
Radius: 35
Cost: 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60
Cooldown: 15s
Searing Flesh
3 7 10 12 15

Searing Flesh

3 B
Flames pour forth from Ares' shield, engulfing enemies in a cone in front of him causing damage every .5s for 4s. Ares is immune to Knockback for the duration.

Ability Type: Cone, Damage
Damage Per Tick: 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 (+7% of your Magical Power)
% Max Health Per Tick (Gods): 1 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 3%
% Max Health Per Tick (Minions): 4%
Cost: 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75
Cooldown: 12s
No Escape
5 9 13 17 20

No Escape

4 Y
Ares throws chains out to all enemy gods in an area around him. All enemies hit by the chains are pulled to Ares after 2.5s, taking damage and are stunned.

Ability Type: Area
Damage: 200 / 275 / 350 / 425 / 500 (+40% of your Magical Power)
Stun: 1s
Radius: 35
Cost: 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
Cooldown: 100s

Introduction

It's hard to screw up a good arena Ares build. All you basically need is Cooldowns and you're set. As a diamond Ares I have developed my aggressive ways in playing him and I feel this is the best build for my play style. Maybe you will like it as well.

Early game and at the start of the game.

Gotta have those Shoes of Focus and Blink at the very start. You don't need any of the buffs, leave them for your teammates but make sure to help them obtain them.

At start you want to becareful not to overextend yourself. You are squishie at the start and any smart enemy players will now that you're fast tracking your CD items which means you have almost zero defense at start.

After helping teammates with the first initiate buffs, depending if the enemy Mage(who you will likely see initiating the minion wave)is out of position make sure you try to pop a few Shackles into him. I usually hit Bolster Defenses first before Shackling in order to gain more protections. Again be careful at the start since you will be focused hard. You want to just poke and get out.

If you don't already know this with the Shackle ability, if you successfully land one shackle you can land another up to three times.

Hopefully your teammates are clearing the wave effectively leaving no minions for you to deal with. You do not want to touch the minions since this will cause your Blink to be inactive for 3 seconds.

Hang back just slightly and then the very moment you hit level 5 pop that blink and ult the group for easy kills.

Combos

If Ult and Blink are available -
Blink//Ult//Bolster Defenses//Shackle x 3//Searing Flesh

No Ult and no Blink

Bolster Defense//Shackles x 3//Searing Flesh

Tips and Tricks

Think of Shackles like a shotgun blast that places a DoT(damage over time) on your enemy. This does awesome damage if you land all three as well as provides a speed boost and a speed debuff and a Cripple effect to enemy's movement abilities meaning they can't use those abilities as long as they are shackled.

Don't burn through your Shackles too quickly. Give a second between each Shackle so the DoT is applied to greater effect.

You don't have to just Shackle one enemy god. You can shackle up to three for greater CC(Crowd Control). I always use all my shackles for one person since I play really aggressive, but they moment I see someone in my way or trying to focus me I will Shackle them.

You can use your Shackle to get away. If you haven't picked up on the pattern by now, Shackles is your bread and butter.

I never use Searing Flesh without having at least one Shackle in an enemy. Searing Flesh for me is just a finisher.

Try creating your own build

Remember Cooldown is your main stat to build first. You don't have to be at max CD just have at least have the Shoes of Focus and CD Chest plate or Chronos Pendant at the start. And the rest make sure to have Auras since they boost your offensive abilities due to his passive.

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