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You're going to sell Stone of Binding for Ethereal Staf and Shoes of the Magi for Spirit Robe, when you have enough money to buy Elixir of Speed
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Intro | Pros/Cons | Skills | Items | Relics | Jungle | Summary | Other Guides | Guide updates |
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Intro | Pros/Cons | Skills | Items | Relics | Jungle | Summary | Other Guides | Guide updates |
ABILITIES
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REACH
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Reach is a vary straightforward passive. It increases your basic attack magical power by 15% while making it a ranged attack, that goes through walls, after using an ability, making it a very useful execution/poking tool
This ability can not be leveled, and is active at all times.
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PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
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Preemptive Strike is a dash,
which has a charge up time of 1,5 seconds, that goes through minions. but stops at enemy gods, dealing 80/130/180/230/280 (+50% of your magical power), and applies a 25% slow to enemy gods for 2.25s
This ability should be leveled second, after Shield Wall and before Confound
Use this ability for the following circumstances:
- Disrupt Enemy Team Escape/Chase Potential. - Getaway and Chase - Slow Source to ensure Shield Wall Damage. |
CONFOUND
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Confound is a pure CC ability, which forces enemies to walk in Athena's direction, while basic attacking.
The duration goes up by the level (1.0/1.25/1.5/1.75/2.0s).
This ability should be leveled third, after Preemptive Strike and before Defender of Olympus.
Use this ability for the following circumstances:
- Force enemies to use Purification Beads. - Initiate teamfights. - To force an enemy to attack you, and not your teammate. |
SHIELD WALL
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Shield Wall is an important ability for Athena and her combos. This ability has 2 states, the first, when the ability is activated (70/110/150/190/230 (+50% of your Magical Power)), and, after 2 seconds, when the ability disappears, it applies a second roll of damage (70/135/200/265/330. (+50% of your Magical Power))
This ability should be leveled first
Use this ability for the following circumstances:
- Main Damage Tool. - Apply damage to the enemy team. - Use it to zone choke points |
DEFENDER OF OLYMPUS
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Defender of Olympus certainly deserves its name. It allows you to select an ally, and you'll teleport to him, after 3,6 seconds, dealing area damage (350 / 450 / 550 / 650 / 750 (+90% of your Magical Power)), and it mitigates 20% of the damage taken by him. On top of that, it also makes you CC immune.
You should put 1 point in Defender of Olympus at level 5. From there, it should be leveled last.
Use this ability in the following circumstances:
- Deal insane burst damage. - Become CC immune and teleport in/away to/from a good/bad engagement. - Force Enemies to Relocate. - Become Globally present |
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Core item #1 - Power / Penetration / Movement
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Core #2 - Power / Protections / Passive
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Core Item #3 - Power / Protection / Passive
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Recommended Item #1 - Power / Protections / Health / Passive
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Recommended Item #2 - Power / Mana / Lifesteal / Passive
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Recommended Item #3 - Power / Passive
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Recommended Item #4 - Power / Health / CCR / Passive
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Recommended #5 - Protections / CDR / CCR / Passive
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Relic #1
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Relic #2
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Relic #3
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Relic #4
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Levels
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Level 1 - Level 5
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What to do?
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- Farm as much as you can.
- Take your chances! Punish enemy jungler when possible! - Kill mid harpies. They yield a lot of XP. - Remember! Speed, Back Harpies, Blue, Mid Harpies, Red! - Start Ganking! - Stay safe! |
Levels
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Level 6 - Level 9
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What to do?
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- Be more aggressive !
- Don't forget to farm and kill buff camps ! - Gank more and get kills ! Even if your teammate KS you, be satisfied, you're still putting the enemy behind ! - Stay safe! |
Levels
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Level 10 - Level 15
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What to do?
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- Farm until the team needs you for teamfights
- Take your chances! Try to 1v1 people who you're ahead of! - Pay attention to the map and always place wards! - Stay safe! |
Levels
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Level 16 - Level 20
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What to do?
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- Farm less, fight more!
- Kill enemies running away from the teamfight - Be in the middle of a fight, you're a guardian and you have protections! - Stay safe! |
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Athena is, by far, one of the best guardians of this game. We've explored her jungle potential in this guide, which proves that Athena is pretty versatile goddess. If you are going againts a Athena, be on your feet. If you are Athena, prepare to not only save everyone's life, but to destroy your enemy's day.
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Support Athena |
Support Aphro |
Olorun |
. Apollo |
. Support Terra |
Solo Aphro |
Mid Nu Wa |
08-24-15 ~ Publishment of the guide 11-21-15 ~ Guide major update, becoming a Full Guide, instead of Build Only. 11-27-15 ~ The Black Friday Update 04~30~16 ~ SEASON 3 UPDATE! HOOZAH ! 07~10~16 ~ General Update 07~16~16 ~ Other Guides Tab 08~04~16 ~ Actual Guide Update to Potion of Magical Might change. 09~11~16 ~ Guide Update 10~20~16 ~ Guide Update #2 06~12~19 ~ Updated the build to match Season 6 Standars. Guide Information is OUTDATED. 06~20~19 ~ Guide fully updated, information is UPDATED and RELEVANT. Info on Threats will be added in the next update. 07~18~19 ~ Guide Updated, most Threats have been filled in, fixed BBCoding Errors and updated the Other Guides tab. 07~27~19 ~ Added Pridwen and Staff of Myrddin as possible items. |
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There in the item explanation part, Shoes of the Magi exactly, you accidentally wrote "18% movemnt speed"! it's not important but i wanted to tell you anyways!
I can suggest testing out HoG AKA Wrath on her as first active. Your objective stealing potential / enemy lockdown is literally insane. Dash in/blink , shield wall, taunt, Wrath for another stun, AAsecure with team mates / dash out escape if u blinked in
I'm only V with her, but I main support (X Geb, Bacc, Ymir) and I do this all the time hehe
GGHF
From my experience, it helps you with your clear (since athena doesn't have the highest AS) and the aura has helped ME secure kills a lot of times. Do what u want mate !
It's a rubbish support build, but abandoning my carry to follow my dreams of being a jungler 2 minutes into the match was fun!
I love Athena in the jungle. I have her diamond. Interesting MM second item, haven't tried that. I will next time. I usually go ethereal second item. Also it's hard for me to choose another pen item over void stone, but if you don't go void stone I would use Obsidian Shard because Athena doesn't have DoT and it is usually unlikely to hit both damage walls. But CDR boots are a must with that extra mana early game. My usual build is CDR boots, eth staff, spirit robe or mail of ren, void stone, soul rev, rod of tah. But good guide.
Thank you <3 It's always nice to receive positive feedback from other 10 Athena players <3
Prism, I try your build on 3 different games... It works perfectly! :D
However, I build Spear of the Magus instead of Soul Reaver as I needed more penetration than what the Void Stone provides.
Do you build void stone and spear? I would go Obsidian Shard instead of spear if you do not go void stone.
For Spear of the Magus to be effective, you would need to hit your 1, then drop 3, then taunt into wall to hit it second time, which can be done but at least in my experience in teamfights it is hard to focus one god that much.
I don't think it works that way.
I eff up bbcoding sometimes. Fixing lats