is a great item if none of your friendly gods have a self sustaining ability or heal which forces the enemy to buy anti-heal, if that is the case you can get this item last. If the enemy team bought any kind of antiheal don't buy it.can be pretty fun if your team is snowballing hard and you want stupid amount of slow on your Preemptive Chargehas a pretty trashy passiv but can be a good item to get when the enemy team went full out CC combo. Combine it with other CDR items but don't go over the limit.is for when you don't have to buyfor your team because they all have escapes or abilites that negate slows. Get it when you are getting trashed by the enemyetc. and your Preemtive Strike isn't enough to get out of trouble.is a ok last item to buy when the enemy has more than one god with atleast over 2.5k health. Try to use its passive to your full advantage (Athenasworks great with it).is for when the enemy is snowballing, you can tank towers in late game anyway, so you mostly want to get it so the enemy has a harder time pushing you when they are ahead.

is a really great potion, buy it before you sell your boots and buy any one of the defense items from the previous sections you still want to have.is ok I guess, if you have the cash after you bought every item, you can get it. By that point the extra 50 protection are not that great.

gives some nice extra speed and health, plus the 20% aura debuff to atack speed is really great if the enemy team has more than one auto attack carry in their team.Under no circumstances do you get this item or, when you want the enemy adc orto hit you as fast as possible, more about this in the Relic choice chapter and the Conquest Build (vs heavy auto attackers) section.is a great item when the enemy has a crit based team or the enemy adc (if he build crit) is fed, it takes away 50% of the crit damage and gives you some health + physical protection. Use tab in order to find out what the enemy team build before you get this item.takes the same approach as thein how to deal with the auto attack carry problem. You should probably get it and, if the enemy auto attack problem is getting out of hand.got a buff, so it's a really good item on Athena now. Her passiv gives you 3 AA blocks, this item will give you 3 blocks when fully stacked and if you haveupgraded you will have a total of 8 auto attack blocks, which could easily become the new meta for Athena build.

NOTE: These items except forgive you either CDR or CCR or both, from now on out you should watch out that you don't go over the limit. Especially regarding CDR.is great, the passive is quite good considering how many gods these days have hard CC. If you see yourself getting peeled a lot it can be a good friend.One of the best items and one of my favorite is, it gives you a great amount of magical protection and the passive is really great and allows you to spam yourmore often.Watch that you dont go over the cdr limit by to much please.it in your build, nothing stops you from getting it later on.is back baby it is fairly good on its own but you should consider getting it if the enemy has a lot of knockup/back, pulls or grabs like for example aoretc.

: You should buy this item if you feel the need to use your abilities often. The 20% CDR is great and gives you 30% cooldown reductation with, allowing you to spam your ultimate (and youris aitem to get for some extra protection for both magical and physical damage, pretty useful when the enemy team has a burst damage setup.The passive is amazing and works great together with her teamfight potential. It can cc chain the enemy if you take enough damage after you used your, please don't try to stay in the teamfight after it popped unless you are confident you will survive.is a great item if the enemy team went a bit to crazy with their magical damage output. In such a situation it is a really useful item, but even with fewer mages in the enemy team you can still get it.Can be a really useful item, if you want to spam your relic in order to support your team or engage with blink more often. Get it if you feel like you need to make a bigger difference in order to win a teamfight.

is one of theitems you should focus on buying early on, unless you want some extra bang on your ultimate or need that early healer debuff you should probably get it.is pretty much a must if your lane enemy decided for whatever crazy reason to bring Aphrodite/Hel as the support to the lane.Should also be bought if the enemy has a Freya adc.If the enemy has a healer in the solo or mid lane, you should get it later on.is a really good item, it gives you everything you could want that your Athena ultimate doesn't have yet. I would argue that it is one of the better items you can get to really help you in a Athena ultimate engagment.You can get it as a 3rd item but certainly can also wait up to last item to get it.same solution to the healer problem that Pestilencee offers but instead you get physical protection. It gives less health thanbut the Mana it offers at that stage can be somewhat helpful.Get it when the enemy team is more focused on physical damage, but don't you ever get bothandthey don't stack.

NOTE: Buy order from here on out is situational, many items can be interchanged with each other. And also don't buy Contagion and Pestilence, they don't stack with each other.Why? Simply put, it is one of the best support items out there. It gives you a good amount of health, while its passive provides your nearby teammates with +10 protection against magical and physical damage (if fully stacked)And I didn't even mention the extra physical and magical protection you yourself get with each stack...The sooner you buy it the better, shouldn't stop you from considering to getorearlier, more about them in the next item section note.However if you decide to go with any of the other don't you dare to not buylater on.

can be quite good, the health + passiv for the early/mid game is not something that should be ignored. Against a aggresive duo lane (like Ares) it can be a good pick up early in the game.is really strong on a Athena support and should be yourYou can start with them for that extra early cdr and mana, to use your abilites more often and quicker. Athena is quite mana hungry in the early game, so this item helps you out alot.is quite fun when you decide you want some early/mid game damage, it can really help you melt some mid laners and adc gods.In late game you should sell any of the shoes you got and buy. Now you have a item slot open and can fill it with whatever item I listed in the purchase order you still want to have.

I wont tell anybody with which potion they should start. I prefer 4xand 2x, some prefer more early wards than the 1 default you get, or more/less potions.is a important consunamble you should get at start, if you know the enemy lane has a faster clear than you. A enemy Izanami+Xing lane would be good moment to pick up HoG as a example

Okay, let's face it:is the only Support item to start with there is not other valid option period.There is really only one reason why this item is in the current meta: That sweet extra, you get my boi.

Array ( [major] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 23 [display_name] => Ares [url] => ares ) [scoreVal] => 2 [notes] => The only support that can potentially counter [[Defender of Olympus]], if played correctly. His [[No Escape]] can pull you back, after you used your ultimate, because you are not cc immun after you land near your friend. His [[Shackles]] interrupts your predictable and quite long charge up time of [[Preemptive Strike]] and his overall aggresive playstyle can be quite difficult in the early game. And since you won't buy beads as a support, yes even against a [[Ares]]. You need to use your ultimate, if you really think you would be in trouble if getting pulled. The good thing to keep in mind, you can still easily be the better support for the team, if you use your [[Confound]] smart. He is a threat to you personally, but in teamfights you can still be more dominant. ) [1] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 19 [display_name] => Bakasura [url] => bakasura ) [scoreVal] => 2 [notes] => Same problem as with [[Nemesis]] with the same solutions, he melts tanks and he forces you to adjust your relic choices, and itemization to a degree other gods don't. Just as with Nemesis even those adjustment might not be enough. ) [2] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 48 [display_name] => Geb [url] => geb ) [scoreVal] => 2 [notes] => His [[Stone Shield]] can be quite annoying in laning phase, but in mid/late game you can outperform him easily, as you can [[Confound]] more people than he can shield. When you taunt him, his [[Stone Shield]] doesn't really help him at all, but beware that you don't set him up for a [[Cataclysm]] by peeling him near your fellow gods, unless they can handle the damage that follows. ) [3] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 49 [display_name] => Nemesis [url] => nemesis ) [scoreVal] => 2 [notes] => She can be quite annoying, I wouldn't call her a hard counter since certain relics/items like [[Heavenly Wings]] or [[Winged Blade]] can safe you some trouble. But she forces you to get some of these items. Don't try to take to many hits from her, she melts tanks. ) ) [minor] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 2 [display_name] => Arachne [url] => arachne ) [scoreVal] => 4 [notes] => The good old Heavenly Wings will solve a lot of what she has to offer. But more important is that you can easily peel her away from any target she is attacking. Try not to die in the process, right items like [[Witchblade]] will help you with that. ) [1] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 26 [display_name] => Bacchus [url] => bacchus ) [scoreVal] => 4 [notes] => You can interrupt his [[Belch of the Gods]] and if timed correctly negate the damage of his [[Belly Flop]] with your [[Confound]]. He can't do it the other way around since you don't have a charge up on your [[Confound]]. Althoug he can interrupt your [[Preemptive Strike]]. ) [2] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 24 [display_name] => Freya [url] => freya ) [scoreVal] => 4 [notes] => Same as with [[Mercury.]] Not really a threath with [[Shield of Thornes]] into [[Confound]] Combo. She can still melt your allies, so try to peel her as soon as she goes into hyper carry mode. And if you didn't go for [[Shield of Thornes]] which is perfectly ok, just get [[Witchblade]] instead. ) [3] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 9 [display_name] => Sobek [url] => sobek ) [scoreVal] => 4 [notes] => [[Sobek]] isn't really a problem, just try to time your [[Confound]] right and you can pretty much negate everything Sobek does. Get [[Heavenly Wings]] and you make him somewhat useless. A good Sobek player who knows how to [[Charge Prey]] can still be a threat, so don't get cocky. ) ) [tiny] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 44 [display_name] => Mercury [url] => mercury ) [scoreVal] => 5 [notes] => Not really a threat for you, you can counter him hard with [[Shield of Thornes]] and/or [[Hide of Nemean Lion]] into [[Confound]] Combo, if you want too. He will get tired of killing himself at some point. The problem is that he can still destroy your team, by just using his beads in the right moments. Note: Ttry to bait his beads out in order to get him when a real engagement starts. ) ) [extreme] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [god] => Array ( [god_id] => 41 [display_name] => Tyr [url] => tyr ) [scoreVal] => 1 [notes] => He is the only god that can ignore your very existence, and that is something bad for a tank and it bothers me. You can't really use that many items/relics to counter him, so just try to ignore him and only use your [[Confound]] on him when he is using his [[Fearless]] on your teammates or your team needs some quick cc. ) ) ) 1

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