is Ares useless or simply the most BORING god to play.

[76561199140881150]

I find ares the most useless god in the game, im new player but i have already tried every god, Ares is the most useless to me, hes so easy to counter, 9/10 times his ultimate doesn't do anything because all enemies either have beads or they can escape with their ultimate's purification, Ares 3 is also useless because it takes so much time to do damage and they always silence or stun you, I don't even know what his 2 does but i think it gives defense to allies but i don't know it's useless to me, i tried so much to play him but ares is both BORING and useless, i like his new design although i didn't hate the older version, i think they need to rework his abilities because he's so repetitive, Buy blink, do 1 three times then 3, repeat until you fall from your chair.
To me other than Arena, totally useless god.

[Rave Pathfinder.]

Originally posted by Ron:

I find ares the most useless god in the game, im new player but i have already tried every god, Ares is the most useless to me, hes so easy to counter, 9/10 times his ultimate doesn't do anything because all enemies either have beads or they can escape with their ultimate's purification, Ares 3 is also useless because it takes so much time to do damage and they always silence or stun you, I don't even know what his 2 does but i think it gives defense to allies but i don't know it's useless to me, i tried so much to play him but ares is both BORING and useless, i like his new design although i didn't hate the older version, i think they need to rework his abilities because he's so repetitive, Buy blink, do 1 three times then 3, repeat until you fall from your chair.
To me other than Arena, totally useless god.

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How can i say this.
In arena devs knew that his ult would not really be useful or only good for surprising people.
So when they buff a certain parts of his kit in previous patches i was like ok.

So to make my point more simple your supposed to use Ares like a flamethrower and combo his 1 aka the chain grab to melt people, or just plain and general make people f,uck off with your flamethrower by using cooldown tank type build.

I hope this sorta gives you sort of a clearance.

[76561199140881150]

Originally posted by Rizen:

Originally posted by Ron:

I find ares the most useless god in the game, im new player but i have already tried every god, Ares is the most useless to me, hes so easy to counter, 9/10 times his ultimate doesn't do anything because all enemies either have beads or they can escape with their ultimate's purification, Ares 3 is also useless because it takes so much time to do damage and they always silence or stun you, I don't even know what his 2 does but i think it gives defense to allies but i don't know it's useless to me, i tried so much to play him but ares is both BORING and useless, i like his new design although i didn't hate the older version, i think they need to rework his abilities because he's so repetitive, Buy blink, do 1 three times then 3, repeat until you fall from your chair.
To me other than Arena, totally useless god.

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How can i say this.
In arena devs knew that his ult would not really be useful or only good for surprising people.
So when they buff a certain parts of his kit in previous patches i was like ok.

So to make my point more simple your supposed to use Ares like a flamethrower and combo his 1 aka the chain grab to melt people, or just plain and general make people f,uck off with your flamethrower by using cooldown tank type build.

I hope this sorta gives you sort of a clearance.

i know how he's supposed to be used i've watched countless tutorials and played many games, i always go cdr and auras, but he's just too derp to be useful, his combo is sooo slow that there's no chance you'll be able to output the amount of dmg that his skills are supposed to output because there's no chance that you won't get stun/silence at least once in a teamfight and once you're silenced or stunned you're pretty much just an spectator not being able to do anything else other than maybe block some dmg, i've read youtube comments saying that he's one of the most useless gods in the meta right now

[StabbyU2]

With Ares you want to invest in flame thrower then Chains the defense buff should be popped during team fights and the ult is great if you want to drag someone into a tower, best way to use the ult is early on so you can get some cheap kills if people don't expect it by tower dragging then if it is 1 v 1 hit them with chains 3 times and flame thrower to finish

[Seifer82001]

Ares is not that useless, its your team comps that is. If you got people that understand how Ares works aka his kit and have to "fake out" people into using their beads, you can get some nice combos going. The thing is that most people just know how to deal with him with beads and using their ult/s to get out of his ult.

[Hodor]

I dont know if Im a Ares main, but I love him and I get "I report you" or "you are scum of a cheater" and so on whispers...
Most Ares players are these "60secs Ares" they only use ulti. But his chains are the key. Add me and I prove it to you. My chains hit well...

[mefinn80]

People underestimate chains... early game with enough accuracy to land all three they do a hell of a lot of damage. %health is better late game so... idk why people invest in that first.
*edit... maybe not "better"... but more damage.

[Rave Pathfinder.]

Originally posted by mefinn80:

People underestimate chains... early game with enough accuracy to land all three they do a hell of a lot of damage. %health is better late game so... idk why people invest in that first.
*edit... maybe not "better"... but more damage.

Holy sht someone knows the chain meta at lvl5-10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGzPl_EZ8wc

[Lorska]

People level his 3 first because it's his best clear. You get the 1 afterwards and max it first though.
What you're trying to do with ares is hitting level 2 immediately, then killing the enemy support with your chains (you don't go for the adc because they'll have beads most likely unless they are so behind in clear that there is no chance that they'll get to level 2 and you know that you'll have the damage to kill them even through beads).

Unless you have a cheese double beads burners lane with something like artemis/cupid/heim and the enemy is susceptible to it (limited immunity) you try to leave lane when you hit 5 and put pressure on mid.
Ares is not a character you put in lane and slowly farm with, his use is that you can surprise enemies with your kill pressure.

The reason he works is that you don't need a lot of levels to be effective. You only need your chains and ult, everything else is just gravy.

Do know that he's not very good though... His old age is showing, so unless you play at scrub level or know exactly how to utilize him he will be useless...

[Anonn 20 16]

Ares is not useless at all but like many other gods he depends on the enemy picks. He is designed to punish the gods that utilize movement speed skills and he is also capable of burning off beads like nobody's business on cooldown.

This basically makes him very cancerous to play against because you will either have to beads his ult to avoid getting locked down or you will beads and then play like a pus to avoid other forms of cc that the enemy team may have.

Then, his combo is devastating. He can use his chains to stay tethered to 3 people or 1 person for up to 5 seconds (6 on paper but can't be done before running out of time) along with his searing flesh, his 3, which does % damage. Add his 2 which gives a whole items's worth of defences and hp5 along with some ridiculous ccr on all close by allies and you have a monster in your hands.

This along with the fact that he can utilize aura items for damage, when aura items are actually very strong to begin with, he is a very punishing god that can play both agressive and defencive at the same time.

He is not useless at all but as i already said he is primarily used against gods with high mobility. To utilize him properly you would also need a blink for surprise ults.

[【ボス B o s s】]

Are has saved my ass so many times i can't even count.

No idea what you're on about.

[Firehex]

His chains helps a lot, also you can have second hero with mass ult to make people use their beads before Ares comes in.

[BB-Saa]

He can be very good in the right hands, your chains are key though, never miss all 3 followups, max armor with auroas and do some damage boiii

[Horrid]

You should only take aura items, i don't even buy boots for Ares, I take the potion that provides 18% movement speed so I can take another aura item for the extra damage. If you have 6 aura items, your gonna hit pretty hard.

Not to mention his 2 + Sovereignty gives you 100 health regen ez.

[Morgenstern]

u need to use chains properly, ares isnt useless u are :)

[Lorska]

Originally posted by Horrid:

You should only take aura items, i don't even buy boots for Ares, I take the potion that provides 18% movement speed so I can take another aura item for the extra damage. If you have 6 aura items, your gonna hit pretty hard.

Not to mention his 2 + Sovereignty gives you 100 health regen ez.

Horrible advice.
So you're skipping the most efficient item (boots) on the most underfarmed role in the game just to save ~600 gold after about 30 min game time?
Don't EVER do this.

Building just aura items is also the most nooby thing I see people do with ares.
Do you really think supports would suddenly build only aura items if they all had 30 power on them? No, because no support in their right mind would value some measly power over actual utility. You're not even building pen (apart from void stone which isn't even a good item right now).
Thebes, Sov are fine and you should probably always have. Heartward if there is a lot of enemy magical damage. Shoguns if you run double carry. Emperor's if your team has absolutely atrocious push (and even then, considering how broken enhanced FG is, it's probably not even good then). You can maybe justify a void stone if there are a few tanky people and you have some magical damage in the back like a magical adc. Healers are pretty much non-existent atm so there's usually no need for pestilence or contagion.

Basically all aura items apart from thebes and Sov are conditional. If you choose to blindly build those you're pretty much forfeiting extremely valuable items for the sake of some meaningless stats.

Knowing when to build aura items and when to build better items is what separates the good and bad Ares players. The rest is just hitting chains.