Aphrodite

Mage · Magical · Ranged · Greek

Builds and guide for SMITE® 2, patch OB47

Mid Support

Aphrodite Mid build

Top players on Aphrodite Mid: 50.0% win in 1,179 games, past month (SmiteBrain, Master+ ranked)

Recommended for Conquest, in buy order. For Joust, Assault or a specific enemy team, open it in the tool.

STARTBluestone Brooch
1Spear of Desolation
2The Cosmic Horror
3Totem of Death
4Omen Drum
5Rod of Tahuti
6Obsidian Shard

Relic: Purification Beads

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What top players buy

Item	In builds	Win rate
Rod of Tahuti	79%	55.7%
Spear of Desolation	73%	50.6%
Book of Thoth	39%	52.1%
Obsidian Shard	32%	57.2%
The Cosmic Horror	31%	48.0%
Totem of Death	30%	50.5%

Best matchups

Hardest matchups

Top-player items, win rates and matchups: SmiteBrain, Master+ ranked, past month.

How to play Aphrodite

Aphrodite is a ranged mage from the Greek pantheon who deals magical damage. Top players mostly play Aphrodite in the Mid lane (76% of games) and the Support role (24% of games).

In your kit, Kiss (link or stun) and Back Off! (knockback and damage) are your crowd control. Love Birds (heal and damage) adds damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Undying Love (damage immunity), on a long cooldown (about 100s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Center of Attention: nearby players grant protections.

Community guides level Love Birds, Back Off! and Kiss first. Max Love Birds first, then Back Off!, then Kiss.

Most of your damage comes from abilities, so fight from behind your front line and never be the closest god to the enemy. Look for the moment your crowd control can land, then follow up with the rest of your damage. You have no dash, so your positioning is your escape. In the mid lane, clear the wave quickly, then help the side lanes or the jungle.

Start with Bluestone Brooch, then buy Spear of Desolation. Top players buy it in the first two or three slots. Your core is The Cosmic Horror and Totem of Death, and you finish with Omen Drum, Rod of Tahuti and Obsidian Shard. A good relic is Purification Beads. If the enemy team heals a lot or you keep dying, open the full tool and enter the enemy gods for the exact swaps.

If you own Aspect of Heartbreak, it reworks Kiss (charm, enemy link), Back Off! (knockback and damage), Love Birds (heal and damage) and Undying Love (area kiss, link). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Kuzenbo, Hercules and Atlas, and struggle against Charon, Hades or Athena. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.

Skill order

Levels 1 to 5: Love Birds, Back Off!, Kiss, Love Birds and Undying Love. Max Love Birds first, then Back Off!, then Kiss, and put points in Undying Love whenever you can.

Kiss			3												15	16		18	19
Back Off!		2						8			11	12		14
Love Birds	1			4		6	7			10
Undying Love					5				9				13				17			20

From a SmiteFire guide by Ragna_smite, updated 2026-10-26.

Abilities

Passive Center of Attention · Nearby players grant protections
Ability 1 Kiss · Link or stun
At max rank: 120 damage (25% Intelligence), stun duration 0.8s, range 8.8 m, radius 0.8 m. Cooldown 12s, 70 mana.
Ability 2 Back Off! · Knockback and damage
At max rank: 250 damage (50% Intelligence), 120 bonus damage (20% Intelligence), slow 30%, slow duration 2s, radius 3.2 m. Cooldown 12s, 90 mana.
Ability 3 Love Birds · Heal and damage
At max rank: range 11.2 m. Cooldown 14s, 90 mana.
Ultimate Undying Love · Damage immunity
At max rank: buff duration 2s. Cooldown 90s, 70 mana.

Ability numbers at max rank: SMITE® 2 by Hi-Rez Studios, patch OB47, via the SMITE 2 Wiki. Descriptions are our own wording.

Community guides

Recent SMITE 2 guides from SmiteFire, best rated first. Where top-player data is thin (off-roles, new gods), their builds also nudge the recommended build.

Mid guide by Ragna_smite rated 9.6/10 from 16 votes · updated 2026-10-26