Athena’s honor

The price of “Honor of Kings” fighter/assassin Athena is 688 tokens, or 13,888 gold. She is an Assassin Fighter subclass that excels in the jungle and focuses on mobility and fast strikes or burst damage.

Designed for the professional player, Athena is ranked as an S-tier hero. She excels in the front line and is skilled at breaking through opposition defenses with quick and forceful attacks, showcasing her strength at different phases of play. She is a continual threat to adversaries because of her ability to run and maneuver throughout the battlefield, which enables her to engage and withdraw successfully.

Athena’s item build plan should concentrate on improving her Burst Damage, Mobility, and Survivability because of her role as a Fighter/Assassin. This strategy guarantees that she may easily move around the battlefield, quickly take out important targets, and maintain her position during skirmishes and team battles.

Athena abilities, skill order, combos, best builds, counters, and battle tips are all covered in this guide.

Athena Proficiency and Capabilities
Passive Divine Awakening: Increases non-hero units’ damage by 25%. Continue to travel in a true form after death, giving friends approaching Athena a 10% boost in movement speed, gaining vision, and having the ability to resurrect at the position of the true form. Upon revival, you will deal 480 (+112% physical attack) physical damage and knock up foes for 0.75 seconds.

Energy Cost: 0s Cooldown: 0s
Advice: After passing away, Athena can act as a moving vision scout, giving teammates vision. Selecting a suitable spot to resurrect is essential to preventing enemy death.

Holy Advanced (Skill 01): Use the shield to dash forward, knocking back enemies and dealing 300/360/420/480/540/600 (+75% physical attack) magic damage. It also grants her a 375/465/555/645/735/825 (+82% physical attack) point shield for one second, which protects her from control effects while the shield is in effect.

6 seconds of cooldown; 50 energy costs
Advice: With this ability, Athena can run a short distance while bouncing off adversaries and creating a shield to withstand damage. Make good use of this function because Athena will be stunned if the shield breaks.

Unstoppable Spear (Skill 02): Leap in the designated direction and deal 350/400/450/500/550/600 (+100% physical attack) physical damage to the target by enhancing the subsequent normal attack. 25% of the target’s lost health is dealt as physical damage when the same target is struck three times in a row. Piercing is activated when the upgraded assault is launched within 6 seconds. Piercing Spear cooldown is shortened by 4 seconds when foes are struck with Holy March or Reverent Shield.

Energy Cost: 40 Cooldown: 6/5.8/5.6/5.4/5.2/5.0s
Advice: This is Athena’s primary dash ability, which enables damage to be dealt with a second dash using a regular attack. You can use it to escape as well.

Immovable Aegis (Ultimate): Athena can gain a 900/1800/2700 (+100% physical attack) point shield by raising her shield. This shield will be immune to control effects for a maximum of 1.5 seconds. She then uses the shield to retaliate, dealing opponents within range 240/360/480 (+70% physical attack) magic damage. The shield’s counterattack damage rises by 12.5% and the cast time falls, stacking up to 8 layers, each time she is struck by an opponent hero attack while it is in effect.

Energy Cost: 70/75/80 Cooldown: 22/20/18s
Advice: This talent creates a shield that can deal AOE damage after it finishes and absorb a lot of damage. After sprinting in to absorb damage and inflict a variety of sluggish effects, it works best in the middle of team battles.

Combo Sequence of Athena
Holy Advanced → Unstoppable Spear → Normal Attack → Immovable Aegis → Unstoppable Spear → Normal Attack → Unstoppable Spear →.

Skill 2 should be used first, followed by a normal attack, skill 1 for knockback, skill 2 and another normal attack, and finally skills 3, 2, and a normal attack.

Athena Colleagues
Dharma: Athena’s ultimate is a stationary skill, and her entire combo requires long operations with minimal controls. Thus, gank efficiency can be greatly increased by partnering with a melee hero who possesses strong, long-duration control. Athena’s needs are adequately served by Bodhidharma’s control, and even though his final move shifts the enemy’s position, Athena’s great mobility makes this irrelevant.

Ata: Because of her excellent mobility, Athena can assault foes by catching up to them and using skill 1 to knock them back. Athena can then use her ultimate to kill the enemy by performing a full combination. Both have powerful burst damage, and while having short control durations, they work well together.

The Athena Counter
After entering the battle, Athena may not be able to use her casting abilities due to Sun Bin’s ultimate silence effect and control, making her useless.
When Athena joins a team fight, Guan Yu He may easily shove her away.
Avoid using core damage skills on Athena during her ultimate casting because her skill 1 shield has a short duration, making it easy to shatter and control her.
Strategies & Advice for Athena Battles
Detail 1: To see the adversary, take the passive.
Detail 2: Cast skill 2 several times to increase damage.

To ensure more precision, it is advisable to cast skill 1 after dashing in with skill 2, as it has a limited range. The ultimate is most effective when used in the middle of team battles to slow down more adversaries and absorb skill damage.
Athena must use her ultimate to slow more foes and take more skill damage by diving into the middle of the opposing formation during team battles. This will make it easier for allied assassin heroes to enter the fray. Athena can also flank and push back important opponent characters thanks to the knockback effect of Skill 1.