Hi, dev (and Composer) of this game here!
We actually floated the idea of buffs/debuffs and other modifiers to both enemies and Ares early in development, then quickly realized how out of scope that'd be for a 48h jam.
That is actually part of the reason we chose this themeing for our game in the first place, since it's pretty easy to explain why other greek gods would "buff" or "nerf" Ares, to help him in trying to die or stop him from doing so, just to troll him, since that's about par for the course for greek mythology!