Luna/Guide

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Gameplay

Playstyle
Luna is a highly offensive carry who can demolish buildings and clear the battlefield in very little time. Along with her flying Moon Glaives, Luna can call upon the goddess Selemene to cover the battlefield in an Eclipse, striking down large numbers of enemies at once, making her strong in teamfights. Being a purely offensive hero, Luna suffers from a lack of defensive abilities, and can struggle against carries that are geared towards one-on-one combat, and requires a very good teamwork from teammates to maximize her full potential.
Pros	Cons
Very high physical and magical damage output for a carry. Strong when fighting multiple targets at once. Fast nuker, pusher and farmer. High night vision. Excels in interceptions or ambushes. Reliable nuke/stun. Synergizes excellently with lots of heroes. Role versality. Capable of dealing with Ghost Scepter unlike many carries thanks to Lucent Beam and Eclipse's magical damage.	Lacks defense and escape mechanisms. Short attack range. Item dependent. Struggles against high-mobility heroes and items which grant mobility and invisibility. Less effective in one-on-one combats as her single target damage can be unreliable (Eclipse can be easily avoided and Glaives won't bounce against lone targets).

Carry Luna
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Talents

Hero Talents
+0.25s Eclipse Lucent Ministun	25	+20 Lunar Blessing Damage
+100 Lucent Beam Damage	20	2 Moon Glaives fired on Lucent Beam
-30s Eclipse Cooldown	15	-2s Lucent Beam Cooldown
+0.3s Lucent Beam Ministun	10	-8% Moon Glaives Damage Reduction

Tips & Tactics

General

• Because Luna has no means of escaping ganks, she is usually played in the safe lane, with a support. Her Lunar Blessing increases the attack damage from ally supports, making lane harassment easier.
• Luna can have significant killing power by leveling up Lucent Beam to enhance Eclipse.
• Luna is an extremely potent pusher, especially when attacking barracks, as her Moon Glaives will bounce between multiple buildings with each attack.
• Because of this, Luna should be present when the team is taking down towers.
• Any source of lifesteal greatly boosts Luna's survivability in the late game.
• Creep stacking is very useful for Luna. Ask an ally to start stacking for you early on.
• Luna is adept at both stacking and clearing ancient camps, an early level in her passive can make her a formidable last-hitter.
• As Luna relies heavily on base movement speed for mobility, try to let your team's tank absorb the enemy's disables before charging in.
• Luna is very good at finding enemy junglers and making their forest a dangerous place, especially at night.
• Luna excels in intercepting channeling abilities and items, such as Town Portal Scroll, Shackles, Fiend's Grip and Requiem of Souls.
• Tips needed.

Abilities

Lucent Beam

• Lucent Beam's cast range is gigantic. Use it to pick off fleeing heroes.
• Lucent Beam mini-stuns. Use to interrupt teleporting and channeling heroes.
• Lucent Beam has a low cooldown, but should not be spammed too often due to Luna's mediocre mana pool.
• From level 2 on, Lucent Beam can be used effectively to harass enemies out of the lane. Build a Ring of Basilius or Infused Raindrops to obtain some form of mana regen in lane.
• Use Lucent Beam after Eclipse to keep the target inside Eclipse's radius a little longer.
• Lucent Beam is good for last-hitting when you can't/don't want to get near a creep. This is especially true when contesting a big jungle creep with an opponent.

Moon Glaives

• Early points in Moon Glaives will push the lane, and is usually not recommended until laning phase has concluded.
• Moon Glaives is the ability that allows Luna to clear creeps and demolish buildings extremely quickly.
• Moon Glaives has no effect on lone enemies, so try to keep all neutrals and lane creeps at roughly the same HP level when farming.
• Occasionally can be used to attack targets far away, for example strike one last time to a fleeing enemy by attacking a tower.

Lunar Blessing

• A point or two in Lunar Blessing helps Luna score last hits, especially at level 1.
• Lunar Blessing's damage bonus makes a big difference in the early game, when a few attacks from Luna's teammates can kill a weaker enemy.
• Put at least one point in Lunar Blessing before the first night, as it will provide Luna with its bonus night vision.

Eclipse

• Eclipse has a very long cooldown and it can be easily avoided by many abilities. So one must time it right and use it wisely.
• Eclipse's range is short until Luna gets Aghanim's Scepter, so use it only when you are close enough to enemies, but that they still cannot take you out.
• Eclipse is most powerful in the early to mid game, and should be taken advantage of.
• Because of this, Eclipse can be considered an early game ganking ability.
• Use Eclipse near a single enemy to deal heavy damage.
• A level one Eclipse will usually kill a solitary target during the early game.
• If an enemy teleports in to defend a tower, use Eclipse next to them to hit them with the maximum number of strikes. This will often kill a defender.
• While a full Eclipse deals tremendous damage, experienced enemies will usually save their escape mechanisms precisely to avoid this. So try to bait them to use it offensively.
• Disables, slows, Force Staff, and movement abilities like Blink will allow enemies to move out of Eclipse's range. However, reckless use from them and bad timing can also make them easy targets for Eclipse.
• In the late game, Eclipse will become less effective, as many heroes will have Black King Bar.
• Use Eclipse in narrow or confined spaces to make sure enemies don't move out of its radius.
• With Aghanim's Scepter, Eclipse has an enormous cast range and can be cast on the ground or an ally unit. Making it a very good ability for initating and counter-initiating. It also makes Lucent Beams from Eclipse appear twice as fast.
• As Luna, fighting action is safer on the edge of the battle rather then in front lines. Use upgraded Eclipse on your team's initiator to deal more damage. This can keep Luna out of harm's way while still doing damage with Eclipse. But be aware that Eclipse ends when the targeted ally dies in this case.
• Use upgraded Eclipse on the ground in front of allied towers to defend the tower, or behind enemy towers while pushing.
• Use upgraded Eclipse on an invisible ally and let them wreak havoc for you, while you farm.

Items

Starting items:

• Iron Branch gives some good starting attributes and can be built into Magic Wand later.
• Circlet gives good starting attributes and builds into Wraith Band.
• Tango gives Luna some starting health regeneration, allowing her to trade hits with enemies in lane.
• Healing Salve allows Luna regenerate almost her entire health pool in the early game.

Early game:

• Magic Wand is good on most heroes in order to get some bonus burst health as well as bonus stats.
• Boots of Speed are core on any hero for extra move speed in order to chase and to escape.
• Town Portal Scroll is helpful to quickly enter fights from across the map. Luna is one of the carries that can turn the tide of battle thanks to Eclipse.

Mid game:

• Power Treads increase attributes and attack speed to increase Luna's damage output.
• Dragon Lance is among the most cost-effective items in the game, providing strength and agility at a reasonable price. The range increase is particularly nice on Luna since her own range is low and she has no mobility tools to help her get in reach of enemies except her high movement speed. The item is also useful for early-mid game pushing and fighting.
• Manta Style is the core item in most games on Luna giving her damage, health, and bonus move speed. Since Manta Style's illusions obtain Moon Glaives passive, they are useful for pushing and increasing damage output.
• Mask of Madness helps Luna farm neutral and lane creeps with increased movement speed, attack speed, and lifesteal. Disassemble in the late game to build Butterfly and Satanic.
• Aghanim's Scepter will greatly increase the effectiveness of Eclipse as it will allow Luna to cast Eclipse either on an allied unit and have its effects follow them, or cast it on an area. It will also increase total beams and duration, remove the limit on beams per unit, and make the beams appear twice as fast. It is a great item for Luna when her team has a powerful initiator such as Faceless Void and the enemy team has few ways to dodge a long distance Eclipse.

Late game:

• Black King Bar improves Luna's survivability with spell immunity, countering enemy disables, and giving her bonus strength and damage.
• Butterfly offers a great mixture of heavy damage and survivability, giving Luna bonus attack speed, damage, armor, and evasion.
• Satanic gives Luna some much-needed survivability, offering Luna a burst heal to live through immense amounts of damage in fights.
• Hurricane Pike, a situational upgrade of Dragon Lance, provides an escaping and chasing tool for Luna.
• Aghanim's Shard will allow Luna to use Moon Glaives as an active ability to create 4 glaives that will rotate around her in a 150 radius for 7 seconds, reducing damage she takes by 25% while also dealing 75% of Luna's Attack Damage to enemies thart collides with a glaives.
• Monkey King Bar can give Luna great attack speed and damage output while also giving her attacks a chance to pierce evasion.

Situational items:

• Blink Dagger improves Luna's abilities to chase down wounded enemy heroes or escape from pursuing enemy heroes. It can also be used for the initiations with Eclipse.
• Helm of the Dominator synergizes with Lunar Blessing and gives opportunity to dominate Alpha Wolf to increase her attack damage even more.
• Witch Blade will give Luna bonus armor, attack speed and intelligence, and will also increase the projectile speed of Moon Glaives and make them have true strike every 9 seconds. Later it can be upgraded into Parasma that will allow Luna's attacks to weaken magic resistance of enemy heroes, making them more vulnerable to Lucent Beam and Eclipse's magical damage output.
• Eye of Skadi will provide Luna with great attribute bonuses, which also benefit illusions, and the slow effect will keep enemies within Luna's attack range.
• Daedalus will give Luna a great amount of bonus attack damage and will allow Moon Glaives to deal critical strikes to enemies.
• Silver Edge can give Luna great attack speed, chance to deal critical strikes, escaping mechanism and will also allow her to apply a break on an enemy hero that gets attacked by it.
• Linken's Sphere can give Luna the ability to block all the single-targeted abilities, especially spell-immunity piercing ones. If Luna combines it with Black King Bar, her survivablity will improve drastically.
• Disperser can give Luna very high attack damage, as well as good points of agility and intelligence, and will allow Moon Glaives to burn mana of enemy heroes, making it very useful against heroes who rely on mana like Medusa. Disperser will also allow Luna to slow down enemy heroes to keep them in range of Eclipse and to dispel either herself or her allies and make them unslowable.
• Abyssal Blade's bash will proc often thanks to Luna's high attack speed even if she is ranged hero. Abyssal Blade also allows Luna to stun an targeted enemy hero even if they are spell immune and will also provide her with damage block.
• Bloodthorn will give Luna great amount of attack speed, attack damage, intelligence, and will also provide her with health regeneration, mana regeneration and magic resistance. Bloodthorn will also allow Luna to silence an enemy hero, preventing them from dodging Eclipse and will cause Moon Glaives to have true strike on the silenced target while passively allowing Luna's attacks to weaken enemy spell damage.
• Radiance will give Luna great attack damage along with another way of damaging multiple enemies at once if Moon Glaives get disabled by Break, and will also give her good damage output and evasion.
• Rod of Atos will give Luna bonus health and intelligence, allowing her to withstand more damage and use her abilities more often, and will also allow her to root an enemy hero to keep them in her attack range and in range of Eclipse. Later it can be upgraded into Gleipnir that can root multiple enemy heroes at once, and allow Luna's attacks to trigger chain lightning that can bounce between multiple enemies and damage them.
• Gleipnir will allow Luna to root multiple heroes at once, giving her a tool to keep her enemies in range for Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Eclipse while also giving her a chance to have her attacks release a chain lighting that will bounce between enemies and damage them, making this item very good against heroes who rely on illusions and mobility to be effective. Gleipnir's active ability will also allow her to detect invisible heroes if they get caught in it's radius. Gleipnir can make Luna strong even against most heroes she would usually have difficulties to fight against.
• Veil of Discord will give Luna mana regeneration and a fair amount of attributes for early game, and will also allow her to make enemy heroes suffer more damage from Lucent Beam and Eclipse. Veil of Discord can later be upgraded into Shiva's Guard which can do the same, and which can also reduce attack speed, heals and lifesteal of enemy heroes while also giving Luna great attributes and lots of armor.
• Ethereal Blade can give Luna protection against heroes who rely on direct attacks in order to deal damage, extra cast range for Lucent Beam and Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Eclipse along with extra mana regeneration. And it can also be used to disarm an enemy hero and make them more vulnerable to Eclipse's damage, especially when Eclipse is upgraded by Aghanim's Scepter. But watch out, smarter enemies can counter this either with Black King Bar, Nullifier or Revenant's Brooch.
• Dagon will give Luna some nice attributes and even more magical damage burst, and will also provide her with spell lifesteal, allowing Luna to greatly heal herself using Lucent Beam and Eclipse, similarly to Satanic. It will also give Luna another tool to put Linken's Sphere on cooldown so that her allies can freely use their single-targeted abilities on enemy heroes who try to protect themselves against it.
• Parasma, an upgrade for Witch Blade will allow Luna's attack projectiles from Moon Glaives to travel much faster and to have a true strike every 9 seconds, it will also give her more attack speed, armor and intelligence. Parasma's will also allow Luna's attacks to weaken enemy magic resistance by 20%% for 3 seconds, making them more vulnerable to Lucent Beam and Eclipse's magical damage output.
• Revenant's Brooch will give Luna very high attack damage output, spell lifesteal that will allowLuna to greatly heal herself using Lucent Beam and Eclipse, and will allow her attacks to deal magical damage that can bypass enemy armor and which can attack enemies who try to protect themselves with Ethereal Blade, giving Luna another way of attacking ethereal units when Eclipse and Lucent Beam are unavailable for Luna to use, at the cost of 50 mana for each attack while Revenant's Brooch is toggled on.
• Refresher Orb can give Luna great health regeneration, mana regeneration and good damage output, and will also allow her to use Aghanim's Shard upgraded Moon Glaives and Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Eclipse and other items she has twice in succession.
• Scythe of Vyse can greatly increase Luna's intelligence and mana regeneration, allowing her to use Lucent Beam and Eclipse more often, and will also allow her to hex enemy heroes, preventing them from attacking her with either normal attacks, abilities or items and from escaping Eclipse.
• Shiva's Guard, an upgrade for Veil of Discord will give Luna nice attributes and great armor, allowing Luna to withstand more damage while also allowing Luna to weaken attack speed, healing and magic resistance of nearby enemy heroes, making them more vulnerable to Lucent Beam's and Eclipse's magical damage output.
• Spirit Vessel can give Luna some attribute points and armor, more health and mana, and will allow her to reduce enemy hero's maximum health by 4% of current health per second, and to reduce any healing they receive, making it easier for Luna to finish them off with Eclipse.
• Guardian Greaves will allow Luna to restore her mana, allowing her to use Lucent Beam more often, heal herself and her allies around her, and will also allow her to apply a basic dispel on herself. Guardian Greaves combined with other dispelling items Luna usually goes for like Satanic, Black King Bar and Manta Style can greatly increase Luna's survivability.
• Nullifier can give Luna very high damage output, good armor, and the ability to apply a basic dispel on enemy heroes. Allowing Luna to foil escape attempts with items like Wind Waker, Glimmer Cape, and Aeon Disk.
• Dust of Appearance is an important item for Luna to carry when enemy has lots of heroes who can turn invisible, especially since Eclipse cannot strike invisible units at all, not even when upgraded with Aghanim's Scepter.
• Overwhelming Blink, an strength-themed situational upgrade of Blink Dagger, can weaken enemy heroes's movement and attack speed while also damaging them, allowing Luna to finish them more easily with Eclipse.
• Swift Blink, an agility-themed situational upgrade of Blink Dagger, can greatly boost Luna's agility, attack speed and damage she needs for teamfights.
• Arcane Blink, an intelligence-themed situational upgrade of Blink Dagger, can reduce mana costs from Lucent Beam and Eclipse, increase the stun duration from both Lucent Beam and 0.25 Eclipse Lucent Beam Mini-stun talent for Eclipse, and can also reduce cast time for Eclipse, making it much easier for Luna to initiate or counter-initiate with Eclipse.