Luna

When to Pick Luna?

Tips & common mistakes

• The Glaive stacking farming pattern is the single most important mechanic to master on Luna, and most pub players never develop it properly. At level four or five, when Lucent Beam and Glaives are maxed enough to clear camps quickly, stack two neutral camps at the fifty-five-second mark, then clear both stacked camps with Glaive bounces simultaneously using the AoE clear from the bouncing mechanic. Done correctly, this produces gold income per minute that rivals the best farming carries in the pool while staying completely safe in the jungle.
• Moon Glaive bounces deal reduced damage with each consecutive bounce—but with Aghanim's Scepter the bounces no longer reduce in damage and instead deal full damage to every target in range simultaneously. This item completely changes how threatening Luna is in teamfights—before Aghanim's her Glaives are a farming tool with some teamfight applications; after Aghanim's, they are a full AOE weapon that hits every nearby hero for the same damage simultaneously. Rush it appropriately based on the game and know the threshold at which her teamfight identity fundamentally transforms.
• Eclipse lasts only a few seconds, and all the lunar strikes target heroes within the beam range—but you can extend Eclipse's effective duration and target multiple heroes simultaneously by positioning yourself in the center of a grouped enemy team rather than targeting a single isolated hero on the edge of a fight. An Eclipse cast in the middle of four grouped heroes deals far more total damage than an Eclipse cast on one hero standing alone.
• Lunar Blessing gives bonus damage to ALL nearby allied ranged heroes — not just Luna. In a lineup with multiple ranged heroes, Luna's passive is providing a permanent free damage aura to every ranged ally standing near her throughout the entire game. Position yourself near your ranged supports and mid during fights so they benefit from the bonus damage, and build lineups that can exploit this aura rather than wasting it on a team full of melee heroes who receive zero benefit from it.
• Stop building Luna the same way every game regardless of the situation. The standard Helm of the Dominator into Manta Style into Aghanim's Scepter into Eye of Skadi progression is strong in most games—but if the enemy has a lot of magic damage, you need Helm into Hurricane Pike into BKB before Aghanim's, and if the enemy has evasion items, you need Monkey King Bar somewhere in the build. Read what the enemy is building and adjust rather than following a cookie-cutter progression that the enemy team has already specifically drafted to counter.
• Beam yourself out of dangerous situations. Lucent Beam has a reasonable cast range and provides a brief stun when combined with the talent that extends its duration—using it on a hero that is about to kill you buys the half second needed for your team to respond. Most Luna players only use Lucent Beam during Eclipse activation and forget it exists as an independent ability between teamfights.
• You have ZERO mobility. No blink, no dash, no escape, nothing. This means positioning before every fight starts is more important than almost any other carry in the game—always know exactly where the fight is going to happen and position yourself at maximum Glaive range BEFORE the initiation, not after you are already surrounded. A Luna that is properly positioned when the fight starts is dealing damage from safety. A Luna that gets caught out of position has no answer except dying quickly while her team watches helplessly.