Luna

Luna the Moon Rider is a Ranged Agility carry hero. Even though she can be seen as a tempting target for enemy heroes, Luna possesses solid early game laning presence due to her Lucent Beams, a cheap, low-cooldown nuke, and her Lunar Blessing aura, which grants all nearby allied heroes increased damage. Mid-game, she becomes far more formidable with Moon Glaives, allowing her to kill entire creep waves with two to three attacks, and Eclipse, which can very quickly kill a hero if that hero is unfortunate enough to catch its full blast. Her Achilles' Heel is her fragility; she has no escape abilities and cannot handle a lot of punishment, relying on her movement speed to keep her out of harm's way. Luna begins and ends a match dangerously, and if played carefully and skillfully, she will destroy anybody who stands against her.

Recommended items
Starting Items:
 * es give some good starting attributes, and can be built into at a later time.
 * can be built into a variety of early game items for Luna, including, , or.
 * give Luna some starting health regeneration, allowing her to trade hits with enemies in lane.
 * allows Luna regenerate almost her entire health pool in the early game.

Early Game:
 * helps Luna survive against heroes that constantly cast spells.
 * are core on any hero for extra move speed in order to chase and to escape.
 * gives Luna a bit of damage, mana regeneration, and other attributes that are helpful throughout the early and mid-game.

Core Items:
 * is good on most heroes in order to get some bonus burst health as well as bonus stats.
 * are the boots of choice for Luna, their attributes and attack speed are helpful throughout the game.
 * allows Luna to stack and kill Ancient creeps. She also benefits from the lifesteal in order to live throughout teamfights. It can also be built into later in the game.
 * helps Luna's damage and survivability with Magic Immunity and Strength if the enemy team mainly uses magic damage.
 * is helpful to quickly enter fights from across the map.

Situational Items:
 * gives Luna some much needed survivability, giving Luna enough health to live through immense amounts of burst damage in fights.
 * is almost a core item on Luna giving her damage, health, and bonus move speed. 's illusions also get Moon Glaive.
 * is great mixtures of heavy damage and survivability, giving Luna bonus attack speed, damage, armor, and evasion. 's active flutter also can help chase enemy heroes at the end of a fight.
 * can grant Luna a critical escape. Eclipse also continues to work when Luna is invisible, allowing you to chase down enemy heroes with bonus move speed and invisibility.
 * 's damage makes Luna's glaives more damage, and is a great counter to enemies with evasion.
 * increases the max single target damage of Eclipse. Some interesting plays can also be made by putting Eclipse on an initiator as well.
 * combined with Black King Bar gives more endurance against most magical damage nukers and in some cases can block a strong single-targeted spell that ignores Black King Bar.

Tips

 * Luna and complement each other well; as Eclipse causes day to become night and  gives both of them a very long vision range.
 * Under almost all circumstances Luna should be paired with a disabler for her laning phase; as aside from her high movement speed she has absolutely nothing to help her avoid ganks or kill attempts.
 * It takes significant skill and knowledge of the game to solo a lane with Luna. Her very small attack range and purely damage-oriented skill set mean she is extremely easy to kill. Even then, it is recommended to have ward vision and easy access to team backup for her to be successful in a solo lane.
 * The advantage of running a solo Luna is that it is essentially high-risk high-reward. A Luna with level advantage doing well can easily set the momentum of the game in her team's favor.
 * A very odd trait for a hard carry is that Luna gains significant killing power with a level advantage because of Lucent Beam and by extension Eclipse.
 * scales very well and brings a reliable stun and damage.
 * From level 2 on Lucent Beam can effectively be used to harass enemies out of the lane.
 * Lucent Beam's cast range is gigantic. Use it to pick off fleeing heroes.
 * Early points in push the lane, this skill is commonly not levelled at all until the laning phase has concluded.
 * gives a good boost to the low base damage and helps a lot with last hitting and increases the harass potential of her support.
 * At any rate, make sure you have a single point in it before the first night as only one point is needed for the full amount of vision it bestows.
 * Lunar Blessing is best maxed early in a 5-man strategy when the bonus damage is still relatively high compared to the base damage.
 * is a devasting teamfight turner when the enemy movement area is restricted.
 * Bear in mind Eclipse's range is much smaller than Lucent Beam's.
 * With an upgraded Eclipse, Luna has the possibility to cast her ultimate above your team's initiator, in a specific location from a big distance, or cast above the area around your towers to defend. You can even use it above a hero with some invisibility skill like  or  and let them wreak havoc for you. All of these possibilities are great for Luna since you can stay away from the fight instead in the middle of it.
 * Beside the recommended ones, Luna benefits from a couple of other items.
 * is an expensive, but also a good item in case Luna must face with a lot of single targeted heroes who have single targeted abilities that ignore Magic Immunity, then it is recommended for Luna to go for Spellblock instead for Magic Immunity.

Gameplay
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Audio
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History
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Trivia

 * In DotA, Luna was a night elf. Night elves are a prominent race in the Warcraft universe, so this change was likely made to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard.
 * Judging from their lore and dialogue, Luna and are both affiliated, with Mirana bearing a higher royalty than her, something Luna seems to resent.
 * Luna's lore, quotes, accent, and reverence for Selemene derive largely from the Celts. Celtic lore heavily features warrior queens, who were often associated mystically with the moon.
 * The name Selemene is a reference to the Greek goddess Selene, who was associated with the moon and the night. The Greek goddess Artemis also bears relevance, as she represented both lunar powers and the hunting of prey. Similarly Luna in Roman mythology is the goddess and embodiment of the moon.
 * The name Luna means moon in Latin, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Romanian.
 * Her mount, Nova, is named after IceFrog's cat.