Luna
Hero
Luna
    21 + 2.2
24 + 3.4
23 + 1.9
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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 an increase in their attack 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.
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Bio[edit]
Luna, the Moon Rider▶️ "I was once the scourge of the plains, a terror on the wind. What hope do our enemies think they have?"
Lore:
How had she been reduced to this? She was once the Scourge of the Plains, a merciless leader of men and beasts, and able to sow terror wherever she dared. Now she was far from her homeland, driven half mad from starvation and months of wandering, her army long dead or worse. As she stood at the edge of an ancient forest, a pair of glowing eyes spied on from an elder branch. Something beautiful and deadly sought a meal in the wilting dusk. Without a sound, it turned and left. Fury overtook her. Clutching a rust-eaten dagger, she charged after the beast determined to reclaim even a shred of her past glory, but her quarry would not be caught. Three times she cornered the creature among the rocks and trees, and three times she pounced only to witness its fading shadow darting further into the woods. Yet the full moon shone brightly, and the creature's trail was easy to follow.
Arriving in a clearing atop a high hill, the beast's massive feline form sat in the open, attentive and waiting. When the woman brandished her dagger, the creature reared and roared and charged. Death, it seemed, had come for her at long last in this strange place. She stood, calm and ready. A flash of movement, and the beast snatched the dagger from her hand before vanishing into the forest. Stillness. Hooded figures approached. In reverent tones they revealed that Selemene, Goddess of the Moon, had chosen her, had guided her, had tested her. Unwittingly she had endured the sacred rites of the Dark Moon, warriors of the Nightsilver Woods.
She was offered a choice: join the Dark Moon and pledge herself to the service of Selemene, or leave and never return. She did not hesitate. Embracing her absolution, she renounced her bloody past, and took up a new mantle as Luna of the Dark Moon, the dreaded Moon Rider, ruthless and ever-loyal guardian of the Nightsilver Woods.
Arriving in a clearing atop a high hill, the beast's massive feline form sat in the open, attentive and waiting. When the woman brandished her dagger, the creature reared and roared and charged. Death, it seemed, had come for her at long last in this strange place. She stood, calm and ready. A flash of movement, and the beast snatched the dagger from her hand before vanishing into the forest. Stillness. Hooded figures approached. In reverent tones they revealed that Selemene, Goddess of the Moon, had chosen her, had guided her, had tested her. Unwittingly she had endured the sacred rites of the Dark Moon, warriors of the Nightsilver Woods.
She was offered a choice: join the Dark Moon and pledge herself to the service of Selemene, or leave and never return. She did not hesitate. Embracing her absolution, she renounced her bloody past, and took up a new mantle as Luna of the Dark Moon, the dreaded Moon Rider, ruthless and ever-loyal guardian of the Nightsilver Woods.
Voice:
Abilities[edit]
Calls a beam of lunar energy down upon an enemy, damaging and briefly stunning them.
Cast Animation: 0.4+0.47
Cast Range: 800
Damage: 75/150/225/300 (
175/250/325/400)
175/250/325/400)Stun Duration: 0.8 ( 1.2)
1.2)
Hero Search Radius: 325 Instant Attack Search Radius: 500 Number of Instant Attacks: 2
6 ( 2.5)
90/ 40/50/60/70)
Allows Lucent beam to be ground targeted with a 325 target search radius. Also releases attacks on up to two random targets within 500 range of the Lucent Beam. Reduces manacost by 50.
Blocked even when ground-targeted.Modifiers
modifier_lucent_beam_buff: Dispellable with any dispel.
modifier_stunned: Dispellable with strong dispels.Selemene smites those who encroach upon the Nightsilver Woods.
Notes:
- Lucent Beam first applies the damage, then the debuff.
- Luna's glaive emits particles during the cast time, visible to everyone.
- With Aghanim's Shard, Lucent Beam can either be cast on a unit or on the ground.
- When targeting the ground, does not require any vision or True Sight. It can hit invisible and enemies inside the Fog of War.
- Only searches for heroes (including illusions, clones and creep-heroes) within the search area. Other units are ignored.
- This means if there are no heroes within the search area, Lucent Beam does no damage.
- Provides 300 radius ground vision at the targeted point for 3 seconds when cast on the ground.
- With Aghanim's Shard, Lucent Beam causes Luna to perform instant attacks on 2 random enemies within 500 radius of the targeted point.
- These instant attacks can proc any attack modifiers and on-hit effects normally (including Moon Glaives). They do not have True Strike, but ignore disarms.
- The targets are choosen completely randomly, there are no priorities.
- The attacks do not target invisible units, but can target units in Fog of War.
- The instant attacks originate from the targeted point or unit.
- When targeting the ground, the attacks originate from the targeted point even if the beam found and hit a nearby enemy hero.
Moon Glaives
Search Radius: 500
Number of Bounces: 3/4/5/6
Damage Reduction per Bounce: 50%/44%/38%/32%
When disjointed by the primary attack target, it does not bounce. When disjointed by a secondary target, the disjointing unit is not registered as hit, meaning the attack can immediately bounce on it again if within range. A disjointed bounce still counts towards the max bounces.Modifiers
modifier_luna_moon_glaive: Undispellable. Persists death.Carefully sharpened, Luna's boomerang-like weapon cuts a wide swath through enemy numbers.
Notes:
- The bouncing glaives travel at the same speed as the leading attack's projectile.
- This means their speed is affected by projectile speed changing effects as well.
- Does not perform instant attacks. The projectile is entirely spell-based.
- This means they do not trigger any attack modifier or on-hit effects, and ignore evasion. However, damage block affects them.
- Their damage counts as spell damage, however, they ignore outgoing spell damage amplification and cannot spell lifesteal.
- The glaives deal damage based on the damage amount calculated for the leading attack. Attack damage amount is calculated upon attack begin.
- This means it works with critical strike and quell, since these are included in the initial damage calculations.
- This also means that it does not matter how much damage the attack actually did to the target, since that part is being calculated on projectile hit.
- It also means that other conditional attack damage bonuses like a Javelin proc are not included, since these happen later as well.
- Effectively increases Luna's attack damage by 87.5%/114.76%/148.21%/191.49% if all bounces hit.
- Can bounce back to the same units if it already hit all other nearby units. If no other units are nearby, the ability does nothing. Cannot bounce on enemies in the Fog of War.
- Does not bounce towards wards and allies, but it does bounce off of them when attacking them. Fully works against buildings.
- Upon learning, Luna's glaive permanently emits blue particles, visible to everyone.
Lunar Blessing
EL
EL
Ability
Aura
Aura
Affects
Allies
Allies
Increases the attack damage for Luna and nearby allied heroes. Luna is also blessed with increased vision range at night.
Radius: 1200
Self Night Vision Bonus: 250/500/750/1000
Attack Damage Bonus: 5/15/25/35
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Modifiers
modifier_luna_lunar_blessing: Undispellable. Persists death. modifier_luna_lunar_blessing_aura: Undispellable. Persists death.The Goddess of the Moon smiles upon her kin.
Notes:
- Increases Luna's night vision to a total of 1050/1300/1550/1800.
- The aura's buff lingers for 0.5 seconds.
- Affects invulnerable, but not hidden units.
- Upon learning, Luna emits very faint pulsing particles around her.
- Despite the tooltip, the aura affects non-hero units as well.
Showers random nearby enemies with strikes from Luna's current level of Lucent Beam. These beams do not stun their targets, and there is a maximum number of times that a single target can be struck. Also turns day into night for 10 seconds.
Cast Animation: 0.5+0.37
Search Radius: 675
Number of Beams: 6/9/12 (
6/12/18)
6/12/18)Max Beams per Unit: 5 ( 6/12/18)
6/12/18)Beam Interval: 0.6 ( 0.3)
0.3)Eclipse Duration: 2.4/4.2/6 ( 1.5/3.3/5.1)
1.5/3.3/5.1) Stun Duration per Beam: 0.2 Cast Range: 2500 140 150/
Allows Luna to cast Eclipse on an allied unit or herself and have its effects follow them, or cast it on an area. Also increases total beams and duration, removes the limit on beams per unit, and makes the beams appear twice as fast.Modifiers
modifier_luna_eclipse: Dispellable with death only. modifier_stunned: Dispellable with strong dispels.In times of great need, Selemene herself descends into the world, blocking out the light and hope of the opposed.
Notes:
- Eclipse's beams deal damage based on Lucent Beam's current level, so if not learned, Eclipse deals no damage.
- In Ability Draft, Lucent Beam must be drafted as well for Eclipse's beams to deal damage.
- Eclipse turns the time of day into night-time for 10 seconds. This is independent from Eclipse's duration.
- Does not interfere with the night-time caused by Dark Ascension in any way, meaning Night Stalker's night is not paused.
- Has a lower priority than the day-time caused by Supernova.
- Does not hit invisible units and units in the Fog of War.
- Luna's glaive emits particles during the cast time, visible to everyone.
- Multiple casts of Eclipse work fully independently from each other.
- When Luna dies, Eclipse ends prematurely. However, the night-time it created persists.
- Maximum possible damage to a single target (before reductions):
- Lucent Beam Level 1: 375 ( 875) ( 450/900/1350, 1050/2100/3150)
- Lucent Beam Level 2: 750 ( 1250) ( 900/1800/2700, 1500/3000/4500)
- Lucent Beam Level 3: 1125 ( 1625) ( 1350/2700/4050, 1950/3900/5850)
- Lucent Beam Level 4: 1500 ( 2000) ( 1800/3600/5400, 2400/4800/7200)
- Lucent Beam Level 1: 375 (
- With the level 25 talent, the beams also stun hit enemies for 0.2 seconds.
- Since the stun is not based on Lucent Beam's stun, it is applied regardless of Lucent Beam's level.
- The talent immediately takes effect, causing the already active casts to stun as well.
- The beams first apply their damage, then the debuff.
- With Aghanim's Scepter, Eclipse turns into an area-targeted ability. It may be cast on the ground or an ally.
- When targeting an ally, it follows that ally like how a regular cast follows Luna.
- ↓↓ Double-tapping automatically targets self.
- Can target any allied units, except for wards and buildings.
- Eclipse ends when the targeted ally dies, instead of Luna.
- When cast ond the ground, it stays stationary at the targeted point.
- Provides 675 radius ground vision for its duration.
- Eclipse still ends prematurely when Luna dies.
- When targeting an ally, it follows that ally like how a regular cast follows Luna.
Talents[edit]
| Hero Talents | ||
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| +0.2s Eclipse Lucent Ministun | 25 | 30% Lifesteal |
| +100 Lucent Beam Damage | 20 | +8 All Stats |
| +25 Movement Speed | 15 | -3.5s Lucent Beam Cooldown |
| +0.4s Lucent Beam Ministun | 10 | +15 Attack Speed |
Notes:
- The all
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stats talent effectively grants Luna 160 health, 0.8 health regeneration, 1.33 armor, 8 attack speed, 96 mana, 0.4 mana regeneration, and 8 attack damage.
- The lifesteal talent stacks additively with other sources of lifesteal.
Recent Changes[edit]
Main Article: Luna/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Reduced Eclipse cast time from 0.6 to 0.5.
- Reworked Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Old: Increases Lucent Beam stun duration by 0.4, causes it to grant Luna 30% movement speed for 3 seconds upon cast, and turns it into a ground-targeted ability with a 325 search radius. Provides ground vision when cast on the ground.
- New: Reduces Lucent Beam mana cost by 50, turns it into a ground-targeted ability with a 325 search radius, providing ground vision when cast on the ground, and causes it to launch 2 instant attacks on random enemies within 500 radius of the targeted point.
- Talents:
- Level 10 left talent changed: +350 cast range ➜ +0.4s Lucent Beam stun duration.
- Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Lucent Beam stun duration bonus from 0.3 to 0.4.
- Increased base agility from 18 to 24.
- Reduced base attack damage from 32-38 to 26-32.
- Reduced Moon Glaives damage reduction per bounce from 52%/46%/40%/34% to 50%/44%/38%/32%.
- Lunar Blessing
- Changed attack damage bonus from 10%/18%/26%/34% to a flat 5/15/25/35.
- Increased night vision bonus from 200/400/600/800 to 250/500/750/1000.
- Added Aghanim's Shard upgrade for Luna:
- Increases Lucent Beam stun duration by 0.3, causes it to grant Luna 30% movement speed for 3 seconds upon cast, and turns it into a ground-targeted ability with a 325 search radius. Provides ground vision when cast on the ground.
Recommended Items[edit]
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 poor 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.
Late game:
- Black King Bar improves Luna's survivability with spell immunity, countering enemy disables, and strength.
- 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.
Situational items:
- Helm of the Dominator synergizes with Lunar Blessing and gives opportunity to dominate Alpha Wolf to increase damage even more
- Hurricane Pike, a situational upgrade of Dragon Lance, provides an escaping and chasing tool for Luna.
- Eye of Skadi provides great attribute bonuses, which also benefit illusions, and the slow effect will keep enemies within Luna's attack range.
- Aghanim's Scepter increases the max single target damage of Eclipse. It is great when your team has a powerful initiator such as Faceless Void and the enemy team has few ways to dodge a long distance Eclipse.
Gameplay[edit]
| Roles: | Carry Nuker Pusher |
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| Complexity: | ★☆☆ |
| Playstyle: | Renouncing her savage past, Luna swore her service to Selemene, and embraced the title of Moon Rider. The Goddess bestows a Lunar Blessing on her new champion, boosting her strength and heightening her nocturnal senses. Saddled on top of Nova, her beastly mount, Luna bounds across the Nightsilver Woods to smite trespassers with Lucent Beams. Superior numbers are no advantage against the Moon Rider. Through divine will, the midday sun gives way to night, and every foe is struck by rays of lunar energy as Luna tears through their ranks with flying Moon Glaives. By Selemene's wrath or through her own hand, the Moon Rider levels the battlefield under the brief darkness of the Eclipse. |
Audio[edit]
History[edit]
Equipment[edit]
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Trivia[edit]
- 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.[1]
- 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 Luna means moon in Latin, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian.
- Her mount's name is Nova.
Gallery[edit]
Splash artwork
Concept art
Concept art
Model before November 21, 2013 Patch
Ability icon progress
Hero icon progress
Luna illustration
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