Lucent Beam
на цельCalls a beam of lunar energy down upon an enemy, damaging and briefly stunning them.
Pros max it by level 9
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Luna
Luna: Ranged, position 1 (carry), Nuker, Pusher. In patch 7.41f the hero has a 50.8% win rate in pubs and a 11.4% pick rate.
Riding swiftly into battle, Luna tears into her enemies with attacks able to bounce between targets. When foes threaten, she calls down the power of the moon as a single searing beam or as a lunar barrage, crushing those who stand against her.
Rangedposition 1 (carry)NukerPusher
50.8%Win rate · all pubs
11.4%picked in 1 of 9 games
51.5%Turbo · 161,108 games
Complexity: easy
Cheat sheet · patch 7.41f
How to play Luna
Build and skills from 100 pro matches, STRATZ matchups and OpenDota norms
1What to build?
Start
Laning
2′3′
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2′3′4′6′Core
17′
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17′22′23′Core items in order: Manta Style (around minute 17), Hurricane Pike (around minute 22), Blink Dagger (around minute 23).
Full build by minute →2How to skill?
Lv 1–4
Maxed by level
lv 8
lv 9
lv 15
lv 17
11-5% Moon Glaives Damage Reduction16+1 Lunar Orbit Glaive181.5x Lunar Orbit Damage / Speed
Max Moon Glaives, then Lucent Beam, then Lunar Orbit.
Abilities and talents →3Who counters the hero?
Toughest opponents: Meepo, Visage and Lycan; easiest: Shadow Fiend, Huskar and Naga Siren.
All 126 opponents →4How much to farm?
727average824good930great
Half of the players on this hero farm under 727 gold per minute; the top 5% get over 930.
5Common mistakes by role
No buyback while the base fellWasted buybackHolding goldFewer than 20 reviews on this hero so far, so these are guides for the carry role.
Compare your Luna match with this cheat sheet
The coach shows on the map where you fell behind the pros on items and where you died.
Review my matchMistake guides for the carry role
- No buyback while the base fellStayed dead while the enemy broke your base, although you had gold and buyback.
- Wasted buybackBought back and died again within a minute without joining a single kill.
- Holding goldCarried enough gold for an item for a minute or longer.
- Slow farmEarned clearly less in five minutes of farming than in your best minutes of the same match.
Picked by the hero's role. Once the hero has 20 reviews, its real common mistakes show up here.
AI coach
A review of your Luna game
Sign in with Steam and pick a match: the coach reads the replay second by second and in a couple of minutes shows where the game slipped.
- Every death and fight becomes a moment on the map: the fog of war as you saw it, and what the enemy saw that second.
- Your pace against the Luna benchmark: 727 GPM for an average player, 824 for a good one.
- Timings against pros: they have Manta Style by minute 17, and the coach shows where you lose time.
- Five-game homework the coach checks in your next review, plus a chat with the coach about the match.
Review my matchA month of subscription as a gift, no card and no auto-renewal.How a match review works
Pro build by minute
Minute is the median first purchase, percent is the share of matches with the item.
0′5′10′15′20′25′30′35′40′45′Starting
2′71%
3′42%
4′25%
6′100%
10′80%
10′41%
17′98%22′28%23′44%
25′85%
27′58%
35′39%
36′40%
38′29%
2′71%3′42%4′25%6′100%10′80%10′41%17′98%22′28%23′44%25′85%27′58%35′39%36′40%38′29%Skill build
13% of 99 pro matches
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- 11T
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- 16T
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- Lvl 11-5% Moon Glaives Damage Reduction
- Lvl 16+1 Lunar Orbit Glaive
- Lvl 181.5x Lunar Orbit Damage / Speed
Lunar Orbit
без цели, мгновеннаяCreates 4 glaives that rotate 225 radius around Luna. Any enemy unit that collides with a glaive will take a percentage of Luna's Attack Damage.
Pros max it by level 15
Moon Glaives
пассивнаяEmpowers Luna's glaives, causing her attacks to bounce between enemy units. Deals less damage with each bounce.
Pros max it by level 8
Lunar Blessing
пассивная · innateGrants attack damage to Luna and nearby allied heroes within 1200 range, with Luna receiving double the attack damage bonuses. At night, Lunar Blessing is global, and Luna is blessed with bonus night vision.
Eclipse
без целиShowers 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 a short time.
Pros max it by level 17
Aghanim's ScepterUpgrades Eclipse.
Aghanim's ShardUpgrades Lunar Orbit.
+25/25 Lunar Blessing Allied/Self Damage25Lucent Beam Hits An Additional Target
-40s Eclipse Cooldown201.5x Lunar Orbit Damage / Speed
+1 Lunar Orbit Glaive15+80 Lucent Beam Damage
-5% Moon Glaives Damage Reduction10+0.5s Lucent Beam Ministun
Matchups
Hero winrate against each opponent, circle size is the number of games
Hero win rate against the opponent, Divine+Immortal over the past week, STRATZ.
Who to pick against Luna: counter picks →Benchmarks on the hero
Average beats half of the players on this hero, good beats 80%, great beats 95%.
Gold per minute
average 727good 824great 930
Experience per minute
average 883good 1,095great 1,332
Last hits per minute
average 11.7good 13.7great 15.9
Hero damage per minute
average 641good 957great 1,205
Win rate by rank
The curve is pub winrate, pick rate under each rank
Hero at a glance
Complexity: easyIt does best in Guardian (51.3% wins) and wins 51.5% of Turbo games. Hero positions in pro matches: position 1 (carry) in 100% of games. Pros usually build Manta Style, Hurricane Pike and Blink Dagger by minute 23. It struggles most against Meepo, Visage and Lycan and has the easiest time against Shadow Fiend, Huskar and Naga Siren.