Luna counter and synergy picks
Pick Luna with Lone Druid to increase win-rate from 49.2% to 61.6% or against Chen to increase win-rate to 61.2% in Patch 7.39.
Good with...
...based on stats [7.39]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▼ |
|---|---|
12.4% | |
7.6% | |
7.6% | |
6.2% | |
5.9% | |
5.5% | |
4.9% | |
4.9% | |
4.8% | |
4.5% | |
4.4% | |
4.4% | |
4.1% | |
3.9% | |
3.6% |
...based on gameplay [under review]
Disruption can create powerful illusions of Luna that also possess her Moon Glaives, allowing for safe and fast tower pushing. Disruption can also be a good setup for Eclipse.
Demonic Purge and Lucent Beam can often stop the wounded enemy heroes from fleeing.
Vengeance Aura can improve Luna's attack range and damage. Early-game, she can set up kills as well as use Nether Swap on Luna to allow her escape from a sticky situation and potentially save her life.
Lunar Blessing can give Vengeful Spirit bonus attack damage to help her fight during the laning phase.
Treant Protector's Living Armor and Leech Seed offer sustain and crowd control, keeping Luna safe in the laning phase. His Overgrowth can disable multiple enemies, setting them up for a lethal Eclipse.
...counter items [under review]
A core Boots upgrade to improve your mobility and damage output with attack speed and stats. Helps in both farming and lane control.
A core item that helps boost your farming speed by maximizing your glaive bounces. Especially important to allow you to start flash farming Ancients the moment you get it with Moon Glaives.
A core item that is necessary for you to split push lanes and provides mobility and extra damage from illusions in fights. Also gives you a dispel that can be helpful to survive fights.
A core item to prevent you from getting disabled in fights so that you will be able to get into fights with Eclipse and hit freely without being stopped.
A mobility item that allows you to engage and disengage from fights. Also increases your attack range to hit enemies from further away. The active allows you to put some distance between yourself and an enemy hero and hit them with infinite range for a short period of time.
A core item to have more DPS with attack speed and stats while boosting your tankiness with evasion and armor.
A core item to utilize your high damage and attack speed for massive HP sustain through lifesteal and turn the fight from low health. Makes you tanky with HP pool and also lets you dispel yourself when in trouble.
Good against...
...based on stats [7.39]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▼ |
|---|---|
11.9% | |
10.7% | |
9.5% | |
8.8% | |
8.8% | |
7.9% | |
7.8% | |
7.3% | |
6.9% | |
6.7% | |
6.2% | |
5.9% | |
5.5% | |
5.3% | |
5.3% |
...based on gameplay [under review]
Moon Glaives is very effective against Visage because not only it can easily destroy Visage's Familiars, but can also remove one instance of Gravekeeper's Cloak upon each hit to Visage, leaving him susceptible to damage.
Once Visage's Familiars are picked off and all instances of Gravekeeper's Cloak are removed, Luna will be able to easily kill Visage with Eclipse.
Though Enchantress's Untouchable can greatly reduce Luna's attack speed, and can go through any form of Spell Immunity, she has a pitiful HP so Lucent Beam and Eclipse can kill her very quickly.
Moon Glaives allows Luna to clear Enchantress's creeps very efficiently.
Bad against...
...based on stats [7.39]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▲ |
|---|---|
-7.6% | |
-6.9% | |
-6.5% | |
-6.0% | |
-6.0% | |
-5.8% | |
-5.5% | |
-5.3% | |
-4.9% | |
-4.8% | |
-4.7% | |
-3.9% | |
-3.3% | |
-3.0% | |
-2.8% |
...based on gameplay [under review]
Wall of Replica and Normal Punch (Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade) can create multiple Illusions of Luna to do devastating amounts of damage to her own team as she tends to build heavy stat items to improve her own Manta Illusions' damage and durability. The Illusions DS creates inherit both Moon Glaives and Lunar Blessing. Surge is amazing at disengaging from Eclipse or closing the gap on Luna.
Both Blade Fury and Omnislash are direct counters to Eclipse, offering Juggernaut spell immunity and invulnerabilty. Therefore, Luna will need assistance in taking down Juggernaut as going solo will not be successful.
Because of her low range, Luna cannot easily destroy Healing Ward.
Demonic Purge takes off Luna's superior mobility, removing the need for chasing her and allowing your team to reposition in team fights or escape when at low HP. If Shadow Demon has Aghanim's Scepter it will also take away glaive bounces and extra damage from Luna's passive. And Luna's commonly items Manta Style and Black King Bar does not work dispell to Demonic Purge
Luna's illusions created by Disruption are very valuable with their Moon Glaives. These will effectively counter her pushing attempts and are painfully effective in team fights.
Disruption can be used to save an ally from Eclipse.
For the same reasons, Shadow Demon makes a very powerful ally for Luna when they are in the same team.
...counter items [under review]
Gives you movement speed to kite or close the gap on Luna to bring her low and nullify her laning prowess. Also helps you run out of the Eclipse AoE.
Helps you sustain HP and mana as Luna frequently uses Lucent Beam to harass and secure last hits.
Lets you absorb a massive instance of damage from Lucent Beam and Eclipse.
Lets you block jungle camps from spawning to slow down Luna's farm speed.
Helps significantly lower the lifesteal on Luna from Mask of Madness or Satanic with Soul Release charges.
Provides evasion and lets you disarm Luna to prevent her from right clicking freely in fights.
Lets you kite Luna by pushing yourself or an ally away from her right click range and Eclipse AoE.
Gives you and your team magic resistance and barrier to significantly reduce the damage taken from Lucent Beam and Eclipse.
Gives you debuff immunity and magic resistance to avoid the Lucent Beam stun as well as reduce the damage taken from Lucent Beam and Eclipse.
Lets you reflect Lunas high damage back to her and possibly kill her from the massive burst of Eclipse and her right clicks.
Lets you kite Luna by protecting yourself or an ally against her right clicks and Eclipse Beams through invisibility.
Gives you an instant disable against Luna to burst her down in its duration before she can have an impact in fights.
Gives armor to your team and buildings to take less damage from Luna's right clicks to nullify her kill and push potential.
Gives you an instant lockdown against Luna and burst her down with a possible chain stun before she can have an impact in fights.
Helps significantly slow Luna with right clicks as well as lower the lifesteal from Mask of Madness or Satanic, which are common purchases for her.
Gives you armor and evasion to defend yourself against Luna's right clicks with the tankiness and miss chance.
Bad with...
...based on stats [7.39]
| Hero | Change in Win Rate ▲ |
|---|---|
-10.9% | |
-10.4% | |
-10.2% | |
-9.8% | |
-9.2% | |
-7.6% | |
-6.8% | |
-6.4% | |
-6.2% | |
-6.0% | |
-5.9% | |
-5.8% | |
-5.5% | |
-5.4% | |
-5.0% |
