Luna
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Luna
Grants the following bonuses per level: | |
+48.4HP and +0.22HP regeneration | |
+0.57 armor and 3.4 attack speed +3.4 Main Attack Damage | |
+22.8MP and +0.095MP regeneration +0.1% base magic resistance |
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900 Projectile Speed
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100 (124)
(1.7 BAT) | ||
0.35 + 0.54
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0.6
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Default
Gib Type | ||
2012-06-28
Released | ||
2004-03-01
(v2.60) | ||
Competitive Span
2012-07-05 — Present |
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Tears into her enemies with bouncing attacks. | |
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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 a searing Lucent Beam. 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. | |
Roles: | |
Adjectives | Blue, Female, Steed, Nose Legs ( 2 ) |
Facets[edit]
Lucent Beam grants flat bonus attack damage when the unit-targeted enemy is an enemy hero.
Eclipse's beams grants a lesser bonus attack damage per enemy hero affected.
Upgrades[edit]
Aghanim's[edit]
Talents[edit]
Lucent Beam Hits an Additonal Target | 25 | +1 Lunar Blessing Damage per Luna Level |
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-2s Lucent Beam Cooldown | 20 | +110 Lucent Beam Damage |
-40s Eclipse Cooldown | 15 | +1 Lunar Orbit glaive |
+0.4s Lucent Beam Stun Duration | 10 | -5% Moon Glaives Damage Reduction |
▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ ▃ +2 All |
Bio[edit]
I was once the scourge of the plains, a terror on the wind. What hope do our enemies think they have?▶️Luna, the Moon Rider
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:
Innate[edit]
Lunar Blessing[edit]
Passive / Aura
Affects
Allied Heroes
Increases the attack damage for Luna and nearby allied heroes. At nighttime, the Lunar Blessing is Global.
Grants self vision range bonus, with an attack damage bonus factor.
Self Attack Damage Bonus Factor: 2
The Goddess of the Moon smiles upon her kin.
Hero Model[edit]
Details
Tap on the
innate abilities for more details.
Abilities[edit]
Lucent Beam[edit]
Cast Animation: 0.4 + 0.47
Cast Range:
800
Talent Upgrade
Lucent Beam now multicasts on a random secondary enemy unit within its search radius, without priorities.
Lucent Beam now multicasts on a random secondary enemy unit within its search radius, without priorities.
Selemene smites those who encroach upon the Nightsilver Woods.
Lunar Orbit[edit]
W
L
Lunar OrbitThe Moon Rider's glaive spirals out, rotates around her, and instantly attacks collided enemy units for a portion of her attack damage.
Cast Animation:
0 + 0
Orbit Radius: 250
Duration: 5/6/7/8
Aghanim's Shard Upgrade
Increases number of active glaives and the instant attack factor.
Increases number of active glaives and the instant attack factor.
Moon Glaives[edit]
Search Radius: 500
Number of Bounces: 3/4/5/6
Bounce Speed:
Carefully sharpened, Luna's boomerang-like weapon cuts a wide swath through enemy numbers.
Eclipse[edit]
Temporary obscures the sun, turning the day into night, while showering enemies with lucent strikes in a radius around Luna.
There is a max number of times that a single target can be struck.
There is a max number of times that a single target can be struck.
Cast Animation: 0.5 + 0.37
Set Nighttime Duration: 10
These lucent strikes are of the corresponding level of Lucent Beam.
The beams do not stun their target.
The beams do not stun their target.
Damage Factor: 1
Aghanim's Scepter Upgrade
Increases total beams and the Eclipse duration. Removes the limit on beams per unit, with the beams appearing twice as fast.
Luna may now cast Eclipse on an area, an allied unit, or herself, and have the ability effects follow them.
Increases total beams and the Eclipse duration. Removes the limit on beams per unit, with the beams appearing twice as fast.
Luna may now cast Eclipse on an area, an allied unit, or herself, and have the ability effects follow them.
In times of great need, Selemene herself descends into the world, blocking out the light and hope of the opposed.
Recent Matches[edit]
Main Article: Luna/Matches
Date | Tier | Tournament | Picks | Score | vs. Picks | |||
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Mar 16, 2025 - 17:00 CST | Qualifier | ACL X ESL China OQ2 | 1 : 0 | |||||
Mar 14, 2025 - 15:40 CST | Qualifier | ACL X ESL China OQ2 | 1 : 0 | |||||
Mar 07, 2025 - 13:00 CET | Tier 3 | CCT Series 7 | 0 : 1 | |||||
Feb 21, 2025 - 15:00 SGT | Tier 3 | EPL World SEA S3 | 0 : 1 | |||||
Feb 20, 2025 - 15:05 SGT | Tier 3 | EPL World SEA S3 | 0 : 1 |
Recent Changes[edit]
Description
- Lunar Orbit
Aghanim's Shard upgrade:
- Increased Lunar Orbit damage reduction from 15% to 20%.
- Lunar Blessing
- Reduced base
nighttime vision bonus from 400 to 250.
- Increased
nighttime vision bonus per hero level from 20 to 25.
- Reduced base
Talents:
- LVL 10 -8% Moon Glaives damage reduction per bounce reduced to -5%.
- LVL 15 +80 Lucent Beam damage ➜ +1 Lunar Orbit glaive.
- LVL 20 2 Moon Glaives fired on Lucent Beam ➜ +110 Lucent Beam damage.
- Lucent Beam
- Reduced damage from 80/160/240/320 to 75/150/225/300.
Moonstorm
- Now considers illusions as creeps.
- Reduced attack damage bonus per hero hit from 5/8/11/14 to 4/7/10/13.
Dota Plus Progress[edit]
Main Article: Hero Challenges
Relics track a hero's actions and statistics, and display in-game notifications when a milestone is reached. They are only available to Dota Plus subscribers.
Luna's Relics | Voice Lines | |
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Bronze |
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Silver |
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Gold |
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Platinum |
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Master |
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Grandmaster |
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Equipment[edit]
Trivia[edit]
- The name Luna means "moon" in Latin, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Romanian and Bulgarian.
- Her mount's name is Nova, which originally translates to "new" from Latin, but commonly refers to the birth of a new star.
- 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.
- Warcraft 3 similarities:
- Luna is based on and inspired by the Huntresses, a Night Elf ranged unit.
- Moon Glaives's original iteration was identical to the Huntresses' Moon Glaive.
- Lunar Blessing's original iteration was identica lto the Priestess of the Moon's Trueshot Aura.
- Lucent Beam is based on Firebolt, which is a single-target damaging stun, but with a projectile. Luna's version had its projectile speed set to 99999, effectively making it instant.
- Eclipse's night-turnnig component is based on Moonstone, a Night-Elf-only item that temporarily turns day to night.
- In DotA, Luna's full name is Luna Moonfang. The surname was dropped to avoid copyright issues with "Blizzard Entertainment", since the Moonfang is a world boss within the "Warcraft" universe.
- Luna is based on and inspired by the Huntresses, a Night Elf ranged unit.
Gallery[edit]
Model before November 21, 2013 Patch
Luna Concept art for Dragon's Blood
Luna on the Ability Draft splash art in the New Bloom 2014 update.
Bone Harvest sprite - alive