Dota 2: Support Luna, a new trend from traditional carry

When Dota: Dragon’s Blood launches on Netflix, it is certain that more characters in the movie will increase their presence in the game even more. The pick rates for Mirana, Dragon Knight, and Luna all increased even though these heroes weren’t really popular in the previous meta. Overall, these 3 are not much of a new creation. But at the Singapore Major, many Chinese teams exploited support Luna quite successfully.

Support Luna can really play and is easy to play in both position 4 and 5. Here is a summary of why support Luna is so successful.

GO LANE

When it comes to support, there are usually two types that have a big impact on the game. The first are strong heroes in the laning phase, helping to win farm for the team’s core. These are heroes with high armor, good stats, good damage – easily bully enemy heroes and create space for the core to farm. Hero of this group does not need to be super strong because Enchantress and Death Prophet can chase opponents with high damage as well as fast movement speed.

The second most popular type of support belongs to the good team fight category. Usually these are weak heroes in the laning phase but make up for strong mid game. They just need to survive the early game while not taking too much initial loss. Luna, enjoys both of these characteristics in the role of Support. Luna has 325 base movement speed, 6 base armor, and a short nuke cooldown. These advantages make it easy for Luna to gain range creeps or easily trade hits in favor of most other heroes.

Luna’s lane power spiked after only a few levels. At level 3, you have 150 damage nuke with a cooldown of only 6 seconds and at level 4, by skill build 2-0-2, you have yourself a very high amount of damage. The second point for Lunar Blessing almost gives you and your teammates an extra 1000 networth each (it’s like Broadsword +15 damage). The combined magic and physical damage gives Luna the ability to be very annoying in lane.

HEAD AND MID OF GAME

As the laning phase comes to an end, this is where Lunar Blessing comes into play on turrets. In the last Major, the Chinese players teamed up early in the game and tried to pressure the safe lane or mid tower with the second wave catapult at 10 minutes. Support Luna was strongest through team fights and annoying by skill build 4-0-4-1 at level 9. This build gives each allied hero +35 damage, then grants over 1000 magic damage to the head of the opponent for a few seconds, making support Luna extremely dangerous at times. this point. Lunar Blessing also allows nearly any squad to eat Roshan. That makes for an extremely valuable position 5 luna.

BOOKING AND LAST GAME

Crafting support Luna is quite easy thanks to the skill set she possesses. With a high base movement speed, you can go straight to Urn of Shadows first and then to boots. This item adds stats, restores mana to help Luna spam Lucent Beam. From there, players can build any item the team needs: Rush Spirit Vessel if necessary, Power Treads if the team is slow and focused on farming, or other support items like Vladmir’s Offering, Medallion of Courage , Glimmer Cape.

Remember, the biggest benefits you bring to the team are the aura, the low cooldown mini-stun and mobility. In some games, Luna needs to get on the green stick early while others focus on surviving and saving her teammates. Luna’s +350 cast range talent also makes good use of items like Force Staff and Rod of Atos. Luna also easily increases gold for herself. You can earn from assist gold thanks to Lucent Beam. Gradually, Luna will have to go to Moon Glaives to push waves, farm creeep forests quickly when there is nothing to do.

EPILOGUE

Although Luna only has a mini stun of 0.8 seconds, it is enough to interrupt the enemy team, allowing her teammates to continue following. Later in the game, her talent increases her cast range and reduces her cooldown making it nearly impossible for opponents to escape. In addition, they also bring a large amount of damage at a low cost to pull the hero’s health. Perhaps the best thing about support Luna is that it makes the enemy core hero dare not approach. Usually the mid and carry hero’s job is to jump in the support in the back and wipe them out first. But Luna is one of the few supports in the game ready to destroy anyone who dares to approach, as long as the opponent doesn’t turn on BKB.

Your teammates may ‘flame’ you for picking support Luna, but then they will ‘commend’ when the team sweeps everything in just 25 minutes thanks to the tremendous power that Luna brings.

According to dotabuff

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