Lunara Build Guide “Taste my spear!”

Lunara is a Ranged Assassin who relies on her high Movement Speed and damage over time abilities to fight her enemies from a large distance. She combines the ability to grant vision to her team with strong Basic Attacks and outstanding maneuverability, especially during the later stages of the game. As most ranged Assassins, she requires good positioning and map awareness in order to unfold her true strength. Lunara is a challenging Hero to master, however, she is a very rewarding Assassin, capable of having a massive impact on team fights and skirmishes.

Strengths

• Strong sustain DPS in teamfights
• Good PvE ability with dedicated Talents
• Very mobile due to Trait

Weaknesses

• Susceptible to crowd control
• Fairly high learning curve
• No real burst damage
• Requires good positioning

Noxious Blossom Build

Recommended

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Lunara's Noxious Blossom Build turns her into a sort of hybrid damage class. Your main focus should be keeping up stacks through Basic Attacks thus activating the damage portion of Choking Pollen to deal some great burst damage.

Standard Auto Attack Build

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The Standard Auto Attack Build is where Lunara shines the brightest. Focusing on enhancing her auto attack damage, Lunara can quickly stack up Nature's Toxin, activating Choking Pollen's extra damage. After level 16, Lunara can shred tanks through Invigorating Spores.

Nature's Toxin Build

Situational

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The Nature's Toxin Build enhances Lunara's trait damage. Focus on stacking up her poison on all enemies rewards you greatly once at 3 stacks, slowly withering the enemies down. Leaping Strike is the most viable Heroic ability due to the small burst damage it has and also allows you to stick on a target in case they were to flee.

ARAM Build

ARAM

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The ARAM Build enhances Lunara's trait damage. Focus on stacking up her poison on all enemies, as it rewards you greatly while at 3 stacks, slowly withering the enemies down. Leaping Strike is the most viable Heroic ability due to the small burst damage it has and also allows you to stick on a target in case they were to flee.

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Lunara synergizes with

Lunara works with a variety of different Heroes and team compositions, however, she truly shines if paired with crowd control heavy Heroes such as Arthas, Jaina, or Muradin who all provide plenty of Slow for Lunara's Unfair Advantage talent at Level 16 to get value from.

Lunara is countered by

Lunara gets countered by two things: mobile Assassins like Illidan or Genji that can chase her down even after she used Leaping Strike and strong AoE healing provided by Healers like Malfurion or Stukov who can shut down Nature's Toxin's poison damage.

Lunara's stronger maps

Lunara's average maps

Lunara's weaker maps

Lunara performs quite well on most maps with the exception of Warhead Junction where the fact that Lunara cannot use a mount causes her to feel very clunky and slow. On Battlefield of Eternity, however, Lunara feels even more powerful than on other battlegrounds thanks to her Level 4 talent Nature's Culling, which allows her to inflict heavy damage onto enemy Immortals.

• The fact that Lunara cannot use a mount is a both blessing and curse. In team fights, make sure to use your increased Movement Speed to kite enemy Heroes. Out of combat, do not forget about informing your allies about your position during rotations if you are falling behind.
• Leaping Strike is a great escape mechanism against hard-engaging Tanks and melee Assassins like Illidan or Muradin.
• Lunara's efficiency sometimes depends on the type of Healer Hero the enemy team chose during draft. While she counters single-target Healers like Lt. Morales or Uther, her AoE damage over time gets countered by strong AoE Healers like Stukov or Malfurion.
• On larger maps, Hippity Hop allows Lunara to rotate as fast as any mounted Hero, which greatly helps her to stay close to her allies.

Lunara shines when she is able to stack and spread Nature's Toxin on multiple targets undisturbed. Thus, keeping her poison active should become her primary goal. Fortunately, abilities like Noxious Blossom and Crippling Spores can help out greatly in that regard. Crippling Spores, in particular, can be used to instantly refresh the duration of Nature's Toxin and also slows each affected enemy.

Although Lunara's Heroic Abilities are quite easy to understand, it is extremely important to know when to use them. Thornwood Vine adds a fairly reliable source of additional AoE damage and also allows Lunara to control her Nature's Toxin stacks more efficiently. Leaping Strike, on the other hand, focuses more on mobility and repositioning. As such, you should carefully assess your own and the enemy team composition and then decide which ability to pick at Level 10.