Elluna, the Celestial Combat Medic, is one of Supervive’s Protector Hunters – in other words, she’s a healer. Elluna provides your team with plenty of support, being able to carry downed players out of harm’s way, provide consistent healing, and a small amount of CC. She also has some of the best mobility in the game with one of the longest dashes, allowing you to escape from danger and get your team revived.
This guide covers which skills to prioritize, which gear to take and upgrade, and general playstyle tips. We’ll also go over which sort of team composition Elluna fits well in.
Elluna Build Basics
Here’s a quick overview of what you want to prioritize when playing Elluna.
What Weapons To Take
- Manablade into Bubble Blade.
- Take Manablade as your first weapon and upgrade it to Bubble Blade as a priority. The Bubble Blade provides an extra passive shield that equals 25% of the heal applied.
- Techblade into Interweaver.
- Your second weapon priority is Techblade upgraded into Interweaver. The Interweaver provides ability haste to increase how often you can drop heals, and buffs your LMB attack with an extra projectile.
Skill Overview
- Soulpack – Elluna’s passive alllows her to pick up downed allies (Wisps) and carry them while they’re being revived.
- Crescent Bolt (LMB) – Elluna’s basic attack deals ramping damage – more damage over time on the same target – and restores mana. The first shot after a period of not shooting becomes Empowered.
- Darkside Binding (RMB) – Elluna fires an orb that deals damage and Roots the enemy for a short time. It also deals AoE damage after a delay.
- Lunar Dash (Shift) – Elluna’s dash can be used while airbone to travel a large distance. If you dash through allies, it refunds 50% of the Dash cooldown and 1 second from Moonlight Blessing.
- Moonlight Blessing (Q) – Elluna summons a healing circle which can then be thrown on to allied characters by reactivating the ability.
- Divine Intervention (R) – Elluna channels direct healing on allied players – this can also be used on wisps (downed enemies) to revive them. Revived enemies are teleported to you, and you receive some healing, too.
Skill Priority
- Max Q – Moonlight Blessing. Moonlight Blessing is Elluna’s most powerful skill, and it should be the skill you take to max ranking throughout the game.
- At level 2, Moonlight Blessing has +45 Base Healing and a 13% AP healing ratio. At level 3, the skill has a -3 second cooldown, and the healing is doubled after throwing the ability.
- Max Shift/Dash. After getting Moonlight Blessing to max rank, you can start to put points into your Dash ability. Upgrading this just reduces the cooldown.
So overall, the skill progression looks like this: Q Max – Dash Max – Ultimate Max.
You should take
Moonlight Blessing
as your first skill for those early team fights, then your Dash, then the Root skill.
Elluna Playstyle Tips
Elluna should be played as a backline healer. Because of her excellent mobility, you can Dash in to pick up downed allies, then use your Airborne Dash (these abilities don’t share a cooldown), to quickly revive allies in the middle of a fight.
Elluna’s mobility can also be used to chase down enemy players. Her damage shouldn’t be slept on. Hitting an enemy
five times
with your primary attack deals significantly more damage.
It’s likely that your team composition means that you have certain Hunters that like to dive into the action. You can preemptively use your Ultimate ability to channel healing on these characters who like to get up close and personal.
A combination of your Q (Moonlight Blessing) and a channeled heal via the Ultimate (Divine Intervention) is a massive healing buff in a fight, and, if used correctly, can be the make or break of a difficult team fight.
To play Elluna to her best advantage,
you should also pick your time to attack
. Hitting a Root on an enemy player or using your dash to corner a weakened enemy is the difference between an
okay
Elluna player and one that is extra useful to the team.
Elluna Team Compositions
One of the best things about Elluna – and why she’s recommended for new players – is that she is generally reliable in most team compositions. Every team will be better off if they have an Elluna on their side.
That being said, Hunters like Hudson, Oath, Felix, and Brall pair particularly well with Elluna’s channeled healing. These are Hunters who like to dive in and deal damage, or Hunters that perform well when they are in the thick of it just dealing damage – such as Hudson.
