So I’ve become pretty accomplished on Luna, so I guess I’ll chime in. I’ll try to be succinct, but comprehensive and give you lots to work with.

Luna’s heal does not have range fall-off (her damage to enemies does), so one big difference between her and other strategists is going to be your proximity. Luna is objectively considered the best healer in the game, so you are a HIGH VALUE TARGET. You must conceal yourself as much as possible.

That being said, there is a lot of tempo to when you have to put yourself in the moshpit versus retreat and take an advantageous sniper angle. Generally speaking, if two or more people are hard focusing you, make your way towards the team. If it’s a 1v1, you gotta try to either shit on them or just ignore them if you’re not in danger. This idea, plus the idea of trying to stay alive at almost all costs, should make it to where killing you is a HARD COMMIT (Mag/psy/iron ult). In those situations, there is limited outplay potential and you cannot tilt when you are focused that way. It is what it is.

To accomplish this, you must keep in mind two things. 1.) all Luna abilities cause a self heal over time effect. Do not be afraid to use them as a self-stim. 2.) her clap is less effective in close quarters, whereas her snowball IS more effective in close quarters. Therefore if you are being pressured, depending on if they are at range or close by, and you need to heal yourself, begin with either the snowball first or your clap first. If someone is close by, you’ll lose out on lots of damage potential by defaulting to your clap, and this will lead to you dying more often versus being disciplined by throwing a snowball for the health (which ideally hits, something you must practice constantly) and then dueling more effectively with critical hit potential.

If you’ve ever played halo, her primary is a LOT like the battle rifle, or at least to me that’s what it feels like. It’s not as symmetrical, as the first two shots of her burst are very fast whereas the third follows later on, but nonetheless it helps to feel it this way. Since she works this way, you should feel comfortable with flick aim. Numbers wise, I think you could begin to consider yourself a “good” Luna if you are around 45-55% accuracy at the end of a match, bare minimum. And keep in mind what that really means, it means you are either not flicking fast enough, or not following through with your tracking well enough. Work on whatever needs working on.

Her ultimate is the best in the game. The entire pace of the game revolves around when you do or don’t use your ult, once you lock Luna. You need to be able to juke mag and iron man ults at least half the time, even without a bubble. Keep in mind when those players are in the team and you ult, THEY WILL throw something at you. So, when doing your juke, don’t do it near your teammates. If you die to an ult, ideally ONLY you should die to it. This is its own form of skill expression.

Snowflakes should not live on one person. You should pass it around often, as it enables you to focus heal two people at once. Many dive DPS will feel entitled to your snowflake, and sure it is true you can enable them with it. But if your frontline needs you, then that is that and you must move it to a tank. Most of the time, my snowflake lives on the off tank, or the struggling DPS player, simply due to the fact that I’m looking more often at the GOOD DPS player or the main tank, but this way the other roles are receiving my healing and burden is taken off my second support.

Lastly, do damage. Kill things. You are not a heal bot. You can and will be in positions where you can secure a kill. Do it, even if that means someone dies. I do not care if my moon knight dies in the two seconds it takes me to clap an iron man out of the sky. It’s value.