Luna Snow is a show-stopping support hero who brings K-pop flair and icy healing power to every match. In Marvel Rivals, she fills a Strategist role – essentially the team's backline healer and fight-changer. Her playstyle revolves around keeping allies alive with high sustained healing and shutting down enemies with clutch freezes. With Luna on your team, you gain a nearly unkillable edge: her ultimate can make the whole squad insanely durable in clutch moments. It's no surprise she's considered top-tier (often S+ rank in tier lists) and even draws frequent bans in high-ranked play! This guide will coach you through mastering Luna Snow's fundamentals – from abilities and combos to team synergies, counters, and pro tricks – all in a friendly tone. Let's get you ready to steal the show with Luna Snow on PC, console, or mobile and climb those ranked ladders together! ????❄️
Luna's Core Playstyle and Role
Backline "Strategist" Support: Luna is happiest skating around behind her team, out of the enemy's direct fire, while continuously healing allies and poking at foes. There isn't a team comp that doesn't benefit from having a Luna Snow in the backline – she has no glaring weakness an enemy can exploit easily, aside from being squishy if caught. Your job as Luna is to keep your team alive and buffed and turn fights in your favor with timely ultimates and freezes.
Luna's core strengths include some of the highest healing output in the game and perhaps the best stun ability of all heroes. But on the flip side, she lacks mobility (no instant escapes) and relies on player skill – you need good aim and timing to land her shots and abilities under pressure. Don't worry, we'll cover how to manage these weaknesses.
Overall, Luna Snow's role is to be the team's anchor – sustaining allies through fights, disabling key enemies at the right moment, and swinging teamfights with an ultimate that can either save your squad or help secure kills. It's a lot of responsibility, but played right, Luna absolutely carries games! ????❄️
Abilities and How to Use Them Effectively
Let's break down Luna Snow's kit and how to get the most out of each ability. Keep jargon minimal – it's all about practical use:
Light & Dark Ice (Primary Fire)
This is Luna's basic ice shard blast, firing a burst of three frost projectiles with each shot. These shards damage enemies and heal allies they hit – a core reason Luna never stops shooting. Each shard currently does 22 damage (and heals 22 HP) per hit, and a full close-range burst delivers 66 damage (3 shards) to enemies. There's some damage falloff at long range (down to ~75% at max distance), but in most fights you'll be in mid-range where it hits full strength.
Also aim for headshots on enemies when possible; Luna's crits hurt and she needs those for meaningful damage. In short, never idle – pepper the enemy while topping off allies to build your ultimate charge fast. Luna doesn't need to swap between "heal mode" or "damage mode" like some supports – it's all-in-one, so fire away freely!
Absolute Zero (Secondary Fire – Freeze)
Luna fires a large icy projectile that explodes and freezes an enemy target solid for 2.7 seconds. This is a long-range stun and Luna's signature playmaking tool – and it doubles as self-defense. Hitting someone with Absolute Zero immobilizes them completely and triggers Luna's passive heal on herself (more on that below).
In fact, if you land Absolute Zero on a squishy target (≈250 HP), you can combo to kill them solo – freeze, then immediately fire two primary bursts (aiming for headshots) to shatter them before they thaw. Landing all six shards as headshots will even one-shot a 300 HP hero!
Aside from offense, use the freeze as a clutch interrupt – many ultimate abilities in Marvel Rivals can be canceled by stunning the user. Luna's Absolute Zero can cancel channeled or casted ults like Scarlet Witch's or Spider-Man's if you hit them in time. Keep an ear out for big enemy ult sounds and be ready to snipe-freeze the caster, denying their play.
Be aware this skill has a hefty 12-second cooldown, so use it wisely. A missed freeze is costly – but even a miss isn't the end of the world, since casting it still triggers a self-heal from your passive (which might help you survive until it's back up). Still, accuracy counts here – practice leading your shots on fast targets and know when to save this for a must-stop threat.
Ice Arts (Shift Ability – "Clap")
Activating Ice Arts empowers Luna's primary fire for a short duration (6 seconds). While this is active, Luna's basic attack fires 5 shards instead of 3 and these shards pierce through targets in a line. In simple terms, Ice Arts is your burst-heal mode – and also a burst-damage mode!
With five piercing projectiles per shot, you can heal multiple allies at once and hit multiple enemies if they're lined up.
Try to position so that your empowered shots go through the team and hit enemies behind – you'll heal everyone and also "spray" the enemy team with damage to soften them up. It's fantastic in chokepoints or tight areas where both teams cluster.
You can also use Ice Arts offensively to help burst down a key enemy – five shards into a frozen target, for instance, will hurt a lot (just remember healing allies is usually the priority).
If you're under fire, hitting Shift can start healing you while you continue fighting. Overall, think of Ice Arts as Luna's "boost mode" – time it for big teamfight moments or emergency healing when multiple allies dip low. Few things feel better than saving three teammates at once with a well-timed Ice Arts volley! ????❄️
Share the Stage (E – "Snowflake" buff)
Luna attaches an "Idol Aura" (the little snowflake icon) to one ally, marking them as her duet partner. This ally gets two benefits: (1) They receive healing whenever Luna heals any ally (effectively a copy of the healing) and (2) if Luna directly heals that ally with her primary fire, they get 35% extra healing from it.
In essence, Share the Stage lets you pocket heal an ally from anywhere on the map. Once the buff is on someone, distance or line-of-sight doesn't matter – you can heal them by shooting any other ally or by directly shooting them for bonus effect.
Or if you have a single high-value target (say your tank holding the point), give them the aura and then focus heals on them for that +35% boost. You can re-cast E to move the aura if needed – don't forget about it!
A common tactic is to rotate the buff between your main frontline tank and whoever is diving the enemy. Start it on a diver when they go in, then if they back off and your tank is now brawling, switch it to the tank to buff your heals on them. The beauty is the infinite range – you can save a dying teammate who's run out of sight by healing someone else near you, funneling heals through the aura target.
Always keep this "snowflake" active on somebody – an unused Share the Stage is wasted potential. In summary, prioritize placing it on high-impact allies (mobile damage-dealers or low-HP teammates who need the extra sustain), and swap it as the battle evolves. This makes Luna's already strong healing even more game-changing, allowing her to practically heal two places at once.
Fate of Both Worlds (Ultimate Q)
Luna's ultimate is a 12-second team dance party that can toggle between two modes – healing or damage boost. When you activate it, Luna starts dancing (K-pop dance break! ????) and creates a large aura around her affecting all allies in range. You can tap the ult button again to switch the effect between massive healing or a 40% damage increase for allies. Both effects are extremely powerful.
In Healing mode, Luna's dance gives insane healing-per-second to everyone in the area (plus a one-time burst heal when you first cast it). Your team also gains some bonus max health during the heal dance, making them extra tanky. This can literally save your team from wipe – it's the strongest group heal in the game, often turning a losing fight into a win as the enemy struggles to finish off anyone through your healing.
In Damage mode, Luna's dance pumps up all ally damage by +40%, letting your team mow down the opposition. Luna herself also moves 40% faster while dancing and – importantly – she becomes immune to crowd control (so you can't be stunned or stopped while ulting).
Used this way, Fate of Both Worlds can nullify the enemy's best shots and then help you punish them right after – a true tide-turner. In more coordinated play, you might coordinate ("I'm ulting – go, go, go!") to initiate a push with the damage boost. In solo queue, don't be afraid to use it defensively to save the team when health bars drop.
Make sure it's safe to commit – for instance, don't pop it when a Punisher or Iron Man on the enemy team is looking right at you with their ultimate, since their high burst can still kill you through your healing if you're alone. Ideally, use it when you have cover or when the enemy's big damage dealers are distracted or down.
Overall, think of Luna's ult as the clutch "win button": use Healing dance to counter enemy ultimates and keep your team alive, or use Damage dance to secure a teamfight win or push an objective when you have the momentum. And yes, a skilled Luna will sometimes do both in one ult – it's totally okay (and recommended!) to start in heal mode, then swap to damage mode once your team is healthy to press the advantage. Mix and toggle as needed. Mastering this flow will make you feel like the true DJ of the battlefield, dropping heals and buffs on beat! ????????
Passive – Cryo Heart
This passive gives Luna a self-heal over time whenever she uses Ice Arts or Absolute Zero. It heals 30 HP per second for 3 seconds (total 90 HP) to Luna herself. It does not stack if you use both abilities back-to-back – it'll just restart the timer.
The design encourages spacing out your Ice Arts and Freeze if you want multiple heals – so in a prolonged fight, try to use one, then later use the other when you need another burst of self-heal rather than both at once.
Cryo Heart is also why, as mentioned, even a missed freeze isn't entirely wasted – you'll heal a bit, which might buy you time to skate away or for teammates to peel for you. Just don't rely on this passive alone for survivability; it's a handy boost, but not enough to save you from heavy focus fire. Still, smart Luna players treat Cryo Heart as a mini "Oh no!" button – save at least one of your abilities (Ice Arts or Freeze) for when you really need a quick self-heal to clutch out an escape or survive an otherwise lethal hit.
Passive – Smooth Skate
This fun passive lets Luna ice skate when moving forward continuously – after about 0.5s of running straight, she gains 60% increased move speed and can even jump higher. Essentially, if you keep moving, Luna zooms around much faster (up to ~9.6 m/s speed, significantly quicker than most heroes). However, the speed boost cuts off if you stop or sharply change direction.
You want to already be skating when a threat appears, not starting from a standstill. So develop a habit of wiggling around in motion behind your team during fights (you can still shoot and heal while skating). If you hear an enemy engaging their ultimate and you don't have your freeze ready to stop it, that's your cue to skate the heck out of there – turn and glide behind cover or to your teammates as fast as possible.
And if you do need to run, flee in a straight line briefly to activate maximum speed, then you can start juking. One caution: don't jiggle your aim too quickly while moving, or the skate might not activate. Smooth, long strides are the way.
In summary, stay light on your feet – a skating Luna is a slippery Luna! This passive is what gives Luna surprising versatility for a healer – you can rotate between points faster and dodge attacks with skillful movement. Use it to always be in the right place (and to keep enemies whiffing as you dance around them).
Optimal Builds and Gear Considerations
Good news: Marvel Rivals has no item shop mid-game, so "optimal build" for Luna Snow is really about how you play her kit, not buying gear. Your "build" is your playstyle and ability usage. Still, here are some pointers to optimize Luna for success:
A Luna who isn't actively healing or shooting is a Luna not providing value – so keep those icy projectiles flying! ????
A frozen target is an easy headshot target – practice the freeze + double headshot combo to build a duelist mindset when needed. In short, don't be shy to deal damage. Your healing doesn't suffer for it (it happens concurrently), and an eliminated enemy is often the best "heal" for your team (since a dead enemy deals no damage!). Just balance this with your support duties (healer first, damage second).
For example, if you had to use your ultimate in the last fight, maybe hold Ice Arts a bit longer in the next fight as a mini-ultimate to compensate if your ult isn't up yet. Conversely, if you have ult ready, you might save Ice Arts for after the ult ends (unless you need both). This way you chain your power rather than dumping it all at once. A well-paced Luna feels like she always has an answer – that's optimal.
On mobile, use customizable touch controls – maybe set your secondary fire and Ice Arts in easy reach for quick reaction. These aren't "gear" per se, but optimizing your setup helps your Luna performance. Also, use a crosshair that's easy to see on all maps (bright-colored perhaps) so you can keep it on targets' heads. Little things like that ensure you're getting the most out of Luna's kit regardless of platform.
Luna is versatile – you can shift between main healer, off-healer, and even off-DPS as needed. Adapting your style to your team is the hallmark of an optimal Luna Snow player. ????
In short, there's no special item or gear trick – it's all about game sense, aim, and timing. Master those, and you're running the optimal Luna Snow build every game!
Best Combos and Execution Tips
Luna's kit has a few sweet combos and tactics that can dramatically swing a duel or teamfight. Here are the top combos and how to pull them off:
Freeze & Shatter Combo (One-Shot Kill)
This is Luna's trademark dueling combo. When an enemy assassin or squishy hero gets too close, hit them with Absolute Zero, then immediately follow up with two close-range primary bursts aimed at the head. Thanks to a brief window where damage doesn't break the freeze, you can land both bursts before the enemy can move.
Even if you miss a headshot or two, most "diver" enemies will be nearly dead or at least forced to retreat once they unfreeze. This combo turns the tables on would-be assassins – they go from hunting you to an icy grave.
Freeze & Flee (Escape Combo)
Alternatively, if you freeze an enemy but can't kill them safely, use those precious 2.7 seconds to run to safety. The freeze gives you a head start: don't immediately shoot, just skate away and regroup with your team. Thanks to Cryo Heart, you'll heal nearly half your HP during the freeze duration, so you emerge with more health while the enemy is still stuck.
This is a great survival combo when, say, a high-HP tank dives you – you might not burn them down alone, but you buy time and heal so they waste their opportunity. Remember: not every freeze has to be followed by damage; sometimes the best follow-up is escaping and letting your team handle the rest. Survival is victory for a support.
Ultimate Save-and-Slay Combo
Luna's ult can both save and kill, but the real magic is doing both in one go.
Now your freshly healed allies are supercharged to steamroll the enemy team. The switch can catch opponents off-guard: they see your team not dying and suddenly hitting harder. It's demoralizing for them and exhilarating for your side!
Make sure your team knows to take advantage – ping or use voice to say something like "Go go, damage boost on!" when you flip to offense. Done well, this combo can result in winning a teamfight without losing a single teammate. It's the essence of Luna's ult used to its full potential.
With experience, you'll feel when it's safe to swap to the damage dance (usually when enemy burst is over or enemy team starts retreating). Master this and you'll perform what feels like a teamwide resurrection into a damage buff – truly show-stopping!
Piercing Ice Arts Burst
We touched on this, but it's worth highlighting as a "combo" – using Ice Arts at choke points or when enemies cluster.
Five shards per shot, potentially hitting, say, 3 allies and 2 enemies each – that's a huge swing in one trigger pull. A specific trick: if an ally Winston-like Vanguard is on the frontline and enemies are around him, shoot through the tank – your shards heal the tank and then continue to damage the foes surrounding him. It's effectively an AOE heal + AOE damage combo.
This works great when holding objectives or anytime the enemy is bunched up (perhaps behind a Reinhardt-ish shield if one exists – your shards will go through any targets, even possibly through certain cover with the right team-up synergy). The key is awareness of positioning and maximizing that pierce.
Team-Up Synergy Moves
Marvel Rivals has unique team-up abilities when certain heroes are paired, and Luna has some cool combos here. One notable one (as of the latest patch) is "Chilling Assault" with Hawkeye: If your team has a Hawkeye, Luna gains +15% healing output, and Hawkeye gets to fire a special Ice Arrow that pierces through cover and deals big damage. This effectively gives your team an extra long-range nuke.
Another synergy: "Chilling Charisma" with Namor gives Namor a third frost turret on a separate cooldown.
Two-support synergy: If running double Strategist, say Luna + Mantis, use your stuns in tandem – e.g. Luna freezes one diver, Mantis can stun another with her abilities. The combo of two healers like this means you can stagger your crowd control so the enemy team never gets a clean engagement. One can also cover while the other uses ult.
Ultimately, these combos depend on team comp, but the rule is identify your synergy and abuse it. If you have a specific team-up ability with someone, incorporate it into your gameplan (e.g. call out "Hawkeye, use the ice arrow on my freeze!"). If you don't have a special duo, you still always have great synergy with tanks (heal them to charge ult faster) and high-damage heroes (buff them with your E and damage dance). Adapt combos to who you're teamed with, and Luna will amplify any strategy.
In practice, execute combos calmly – Luna's not about lightning-fast mechanical combos (except maybe the freeze headshots); she's about timing and coordination. As you practice these, they'll become second nature. Nothing feels better than pulling off a perfect combo sequence as Luna Snow – you'll truly feel like the MVP of the match when you save an ally and slay an enemy in the same breath! ????