Paladins Support Guide: Io, master the way of the moon!

today we are talking about IO io's the top support in the current meta du to items being very easy to get especially with horde being bought nearly every game allowing for her to get her core items online very quickly as well as the comps that are good right now are the comps you want to be playing with her which is mostly brawls being able to have IO do lots of damage while having her sustain insane sustain healing and displacement ultimate is a huge W when it comes to brawls and balladins so let's get into the overview of her abilities talents my personal build and then we will get into the game with IO up first is her basic attack now this is going to function with her Luna uh which is her dog which is basically what uh IO is known for this is going to do 400 damage every 6 seconds and has a maximum ammo count of 10 and is fully effective up to 350 units where it's just not going to hit hitting an enemy with Lio will mark them for Luna to attack her right click is Moonlight this is her her main healing ability Holden Channel Moonlight into an ally healing them for 150 every 15 seconds Moonlight regenerates when not in use and has a maximum Moonlight of 150 and a range of 125 units as base kit this is the main healing source that you're going to be using and it does not have a cool down the it runs on a meter meaning Kronos does not work with this meaning Kronos is not good with a please do not run gronos on iO we'll get to the optimal build in a bit on a guardian spirit deoy Luna to fight alongside you Luna will rush and stun enemies that have been marked by your Lio for 1 second every 18 seconds Luna strikes enemies twice for 180 damage and a third time for 350 damage Luna can be redeployed to a new location every 8 seconds while alive with a deploy range of 50 units which is decently long and Luna has a 4,000 health and is affected by bulldozer meaning bulldozer does kind of hurt IO but for the most part you're not going to be seeing bulldozer in your games and Luna is going to heal allies for 300 per second around her and that is an insane amount of healing for a passive heal it makes be uh dealing with point tanks very rough and especially with a dog that is 4,000 HP it makes her damage output quite high and one of the highest in the support class if you're really playing her effectively next is lunar leap this is going to be her safety Mobility quickly backwards and upwards through the air it is not omnidirectional You Only Go Backwards meaning you're going to want to face away from the direction you are wanting to go so you don't want to be looking uh away from the enemy team if you are trying to LEAP you're going to be wanting to look at them and you'll be able to LEAP backwards be gone as their ultimate project an ethereal manifestation of Luna and send it Forward enemy cot will be pulled along the travel path and take 800 damage if they collide with the wall and you are IM moon to damage while releasing Luna iing it's a very good Escape tool being able to let you react quickly to a Flink I always specialty is brawling with uh a brawl comp and also being that she is one of if not the hardest character in the support Class 2 flank she has so many different options whether it be Luna or ultimate or lunar leap to help her get out of so many different situations being able to have a dog that stuns and does a shitload of damage on top of having a very high damage bow and an ultimate that makes you immune to damage while releasing it and basically guaranteeing 800 damage meaning she is extremely hard to kill as a flank and is one of the most annoying supports to deal with as a flank so let's go ahead and get into her talents let's talk about her talents LifeLink a goddess blessing and sacrifice LifeLink when IO or luna heal an ally other than each other the other is also healed at 50% efficiency meaning you have a bit of self- sustain that's really all it offers is of self- sustain goddess blessing allies being a killed by Moonlight take 15% reduced damage this is really good especially in the commoms that have a lot of burst damage which is quite prevalent right now there is quite a lot of burst comp and especially if you're running it with a dive tank or a very heavy flank that you're able to see on a map that's quite open then this is going to be the talent you're going to be wanning around 80% of the time LifeLink is very good if you think that they're going to be diving you quite hard then you'll want to go LifeLink to kind of uh keep you up um but for the most part you're going to be running goddess blessing to really enable your tank and flank uh to do a lot more in their back line and be more disruptive sacrifice is on a 30 second cool down it does have an internal cool down if I Falls below 200 Health while Luna is active she trades places with Luna heals for 50% of her health and Luna dies in herstead meaning you no longer have the dog for damage you no longer have the dog for healing and you just trade places and it's a very selfish challeng it can be useful every now and then but for the most part you're really never picking this talent and it's more of a fun Talent than anything and most of the time you're going to have Luna in a spot where it's going to be quite close to your point tank which is usually in the middle of the fighting so even when when this Talent Works you're going to be transported right back into their enemy team and you're probably going to die anyway and if you're not then you're really not using your dog for healing or brawl and then you lose the effectiveness of IO so that is sacrifice this is my main build that I use there could be a couple changes but for the most part this is what I like to run sectum of Faith regenerate 2% Moonlight when every 1 second while not using Moonlight meaning you're going to be able to get that Moonlight up a bit more since this is her main healing ability outside of Luna being able to get more Moonlight means you're able little more heal or heal more on top of being able to still do quite a bit of damage increase allies movement speed while 12% while they are being killed by Moonlight with just Swift arrows which is just going to allow those flank turn off tanks to really be enabled a bit more getting around a bit easier and it's just going to be um more enabling so your as L as IO your job is really to enable your backline she's very good with dive and with your brawl you're going to have Luna doing a lot of damage I mean you can cover quite a lot of the map with just her Base Kit like just putting Luna near Point behind an obstacle to really make it hard for her to get killed while she's still in losos to be able to do some damage and heal makes her very deadly she's able to cover so much of the map by just existing and being able to do two things at once Moonlight Garden generate 10% Moonlight for each enemy hit with lightbow meaning the more damage you do the more Moonlight you're going to get and then you're able to heal more and then it just turns into a cycle where you do a lot of healing you're doing a lot of damage and yeah just really is a cycle restore Faith as allowing her to get some of that uh self- sustain while not needing LifeLink heal for 10 every time you heal an ally with moonlight just getting you that little bit of extra sustain really isn't that important but it does procet you know time you're healing the other person so you do get that bit of self- sustain and moonwalk increase your maximum moonl capacity by 40% this is just going to up her total healing output and it is in my opinion her best core card just having a lot of moonlight capacity is just great and a lot allow just some more healing so let's go ahead and get into the game I'll show some spots where you can put the dog and we'll just go from there I'm SPL we have quite the heavy dive comp with triple flank off tank and then me and so the optimal build is going to be hoarded into armor plating if not Nimble with your normal start we're going to go and place dog up here it is kind of an unsafe spot at the beginning but I don't think they're going to be looking up here just yet try and keep them alive it does go through walls and stuff I didn't mean to dash there get that stun get some free damage and look for heals some Le here go and reload real quick try and keep Kaa up we're going to go and move our dog up since we're playing quite up TR keep caspan alive here I'm going to get that kill and then we'll just go ahead and heal up m a full real quick and then we'll go and head up here with our caspi and we're going to actually put the dog right underneath him so he is able to get a little bit of healing if he does come back I can't really help him here unless he does peak me there he is going to get him those heals do see up here and I want to move my dog back uh simply because they are kind of up there we're going to goad and dash over here try and get to VOR we're going to go and move her dog up here a little bit late I was on my part she definitely died because of me there but unlucky and we're going to go ahead and just keep our dog there see Lex up there going try to keep our team up we do see Casp here he not able to live unfortunately we're kind of in a bad spot being on the low ground um go move our dog back try to get Maka up try and keep him alive here we're going to lose dog here I'm pretty sure never mind we're going to move dog back here try and live this could get the kill on him we're going to try and stay in our dog's AOE keep Cas being alive and then unlucky did our best there to try and live we do get tier 2 Armor play and Nimble and this just kind of shows how broken horde is off the first death that I have and we're not even halfway through the game not even close we literally just got point I get tier two arm we plaing and tier one mble we see um Victor here we're going to try and keep him up and then also just heal our dog back up actually going to move it up a little bit into this a bit safer spot you usually want to play it around cover while still being able to get heals at this heal we are running goddess blessing unfortunately can't save caspan um maybe I could have done something there but I don't know we're just going to play safe here we're actually going to hold all for a second we're just going to keep spamming heals going and pop all so we're going to do some damage here on is kind of pushing us way to reload unfortunately we're going to move the dog up and we would C Point going put our dog here just have that bit of pressure going into point we're going to kind of play it a bit safe two three Nimbo we're going to try to get back to the point and hopefully save point we're going to throw our dog here and then push on this side with Lex it's going to give us the best angle to use dog we're going to try and keep Co up here with goddess blessing did kind of save him we're going to move our dog over here there's bit of safety we're going to go and try and live this looks like we're going to be able to we're going to go and ult here let that kill on KH and then just look to kill Vora we got it and we're going to move uh Luna back here and we didn't live unfortunately did get a lot of kills though so we're in decent spot we see Casp up here we're going to play more like a flex or Flex support here and try and just make sure they have healing uh trying to get The Vora unfortunately can't get through a bit overextended but not that big a deal I'm going to try to get the Lex here try and heal him up unfortunately I couldn't I played that poorly we have heals on Casp here hopefully he can leave we're going to look at for and we wouldn't got the kill which is massive we're going to heal ourselves too when we heal just reposition here and do a bit of the more back line get some poke g con here maybe force his en rollability which is massive and then we're going to go and kill him here try and save Vora we're going to actually put our dog near here it didn't get it open I it up but yeah I wish it was okay there it still heals through walls and stuff so not that big a deal uh we're actually going to move it right underneath Cas and then try and save him here we're got another kill which is massive then he just is able to out trade because he has th underneath him see Con on this side actually going to get a stun here in a second and then we'll get the kill cuz he is no more invulnerability massive it's all about Target prioritization since we have a stun and a lot of damage we're actually able to force out in vulnerability most of the time on G and then he has nothing and then we just kind of focus him down because it's quite a easy target to kill especially since his shield isn't that good he's very easy to kill after his vulnerability down his Dash is very good um but you can't block it it's h for displacement not really good for actual Mobility cuz you can block it fortunately Vora and Casper a little bit overextended but it's okay we still have ult if they get close I actually use it there and kill him and then unfortunately my Al was used but not that big a deal they did a little bit of charge back there when I have tier three armor pling a n now this isn't your normal support you're not really going that Chronos or morale boost because you don't really needy your old kind of sucks and your abilities don't really use Kronos the only thing you'd want it for is your leap and maybe your dog if you are uh losing it a lot but if you're losing it a lot you're probably just playing a bit better poorly and you need to fix your position a little bit uh but you don't really need it for your lead because it's already on a 10-second Gob so after this you really just want to figure out do I need Unbound do I need veteran what what else do you need in this case they do have quite a bit of CC so I'm going to go ahead and get Unbound uh to kind of help me live a bit more thing with IO is you want to be able to help yourself live more and make it hard for the flanks to actually kill you just make the flanks drops hard and being able to pick them off by yourself is very good we're actually going to play down here this time got to switch up the positioning uh put our dog in there bit of a safe spot but gives our team the ability to out trade them uh go and get that kill heal back our dog and we see uh K died unfortunately but we're just going to still try and uh increas some pressure here and then get some heals off see if we can get over to them go and give that movement speed and heal see Vora going and go for Vora here we're going to go ahead and kill her it's always better to help with damage for the most part when you're support than actually healing because especially when C gets to um I got that kill uh especially when K gets to laking where it's about 80 to 90% your heals aren't actually going to do much and you actually killing them is going to get rid of that Target faster than if you were to just actually heal them so make sure you're also doing damage and recognize when you want to be healing over actually doing the damage with them we're just going to try to keep C alive he did make a good Escape we're going to there we go GG here's also the stats if you are curious 113 17 37k damage and 30 or 60k healing had more than an off tank and had more than our flank again this character does a lot of damage and still puts quite a bit of healing there you go have a good one guys

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Published: Wed Jan 31 2024