Thought I'd make a guide on everyone's new favourite anime fox girl, Io!

Io is a new support, and while every pro says she's meh, she actually has potential. Just not as a primary healer (of course). Io is ment to be used as a FLANK healer.

Not flank healer as in flank Pip, but as in she is supposed to stick with the flanks and assist them while they sneak attack enemies.

Here's a basic rating of her abilities-

Moonlight-6/10

Her heal is pretty good and heals pretty quickly, but the drawback is she must maintain line of sight while healing AND she cannot use other abilities while healing.

Goddess' Blessing may seem good, but she the enemy Jenos is running Luminary (and he will) it becomes virtually useless.

Guardian Spirit-8/10

WHO'S A GOOD GIRL? LUNA IS, YES SHE IS! Luna is amazing, she's a Barik turret but better, she has about double the damage of one of Barik's turrets (probably to account for the fact that there's only one of her) and she can be re-placed to a new position, then or course, she can capture and escort objectives. The only drawback is how still she is, making her sniper bait. You could say Barik's turrets are the same, but no matter what you do, if Luna dies, Gaurdian Spirit will always have a longer cooldown than a turret.

I'm addition, running Life Link gives your team a mini Grohk totem that can also attack.amd stun.

Lunar Leap-4/10

Io's escape ability, if you exclude Sacrifice. Honestly pretty boring and somewhat unreliable, however, you can still fire during this. And if you run Sky Walker, after you use this you can continuously fire off your light bow to practically fly, as lomg as you have ammo, that is.

Begone-5/10

Begone is entirely situational and map related. Let's say you're on Ice Mines, while you can use. It to send your opponents down a long hallway, it won't be as effective as sending then off the edge of Ascension Peak or Jaguar falls.

It's a 50/50 shot.

And here are some closing tips,

1) An Io's number one priority as soon as she dismounts is to place Luna on the point.

This can easily stall the enemy and/or allow your team to capture the objective.

2)Start your fights from a somewhat long range and slowly close in. Start calling Luna when you feel close enough, but the best distance to be. From an enemy is about the diameter of the capture point.

3)If you are running Sky Walker, run Eternal Reliquary as well, and when you start to fall, use Lunar Leap to gain momentum, and Eternal Reliquary will trigger, giving you back some ammo.