Hello and welcome, one and all to this guide on our favourite moon fox.

I'm sure you're extatic to find out all the little things about this adorable champion and let's get right to it with a quick overview of the character and her abilities.

Io, the Shattered Goddess, is a Support champion with access to what in my opinion is the single most powerful tool in all of Paladins. Her Guardian Spirit, Luna, a deployable pet with the unique property of being able to capture the Objective as if it were an additional Player on your team, while also being completely immune to all forms of Crowd Control.

Light Bow

A very simple yet effective primary fire ability. It deals 400 damage at any range and charges your ultimate by 2% for every shot that connects. It's great for finishing off any low HP targets that might be attempting to run away and gives the goddess a decent damage output for a support.

Moonlight

A very powerful healing ability with no cooldown that uses a rescourse bar instead. It heals the target for 150HP every 0.15 seconds giving you a Heal Per Second 1050 healing a second. A respectible number to say the least.

In the current state of the game, you want to use this ability in conjuction with the Goddess' Blessing Talent adding 15% damage reduction to however you target you're healing, essentially adding a 15% uncauterisable heal to the already respectible 1050 healing a second Moonlight inherently puts out.

As Io, you never actually want to use Moonlight to fully heal your target, but rather only keep them sustained as long as they're in a fight. You need to manage your rescourse bar the entire game and make sure it's up as often as possible, so if your target is out of combat, you can let them be for the time being and switch to the next person who might need help in a fight.

Guardian Spirit

As stated above, this is the ability that plays the main role with Io's playstyle, as well as one of, if not the most powerful single tool in the entire game.

Luna is essentially an offensive turret that's also treated as a 6th player for your team being able to contest and capture the point as well as push the payload like any other player and for the most part that's how you'll use her.

The pet also has the ability to dash into an enemy player Io hit with her Light Bow ability dealing 300 damage and stunning them for 1 second. That ability can only trigger once every 18 seconds however and Luna's dash will abort the moment she loses sight of her target.

Luna gives any comp she's part of the ability to push into the enemy spawn with 5 people, which creates a nearly unwinnable situation for the defending team, since Io can make any player she decides to heal win any duel they decide to take by giving them consistent healing and 15% damage reduction using her Goddess' Blessing talent.

Lunar Leap

I honestly hate this ability. It's the worst movement among the Supports. It has a super long cooldown, has a predictable path and more often than not, it'll get you out of cover. The only ways to use it well is to either quickly turn 180° and jump to help your team push up or you can use it preemptively if you see someone coming to flank you.

Still, this ability is pretty much the worst thing about Io's kit.

Begone

The Shattered Goddess' Ultimate ability. It's not the greatest ultimate among the supports, but it's not horrible by any means. The mistake a lot of players make is trying to be cheeky with it and kill players by sending them off the map. While it's super fun to do, it's really not how you should use that ability for the most part. You should treat this ability in a similar way a Furia would use her Pyre Strike or a Mal'Damba uses his snake reload. It's a flank deterrant that also lets you even out 1v1 situations by getting you a free burst of 1200 - 1600 damage if you follow it up with some shots from your Light Bow, letting you have a fair chance in duels against most flank/DPS characters.