Hand of Baron

Hand of Baron
Hand of Baron
Passive
	Grants Empowered Recall, 24 - 48 (based on minutes) bonus attack damage and 40 - 80 (based on minutes) ability power and nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Additional Information
Duration	2:30
Map Availability	SR
Source	Killing the Baron Nashor
Lost On Death	Yes

The Hand of Baron is a team-wide neutral buff granted upon slaying the Baron Nashor.

Notes[]

General[]

If your team defeats the Baron Nashor while you are dead, you will NOT receive the Hand of Baron.
The buff is identified by swirling violet runes around champions.
Comparably to Crest of Insight and Crest of Cinders, this buff cannot be transferred upon killing someone that holds it and will instead simply disappear.
The value of the bonus AD and AP is set at the moment your team kills Baron Nashor and does not increase over time.
Cannon minions buffed by Hand of Baron will never enter turret range while attacking a turret and will instead remain outside of it.
Super minions do not receive 75% reduced damage from area of effect and damage over time abilities and attacks.

Empowered Recall[]

Baron buff reduces recall channel by 4 seconds.
A successful recall heals 50% a champion's maximum health / mana
A successful recall grants +50% movement speed for 8 seconds

Minions Bonuses[]

All Minions:
- Now match 90% of average movement speed of nearby champions, up to a limit of 500 movement speed
- Are resistant to slow effects
- Non-super minions have 75% damage reduction versus area of effect, damage over time, and persistent effects
Melee Minions:
- Gain +50% movement speed when within 800 units of enemy minions or turrets
- Size is increased
- +75 attack range
- 70% damage reduction versus champions
- 75% damage reduction versus minions
Ranged Minions:
- +20 attack damage
- +50% missile speed
- +100 attack range
- 70% damage reduction versus champions
Cannon Minions:
- +600 Attack Range
- +50 Attack Damage, but Attack Speed is halved
- Attacks are now Area of Effect (200 range) and deal 2x damage to Turrets.
Super Minions:
- +25% Attack Speed.
- Gain +50% Movement Speed when within 800 units of enemy minion or Turret.

Trivia[]

The buff's icon is reused from one of Averdrian's abilities. This champion briefly appeared on the public beta environment before disappeared and being confirmed as cancelled in 2010.
This buff used to be named Exalted with Baron Nashor.

Patch History[]

Patch 8.23

Minion health, AD, and movement speed scaling increased. Cannon minions spawn faster earlier in the game.

Baron buff is meant to enable game-ending pushes, but it's become near-mandatory for a team to close out a match. We're making minion waves more effective at supporting sieges on their own so teams with huge advantages don't have to wait on Baron's respawn timer to end the game.

Melee Minions

BARON BUFF DAMAGE REDUCTION :	[75% from champions, 30% from turrets]
⇒	70% from champions, 0% from turrets

Caster Minions

BARON BUFF DAMAGE REDUCTION :	[50% from champions, 30% from turrets]
⇒	70% from champions, 0% from turrets

Patch 8.4
Baron buff bonus ability power increased. Baron buff stats increase more later in the game. Baron buff now buffs caster minions' durability.

Late game Baron buffs should be hugely impactful, allowing a team which takes them to successfully siege those tough inhibitor turrets. It doesn't look like it's doing its job well enough, so we're bumping up the damage it provides as the game goes later (especially ability power), and boosting its minion buffs.

Bonus stats

INITIAL STATS :	[25 AD and 25 AP]
⇒	24 AD and 40 AP

FINAL STATS :	[40 AD and 40 AP at 27:30]
⇒	48 AD and 80 AP at 40:00

Minion buffs

A LARGE BUFF-FIX : Fixed a bug where bonus attack damage (ex. Hand of Baron's +50 and Banner of Command's +100) wasn't affecting empowered siege minion attacks against structures at all. This is twice as impactful as it sounds, since empowered siege minions deal double damage to turrets.

CASTER MINION DURABILITY Empowered caster minions now take 50% less damage from champions

BUGFIX : Hand of Baron's area-of-effect damage reduction buff on minions now properly reduces damage from Runaan's Hurricane bolts

Patch 6.9
Duration up.

Nothing too fancy, just amping Baron’s buff duration to ensure it’s worth consideration when trading end-game objectives (like maybe an all-powerful Elder Dragon).

Hand of Baron

DURATION : [3:00] ⇒ 3:30

Patch 4.21
SHORTER BARON BUFF.

"Now that Hand of Baron has CLARITY OF DESIGN, players have been pretty good about using it to its maximum potential. Unfortunately, this makes outlasting or enduring a Baron buffed team pretty tough, so we're lowering its duration to maintain its clear identity without teams getting steamrolled as soon as it lands."

DURATION : ~~240 seconds~~ ⇒ 180 seconds

Patch 4.20
Baron Rewards
Baron buff no longer gives regeneration to the buffed team, but provides a minion promote aura that amps up sieging power. By a lot.

"Baron buff was always intended to be the siege-breaker; the ultimate answer to a team turtling and refusing to die. That's not to say that the present day Baron buff doesn't accomplish this goal, but it currently does so in a low-impact swirl of purple stats (and not much else). As such, our objective with the 2015 Baron buff is to trim power that doesn't feel impactful while adding it back in a way that says, "GO FORTH AND BUST DOWN THEIR WALLS." Hopefully that is now all you hear when you take down Baron. "

NO FACTIONS HERE : Killing Baron Nashor grants a buff called ~~Exalted with Baron Nashor~~ ⇒ Hand of Baron
COMBAT BUFFS : Grants up to 40 attack power and ability power (scaling with game time)
[NEW] MINION PROMOTE AURA : Hand of Baron grants an aura that empowers nearby minions:
- All Minions:
  - Now match 90% of average movement speed of nearby champions, up to a limit of 500 movement speed
  - Are resistant to slow effects
  - Non-super minions have 75% damage reduction versus area of effect, damage over time, and persistent effects
- Gain +50% movement speed when within 800 units of enemy minions or turrets
  - Size is increased
  - +75 attack range
  - 75% damage reduction versus champions and minions
  - 30% damage reduction versus turrets (similar to cannon minions)
- Ranged Minions:
  - +20 attack damage
  - +50% missile speed
  - +100 attack range
- Cannon Minions:
  - +600 Attack Range
  - +50 Attack Damage, but Attack Speed is halved
  - Attacks are now Area of Effect (200 range) and deal 2x damage to Turrets.
- Super Minions:
  - +25% Attack Speed.
  - Gain +50% Movement Speed when within 800 units of enemy minion or Turret.
[NEW] EMPOWERED RECALL : Hand of Baron augments your Recall with new effects:
- Baron buff reduces recall channel by 4 seconds.
- A successful recall heals 50% a champion's maximum health / mana
- A successful recall grants +50% movement speed for 8 seconds

Patch 1.0.0.63

Maximum bonus attack damage reduced to 40 from 50.
Maximum ability power reduced to 40 from 50.

Patch 1.0.0.61

No longer granted to dead players.
No longer absorbed by Black Shield.
Maximum bonus attack damage reduced to 50 from 60.
Maximum ability power reduced to 50 from 60.
Bonus damage / ability power reduced by 5 for the first 35 minutes.
Health regeneration per 5 reduced to 3% from 3.5%.
Mana regeneration per 5 reduced to 15 from 17.5.

Patch 0.9.25.34

New particle.

Patch 0.9.22.15

NEW EFFECT: Now increases your health regeneration by 5% per 5 seconds.
NEW EFFECT: Now increases mana regeneration by 25 per 5 seconds.
Bonus attack damage reduced to 50 from 90.
Ability power reduced to 50 from 90.

Patch 0.8.22.115

Bonus attack damage increased to 90 from 60.
Ability power increased to 90 from 60.

Patch 0.8.21.110

Duration increased to 240 seconds from 180.

Patch April 25, 2009

Removed Exalted with Baron Nashor from the Dragon.

Patch April 18, 2009
Added to the game Exalted with Baron Nashor

Global buff that lasts for 180 seconds granted upon killing Baron Nashor.
Grants 60 bonus attack damage and 60 ability power.