Hand of Baron

Hand of BaronEdit
Description
Grants Empowered Recall and nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Grants 12 − 48 (based on minutes) bonus attack damage and 20 − 80 (based on minutes) ability power determined by the time Baron Nashor is slain.
Stats
Duration	180
Source	Baron Nashor
Affect	Team

Hand of Baron is a team-wide neutral buff granted by slaying Baron Nashor. It is available only on Summoner's Rift.

It can be identified by swirling violet runes on the ground around the champion. The buff is lost upon a champion's death and cannot be transferred to another champion, unlike the Crest of Insight and Crest of Cinders, which are not team-wide buffs.

How to obtain

• By being alive while your team lands the killing blow on Baron Nashor.

Effects

• Empowered Recall - channel time is halved.
• Gain an additional 50% bonus movement speed from the Spawn homeguard.
• Nearby minions become empowered:
  • All minions have their minimum movement speed set equal to 92.5% of the averaged movement speed of all nearby champions, capped at 500. Slows also cannot reduce their speed below this value.
  • Additional buffs specific to each minion type:

Minion	Effects
Melee minion	50% bonus movement speed (multiplicative) when within 500 units of enemy minions or turrets.  75 bonus attack range. +30% size. 50% − 70% (based on minutes) damage reduction from champions. 85% damage reduction from minions. 15% damage reduction from Area damage, Persistent damage and Proc damage, stacking multiplicatively with either of the above.
Caster minion	100 bonus attack range. Attack missile speed increased to 900 from 650.  20 bonus attack damage. 50% − 70% (based on minutes) damage reduction from champions. 15% damage reduction from Area damage, Persistent damage and Proc damage, stacking multiplicatively with either of the above.
Siege minion	750 bonus attack range. Attack missile speed increased to 1600 from 1200. 50% reduced attack speed.  50 bonus attack damage. Attacks deal 200% of the minion's base AD + 300% of the minion's bonus AD to turrets and buildings.(note) Attacks deal 100% of the minion's base AD + 200% of the minion's bonus AD to champions and minions.(note) Attacks splash to deal damage in a 200-unit radius area of effect. +30% size.
Super minion	50% bonus movement speed (multiplicative) when within 800 units of enemy minions or turrets. 25% bonus attack speed. +15% size.

Notes

• Minions are empowered by "nearby" Champions in the following behaviour:
  • If there is an unempowered minion found within 600 units of a champion with Hand of Baron, empower all minions within 1450 units of that champion that aren't empowered already.
  • Minions individually lose the empowerment when there are no more champions with Hand of Baron within 1500 units of them.
• Siege minions buffed by Hand of Baron will never enter turret range while attacking a turret and will instead remain outside of it as long as they keep line of sight.
• The splash damage of empowered siege minion attacks is tagged as Spell, AOE and proc.
• The amount of bonus AD and AP given is determined at the moment your team receives the buff upon killing Baron Nashor and does not increase over time.

Trivia

• Its icon was recycled from Astral Beam, an ability of the scrapped champion Averdrian, and was also used by Kassadin's Null Sphere in the past.

Patch History

V14.1

• Updated icon.

V9.23

• New buff VFX.
• Buff duration reduced to 180 seconds from 210.

V9.2

• Scaling for bonus attack damage, ability power and damage reduction on minions now accelerates over time and increments every second.
• Bonus attack damage reduced to 12 − 48 (based on minutes) from 24 − 48 (based on minutes).
• Ability power reduced to 20 − 80 (based on minutes) from 40 − 80 (based on minutes).
• Melee and caster minion damage reduction against champions reduced to 50% − 70% (based on minutes) from 70% at all times.

V8.23

• Melee minion incoming champion damage reduction reduced to 70% from 75%.
• Removed: Melee minion no longer take 30% reduced damage from turrets.
• Caster minion incoming champion damage reduction increased to 70% from 50%.

V8.4

• Bonus attack damage changed to 24 − 48 (based on minutes) from 26 − 40 (based on minutes).
• Ability power increased to 40 − 80 (based on minutes) from 26 − 40 (based on minutes).
• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where bonus attack damage (e.g. Hand of Baron's +50 and Banner of Command's +100) wasn't affecting empowered siege minion attacks against structures at all.
• New Effect: Caster minions now take 50% less damage from champions.
• Bug Fix: Area-of-effect damage reduction buff on minions now properly reduces damage from Runaan's Hurricane bolts.

V6.9

• Duration increased to 210 seconds from 180.

V4.21

• Duration reduced to 180 seconds from 240.

V4.20 Reworked

• Renamed to Hand of Baron from Exalted with Baron Nashor.
• Health and mana regeneration removed.
• Now grants an aura that empowers nearby minions:
  • All minions have their movement speed set to 90% of your own up to 500 movement speed and are resistant to slows.
  • Non-super minions take 75% reduced damage from area of effect damage and damage over time.
  • Melee and super minions gain 50% bonus movement speed when within 800 units of enemy minions or turrets.
  • Melee minions gain increased size, 75% damage reduction versus champions and minions, and 30% damage reduction from turrets.
  • Caster minions gain 100 attack range, 20 attack damage, and +50% missile speed.
  • Cannon minions gain 600 attack range, 50 attack damage, 100% splash damage over a 200-radius area, and 100% bonus damage to turrets, but their attack speed is halved.
  • Super minions gain 25% attack speed.
• Recall is upgraded, reducing its channel time to 4 seconds. Successfully recalling will restore 50% of your maximum health and mana and grant 50% bonus movement speed for 8 seconds.

V1.0.0.63

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

V1.0.0.61

• 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.

V0.9.25.34

• New particle.

V0.9.22.15

• 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.

V0.8.22.115

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

V0.8.21.110

• Duration increased to 240 seconds from 180.

April 25, 2009 Patch

• Removed Exalted with Baron Nashor from the Dragon.

April 18, 2009 Patch Added

• 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.

References

Neutral buffs