Hand of Baron
Empowered Recall and nearby allied minions and 
Voidmites are greatly empowered.
Baron Nashor is slain.
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[edit | edit source]
- By being alive while your team lands the killing blow on Baron Nashor.
Effects[edit | edit source]
- Empowered Recall - channel time is halved.
- Gain an additional 50% bonus movement speed from the Spawn homeguard.
- Nearby allied minions, Voidmites, and
Bel'Veth's 
Void Remora 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. - Voidmites specifically gain a
melee minion's effects. - Additional buffs specific to each minion type:
- All minions have their minimum movement speed set equal to 92.5% of the averaged movement speed of all nearby champions, capped at 500.
| Minion | Effects |
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| Melee minion
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 Caster minion
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 Siege minion
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 Super minion
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- 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.
- If there is an unempowered minion found within
- 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[edit | edit source]
- Its icon prior to Season 2024 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[edit | edit source]
- Updated icon.
- New buff VFX.
- Buff duration reduced to 180 seconds from 210.
- 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.
- 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%.
- 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.
- Duration increased to 210 seconds from 180.
- 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.
- Maximum bonus attack damage reduced to 40 from 50.
- Maximum ability power reduced to 40 from 50.
- 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.
- New particle.
- 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.
- Bonus attack damage increased to 90 from 60.
- Ability power increased to 90 from 60.
- Duration increased to 240 seconds from 180.
- 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.
- Global buff that lasts for 180 seconds granted upon killing
References[edit | edit source]
| Summoner's Rift | General | |
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| Epic monsters | ||
| Removed content | ||
Slow
movement speed for the duration. Slow percentages cannot reduce a target below 110 movement speed. Some slows will instead modify the target's movement speed to a static value, which may not be further reduced nor increased.Only the slow with the highest value is taken into movement speed calculations. All additional slows are ignored until the higher-valued slow wears off. The strength of slows may amplify or decay over their duration. Slows of the same debuff cannot stack and will instead refresh on each application unless otherwise stated.
| Interrupts: | Does not interrupt any actions. |
|---|---|
| Reduction: | The duration is affected by  Tenacity.The strength is reduced by |
| Resist: | Resisted by  crowd control immunity and  slow immunity.
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| Removal: | Removed by  Cleanses,  Garen's  Decisive Strike,  Master Yi's  Highlander and  Nunu's  Biggest Snowball Ever!.
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Centered rangeCentered range is calculated from the center of a source unit's hitbox to the center of a target unit's hitbox.
- Centered range is used for most unit-targeted abilities.
- It is less effective and may seem to have diminished reach against large units.
MinionMinions are autonomous units that spawn periodically from their nexus and advance along the lanes toward the enemy nexus. They basic attack any enemy unit or structure they find in their way, but can be killed for 
gold.
There are four kind of minions: melee minions, caster minions, siege minions and super minions.
Area damageArea damage is the damage type dealt by most area of effect abilities, as well as a select few basic attacks, items and runes. Area damage is not exclusive to being applied by purely 
physical, 
magic or 
true damage, and instead can be dealt by any of the three damage sub-types.
- Spell vamp heals with one-third effectiveness.
- Many items effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of area damage (i.e. ability effects).
- For example:
Rylai's Crystal Scepter, 
Liandry's Torment and 
Luden's Companion. - Compared to single target spell damage, area damage does not trigger
Muramana.
- For example:
Arcane Comet's current cooldown is reduced by 10% whenever you deal an instance of area damage to a champion.- Area damage is reduced by 25% versus
Jax's 
Counter Strike. - Many champion summoned units such as
Elise's 
Spiderlings, 
Yorick's 
Mist Walkers, and 
Naafiri's 
Dune Hounds take reduced damage from area damage.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will occur (i.e. physical, magic or true).
Persistent damage magic damage sub-type, but this is not guaranteed.Many effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of persistent damage. For example:
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment and Luden's Companion.
Omnivamp and 
Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of damage dealt.- Arcane Comet's cooldown is reduced by 5% whenever you deal an instance of persistent damage.
Effects triggered by damage sub-types will occur (e.g. 
The Black Cleaver on instances of Physical damage and 
Morellonomicon on instances of Magic damage).
Proc damage spell damage and so will trigger ability effects. Some forms of on-hit damage, such as by 
Blade of the Ruined King and 
Spellblade, also benefit from 
life steal.
Proc damage does not interact with most other effects, such as Luden's Companion or Arcane Comet. The main exception is:
- Omnivamp and Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of damage dealt.
Effects triggered by damage subtypes will still occur in spite of proc damage's non-reactive nature (e.g. Black Cleaver on instances of Physical damage and Morellonomicon on instances of Magic damage).
ProjectileA projectile or missile is any entity not classified as a unit (
champion, 
minion, 
monster, etc.) that travels at any given velocity.
- Moving units are not considered projectiles under any circumstance (including
dashing units, 
airborne units, or units thrown by some abilities such as 
Force of Will or 
Roar of the Slayer.). 
Braum's 
Unbreakable, 
Mel's 
Rebuttal, 
Samira's 
Blade Whirl, and 
Yasuo's 
Wind Wall can block, destroy and / or stop projectiles.
- Some abilities will
destroy all currently incoming homing projectiles.
TurretA turret, also called a tower, is a fortification that defends a part of territory. It provides vision of the area and autonomously fires homing bolts at nearby enemies, establishing a defensive ground for allies.
Turrets are most notable in 
Classic, defending against waves of enemy Minions from their ultimate goal of destroying the nexus. Champions work to destroy enemy turrets to push their assault into the enemies' territory. Turrets visually fall apart as they take damage.
ChampionChampions are the player-controlled characters in League of Legends. Each champion possesses unique abilities and attributes.
MinionMinions are autonomous units that spawn periodically from their nexus and advance along the lanes toward the enemy nexus. They basic attack any enemy unit or structure they find in their way, but can be killed for gold.
There are four kind of minions: melee minions, caster minions, siege minions and super minions.
Spell damage physical, magic or true damage, and instead can be dealt by any of the three damage sub-types.Many effects are triggered whenever you deal an instance of spell damage. For example:
- Rylai's Crystal Scepter, Liandry's Torment and Luden's Companion.
- Omnivamp and Physical vamp (where applicable) heal for a percentage of damage dealt.
- Arcane Comet's current cooldown is reduced by 20% per instance of spell damage you deal to a champion.
Effects triggered by damage sub-types will occur (e.g. Black Cleaver on instances of Physical damage and Morellonomicon on instances of Magic damage).
