Baron Nashor is the most powerful neutral monster on Summoner's Rift in League of Legends. Killing Baron Nashor grants 
Hand of Baron to all living teammates for 210 seconds. The buff gives bonus attack damage, bonus ability power, 
Empowered Recall, and an aura that greatly increases the power of nearby minions.
Lore
Baron Nashor is a voidborn creature residing on Summoner's Rift. This one of a kind creature has a shape and behavior of a river serpent. What differentiates it from a regular serpent is its numerous arachnid appendages, as well as two additional mouths protruding from its head area. The creature has 12 eyes (some of them injured due to past battles), a mouth with sharp theeth that can gape open wide for larger prey, and horned like crests on the top of the head. The colours of the creatures exoskeleton go from dark purple to light teal. This creature was believed to be deceased for numereous centuries, but due to rescent Void rifts opening on Summoner's Rift it has reemerged again.
Abilities
The following list displays the known set of abilities that Baron Nashor may perform. While not revealed in a player's Death Recap, their debuffs and animations are visible and distinctive, allowing players to work around them.
Basic Attacks
- Melee attacks: Baron Nashor deals 100% AD to all enemies within a 175-unit radius.
- Single-target rear Attack: Baron Nashor summons a spike from the ground that deals 100% AD damage and
stuns his target for 1 second. - Area-of-effect rear Attack: Baron Nashor summons a cluster of spikes from the ground, dealing 50% AD damage and stunning enemies hit for 1 second.
Passives
- Presence of the Baron: When Baron Nashor spawns, he will knock away all units, wards, and targetable traps to the edge of his pit. While Baron Nashor is still alive, he will continue to knock these back if more are placed.
- Crowd Control Immunity: Baron Nashor is immune to all forms of crowd control except stasis. Additionally, his stats cannot be reduced by any means.
- Baron's Gaze: Baron Nashor takes 50% reduced damage from the champion that he has most recently auto-attacked for 15 seconds.
- Voracious Corrosion: Baron Nashor's basic attacks apply a debuff that reduces the target's armor and magic resistance by 0.5, stacking up to 100 times for a total of 50 maximum reduction.
- Void Corruption: Baron Nashor, with every basic attack and spike attack, deals 120 (+ 30% AD) magic damage. This can occur every 0.75 seconds. This also applies a stack of Voracious Corrosion to the nearest champion with the lowest number of Voracious Corrosion stacks.
Actives
- Baron Nashor will activate an ability once every 6 auto attacks. Baron's first spell will be random. However, all spells after the first may be predicted; Baron Nashor's ability rotation is cyclical (ex. Acid Pool > Acid Shot > Tentacle Knockup > Acid Pool).
- Acid Pool: Baron Nashor spits out 3 pools of acid in a cone in front of him, dealing 10% AD magic damage to all champions hit and creating a field that slows targets' movement speed within the pool's radius.
- Acid Shot: Baron Nashor spits acid in a straight line, dealing 20% AD magic damage to all enemies it hits.
- Tentacle Knockup: After a brief delay, Baron Nashor knocks up all enemies at the target location dealing 25% AD magic damage to all enemies hit. Tremors will indicate the targeted location.
Gameplay
- Baron Nashor applies a debuff that greatly reduces a target's armor and magic resistance. This can potentially reduce a champion's armor/magic resistance to below zero, making them highly vulnerable to both types of damage.
- Targeted dashes such as Diana's Lunar Rush, Jax's Leap Strike, and Master Yi's Alpha Strike initially move the Champion inside of Baron Nashor's model before being placed inside of his attack range.
- Baron Nashor is often a key objective in many games due to its massive gold bonus (+ 300/player) and global buff.
- Due to Baron Nashor's immense fighting power, slaying him should generally not be attempted until later into the game, and only with multiple teammates around to aid you.
- Soloing Baron Nashor is usually impossible. It is generally only feasible very late into the game with a champion who has immense sustainability, DPS, and tankiness; and even then it is not guaranteed. Most champions who are capable of soloing the Baron are bruisers or tanks such as Udyr, Warwick, Xin Zhao, or Nasus. However, there are some exceptions; a skilled Malzahar or Yorick player, for instance, has the ability to solo Baron with relative ease.
- Killing Baron Nashor with a team is fairly simple. Baron primarily attacks the target closest to him, so with proper positioning, a tank or bruiser can be made to take the brunt of the damage.
- Soloing Baron Nashor is usually impossible. It is generally only feasible very late into the game with a champion who has immense sustainability, DPS, and tankiness; and even then it is not guaranteed. Most champions who are capable of soloing the Baron are bruisers or tanks such as
- The enemy team often has one or more wards placed inside of the Baron pit. If you do not clear these wards with the use of a Control Ward or Sweeping Lens, they may attempt to contest Baron Nashor, which can be extremely dangerous for your team, as most of your teammates will likely be trapped inside of the Baron pit and/or weakened by the Baron's armor/magic resistance shred. Because of this, it is generally extremely risky to attempt to slay Baron Nashor while the majority of the enemy team is alive.
- Baron Nashor's Hand of Baron buff is given to the team that deals the killing blow on Baron. This means that even if one team is incapable of directly contesting the Baron head-on, a player can possibly swoop in and steal the Baron kill with a well-timed Smite, Cho'Gath's Feast, Nunu's Consume, or similar high-damage execute. This is almost definitely a suicide mission and is an extremely high-risk maneuver. However, successfully stealing Baron can turn the tide of a game dramatically. Some Champion's abilities, such as Kalista's Rend, however, can out-damage Smite if she has enough stacks or even a well-timed fourth shot of Jhin's Curtain Call.
- In the same vein, Champions possessing abilities (usually their ultimate) with a considerable range can attempt to do the same with less risk by dealing the killing blow from a distance. However, this is very difficult to properly execute, due to the near-perfect timing required upon the player's part and a usual requirement of vision inside of the Baron pit. While 'blind' Baron steals are feasible, they are extremely rare and unreliable. Some examples of abilities that can potentially steal the Baron from range include: Draven's Whirling Death, Ezreal's Trueshot Barrage, Ashe's Enchanted Crystal Arrow, Jinx's Super Mega Death Rocket!, Jhin's Curtain Call, Jayce's Shock Blast, Kog'Maw's Living Artillery, Lux's Final Spark, Nidalee's Javelin Toss, Varus' Piercing Arrow, Xerath's Arcanopulse, Rite of the Arcane, Ziggs' Mega Inferno Bomb, and Zyra's Stranglethorns.
- In the same vein, Champions possessing abilities (usually their ultimate) with a considerable range can attempt to do the same with less risk by dealing the killing blow from a distance. However, this is very difficult to properly execute, due to the near-perfect timing required upon the player's part and a usual requirement of vision inside of the Baron pit. While 'blind' Baron steals are feasible, they are extremely rare and unreliable. Some examples of abilities that can potentially steal the Baron from range include:
Trivia
Old Baron Nashor's Skull
- Brandon 'Ryze' Beck stated a Visual Update was coming for Baron Nashor, later revealed in A Twist of Fate and finally implemented when Summoner's Rift was too visually updated.
- Old Baron Nashor's skull was placed within his modern counterpart's pit in patch V5.7.
- During Snowdown Showdown 2012, players could earn a summoner icon featuring old Baron Nashor's main head with a santa hat on.
- Baron Nashor's name is a tribute to Roshan, a monster filling a similar role in Defense of the Ancients, with his name being an anagram of his.
- A box labeled 'Baron Acid' can be seen in the preview video for the launch of the League of Legends' Mac Version.
- In the Death Recap screen, Voracious Corrosion is labeled as 'WormAttack' and Wrath of the Ancients 'wrathdamage'.
- Baron Nashor was revealed to be a Voidborn during Rek'Sai's Q&A (LAN server).
- He is the biggest Voidborn known.
- Voracious Corrosion's old icon was recycled from Tabu's Soul Drain.
- The icon for Hand of Baron was recycled from Averdrian's Astral Beam.
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Patch History
- Base attack damage reduced to Error: Parameter '3' is not accepted.. from Error: Parameter '3' is not accepted..
- Base health increased to 9000 from 6400.
- Baron corruption changed to (120 (+ 30% AD) every basic attack and spike attack, these occur every 0.75 seconds) from (30 (+ 5% AD) every 0.5 seconds to the target with the lowest corruption stacks).
- Baron corruption attack is also represented with different visual particles now to make the difference more clear. Champions gain corruption by being hit by his attacks/spells.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it could spawn before Rift Herald returned to the Void.
- Duration of Hand of Baron increased to 3 minutes 30 seconds.
- Baron timer is updated instantly for both teams, regardless if you have vision of the objective at the time of its death.
- Baron now has a new global death sound.
- Baron Nashor now cannot be walked through even with effects like Ghost or Fizz's Nimble Fighter, which grant this ability.
- Spawn time increased to 20 minutes from 15 minutes.
- Voracious Corrosion now applies a debuff that reduces damage dealt to baron by 50% rather than -50% attack damage.
- Baron Nashor is now immune to effects that would decrease his damage output.
- Base health increased to 8800 from 8000.
- Health per minute increased to 140 from 125.
- Baron Nashor can no longer critically strike, but has been granted 10% increased attack damage.
- Fixed a number of bugs where certain champions could still shred his defenses.
- Fixed a bug where his statistic tooltip was displaying fewer stats than he had.
- Baron Nashor found his holiday hat.
- Baron Nashor is now immune to armor and magic resist-shredding effects.
- Baron Nashor now ignores debuffs if you are too far away to engage him.
- The 'Wrath of the Ancients' spell no longer targets stealthed units.
- Base health increased to 8000 from 6500.
- Magic resistance increased to 70 from 35.
- Damage increased by approximately 15%.
- Can now be debuffed with non-disables (for example, poisons).
- Moved Baron Nashor in the autumn version of Summoner's Rift to the same location as the summer version of Summoner's Rift.
- Moved to the center of his arena so that he can no longer knock you out of it.
- Fixed audio playing through Fog of War.
- Fixed a bug where Baron Nashor would stop attacking a target immediately after the target stopped attacking Baron Nashor.
- Fixed a bug where Baron Nashor was not regenerating health at the proper rate
- Now debuffs his target with -50% attack damage rather than 60% attack speed.
- Now adds a debuff to his primary attack target - Voracious Corrosion reduces the target's attack speed by 60%.
- Initial spawn time increased to 15 minutes from 8 minutes.
- Global gold reduced to 250 from 300.
- Maximum damage / ability power granted by Exalted with Baron Nashor reduced to 40 from 50.
- Global gold reduced to 300 from 400.
- Local experience changed to global experience.
- Total global experience reduced to 900 from 1200.
- Starting health regeneration per second reduced to 15 from 25.
- Baron Nashor gains 0.375 health regen a second every minute.
- New particle for Exalted with Baron Nashor.
- Resolved an issue with one of his particles displaying through the fog of war.
- Fixed a bug where Nashor's particles appeared through Fog of War.
- Can no longer be outranged by Karthus, Tristana, or Twisted Fate.
- Added an internal cooldown to his AoE Slime spell.
- Reduced global experience to 600 from 1000.
- Base health increased to 6500 (+125 per minute).
- Wrath of the Ancients: damage reduced from 80 to 70 per hit, but leaves a stacking +15 magic damage taken buff.
- Spawn delayed to 8 minutes.
- Magic resistance increased to 35 from 0.
- Base health increased to 7260 from 6760.
- Base damage increased to 550 from 500.
- Exalted with Baron Nashor: Damage / Ability Power bonus increased to 90 from 60.
- Base health reduced to 7000 from 9000.
- Maximum health scales by 240 per player level, leading to a maximum health of 11080.
- Nashor buff duration increased to 4 minutes from 3 minutes.
- Magic resistance decreased by 10.
- No longer resizes when you engage him.
- Knockback ability reduced to 600 from 750 range.
- Base damage increased to 500 from 400.
- Armor increased to 120 from 100.
- Knock-back on Sweeping blow decreased to 750 from 1000.
- Global gold bounty decreased to 400 from 500.
- Added a global buff to the team that kills Baron Nashor Exalted with Baron Nashor, which increases your champion's attack damage and ability power by 60.
- Removed buff icon from Baron Nashor.
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