Bouncing Baron

MrJozzyJoz··34 votes·1,613 views

Heyyy Riot, I'm not sure if it was your intention, but any ability that displaces you--LB w, Lee Q, Yi q--when using it on Baron causes you to bounce off him and there is a 2 second recovery time from this bounce. That is very precious time and additionally the alternative is to not just those abilities which greatly cuts dps. Like I stated I'm not sure if it was your intention, but I was hoping it could be altered to just appearing or landing next to Baron!

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Critmaster Garen7 votes

nashor doesnt take shit.

tbh, i kindof like the idea that trying to jump into nashor is like trying to punch a brick wall. if it doesnt affect the game too much overall, it would be nice if they could keep that.

Kei1431 votes

When they changed smite to a edge to edge smite (patch 5.4), they made baron a solid object. Anything on the solid object gets bounced off.

This was one of their ways to stop people from warding ON baron, making the ward pretty much unkillable.

Heckin Support7 votes

This happened to me as Quinn in Valor form. I E'd into baron and got bounced back.

Teridax686 votes

I feel like having dashes and blinks stop at the edge of Baron's hitbox would be a much better alternative to the current moon-jump disable effect. I find it especially annoying when trying to solo Baron with MasterYi , something I can usually do consistently with a good enough build, because dodging his attacks with Alpha Strike is something I find fun and rewarding, but now is actually punishing. The floaty bounce-back effect also looks pretty inappropriate: Baron is meant to be this towering boss monster, not a purple trampoline.

Ariel the Cruel13 votes

♪ We all live on a purple trampoline. A purple trampoline. A purple trampoline. ... ♫

Mellori4 votes

This title made me picture a literal bouncing baron.

+1

Cenobite Azaziel1 votes

Xinzao and wukong suffers the same problem.

junglerboy161 votes

I've seen that happen with basically any non targeted dash or an enemy displacement that leaves your champion roughly in the middle of Baron's hitbox.

Like: Aatrox Q Ahri R Alistar Q (the knockback, not the dash) Anivia W (though it's hard to tell if you're just pinned between the wall and Baron or if this bug is happening)

And basically any other similar abilities.

Delioth1 votes

{quoted}

Alistar Q (the knockback, not the dash)

That's his W. Q is Pulverize- you're looking for headbutt.

junglerboy161 votes

sorry, you're right (I should know that, I play a lot of alistar lol).

Squeekems1 votes

I am pretty sure it is intentional.

Calculate how much time you actually have for Baron knowing that you will be "stunned" for 2 seconds when using those gap-closer abilities on him during the fight.

In my opinion, I think it would be amazing if Riot made it so its tentacles, that pop up, were targetable by abilities so that you could use your gap-closer to dodge mechanics.

SwiftKitten881 votes

same thing with Nidalee pounce when he is hunted. quite annoying

QueenAqua1 votes

You sure it wasn't when he spawns? He DOES knock back champs when he first spawns (which includes the dash-ins your talking about if done in this period of time). If it wasn't during spawn time, you should probably have put in @Riot in your title to get some red attention on this post more likely.

Stand in my X1 votes

Yes, it's on purpose, Baron should be unpassable terrain, and thats why

Ehkrickor1 votes

I think this is a problem, if @Riot intended this they need to put it in somewhere cause i didn't see it in his patch notes. it could be that they intended to make it harder to dodge his abilities cause he is an epic huge monster but... like they need to tell us that dashes that land too close will be displaced.

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