Baron Samedi

How to play Baron Samedi

Baron Samedi is a ranged mage from the Voodoo pantheon who deals magical damage. Top players mostly play Baron Samedi in the Support role (67% of games) and the Mid lane (33% of games).

In your kit, Wrap It Up (slow, then root) is your main crowd control. Vivid Gaze (cross beam damage) and Consign Spirits (area damage, heal on hit) add damage and pressure. Your ultimate is Life of the Party (cone pull stun), on a long cooldown (about 110s at rank 1), so save it for fights that matter. Your passive is Hysteria: unique brew, apply hysteria.

Community guides level Vivid Gaze, Wrap It Up and Consign Spirits first. Max Vivid Gaze first, then Consign Spirits, then Wrap It Up.

Most of your damage comes from abilities, so fight from behind your front line and never be the closest god to the enemy. Look for the moment your crowd control can land, then follow up with the rest of your damage. You have no dash, so your positioning is your escape. As support, stay with your duo lane partner early and use your crowd control to set up kills.

Start with Bluestone Brooch, then buy Gauntlet of Thebes. Buy it early so it finishes stacking. Your core is Stampede and Breastplate of Valor, and you finish with Genji's Guard, Freya's Tears and Ethereal Staff. A good relic is Aegis of Acceleration. If the enemy team heals a lot or you keep dying, open the full tool and enter the enemy gods for the exact swaps.

If you own Aspect of Hysteria, it reworks Hysteria (faster brew; hysteria = damage), Vivid Gaze (cross beam damage), Consign Spirits (area damage, heal on hit) and Wrap It Up (slow, then root). It changes what to build, so turn on Aspect in the tool when you play it.

Top players win most often against Artemis, Apollo and Kuzenbo, and struggle against Nemesis, Poseidon or Amaterasu. Against those, play safer and consider a defensive item earlier.