What is Atakhan in League of Legends? – Explained

This is everything you need to know about Atakhan, Bringer of Ruin, the latest League of Legends epic monster introduced in 2025.

Atakhan in League of Legends – The basics

Atakhan is a new epic monster brought to Summoner’s Rift to increase the macro and strategic aspects of the game around the mid-game when it’s usually stale, especially in the higher ends of the ranked ladder and professional play. Before Atakhan was added, teams would wait for the dragon spawns every five minutes, leading often to periods of time where players would just farm and play conservatively.

With Atakhan, becoming proactive and making plays on the map reward you as the buffs the champion grants are quite powerful. That being said, it’s important to understand when it’s worth capturing and what are the optimal ways to play around this objective. Before we dive deeper into this, let’s take a look at the basics and check out Atakhan’s stats and abilities.

The Stats

• HP: 8000 – 18400 (based on average levels of all champions, capped at 16)
• Attack damage: 140
• Attack speed: 0.75
• Range: 175
• Armor: 90
• Magic Resist: 75
• Movement speed: 350
• Unit Radius: 300
• Debuff Immunity: Atakhan is immune to all crowd control except stasis. His stats cannot be modified by any external means.
• Frail and Unworthy: Atakhan’s attacks and abilities apply stacks of Frail and Unworthy to enemies hit for 4 seconds, refreshing on subsequent hits and stacking up to 50 times. During combat, he applies 1 stack to all enemies within his pit every 2 seconds as well. Each stack reduces the affected target’s armor and magic resist by 1, for a maximum total of 50 resistance reduction. This debuff is also removed upon his death.

Based on the numbers, Atakhan is closer to Baron Nashor in terms of health and damage output than a dragon. He also reduces resistances up to 50, which is a lot for an objective that spawns in the mid-game.

Whenever you’re looking to capture the objective, the time and amount of resources (or champions) needed is similar to when you’re looking to kill a Baron Nashor, meaning you can’t really solo it.

Characteristics and Types of Atakhan

There are two types of Atakhan: Voracious and Ruinous. Unlike the types of Dragons and Baron Nashor which randomly spawn every game, Atakhan’s spawn location is decided by an internal score, based on the number of kills and points of damage originating from both teams’ champions against other champions on either half of the map.

The kills and damage increase the score by a different amount. Additionally, the score increases at a faster rate when no allies are nearby (melee – 1.85x /ranged – 1.65x).

At the 14-minute mark, the half of the map where a higher score has been accumulated will determine Atakhan’s spawn location. This means that the neutral objective can either spawn on the bot or the top side of the map.

If the score is high, Ruinous Atakhan will spawn. Otherwise, it will be Voracious Atakhan’s turn. Each Atakhan comes with different buffs upon takedown:

• Ruinous Atakhan – grants the permanent Crown of Carnage buff (which increases all active epic monster buffs by 25%) and 6 stacks of the Bloody Petals buff. He will also grow 6 normal Blood Roses and 6 Large Blood Roses inside his camp shortly after being slain. The roses grants the entire team additional experience and adaptive force.
• Voracious Atakhan – grants a temporary False Life buff, which lasts 150 seconds. If you’re killed when the buff is active, you will be able to revive and blink back to your base, fully restoring health and mana. Moreover, the enemy won’t receive bounties or the usual kill gold (300) and will instead gain 1 stack of Bloody Petals and 200 gold. False Life also has another permanent buff which grants 25 bonus gold on champion takedowns.

Bloody petals grant 23 experience and adaptive force (0.6 – 0.2, based on stacks, bonus Attack Damage, or 1 – 0.333, based on stacks, Ability Power). Each team member is granted an additional 0% – 100% (based on their KDA) experience.

Atakhan’s attacks and abilities

Aside from the basic stats, Atakhan has special attacks and abilities you must be aware of if you want to maximize his power and potentially use it to your advantage. If you are not willing to read all the numbers, feel free to find the TL:DR below.

After starting combat, Atakhan will cast his bolt ability after 1.5 seconds and then his form ability 0.5 seconds after the bolt ability ends.

His form ability has a 7.5-second cooldown; during this cooldown, he will only perform basic attacks. Atakhan will always cast his form ability every time and immediately after its cooldown elapses, and will also always cast his bolt ability 0.5 seconds after his form ability ends.

• Basic Attack: Atakhan slashes the nearest target, dealing 100% AD physical damage, plus bonus physical damage based on his form:
  • Ruinous: (+ 3% of the target’s current health).
  • Voracious: (+ 3% of the target’s missing health).
  • Each hit applies 1 stack of Frail and Unworthy (the resistance reduction debuff).
• Bolt Ability: After a 0.5-second delay, Atakhan barrages 4 eldritch bolts over 1.75 seconds in the direction of the nearest target at the time of cast, once every 0.4375 seconds over the duration. Each bolt deals 4.25 – 76.5 (based on level) (+ 2% of target’s current health) magic damage to enemies hit, for a maximum total of 17 – 306 (based on level) (+ 8% of target’s current health).
  • Missile range: 800 units
  • Each hit applies 5 stacks of Frail and Unworthy.
• Ruinous Ability: After a 0.5-second delay, Ruinous Atakhan unleashes 8 constricting rings around himself over 2.75 seconds. Each ring deals 11.5 – 207 (based on level) (+ 9% of target’s current health) magic damage to enemies hit.
  • Major ring radius: 900 units
  • Least ring radius: 200 units
  • Ring width: 150 units
  • Each hit applies 5 stacks of Frail and Unworthy.
• Voracious Ability: After a 0.5-second delay, Voracious Atakhan infuses a dark aura around himself for 2.75 seconds, dealing 10 – 180 (based on level) (+ 33.3% of target’s missing health) magic damage over 2.75 seconds, to up to 4 of the closest nearby enemies and healing himself for 75% of the post-mitigation damage dealt.
  • Aura radius: 600 units
  • Each hit applies 3 stacks of Frail and Unworthy.

TL:DR

Ruinous Atakhan deals more damage to healthy targets since his damage is based on current health and applies more stacks of Frail and Unworthy, which reduce resistances. For Voracious, instead, the bonus damage is calculated on missing health. Atakhan’s attacks are physical damage while the abilities are magic damage.

Which Atakhan is better?

Just like in most scenarios in League of Legends, the answer depends on the team compositions and game state. Ruinous Atakhan is better for snowballing team comps that can take advantage of the additional experience and stats it offers. Voracious Atakhan, instead, is better if you’re looking to make plays where you’re likely going to trade kills or deaths to capture objectives or force teamfights.

In most games, however, you are likely going to have Ruinous Atakhan spawned on the map. This is because ranked games tend to be skirmish-heavy, which leads to an increase in the internal score. That said, Voracious Atakhan is usually more influential in the games’ outcome thanks to the revive effect. It can be abused in game-deciding situations, knowing that you will be able to be immediately back on the Rift with almost no consequence.

How to set up and capture Atakhan in League of Legends

Now that we have gone through all of Atakhan’s characteristics and buffs it offers, the most important thing left is learning how to take advantage of Atakhan. When we said you should treat it as a Baron Nashor as opposed to a Drake, we also referred to how you should set it up. Aside from the vision control around the nearby areas, you shouldn’t force an Atakhan play unless you’re in a winning position and most of your allies are close by.

If you’re the team starting out Atakhan, there are chances that the enemy team will be able to force a fight considering you will lose lots of resistances due to the Frail and Unworthy debuff, greatly amplifying the damage taken. The risks of getting the objective stolen or losing a full fight are usually higher than the upsides Atakhan gives you, especially if Voracious Atakhan is spawned. Bear in mind that it deals damage based on missing health, meaning that you will take even more damage.

With that in mind, try to claim the objective after a winning teamfight where multiple enemies are killed or the enemy team’s tempo is messed up. Taking down an Atakhan will take you quite a while, so utilize death timers to your advantage to avoid coin flippy situations.

FAQ

Q: Is Atakhan stronger than Baron Nashor?

A: Atakhan is not stronger than Baron Nashor, although it offers similar levels of power when it’s killed. They can be considered close in terms of power, but Baron Nashor’s buff can be more impactful during the game.

Q: When does Atakhan spawn in League of Legends?

A: Atakhan spawns at the 20-minute mark on either the top side or bot side of the map. The spawn location is decided based on how many kills or damage is dealt by the two teams’ on the two sides of the map.

Q: Is Ruinous Atakhan better than Voracious Atakhan?

No Atakhan is better than the other. It mainly depends on whether your team composition can take advantage of the buff. Regardless of which form you get, it’s usually good to take it if there are no other plays on the map you can capitalize on.