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Guardian's Blessing
Shoes
Baron's Brew
Healing Potion
Shoes of the Magi
Breastplate of Valor
Pestilence
Spear of the Magus
Mantle of Discord
Ethereal Staff
Shoes of the Magi
Void Stone
Breastplate of Valor
Pythagorem's Piece
Magi's Cloak
Gem of Isolation
Soul Reaver
Lotus Sickle
Soul Gem
Spirit Robe
Teleport Fragment
Heavenly Wings
Baron Samedi is a death Petro Loa, one of the aspects of The Baron. Baron Samedi is a utility mage (like 
Nu Wa) that can heal and support team mates, while dishing out his fair share of damage. Baron Samedi is a low mobility mage with strong crowd control and unique skills. His abilities allow him to counter and control enemy gods. Combined with health-scaled abilities and a combo oriented kit, Baron Samedi can easily influence a fight.
Passive: Hysteria
Ability Video Baron's Brew is essentially a boosted 
Multi Potion chalice, and it heals for 12% more health and 33% more mana. However keep in mind that you can only buy one, and have to go back to the fountain to refill it. The Multi Potion has a longer duration as well. Still, Baron's Brew is better than the Multi Potion.
Hysteria encourages using combos to increase damage.
Vivid Gaze
Ability Video Hysteria per beam. This is your waveclear and your main source of damage when combined with other abilities. Try to hit your target at the crossroads of the beam if possible. However, since you have to be in-front of the minion wave to land this, there's a high chance that you'll be hit by the enemy laner's clearing ability. This causes you to lose a lot of health quickly.
Consign Spirits
Ability Video
Wrap It Up
Ability Video
Anubis' 
Mummify and 
Chronos' 
Stop Time, this sets up combos for teammates and yourself due to the slow and eventually stun combined with the relatively large amount of Hysteria it applies. You will rarely see its boosted version, due to most players using it to set up targets who at the moment have zero Hysteria.
Life of the Party
Ability Video Hysteria if a poor soul gets pulled in for the complete duration. Great for teamfights due to the high CC it provides, even finishing it off with a 2 second stun. This is a great ability for setting up kills for your allies. This is also great for rapidly inflicting Hysteria so your abilities get the full effect. However, keep in mind that Baron Samedi receives a 60% movement speed reduction when channeling this.
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As for Lotus Crown, if you are building like a support im thinking:
If you want to build him like a solo laner:
Also, I would prioritise divine over pestilence on Baron. You can build him hybrid/tanky and he can soak *some* damage but he isn't a frontliner. You can swap ethereal or magus for the magical defense item in the build.
Perhaps include hide of urchin as alternative somewhere as well.
Lastly, not sure about pythags on a solo lane baron, support maybe, but solo? May as well get magus instead for damage while also helping magical teammates.
Let me know what you think, bud. :)
Kriega, any thoughts on my suggestions?
I think we know the real reason. Zeus and Ah Puch aren't exactly weak, or not mid laners due to "not having any real movement abilities/escape". Or we look at someone like Hades who has an escape and is still awful. Baron has the worst early clear of any mage and a pretty weak early game damage output since his continous nerfs, not to mention magus and soul reaver nerfs are going to put him in a very ****ty spot in mid.
Im not sure if he's better in support or solo keeping in mind guardians blessing in solo hasn't been changed and warrior's blessing has been buffed.
I'll make the changes soon :)
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Nice writeup. Looks clean like usual.
Some comments:
- When you talk about
Hysteria (and in particular, 
Baron's Brew), you say you can only buy one...makes it sound like there's only 1 use before you have to refill. Might clarify that better, since it should be 3 uses (like normal healing/mana chalices). Also, it might just be the way I read it, but it sounds like when you say 
Multi Potion has a longer duration, it's a negative against the Brew. Reason it sounds like that is because I think you could reword to really say that the Brew is a great item, rather than just give comparatives. Boosted multi potion with a preferably shorter duration to restore is great.
- On
Vivid Gaze, you're saying to point the intersection so the beams hit all of the minions...I don't think you can hit all minions with that intersection unless they're bunched up. Rather, making sure one of the beams goes through the entire wave, and focusing the intersection on the minions you need more damage on, is probably best. That extra damage isn't all that much anyway. Helpful, but not huge.
- Spelling error on the last sentence of notes for
Consign Spirits.
- Somewhere, you might talk about how
Spear of the Magus is core (which you identify as such, but never talk about) because of the easy stacking/multi-ticks of 
Wrap It Up and 
Life of the Party.
- I need to play with him some, so take my build comments with that consideration. That said, for any god that has a situational heal rather than a heal that can work anywhere/anytime, I always feel that
Rod of Asclepius is also then situational. In Baron's case, I think it's probably closer to core, but still...not necessarily true core. He'll appreciate that MS since he has no escape, and that alone might make it basically core, maybe. But if you've got other teammates with heals, and you're playing skilled competition, expect anti-heal, and so you're building something that's going to have a reduced function.
- I think the rest of the item suggestions are solid, but you might consider some additional things. I think
Mantle of Discord is another option that should be in there. 
Pythagorem's Piece is another great utility item, if your teammates are sticking with you (or you're sticking with them, as should be the case).
Thoughts?Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it a lot
However, isnt the warlocks in there a bit late? Soul reaver in there a bit too early?