Healing

A champion's health being healed.

Healing is the action of replenishing a unit's current health, distinct from the other forms of health restoration (life steal, spell vamp, omnivamp and health regeneration). It can be weakened by healing reduction.

Healing cannot increase a unit's current health over its maximum. The act of leveling up and certain champion abilities (such as Lulu's Wild Growth) will increase a unit's current health by the same amount as the increase to their maximum health, but this is not considered a form of healing. As a result, they are not affected by healing reduction.

Healing

Champion abilities

Ally and/or User-targeted

• Alistar's Triumphant Roar
• Bard's Caretaker's Shrine
• Fiora's Grand Challenge
• Janna's Monsoon
• Kayle's Celestial Blessing
• Nami's Ebb and Flow
• Nidalee's Primal Surge
• Rakan's Gleaming Quill
• Rell's Shattering Strike
• Senna's Piercing Darkness
• Seraphine's Surround Sound
• Sona's Aria of Perseverance
• Soraka's Wish
• Taric's Starlight's Touch
• Yuumi's Zoomies
• Zilean's Chronoshift

Ally Only

• Soraka's Astral Infusion

User only

• Aatrox's Deathbringer Stance, Umbral Dash and World Ender
• Ahri's Essence Theft
• Aphelios' Severum and Moonlight Vigil with Severum as the main weapon
• Camille's Tactical Sweep
• Cassiopeia's Twin Fang
• Cho'Gath's Carnivore
• Darius' Decimate
• Dr. Mundo's Goes Where He Pleases, Infected Bonesaw, and Heart Zapper
• Ekko's Chronobreak
• Elise's Spider Queen in Spider Form
• Evelynn's Demon Shade
• Fiddlesticks' Bountiful Harvest
• Fiora's Duelist's Dance
• Gangplank's Remove Scurvy
• Gragas' Happy Hour
• Gwen's Thousand Cuts
• Hecarim's Spirit of Dread
• Illaoi's Prophet of an Elder God
• Irelia's Bladesurge
• Karma's Renewal
• Kayn's Shadow Step
  • Shadow Assassin's Shadow Step
  • Rhaast's The Darkin Scythe, Shadow Step and Umbral Trespass
• Kha'Zix's Void Spike
• Lillia's Dream-Laden Bough
• Lissandra's Frozen Tomb
• Maokai's Sap Magic
• Master Yi's Meditate
• Mordekaiser's Indestructible and Realm of Death
• Morgana's Soul Siphon
• Nocturne's Umbra Blades
• Nunu's Consume
• Olaf's Vicious Strikes and Reckless Swing
• Pyke's Gift of the Drowned Ones
• Rek'Sai's Fury of the Xer'Sai
• Renekton's Cull the Meek
• Rengar's Battle Roar
• Sion's Glory in Death
• Soraka's Starcall
• Swain's Ravenous Flock and Demonic Ascension
• Sylas' Kingslayer
• Tahm Kench's Tongue Lash and Thick Skin
• Talon's Noxian Diplomacy
• Trundle's King's Tribute, Frozen Domain and Subjugate
• Tryndamere's Bloodlust
• Udyr's Turtle Stance
• Viego's Sovereign's Domination and Blade of the Ruined King
• Vladimir's Transfusion, Sanguine Pool and Hemoplague
• Warwick's Eternal Hunger, Jaws of the Beast and Infinite Duress
• Xin Zhao's Determination
• Yorick's Last Rites
• Zac's Cell Division

Ally, Enemy, and/or User-targeted

• Kindred's Lamb's Respite

Items

Ally and/or User-targeted

• Mikael's Blessing
• Redemption

Ally Only

• Moonstone Renewer ( Starcaster)

User only

• Death's Dance
• Divine Sunderer ( Deicide)
• Goredrinker ( Ceaseless Hunger)
• Guardian Angel
• Phage
• Sterak's Gage

Summoner spells

Ally and/or User-targeted

• Heal

User only

• Smite
  • Challenging Smite
  • Chilling Smite

Runes

Ally Only

• Font of Life

User only

• Conqueror
• Fleet Footwork
• Triumph
• Taste of Blood
• Grasp of the Undying

Neutral buffs

• Ocean Dragon Soul
• Oceanic Will

General

• Leveling up will restore some maximum health, and some current health. Actual health regained is lower depending on how wounded the champion is upon leveling up.

Map-related

• On Summoner's Rift standing the summoning platform restores health each second.
• Picking a Health Relic on the Howling Abyss.

Increasing healing strength

Champion abilities

• Aatrox's World Ender
• Olaf's Vicious Strikes
• Trundle's Frozen Domain

Items

• Ardent Censer
• Forbidden Idol
• Mikael's Blessing
• Moonstone Renewer
• Redemption
• Staff of Flowing Water
• Spirit Visage

Runes

• Revitalize

Healing reduction

• Grievous Wounds is a debuff that reduces all healing received by 40% or 60% depending on the source.
• Howling Abyss aura reduces all outsourced healing and regeneration effects by 50%.

Preventing healing altogether

• Kindred's Lamb's Respite negates all healing effects on a unit once they've reached a certain health threshold.

On-heal effects

The following will trigger an effect upon healing or being healed by an ally:

Champion abilities

• Lucian's Vigilance

Items

• Ardent Censer
• Chemtech Putrifier
• Staff of Flowing Water

Runes

• Summon Aery

Notes

• Grievous Wounds will have no effect on champions that enter resurrection or a zombie state as the heal following the event they take fatal damage takes place after the debuff is removed by the dispel. Sion's Glory in Death, specifically when he heals back to full, is unaffected by any form of healing modifier.

Type	Heal and Shield Power	Spirit Visage	Revitalize*	Grievous Wounds
Health regeneration
Life steal
Omnivamp
Physical vamp
Drain effects
Self heals
Self shields
Incoming heals
Incoming shields
Outgoing heals
Outgoing shields
Bonus health

Trivia

• Before V9.9, Aatrox's Deathbringer Stance could inflict Mutilator against enemy champions.
  • This would reduce any self-healing, self-shielding, incoming healing and shielding effects by 40% for the duration.
• In a role-play setting, healing may represent anything from attending to battle wounds to repairing damaged hardware to replenishing a magical spell that holds a construct together, but outside of its physical representation, its effect is always the same - it serves as a direct increase to a unit's current health.
• Healing can be viewed as the polar opposite of damage. Unlike sources of damage, however, sources of healing are uncommon and the majority cannot be used to heal others - and those that can frequently have large ulterior costs to use.
• Any healing in-game that restores less than 20 health is not shown as the usual +X green text, unless special cased to do so (e.g. Aphelios' Severum's passive healing or Cassiopeia's Twin Fang's healing on poisoned targets).

Gameplay Elements