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 and health regeneration). Healing can be reduced by Healing reduction effects.

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-targeted

• Alistar's Triumphant Roar
• Bard's Caretaker's Shrine
• Fiora's Grand Challenge
• Janna's Monsoon
• Kayle's Divine Blessing
• Kindred's Lamb's Respite
• Nami's Ebb and Flow
• Nidalee's Primal Surge
• Rakan's Gleaming Quill
• Sona's Aria of Perseverance
• Soraka's Astral Infusion and Wish
• Taric's Starlight's Touch
• Zilean's Chronoshift

User only

• Aatrox's Blood Well and Blood Thirst
• Ahri's Essence Theft
• Akali's Twin Disciplines
• Camille's Tactical Sweep
• Cassiopeia's Twin Fang
• Cho'Gath's Carnivore
• Darius' Decimate
• Dr. Mundo's Infected Cleaver
• Ekko's Chronobreak
• Elise's Spider Form and Rappel
• Fiddlesticks' Drain
• Fiora's Duelist's Dance
• Gangplank's Remove Scurvy
• Gragas' Happy Hour
• 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
• Lissandra's Frozen Tomb
• Maokai's Sap Magic
• Master Yi's Meditate
• Mordekaiser's Harvester of Sorrow and Children of the Grave
• Nocturne's Umbra Blades
• Nunu's Consume
• Olaf's Vicious Strikes and Reckless Swing
• 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
• Tahm Kench's Thick Skin
• Talon's Noxian Diplomacy
• Trundle's King's Tribute, Frozen Domain and Subjugate
• Tryndamere's Bloodlust
• Udyr's Turtle Stance
• 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

Items

Healing items

• Abyssal Mask
• Athene's Unholy Grail
• Catalyst of Aeons
• Guardian Angel
• Hunter's Talisman
• Knight's Vow
• Remnant of the Aspect
• Redemption
• Relic Shield
• Rod of Ages
• Salvation
• Skirmisher's Sabre
• Stalker's Blade
• Targon's Brace
• Timeworn Face of the Mountain
• Timeworn Relic Shield
• Timeworn Targon's Brace

Increasing attack or ability drain

• Death's Dance
• Elixir of Wrath
• Hextech Gunblade

Summoner spells

• Heal
• Smite

Runes

• Fleet Footwork
• Triumph
• Legend: Bloodline
• Taste of Blood
• Ravenous Hunter
• Grasp of the Undying
• Font of Life
• Second Wind
• Kleptomancy (through potions)
• Biscuit Delivery

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, Twisted Treeline and Crystal Scar, standing the summoning platform restores health each second.
• Picking a Health Relic on the Howling Abyss.
• Picking a Ghost Relic on Twisted Treeline.
• Picking a Health Relic on the Crystal Scar.
• On Summoner's Rift by slaying a monster that has Healing Sigil ( Ancient Krug, Crimson Raptor, Greater Murk Wolf, Gromp and Rift Scuttler).

Increasing healing strength

Items

• Ardent Censer: +8% heal and shield power.
• Forbidden Idol: +8% heal and shield power.
• Mikael's Crucible:
• Redemption: +15% heal and shield power.
• Salvation:
• Spirit Visage: Passive: Unique – Boundless Vitality: Increases all healing and shielding received as well as  health regeneration by 25%.

Runes

• Revitalize

Healing reduction

• Grievous Wounds is a debuff that reduces all healing received.
• The Howling Abyss map reduces all outsourced healing and regeneration effects by 50%.
• Aatrox's Deathbringer Stance

Notes

• If a champion dies but immediately after continues active for one ability's champion (ex. Zilean's Chronoshift, Aatrox's Blood Well and Sion's Glory in Death) all debuffs disappear, so the consequent heal won't be affected by Grievous Wounds.
• Note that Sion's Glory in Death heals him back up to 100% maximum health; no healing buffs or debuffs affect this healing.

Trivia

• 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.

Gameplay Elements