Changes: Healing

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Healing received — 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

Ally and/or User-targeted

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 on the summoning platform restores health each second.
Picking a Health Relic on the Howling Abyss.

Increasing healing strength

Healing reduction

Grievous Wounds is a debuff that reduces all healing received by 40%.
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:

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	Serpent's Fang
Health regeneration
Life steal
Omnivamp
Physical vamp
Spell 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

Targeting Types	Auto (Passive · Self) · Direction · Location · Unit · Proximity · Vector (Collision · Radius)
Unit types	Champion · Minion · Monster · Pets · Structures (Turret · Inhibitor · Nexus)
Effect types	Ability effects · Attack effects (On-hit) · Area of effect · Damage over time · Heal · Multi-hit · Redirected damage · Shield · Single-targeted
Ability types	Attached · Aura · Blink · Buff · Channel · Combat status · Crowd control · Damage (Ability · Basic · Magic · Physical · True · Nexus Obelisk · Execution) · Dash · Debuff · Invulnerability · Pet · Projectile · Sight · Spell shield · Stealth · Tether · Untargetability · Ward

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