Health

Health (also known as HP) is a stat referring to the amount of life a unit or structure has. Death occurs when health runs out with no outstanding effects to survive. Health passively regenerates over time with health regeneration and can be restored through healing, life steal and spell vamp.

Health is represented ingame by a green bar situated next to the blue mana bar, with a fraction reading the current amount of health over the maximum amount possible. Current health is directly reduced by damage, maximum health reduction is usually percentage-based and will take from current health to represent such effect.

Every unit and structure has their health displayed as a bar above their models.

•  Wards and similar champion summoned units have segmented health bars that each represent one life, but require another attack to remove.
•  Minions have a small non-descriptive bar.
•  Champions show a gauge on the health bar that illustrates the amount of health.
•  Large and Epic monsters, as well as structures display an exact health count along with a non-descriptive bar.
• On  Summoner's Rift,  outer turrets have a gauge that represent plating.

Every champion starts with a certain base health, which increases by a small amount at each level-up.

Maximum health can be increased with items, abilities and runes, it stacks additively, and each bonus point acquired directly affects its statistic.

Gold Value ​

• Health has a gold value of 2.67 per point.

Effective health

Effective burst health, commonly referred to just as effective health, describes the amount of raw burst damage a champion can receive before dying in such a short time span that they remain unaffected by any form of health restoration (even if the actual considered damage is of sustained form). It can however include any form of health gain (such as from Nasus' Fury of the Sands). Effective sustained health, on the other hand, would take into account also champion's health restoration.

Unless champion's resists aren't unnaturally reduced below zero, any effective health will always be more than or equal to a champion's displayed health in their health bar and it can be increased by buying items with extra health, armor and magic resistance.

Depending on the type of damage taken, we can also speak of physical effective health, magical effective health or mixed effective health. Depending on a behavior of such source of damage it is also possible to speak of effective health relative to given subject/source of damage, for example magical effective health versus poke. Many poke team compositions with mixed overall damage usually heavily rely on a poke consisting of prevalent magic damage. Maximizing primarily magical effective health thus might be a valuable counterstrategy to weaken their poking phase as teamfight initiation relies upon it.

Effective health is a measure of the durability of a champion, taking into account their health as well as their armor and magic resistance. 'Sheer' forms of effective health are defined as health plus 1% of health for every point of armor (or magic resistance). Contrary to their simple formulas, mixed effective health uses a bit more complex one. Because of this, mixed effective health is always subject to the damage source and the proportions between particular three damage composites (with pure damage being regarded as true damage). The formulae are as follows:

• physical effective health =  health  × (1 + 0.01 × armor)
• magical effective health =  health  × (1 + 0.01 × MR)

• The formula for mixed effective health can be simply derived from the effective health : nominal health ratio which is always the same as ratio of damage dealt : damage taken (after application of resists):

$ \pagecolor{Black}\color{White}{\rm mixed\ effective\ health}={\it HP}\times{ {physical\ damage+true\ damage+magic\ damage}\over{ {physical\ damage\over{1+0.01\times{\it armor} } }+true\ damage+{magic\ damage\over{1+0.01\times{\it MR} } } } } $

Note: One can include the penetrations in all of the above ideas by replacing penetration with a due amount of corresponding negative resist.

Physical effective health and magical effective health are effective against physical damage and magic damage, respectively. They correspond to the amount of damage that an enemy champion must output (not the amount you must take) to bring your health to 0.

Example: If you have 1000 health, then purchasing 90 armor will raise your physical effective health to 1900. Enemies will have to output 90% more physical damage than usual to kill you.

Health as a casting resource

A few champions also use their own health to cast abilities instead of mana:

• Dr. Mundo
• Vladimir
• Zac

Champions abilities

• Ivern's Friend of the Forest
• Olaf's Reckless Swing
• Soraka's Astral Infusion

Note

Sion's Glory in Death acts as a health cost that is additionally not negated by  invulnerability effects.

Health as scaling

Personal health

These use the champion's personal health pool to increase the magnitude of the ability. It may scale based on total health or only bonus health. By building health items you can receive more benefit and power from these abilities in most situations.

Maximum health

Missing health

Bonus health

Other

Scaling from enemy health

Maximum health

These abilities grant extra damage based on the target's maximum health, to scale against higher health enemies. This type of extra damage is usually capped against minions and monsters to prevent players dealing massive damage to high health pool monsters like Baron.

Current health

These abilities grant extra damage based on the target's current health. Typically, the more current health the target has, the more damage these abilities will deal. Building additional maximum health can reduce the effect of skills based on current health over a long fight, but has quickly diminishing returns.

Missing health

These abilities grant extra damage based on the target's missing health. The less current the target has (can be either a flat or percentage amount), the more damage these abilities will deal. These are often referred as "execute" abilities, as they work best on nearly dead targets.

Bonus health

These abilities grant extra damage based on the target's bonus health. Typically, the more bonus health the target has, the more damage these abilities will deal. Therefore, they are more powerful against tanks with a lot of health.

• Lee Sin's Dragon's Rage

Items

Runes

Neutral buffs

Increasing health

Items

Item	Cost	Amount	Availability
Abyssal Mask Abyssal Mask	3000	350	All maps
Adaptive Helm Adaptive Helm	2800	350	All maps
Bami's Cinder Bami's Cinder	900	200	All maps
Catalyst of Aeons Catalyst of Aeons	1100	225	All maps
Celestial Eye Celestial Eye	850	125	Summoner's Rift
Cinderhulk Cinderhulk	2500	300	Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline, Nexus Blitz
Crystalline Bracer Crystalline Bracer	650	200	All maps
Dead Man's Plate Dead Man's Plate	2900	425	All maps
Doran's Blade Doran's Blade	450	80	Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline
Doran's Lost Blade Doran's Lost Blade	450	80	Nexus Blitz
Doran's Lost Ring Doran's Lost Ring	400	60	Nexus Blitz
Doran's Lost Shield Doran's Lost Shield	450	100	Nexus Blitz
Doran's Ring Doran's Ring	400	60	Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline
Doran's Shield Doran's Shield	450	80	Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline
Edge of Night Edge of Night	3000	250	All maps
Eye of Ascension Eye of Ascension	1500	200	Summoner's Rift
Eye of the Aspect Eye of the Aspect	1800	350	Summoner's Rift
Eye of the Watchers Eye of the Watchers	1800	200	Summoner's Rift
Forgefire Cape Forgefire Cape	2750	750	All maps
Frozen Mallet Frozen Mallet	3100	700	All maps
Giant's Belt Giant's Belt	1000	380	All maps
Guardian's Hammer Guardian's Hammer	950	150	Howling Abyss
Guardian's Horn Guardian's Horn	950	150	Howling Abyss
Guardian's Orb Guardian's Orb	950	150	Howling Abyss
Haunting Guise Haunting Guise	1500	200	All maps
Heart of Targon Heart of Targon	400	60	Nexus Blitz
Hextech Protobelt-01 Hextech Protobelt-01	2500	300	All maps
Infernal Mask Infernal Mask	3000	750	All maps
Innervating Locket Innervating Locket	2800	400	Nexus Blitz
Jaurim's Fist Jaurim's Fist	1200	200	All maps
Kindlegem Kindlegem	800	200	All maps
Knight's Vow Knight's Vow	2200	250	All maps
Liandry's Torment Liandry's Torment	3100	300	All maps
Lord Van Damm's Pillager Lord Van Damm's Pillager	3000	300	Twisted Treeline
Morellonomicon Morellonomicon	3000	300	All maps
Oblivion Orb Oblivion Orb	1600	200	All maps
Ohmwrecker Ohmwrecker	2650	300	Summoner's Rift, Nexus Blitz
Phage Phage	1250	200	All maps
Randuin's Omen Randuin's Omen	2900	400	All maps
Redemption Redemption	2100	200	All maps
Relic Shield Relic Shield	400	50	Summoner's Rift
Remnant of the Ascended Remnant of the Ascended	1500	200	Summoner's Rift
Remnant of the Aspect Remnant of the Aspect	1800	350	Summoner's Rift
Remnant of the Watchers Remnant of the Watchers	1800	200	Summoner's Rift
Righteous Glory Righteous Glory	2650	400	All maps
Rod of Ages Rod of Ages	2600	300	Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline
Rod of Ages (Quick Charge) Rod of Ages (Quick Charge)	2600	300	Howling Abyss, Nexus Blitz
Ruby Crystal Ruby Crystal	400	150	All maps
Rylai's Crystal Scepter Rylai's Crystal Scepter	2600	300	All maps
Salvation Salvation	2100	300	All maps
Shurelya's Reverie Shurelya's Reverie	2250	200	Summoner's Rift, Howling Abyss, Nexus Blitz
Spear of Shojin Spear of Shojin	3400	250	All maps
Spectre's Cowl Spectre's Cowl	1200	250	All maps
Spirit Visage Spirit Visage	2800	450	All maps
Stat-Stick of Stoicism Stat-Stick of Stoicism	7237	250	Nexus Blitz
Sterak's Gage Sterak's Gage	3200	450	All maps
Sunfire Cape Sunfire Cape	2750	425	All maps
Targon's Brace Targon's Brace	850	125	Summoner's Rift
The Black Cleaver The Black Cleaver	3000	400	All maps
The Obsidian Cleaver The Obsidian Cleaver	3000	550	All maps
Thornmail Thornmail	2900	250	All maps
Timeworn Face of the Mountain Timeworn Face of the Mountain	2100	300	Twisted Treeline
Timeworn Relic Shield Timeworn Relic Shield	400	50	Twisted Treeline
Timeworn Targon's Brace Timeworn Targon's Brace	850	125	Twisted Treeline
Titanic Hydra Titanic Hydra	3500	450	All maps
Trinity Force Trinity Force	3733	250	All maps
Trinity Fusion Trinity Fusion	3733	350	All maps
Warmog's Armor Warmog's Armor	2850	800	All maps

Champion abilities

Runes

Decreasing health

Champion abilities

• Mordekaiser's Realm of Death

List of champions' health

Champions with the lowest or highest health before items, runes, or abilities

Champion Level	Top 5 champions		Bottom 5 champions
Level 1	1. Tryndamere	625.64 health	1. Kled	400 health
	2. Garen 2. Trundle	616.28 health	2. Anivia 2. Yuumi	480 health
	3. Zac	615 health	3. Caitlyn	481 health
	4. Amumu	613.12 health	4. Sona	482.36 health
	5. Singed	610 health	5. Heimerdinger	488 health
Level 18	1. Galio	2466 health	1. Kled	1420 health
	2. Alistar	2375.36 health	2. Gnar	1615 health
	3. Pyke 3. Tahm Kench	2300 health	3. Yuumi	1670 health
	4. Tryndamere	2291.64 health	4. Janna	1690 health
	5. Darius	2282.24 health	5. Nami	1747.32 health

Trivia

This article is outdated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. Following their update on August 29, 2018, Patch V8.17, Nunu & Willump's Consume no longer grants Bonus Maximum Health.

Last updated: February 27, 2018, patch V8.4

Without using Grasp of the Undying, Overgrowth, Cho'Gath's Feast, Sion's Soul Furnace or Vladimir with Gathering Storm which potentially allow for infinite amounts of health, the largest amount of health is reached with a level 18 Nunu at 31834.35654 health.

• Base health: +2120 health
• Runes:
  • Trait: Inspiration ( Resolve as a secondary path)
  • Kleptomancy
• Items:
  • 4 ×  Warmog's Armor
  • 1 ×  Cinderhulk
  • 1 ×  Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Buffs:
  • Nunu's Consume
  • Lulu's Wild Growth (with the maximum amount of ability power)
  • Elixir of Iron
• Health Multiplier:
  • Nunu's Consume
  • Cinderhulk
  • Gargoyle Stoneplate
• Lulu's AP:
  • Items = 175 + 120 × 2 + 200 + 145 + 136.55 = 896.55 AP
    • Seraph's Embrace's AP = 50 + ( 1285 + 200 + 1400) × 0.03 = 136.55 AP
  • Runes = 22 + 40 + 30 + Kleptomancy ( 27 + 25 ) = 144 AP
  • Buffs = 140 + 80 + 50 = 270 AP
  • AP Multiplier = 1 + 0.4 + 0.48 = 1.88
    • Lulu's AP = (896.55 + 144 + 270) × 1.88 = 2463.834 AP
    • Wild Growth's bonus health = 600 + 0.5 × 2463.834 = 1831.917 health

• Nunu's health:
  • Items: = 800 × 4 + 300 = 3500 health
  • Runes: = 145 + 150 = 295 health
  • Buffs = 1831.917 + 300 = 2131.917 health
  • Maximum Health Multiplier = 1 + 0.1 + 1 = 2.1
  • Bonus Health Multiplier = 1 + 0.2 + 1 = 2.2
    • Nunu's health = (2120 + (295 + 3500 + 2131.917) × 2.2) × 2.1 = 31834.35654 health

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Last updated: February 27, 2018, patch V8.4

The most health any champion can obtain at level 1 with the 500 is 1138.5, again being Nunu. This applies only if it is possible to get level 1 a Travel Size Elixir of Iron through Kleptomancy.

• Base health: +590 health
• Runes:
  • Trait: Inspiration ( Resolve as a secondary path)
  • Kleptomancy
• Items:
  • 1 ×  Ruby Crystal
• Buffs:
  • Nunu's Consume
• Health Multiplier:
  • Nunu's Consume
• Nunu's health:
  • Items: = 150 = 150 health
  • Runes: = 145 + 150 = 295 health
  • Maximum Health Multiplier = 1 + 0.1 = 1.1
    • Nunu's health = (590 + 295 + 150) × 1.1 = 1138.5 health