Healing

Healing is the act of recovering a unit's current health, which includes various methods such as Lifesteal, Health Regen, and Item effects.

Overview

The most reliable way for a player to heal themselves is by killing a Medic Trooper and picking up their Medic Pack, or by going back to their team's base, which has a constant source of healing. Alternatively, they can buy Healing or Lifesteal items. Some heroes also have healing abilities. See a full list of healing sources below.

Besides direct healing, players passively recover health at all times through Health Regen.

Healing Amp

Healing Amp, also known as Healing Effectiveness, is a stat which increases the amount of healing a hero does with their abilities and items. This affects both healing to themselves and to their allies. Healing Amp affects healing-over-time buffs, such as Healing Rite's active effect.

This stat is represented as a percentage. For example, a 25% gain would increase a heal of 100 to 125.

Healing Reduction

Healing Reduction is a negative effect which reduces the effectiveness of healing on the unit it is applied to.

Healing Reduction is represented as a percentage and stacks multiplicatively, meaning each additional source has diminishing returns.

If a player is hit by the same source of Healing Reduction before its effect has worn off (e.g. two or more enemy players with Healbane), only the first source is applied.

Calculation

Calculating Healing Reduction

Multiple sources of Healing Reduction stack multiplicatively:

$\text{Total Reduction}=1-(1-R_1)\times (1-R_2)\dots$

Example: If two sources of Healing Reduction are applied, one providing 40% and another providing 40%:

1. Convert percentages to decimals: 0.40 and 0.40.
2. Subtract from 1: (1 - 0.40) = 0.60 and (1 - 0.40) = 0.60.
3. Multiply the remainders: 0.60 × 0.60 = 0.36.
4. Subtract from 1: 1 - 0.36 = 0.64.
5. Total Healing Reduction is 64%, not 80%.

Calculating Final Healing

$\text{Final Healing}=\text{Initial Healing}\times (1-\text{Total Reduction})\times (1+\text{Healing Amp})$

Example: A heal of 200 HP is applied to a target with 64% Total Healing Reduction. The healer has 25% Healing Amp.

1. Apply Reduction: 200 × (1 - 0.64) = 200 × 0.36 = 72 HP.
2. Apply Amp: 72 × (1 + 0.25) = 72 × 1.25 = 90 HP.
3. Final Healing received is 90 HP.

Note: Healing from self-damage sources such as Victor's Pain Battery and Aura of Suffering does not appear in the endgame hero stats screen, but it does appear in the healing sources graph.

Sources of direct healing

Killing a Medic Trooper drops a Medic Pack that heals nearby players based on the following formula:

Heal = (13% of hero's missing HP + 150 HP + 2 HP per minute) / Number of nearby heroes

The team's base heals players by increasing their Health Regen to 6% of their maximum health per second plus 60 health per second.

Heroes

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Hero	Ability	Notes
Abrams	Siphon Life	Lifesteals off damage dealt while active.
	Infernal Resilience	Passively restores health for a percentage of all incoming damage. T2 upgrade also grants passive melee lifesteal.
Apollo	Flawless Advance	Heals a flat amount per hit. Unlocked by T1 upgrade.
Bebop	Exploding Uppercut	Restores a portion of missing health on use. Unlocked by T3 upgrade.
Calico	Leaping Slash	Heals a flat amount on hero hit. Unlocked by T1 upgrade.
	Return to Shadows	Heals a flat amount on use. Unlocked by T3 upgrade.
Celeste	Light Eater	Grants a buff that gives spirit lifesteal while active.
Drifter	Bloodscent	Restores a portion of missing health on kill.
Dynamo	Rejuvenating Aurora	Heals per second while channeling. T3 upgrade also adds passive max health regen.
Grey Talon	Rain of Arrows	Grants bullet and spirit lifesteal while active. Unlocked by T3 upgrade.
Infernus	Napalm	Lifesteals off all damage dealt to napalmed targets. Unlocked by T2 upgrade.
	Concussive Combustion	Lifesteals off damage dealt. Unlocked by T2 upgrade.
Ivy	Kudzu Connection	Grants bullet lifesteal. Also replicates a portion of healing.
	Stone Form	Heals a percentage of max HP on cast.
Kelvin	Frost Grenade	Heals Kelvin and nearby allies for a flat amount.
	Frozen Shelter	Regenerates health for all allies inside the dome.
Lady Geist	Life Drain	Lifesteals off damage dealt. Alternate cast heals an allied hero by the same amount.
	Soul Exchange	Swaps health levels with an enemy hero by healing Geist then dealing pure damage to the enemy by the equivalent amount.
Lash	Flog	Heals Lash for a percentage of damage dealt to heroes.
McGinnis	Medicinal Specter	Heals nearby allies per second.
Mina	Rake	Heals a flat amount on kill.
Mo & Krill	Scorn	Heals for a percentage of damage dealt.
	Combo	Lifesteals off damage dealt. Unlocked by T1 upgrade.
Paige	Rallying Charge	Heal affected allies and Paige for a flat amount.
Rem	Tag Along	Restores a portion of target's missing health on attachment, then heals per second for a short duration.
	Lil Helpers	Regenerates health for any trooper the helpers are attached to.
Silver	Lycan Curse	Restores a percentage of missing health on activation.
Silver (Transformed)	Go For The Throat	Lifesteals off melee damage dealt.
Victor	Pain Battery	Restores a portion of missing health on hero hit. Unlocked by T3 upgrade.
	Jumpstart	Grants a flat health regen buff on use.
Viscous	The Cube	Regenerates health for the target.
	Puddle Punch	—
Warden	Last Stand	Lifesteals off all damage dealt while active.
Wraith	Card Trick	Heals Wraith for a flat amount when a Heart or Joker card hits.
Yamato	Crimson Slash	Heals a flat amount on hero hit.
	Shadow Transformation	Restores a percentage of max health per hero kill.

Items

List of items

Name	Cost	Category	Healing amount
Restorative Shot	800	Weapon	50 Healing From Heroes 20 Healing From NPCs
Headhunter	3,200	Weapon	4% x0.06 Heal Per Headshot
Healing Rite	800	Vitality	300 x1.1 Total HP Regen
Melee Lifesteal	800	Vitality	100 Heal on Melee Hit (30% on NPCs)
Healbane	1,600	Vitality	275 Heal On Hero Kill
Restorative Locket	1,600	Vitality	16 x0.5 Heal Per Stack
Healing Nova	3,200	Vitality	325 x6 Total HP Regen
Lifestrike	3,200	Vitality	100 x1.5 Heal on Melee Hit, plus 30% x0.5 Lifesteal (40% on NPCs)
Rescue Beam	3,200	Vitality	20% Heal Amount
Siphon Bullets	6,400	Vitality	Max HP Steal Per Bullet
Radiant Regeneration	3,200	Spirit	65 x2 Heal on Ability Cast

Sources of healing reduction

Heroes

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Hero	Ability	Heal Reduction	Notes
Drifter	Stalker's Mark	40% (T3)	—
Infernus	Napalm	33% (T3)	—
Pocket	Affliction	100% (T3)	—
Venator	Consecrating Grenade	30%	T3 upgrade increases heal reduction by 20% (total 50%).
Vindicta	Crow Familiar	35% (T1)	—
Vyper	Lethal Venom	40% (T2)	—

Items

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Name	Cost	Category	Stat change
Toxic Bullets	3,200	Weapon	-35% Healing Reduction
Crippling Headshot	6,400	Weapon	-35% Healing Reduction
Haunting Shot	Legendary	Weapon	-40% Healing Reduction
Healbane	1,600	Vitality	-35% Healing Reduction
Cheat Death	6,400	Vitality	-60% Healing Reduction
Inhibitor	6,400	Vitality	-40% Healing Reduction
Decay	3,200	Spirit	-50% Healing Reduction
Spirit Burn	6,400	Spirit	-70% Healing Reduction

• Cheat Death applies -60% healing reduction to its user for 4.5 seconds (the same duration as the invulnerability).

See also

• Bullet Lifesteal
• Spirit Lifesteal
• Health Regen