Health

Maximum Health

A healthbar on Kelvin.

Max health is calculated as follows:

Max HP=(Base HP+Boons Earned×HP per Boon)×(1+Vitality Bonuses)+Bonus HP

Where:

• Base HP is the hero’s starting health value.
• Boons Earned is the number of Boons the hero has earned, multiplied by the hero’s hero-specific HP gained per Boon.
• Vitality Bonuses are the percentage-based health increases from Vitality items, starting at 8% and increasing with further Vitality investment.
• Bonus HP is flat health added from items, map pickups, and other sources, applied after the Vitality multiplier.

Note that the max health presented in-game is rounded up to the nearest integer.

Base Health

Base health is the sum of starting base health and added base health from boons. It is scaled by the inherent increased base health stats of Vitality items. Different heroes have different amounts of starting base health and added base health from boons.

Values referenced from Hero Comparison Table.

Base Health Stats

Bonus Health

Survival power-up located in the training map

Bonus health comes from a variety of sources:

• Items are the most common source of added bonus health. Bonus health can be found on all three item types, but Vitality items tend to provide the largest amounts.
• Golden statues occasionally drop small but permanent added bonus health buffs: +20 before 10 minutes, +30 between 10 and 30 minutes, or +40 after 30 minutes.
• The Survival Powerup immediately grants +200 to +700 bonus health (scales as game goes on), but only for 160 seconds or until death.
• The Rejuvenator immediately grants +200 bonus health, but only for 4 minutes or until death.

Bonus Health is not scaled by increased base health. Bonus health is added after the increased base health multiplier has been applied to base health.

Miscellaneous Health Modifiers

With the purchase of Glass Cannon, the hero’s max health is reduced by -13% after the above calculations.

Example

Kelvin begins the game with 600 Base HP. If Kelvin purchases two tier 1 vitality items, one of which grants 100 bonus health, his max health becomes:

Max HP=600×(1+0.10+0.10)+100=820

If Kelvin then earns a power increase, his base health increases by 50, and his max health becomes:

Max HP=(600+50)×(1+0.10+0.10)+100=880

Regaining Health

: Main articles: Healing, Health Regen

From the start of the match, heroes will regenerate health slowly over time, typically 2 HP per second. This rate can be increased by purchasing items such as Extra Regen and Fortitude. Health can be regained quickly by returning to the spawn room of the team’s base. Various hero abilities can heal, such as Dynamo’s Rejuvenating Aurora. Sources of spirit and bullet lifesteal grant heroes the opportunity to regain health by dealing the respective damage type.

Health Bars

A 600 HP Kelvin right next to a 1300 HP Kelvin

Health Bars are visual indicators of a hero’s current health, located just above each hero. Health bars consist of filled rectangles, arranged in rows of up to ten. Enemy heroes are displayed with orange rectangles, while allied heroes use an off-white color. As the hero loses health, the rectangles deplete horizontally. Each full rectangle represents 100 health, and each full row represents 1000 health.

The small yellow and blue bars above the health bar represent bullet shields and spirit shields, respectively.

Alternate health bar

The alternate health bar is an experimental bar that can be tested by players. This bar always has the same size, and the health count is displayed as markings instead of rectangles. One marking represents 100 health, and a line represents 500 health (from left to right).

This health bar also indicates when other players have ultimates ready, represented by an eye icon that fills up when the ultimate is recharged. Shields are represented by a purple bar.

The alternate health bar can be enabled with the console command citadel_unit_status_use_new true. The command can be added with a + to the game launch options on Steam to be enabled on startup.

Sources

All vitality items provide bonus health based on your total investment in the category.

The following items explicitly grant increased bonus health:

The following items increase base health based on percentage:

Map spawns

• Golden Statues can provide a permanent increase: +20 Health before 10 minutes, +30 Health before 30 minutes, or +40 Health after 30 minutes.
• Powerup runes can provide a temporary Survival buff that provides +200 to +700 Bonus Health for 160 seconds (scaling with game time from 5 to 40 minutes).
• Mid-Boss can provide a temporary Rejuvenator Credit buff that provides +200 Bonus Health for four minutes or until death, whichever comes first.