League of Legends Is Cleaning Up the Health Bar Display

A series of changes are coming to League of Legends that should help make champions' health bars a bit easier to understand when it comes to taking damage and healing up.

You might think that there's not much that can be done with the health bar – it goes down when you take damage, up when you heal – but there are a few areas that it can be improved in when it comes to clarity. Getting hit from multiple angles in teamfights can look like a barrage of damage from different sources and cause your health bar to fluctuate while you're left wondering who did what, but that'll hopefully change with the changes on the way.

Riot Meddler outlined some of the changes that they have planned for health bars that should make their way onto the PBE sometime in the near future.

"We've got some health bar improvements coming to the PBE in the next week or two," the Rioter said. "Some of the changes will be more subtle stuff like making it a bit easier to tell how much damage you just took/dealt based off how the bar updates."

Beyond those changes, other tweaks to the HUD will target not the health component of the health bar itself, but rather the effects that other champions have active at the time. One of the examples provided was for Anivia's passive that allows the frigid champ to revive after being killed, a passive that can be frustrating to look for when targeting champs in a teamfight.

"Other changes will be more explicit like adding a clearer visualization for champs with resurrection effects available (Zac, Anivia, GA etc) so that figuring out whether someone will respawn or not doesn't have to involve digging through a bunch of icons on the buffbar," Meddler continued.

The changes that are scheduled for the health bar don't yet have a projected patch that they'll be released in at this time, but they're expected to roll onto the PBE soon. More details about the specific changes will come at that time where we'll also be able to determine when the changes will go live.