For those of you who don't know on the PBE a bar of health now represents 200 HP instead of 100 HP.

This is a horrible change, not only is it confusing to those who have played the game forever but it's also unnecessary. If these changes were made to better show HP on tanks it does make it slightly easier but once you get to 3000+ HP but players know to click on a tanky champ and see the amount of HP they have. They know not to sit there estimating how much health they have.

This major impact this has is to the game at lower levels. I main support and I love Sona dearly and with this change her HP bar is just cut in half at level one. This makes her look like she only has 200 HP and also look much squishier than she actually is. I haven't seen Anivia in game but I bet she also looks this laughable. This has to be one of the most misleading changes to the game ever. It's also pointless, everyone likes the 100 HP per bar system. It makes so much more sense!

Riot please don't let this go live! For the sake of squishy champs everywhere!

Edit: Keep the thicker line for every 1000 HP but revert back to 100 HP bar. I think that would be best.

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Indeed it looks terrible early game.

While it does look better when you are seeing 3k hp tanks, you dont really need to know their exact hp, you know they are tanky and if you need to you just click them.

I disagree, I like it. It was jarring at first. It feels like you only have like 300hp at start! So I definitely understand not liking that part. However, this will fix something that messes with my head when someone stacks HP. All of the extra little black lines denoting the bars sometimes make it appear as if they are taking less damage than they are.

Now, I know they are taking damage, and I can click them to see their exact amounts, but seeing it more clearly in the bar is nice.

I think it will only be a minor adjustment. After a few games I think I'll get used to it.

It is terrible,I despise the new bars and don't even want to play anymore because they are just that bad.

We are experimenting with this, it won't be going out in the next patch.

We feel that 200 hp bars are far more readible in the level 5-13 range, but the transition is a bit rough. We really feel that showing precise health in the 2k-3k range is very important after the Season 3 changes.

How would you represent the health bars instead?

Why not switch to the black bars once you reach a certain health threshold ?

We tried that Ronald, and internally people felt confused when "1 tick" had a different meaning on two different characters.

Is there any particular reason HP bars need to show missing health?

a tank with 3000HP is going to be a bunch of tiny little lines, but you still read it as "way too much HP to kill" as you poke them down, the bars start to get bigger and bigger, because you would be using the dead space for better readability instead of missing HP.

it would only be a bit confusing for champions that scale off missing health, vs confusing to anyone who is used to 1 bar = 100 HP