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Don't really like the ruler appearance but I'll get used to it and this is clearly a functional improvement.

Now all they need to do is make it show effective health instead of health and we're golden.

That... would be SO awesome!

But how would you differentiate between effective health vs magical and vs physical damage?

Two bars.

Two bars isn't the most elegant. The best would be switching to one damage and resistance type, but I don't see that happening. Given we're stuck with two damage types, two effective health bars would communicate MUCH more than is currently communicated.

Then you would need three bars (HP, effective HP magic, effective HP physic) because sometime you need to know the raw HP too, for example if you do %HP damage or true damage.

But still, you are right with your implied problem, the way resistances are shown is bad.

I would argue you don't really need to see HP. The only time you need to know actual HP is if you have a true damage finisher, like Cho'gath's ultimate (which already has an indicator to help since it's hard to tell from the bar). Sure it would be nice to know HP so you know how much %HP you're doing, but it's not like your numbers aren't already obfuscated by your:

• base damage
• damage ratio
• armor
• penetration

%HP is just another layer on that and all in all not terribly important to know exactly values for in my opinion. Knowing actual health is not actually very useful in most cases, whereas effective HP is.

True damage is an edge case, and I would prefer for the edge case to be obfuscated, not the normal case. Show me effect health bars for magic and physical and then I'll know how hard it is for me to kill someone. If I'm someone like Olaf who does a lot of true damage, maybe it's no better than before, but for most champions it's way better.

wait noob question one tick equals 100 health right?

Look again, it's 100 per small tick, 1000 per big tick. Looks like they've changed it since earlier iterations, it used to be 200 per.

Yeah they changed it from that because squishy champions looked so effing weird early game.
Also it was kind of hard to get used to for some people

hurr durr "busy" hurr durr only WoW

This is very nice, gotta say Riot's design team comes with really nice ideas all the time (like seeing recalling people on the minimap or hear the sound when tower changes target on you).

It's really nice :3

Hopefully this sends more of a 'DO NOT HIT THIS GUY' message to people when a pure tank just waddles right into your team.