Healing

Strategy

Life Steal is heavily dependant on your Attack Speed and a Weapon's cooldown. Weapons that attack quickly (such as SMG) will proc far more often than a slower weapon.

Vs. HP Regeneration

Compared to HP Regeneration:

• Life Steal can potentially offer much faster healing for less overall materials spent, compared to HP regeneration, by using weapons with fast cooldowns, Medical weapons, or a decent investment into Attack Speed.
• However, HP Regeneration is more reliable than Life Steal. It doesn't depend on your weapon speed, always procs, and it doesn't require you to hit anything. Especially melee users can get in trouble if they are put on low HP, and are forced to leave the melee range to flee. In this case, life steal stops healing you.
• Even with the diminishing returns of Life steal and hard limit of 10 HP per second, it is worth noting that it takes a lot HP regeneration to reach those numbers. So if you attack fast and can keep the Life Steal active throughout the fight, it is a powerful choice.

Secondary Healing Methods

Aside from the main methods of healing, there are several items that can allow you to heal by other means. Secondary Healing methods can be a nice addition to your other healing, and can be especially important for characters like Chunky, who can only make good use of Consumables otherwise, and Bull, who often is happy to take all the healing they can get.

Torture is Unique in that it replaces all your other forms of healing with a +4 per second. If you havn't invested in other forms of healing yet, torture can be a very powerful option.

Name	Rarity	Effects	Base Price	Limit	Unlocked By	Tags
Adrenaline	Tier 3	+5 % Dodge 50% chance to heal 5 HP when dodging an attack	60	1		Dodge
Cute Monkey	Tier 1	+8% chance to heal 1 HP when picking up a material -1 Ranged Damage	25	13		Pickup
Tentacle	Tier 2	+3 % Crit Chance +20% chance to heal 1 HP when killing an enemy with a critical hit	35	5	Win a run with Lich	Crit Chance
Torture	Tier 4	+15 Max HP Restore +5 HP per second. Cannot heal any other way.	100	1		Max HP
Medical Turret	Tier 2	Spawns a medical turret that shoots projectiles healing 3 + (5%) HP every 2.25s.	40			Engineering

Characters

These Characters Have mechanics that includes Healing

Name	Stats	Unlocked By	Unlocks
Chunky	Max HP modifications are increased by 25% +1% Damage for every 3 Max HP you have [+3] +3 HP recovered from consumables -100% Life Steal HP Regeneration modifications are reduced by 50% Dodge modifications are reduced by 50% Speed modifications are reduced by 100%	Die for the first time	Potato Thrower
Wildling	+30% Life Steal with Primitive weapons You start with 1 Stick You can't equip weapons above tier 2	Kill 10000 enemies	Hatchet
Sick	+12 Max HP +25% Life Steal You take 1 damage per second (does not give invulnerability time) -100 HP Regeneration	Reach -5 % HP Regeneration	Whetstone
Doctor	+200% Attack Speed with Medical weapons +5 HP Regeneration HP Regeneration modifications are increased by 100% +5 Harvesting -100% Attack Speed Armor modifications are reduced by 50%	Heal 200 HP in one wave	Medikit
Lich	+10 HP Regeneration +10 % Life Steal 100% chance to deal 10 () damage to a random enemy when you heal Damage modifications are reduced by 50%	Reach +100 Max HP	Tentacle
Bull	+20 Max HP +15 HP Regeneration +10 Armor HP Regeneration modifications are increased by 50% You explode for 30 (300% 300% 300%) damage when you take damage This explosion has a 1.5x crit multiplier You can't equip weapons	Win a run in Danger 1	Gnome
Masochist	+5% Damage when you take damage until the end of the wave +10 Max HP +20 HP Regeneration +8 Armor -100% Damage	Win a run in Danger 3	Spiky Shield