Hit points

Hit points represent how much damage you can take before dying. There are four kinds of hit points: health, armor, shields, and barriers.

Health

All heroes have at least 50 health. It takes damage after all other hit points are depleted, and receives healing before all other hit points do.

Armor

Whenever armor takes damage, it reduces the damage by half, but not by more than 5 damage per individual hit. This makes weapons that deal more than 10 damage per hit more effective at damaging armor, because more gets through with each attack. Critical hits double damage before any armor reduction.

Characters that have armor

Bastion:

100 starting armor
Configuration: Tank: Grants Bastion an additional 150 armor for 8 seconds

D.Va:

200 starting armor (Mech only)

Reinhardt:

200 starting armor

Torbjörn:

Armor Pack: Creates an armor pack that grants 75 armor to allies when picked up
Molten Core: Grants Torbjörn 300 armor for 12 seconds

Winston:

100 starting armor

Shields

Shields don't reduce damage (even if you also have armor), but regenerate 30 points per second after no damage is taken for 3 seconds.

Characters that have Shields

Zarya:

200 starting shields

Symmetra:

100 starting shields
Can grant 75 shields to allies within the range of her Shield Generator ultimate

Zenyatta:

150 starting shields

Barriers

Lúcio's ultimate ability grants 500 barrier to himself and allies within range, which immediately begins decaying 83 points per second until empty.

Barriers don't reduce damage (even if you also have armor), don't regenerate, and can't be healed.

Taking Damage

When you take damage, it applies in a specific order to each type of hit points until that type is empty.

Lúcio barriers
Shields
Ability-granted armor
Armor
Health

Each instance of damage can only be reduced by armor once.

Healing

When you receive healing, it applies equally to all types of hit points, but in a specific order until each type is full:

Health
Armor
Shields

Barriers and ability-granted armor can't be healed.

Ally Healing

The following heroes can heal allies. They also have some way to heal themselves, noted afterward.

Ana's Biotic Rifle can heal an ally for 75 over 0.9 seconds. Biotic Grenade also heals all allies for 100 and boosts other sources of healing by 100% with an area effect of 4 meters.
- She can hit herself with the grenade, receiving its positive effects.
Lúcio's Crossfade, when toggled to healing mode, passively heals allies and himself within 30 meters (as long as line-of-sight is maintained) for 12.5 hit points per second, or 36 hit points per second during Amp It Up.
Mercy's Caduceus Staff can heal an ally for 60 hit points per second while they remain within 15 meters and maintains line of sight.
Soldier: 76's Biotic Field heals allies within 5 meters for 40 hit points per second.
- Biotic Field also heals Soldier: 76 at the same rate if he is within range.
Sombra's Hack causes Health Packs to respawn 4x faster, with healing from Hacked Health Packs being credited to Sombra as healing done.
Zenyatta's Orb of Harmony heals the targeted ally for 30 hit points per second. Transcendence heals all allies within 10 meters for 300 hit points per second (duration 6 seconds).
- Transcendence also heals Zenyatta in addition to making him invulnerable to damage.

Self-Healing

The following heroes can heal only themselves or have special self-healing.

Bastion's Self-Repair heals him for 75 hit points per second while held (0.5-second delay before healing, can't move or attack during use).
Mei's Cryo-Freeze heals her for 37.5 hit points per second for its duration.
Mercy passively heals for 20 hit points per second, after 1 second of not taking damage.
Reaper heals for 50 hit points whenever he picks up a Soul Globe. The globes spawn whenever an enemy dies and disappear along with the corpse when the enemy player respawns.
Roadhog's Take a Breather heals him for 300 hit points over 1 second (2 second total animation duration, can't move or attack during use).
Tracer's Recall functions similarly to a heal, reverting her health to what it was 3 seconds previously. This appears to have the effect of healing all damage taken during the previous 3 seconds.

Other Healing

Small health pickups heal 75 hit points (respawning after 10 seconds).
Large health pickups heal 250 hit points (respawning after 15 seconds).
On Escort, the payload heals heroes on the attacking team for 10 hit points per second while they are within 5 meters (the same distance necessary to move the payload forward).
The spawn room heals heroes inside for 400 hit points per second.
Having two of the same hero healing anything does not stack, however different heroes' healing effects do. (For example, two Caduceus Staffs won't stack but a Caduceus Staff and an Orb of Harmony will.)

List of hero hit points

Hero	Role	Health	Armor	Shield	Total
Genji	Offense	200	0	0	200
McCree	Offense	200	0	0	200
Pharah	Offense	200	0	0	200
Reaper	Offense	250	0	0	250
Soldier: 76	Offense	200	0	0	200
Sombra	Offense	200	0	0	200
Tracer	Offense	150	0	0	150
Bastion	Defense	200	100	0	300
Hanzo	Defense	200	0	0	200
Junkrat	Defense	200	0	0	200
Mei	Defense	250	0	0	250
Torbjörn	Defense	200	0	0	200
Widowmaker	Defense	200	0	0	200
D.Va: Mech	Tank	200	400	0	600
D.Va: Pilot	Tank	150	0	0	150
Reinhardt	Tank	300	200	0	500
Roadhog	Tank	600	0	0	600
Winston	Tank	400	100	0	500
Zarya	Tank	200	0	200	400
Ana	Support	200	0	0	200
Lúcio	Support	200	0	0	200
Mercy	Support	200	0	0	200
Symmetra	Support	100	0	100	200
Zenyatta	Support	50	0	150	200