Changing max HP

[SAUS]

Does health always stay the same percent, as in, it will go up if you increase max HP and go down if you decrease max HP?

Is it possible for a unit to die by lowering their max HP too much? What happens if it gets reduced to 0? What happens if they have 1 life left with 100 max life, then you lower their max life to 10 (if percent health is maintained, that would put them below the health where they die)?

I'm curious because I might mess around with some abilities and stuff.

 

[Veritas 117]

My best advice would be to give it a try and see what happens. Someone might know but I'm not sure. Feel free to share your findings too if you try it out

 

[Flux]

I think hp stays the same percentage (based on Dota technique that you switch the threads to Agi before using Bottle, then switch to Str). However, I'm not sure what will happen when Max HP is lowered though. My guess would be, it would remain at 1 hp and the unit won't die.

 

[Karzama]

From my own experience the unit does die. I had a bug with an item where it didn't give the hp when picked up but removed the hp when it dropped the item, killing it immediately. Luckily the unit was a hero... so when they respawned they didn't have a hp bar (so I'm guessing their hp was 0 or the lowest value before death)

 

[Zwiebelchen]

As the HP is actually a float and not an integer and the HP percentage always remains the same; yes, the unit can die from it:

If the health is below 40% and you set the Max HP to 1, the unit dies as 1 * 0.4 = 0.4 < 0.405, which is the magic number.

 

[SAUS]

Thanks for the responses, everyone! I will have to consider this for some things.