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The purpose of this guide is to create a specific destination for understanding the different possible healing reductions that can be applied to you or your teammates. It also serves as a template for several of my guides that deal with gods that can support, such as Aphrodite and Hel. If you see anything wrong or anything I have missed, please say so in the comments section.
Healing Reductions can be applied through certain skills, or through the use of specific items or actives. It's obviously very important to be aware of them as a healer. Here's a list of all the different healing reductions:
Brawler's Cudgel, has been temporarily removed, but is likely to apply its effect in a similar fashion to Divine Ruin.
Brawler's Beat Stick, it applies a 40% healing reduction each time you or your teammates are hit by the enemy god's abilities. Because its duration also lasts eight seconds, use the same advice I gave for Brawler's Beatstick. Fortunately, the effects of Beatstick and Ruin do not stack even when built on different gods.
Divine Wrath, has, like Brawler's Cudgel, been temporarily removed. It will be likely to apply its effect similarly to Brawler's Beatstick.
Rod of Asclepius, but be aware of it.
Weakening Curse which applies a 100% healing reduction for its duration. There's not much to say about this, really. Your heals will be completely negated, so the best you can do is keep your heals off cooldown and hope you or your teammates survive its duration. The only viable counter against it is 
Heavenly Agility. If you don't built against WC, you're doing something wrong.
Sobek's third skill. It applies a 50% healing reduction on all affected targets for four seconds. Many Sobeks will purchase both 
Divine Ruin and 
Creeping Curse in order to rotate through pretty insane healing reductions. For instance, a Sobek could 
Charge Prey>
Tail Whip to apply Divine Ruin, and then cast 
Sickening Strike to apply 90% healing reduction. He can then apply Creeping Curse a few seconds later for an increased duration of healing reduction. That's a long time without a heal.
Bacchus's third skill. It applies a 25% healing reduction to all affected targets for two seconds when the belch ends (when the stun occurs). It's not quite as dangerous as Sobek's Sickening Strike as it's an easily preventable CC and you'll have a three second warning before it comes in to effect. However, a Bacchus with Divine Ruin can still be very dangerous because his Belch constantly reapplies Divine Ruin over the course of its duration. This means that simply by building DR, Bacchus can have a three second long 40% healing reduction, followed a three second long 65% healing reduction and then a five second long 40% healing reduction.
Chang'e's third spell. Not only does it heal all allies, but it applies a four second 50% healing debuff to all enemies for four seconds: exactly the same as Sickening Strike. Due to her ability to spam her spells, she could easily stack this spell with a Divine Ruin and really mess up your day. Fortunately, the spell effect has rainbow colors and it is cast with her in the center, so it should be very obvious and she has to risk getting in closely if she uses it offensively.
Ao Kuang who has Divine Ruin built and he's also under the effects of Bacchus's 
Belch of the Gods. This means that he will have a combined healing reductions of 65% from the 40% healing reduction from Divine Ruin added to the 25% healing reduction from Belch of the Gods. In addition, negative healing (taking damage from receiving a heal) can never happen.
Aegis Amulet not only prevents all damage, but also prevents heals! If you see an ally pop Aegis DO NOT HEAL THEM until the effect wears off, as it will unfortunately do nothing.Creeping Curse's Effect has increased from 50% to a whopping 100%, Pestilence added.
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Pestilence
Moonflower Dance
I have this as a section in all of my guides, so this is honestly more of a template for me :P
I just remove or add info depending on the god, such as how to counter Bacchus's
Just make sure to update this. An easy upvote.