Talk:Lifeline/@comment-26704163-20150803030050/@comment-172.56.13.127-20170119193229

Yes, it cancels the defeat, and sets the hero's life to 1 instead. In the normal game, this usually just delays the hero's death to later in the same overlord's turn, since the overlord will usually just finish him off with another monster.

Lifeline is slightly more powerful when using the Road to Legend (app) game, because the heroes and monsters alternate turns. This means when you save someone with Lifeline, it's going to be the heroes turn next. So someone from the hero's side is going to have a chance to step in and protect the nearly-dead guy who was saved by lifeline.