Vitality is a hero stat in AFK Journey that increases the amount of shields and healing the unit receives, including self-healing. While this stat may seem insignificant at first, influencing it can help you deal with defending teams or build one of your own.

In AFK Journey, each point of Vitality a hero has gives them one percent more healing or shield points. When Vitality is lowered, healing and shielding points decrease by the same amount, and self-shield and healing abilities, such as Life Drain, are also affected by Vitality levels.

For example, a hero with 50 Vitality points who receives healing for 1,000 would instead be healed for 1,500. Likewise, if they were shielded for 500, such as from Lucius' Divine Light Aegis, they would receive an additional 250 points, giving them a total of 750 shield points. If their Vitality were reduced by 50, they would only heal for 500 and receive 125 shield points.

Unlike Haste, not many heroes can affect Vitality via their AFK Journey abilities. This makes manipulating this stat more of a welcome addition to a stall or anti-stall strategy than a central part, as these strategies rely on constant healing and shielding or denial.