I mean, that's like getting life from attacking towers.
Also, it shouldn't work with Ashe's Q. It drains her mana while attacking a ward when frost shot is active. Sometime, you just don't want to shut that passive down...
Ppl also say it activates Ashe's passive crit. (which shouldn't happen) and also Xerath's passive to get mana.
Duchess of Deer19 votesARE YOU SUGGESTING WARDS HAVE NO LIFE I HAVE BEEN A WARD ACTIVIST FOR 10 YEARS AND WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS BIAS TOWARDS MY FELLOW WARDS
DatPikachuTho6 votesWE SEE THE DISCRIMINATION IN THE FOG OF WAR AND WE WILL NOT TOLERATE IT ANY LONGER!
Pikmints6 votes
Shh... It'll all be over soon.
PalPlays1 votesARE YOU SUGGESTING WARDS HAVE NO LIFE I HAVE BEEN A WARD ACTIVIST FOR 10 YEARS AND WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS BIAS TOWARDS MY FELLOW WARDS
Sir, do you think it's time? Riot has been discriminating against a certain ward for far too long. It's time for...the Mandrake Wards to rise up and put a halt to this oppression!
qetzel3 votesYou can also critically strike a ward. It deals one damage. Therefore, with 100% life steal you will gain at max 5HP from killing a ward, right? Granted, 5HP can be the differene between life and death but... it won't be.
I hope to God I am right about this.
flibitydoo1 votesYou gain life equal to what you would have gained before the reductions
If you auto attack a minion in lane and get 30 hp for it, then you will get 30 hp for auto attacking a ward.
I remember healing like 200 hp off of one ward as ADC.
qetzel2 votesNope. At least, according to this: http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Life_Steal Although minions have no armour so you could heal that much of minions http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Sight_Ward Ward pages say the maximum damage that can be dealt to a ward is one.
So either the Wiki page is wrong, you are lying or this has been changed since you attacked that ward. I am going for the first or third as I have no reason not to believe you.
flibitydoo3 voteshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TiBm-Sgodk
In this video, you can clearly see the Nasus player getting 22 hp every time he hits those wards.
(you may wish to fullscreen)
edit:apparently everyone's favourite Rioter who designs champions, CertainlyT (/sarcasm) explains in this thread that Lifestealling off wards is unintentional, but apparently cool enough that they are keeping it in the game. source: http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4129105
Penta Penguin1 votesHow is that "cool" ? Doesn't this go against their "clarity" and "hidden power" principles? Who actually knew you could do this before stumbling upon it or reading about it somewhere?
Risurin1 votesYou gain life equal to what you would have gained before the reductions
If you auto attack a minion in lane and get 30 hp for it, then you will get 30 hp for auto attacking a ward.
I remember healing like 200 hp off of one ward as ADC.
Actually, lifesteal hp gain is calculated after armor and other damage reduction. Source : http://leagueoflegends.wikia.com/wiki/Life_steal
The reaason why you heal up so much hp from attacking a ward, is because of a bug, they later on decided to keep as a feature Source : http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=4129105
Hochelaga1 votesI Believe that you are wrong about this.
Lifesteal on a ward works the same on a minion. Identical to Kalista's ghost scouts. Even if you would do for example 500 dmg to a minion that has 10 hp left, you would get lifesteal based on the dmg you did and not the remaining health. This is why Blade of the ruined king's bonus lifesteal is based on the **CURRENT HEALTH **.
Fauxfire2 votesI honestly never knew this worked since I rarely play champs that scale with life steal well, but I think that each auto attack dealt to a ward is registered as 1 physical damage regardless if it was a critical strike, too.
BLU Medic2 votesYes for the ward thing, no for Ashe's Q, because that's still an auto attack.
Hochelaga5 votesWhy not? When auto-attacking a tower, frost shots just don't apply. Xerath's passive doesn't activate, Ashe's passive doesn't crit. Why should it work on a ward?
BLU Medic3 votesSorry, I worded that badly. I meant that wards shouldn't give you life steal, but Ashe's Q should give you life steal.
Joe Dredd2 votesWards also absorb on hit affects.
VITEV0091 votesI would like to point out from my experience that you can only life steal from green wards and not pink wards. Same thing goes for on hit effects like Xerath passive where he gains mana from an auto attack every 12 seconds. I one time ran out of mana and could not throw a stun to save my life, so I used my oracles lens to see if there was a ward and i was able to get mana from the ward, throw my stun and get to safety. however I was in the same situation in a different game, but i could see a pink ward, but when i auto attacked it I could not get my passive mana.
Krigjer1 votesDoran's Blade used to give 5 health on hit, not lifesteal. So it used to work on towers.
RisenDarkKnight1 votesYeah I agree with op and you get way more than 1 life back from wards I think you get the full amount you would from a minion. In addition I think gnar shouldn't gain rage from hitting wards. It's annoying to be sitting at 90 rage then to transfrom because you found a pink ward and be unable to teamfight for the next 30 secs because you didn't realize killing wards gave so much rage.
Marthritis1 votesSome wards are real things 
Fasmodey1 votesWhy Xerath? He gets mana not health. Thematically there is no wrong thing about it.
Spinning Axes1 votesThen critical strikes should hit twice on a ward. It works on Zyra plants, wards should be the same.
In all honesty, though, damage applying to wards is a really weird topic.
Lissama1 votes
easy stacks