User blog comment:CaveJohnson333/RWBY Characters Hurt/Heal/@comment-27121579-20160128000410/@comment-4023909-20160128042624

that why I seid to make the max 50 a few weeks ago. yang was at 45+ at the time so so I think they set the max to 50 so it wouldn't cut off hp people had given (and to round out the number). I think its also why they got rid of the X2 heal on the same person.