Damage per gold is legit the worst stat in the stats page.

QQsha·4/16/2019, 3:14:07 PM·16 votes·9,394 views

There is a fairly consistent trend with regards to damage per gold. The higher it is, the lower your skill. Legit, I just looked at DPG trends for ADCs and top laners, and as you go up in ranks, the number almost always goes down. And even if it doesn't, Iron still holds the highest numbers.

DPG doesn't show how good you are at being efficient with your gold, it just shows that you do damage more than you farm. This can be either because a) you're fighting all the time, b) you're never farming and are playing low eco, or c) everyone in your ELO sucks at dodging. All of these things inflate the stat and none of them are a sign of being a good player. I mean, relative to the same champion, it might mean something in more extreme cases (like Jayce needing to put out a lot of damage on low economy due to being an early game bully with a big mid game power spike), but even then, the numbers are heavily in favor of being a low ELO player. How do I know if I'm playing well above average because I popped off really hard and outplayed everyone rather than just being a bot that plays mindless ARAM on SR? Most of the other stats are pretty good, but this one is just absolute dogshit. I don't think any other stat consistently goes down as you go up in rank, or where Iron legit has the highest average.

Please, REMOVE DAMAGE PER GOLD.

6 Comments

FrozenFrostFyre4/16/2019, 5:30:06 PM3 votes

At first I was like: wtf are you talking about, but how i can totally see why this happens after you explained it more. excellent post my dude. +1

General Esdeath 4/16/2019, 7:07:25 PM3 votes

I don't even see that in the stat page on my match history, who uses that stat?

Poske4/16/2019, 6:27:23 PM2 votes

This is what I meant by most efficient way of playing league not being fun. Its just a passive fiesta.

U R Good At Game4/16/2019, 6:35:41 PM2 votes

Unfortunately no stats are really good judgement by themselves. It takes someone that can truly remove themselves from the game and look at all the stats as a whole to see how they play off of each other to get what they really mean. I don't think it should be removed, if you think it's not important just ignore it and let others who have found a way to make use of the state combined with the others continue to use it.