PSA: DPS =/= DMG

SteelMankind··3 votes·1,076 views

DPS means Damage per Second. It is relevant for sustained damage champs. It is not relevant, and makes little sense to talk about, on burst champs. Veigar has low DPS, since he relies on cooldowns. Lux has low dps for the same reason. Ashe has high DPS and low burst. Cassiopeia has high DPS and low burst.

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LXII3 votes

Low DPS is still DPS.

SteelMankind1 votes

Yes. Did I suggest otherwise?

Bergk2 votes

-50dkp

LitAF1 votes

ok

Xilixer1 votes

what does that make malzahar?

SteelMankind1 votes

Yeah, I was wondering about this. The voidling army is definitely a DPS sort of thing, but I would actually say that his E and Ult dot is burst because they're long CD and he can't consistently damage people with them the way Ryze can Q or Cass can E.

CrazyBear19871 votes

[zombie-brand-mindblown]

Surr20plz1 votes

What kind of sperglord thread is this?

No one cares what dps means in this game.

SteelMankind1 votes

My motivation for posting this came from a teammate telling me I was wrong after I mentioned that MF's full armor pen build had low DPS. Pretty sure everyone cares about being told they're wrong when they know they're right.

Surr20plz2 votes

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My motivation for posting this came from a teammate telling me I was wrong after I mentioned that MF's full armor pen build had low DPS. Pretty sure everyone cares about being told they're wrong when they know they're right.

You have to put that in your post. Now what you're saying makes sense.

SteelMankind1 votes

Well, my hope was that I could actually educate people. I didn't want to come off as just being salty and butthurt.

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