5 years of Arknights DPS compiled into a bar race

As for the Average DPS, in general viktorlab calculated it as:

DPS_{avg} = (Damage_{skill} + Damage_{normal_attack}) / (Duration_{skill} + Duration_{normal_attack}) ,

where normal attack refers to the normal attacks done until the operator has enough SP to activate the skill (starting from 0 SP). Common sense solutions were adopted to deal with infinite or instantaneous skills.

In order to determine durations more precisely, Viktorlab also considered the number of frames in animations and whether attack animations were reset upon skill activation/termination. That was too deep for me and what I wanted to do, so I ignored that stuff. The difference was marginal anyway.

Only 6-star operators were featured, excluding those with low damage capabilities (e.g., healers) and Muelsyse because it would have been a nightmare to pick the best clone option at any given time.

The way the comparison was carried out heavily favors AOE operators. This was an arbitrary decision on my part, motivated by the conditions of many powerful operators' skills (Mlynar S3 hits 5 enemies, Degen S3 can hit 6, Logos S3 can hit 4, Gavial Alter S3 can hit 5 if blocked, etc.). Different kinds of comparisons are possible and could be made if there's interest.

Elemental damage was calculated considering the enemies as bosses. This was in line with the purpose of the comparison: see how well operators performed in "hard" content.

Be mindful that calculations may contain mistakes (I would be surprised if I didn't make any...), so take everything with a grain of salt. Moreover, keep in mind that DPS isn't the only metric with which the value of an operator can be gauged. In particular, DPS ranking is NOT a meta tier list.

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I added some details in the description. Thanks for watching and I hope you had fun!

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The way the comparison was carried out heavily favors AOE operators. This was an arbitrary decision on my part, motivated by the conditions of many powerful operators' skills (Mlynar S3 hits 5 enemies, Degen S3 can hit 6, Logos S3 can hit 4, Gavial Alter S3 can hit 5 if blocked, etc.). Different kinds of comparisons are possible and could be made if there's interest.

Be mindful that DPS ranking is NOT a meta tier list.

[ciel_bird]

Pretty fascinating. Would love to see this but against 1 enemy.

[iranbarauna]

Nice chart, but it's biased towards multi target ops, so typhon and others didn't even appear

[GoodKnightPunpun]

Wis'adel: I'm taking back what's mine

[mrrp]

Very cool graph for its parameters, shows why stuff like having a sweet spot for fiammetta matters.

But yeah maybe specifying that it’s specifically AOE in the title for newer players might be better(first few seconds notwithstanding we know people don’t read). Ray not even showing up in the top ten in a video about “DPS” is kinda funny

[-Seaheart-]

People are complaining about bias but it would be hard to make a chart with everyone without having bias towards one direction or another, ideally it would be better to have different charts set at different conditions to and then evaluate it contextually (which seems to be the idea from what OP said, if there is enough interest). One chart alone is fated to be imperfect regardless of what you do.

[lenalalane]

Ifrit helf on for a surprisingly long time!

[schizosamurai]

If anything, this shows that the power creep is very stable and slow and Walter (also Surtr) is way too overtuned

Its notable that Ifrit stuck around for most of the time

[WxzZ]

I like how surtr just came up and hupergrph knew they made a mistake so they made everyone else after her stronger, she was the beginning of the dps check era.

I'm still surtrless

[temtempo]

I can't believe I was mesmerized throughout the entire thing. I honestly wouldn't mind seeing (in whatever format is easiest) an overview of how the mean DEF/RES of bosses changed over the years. I have to imagine the introduction of Surtr forced an increase in boss RES...

[ArgentoNatsu]

2:22 "Laevatainn!!!!" gave me goosebumps

[ManicRipper]

Shout out to the OG Ifrit. Only OG op doing its thing till the very end

[Eclin]

I think Ifrit is a character that has great design. She’s powerful, but has clear weakness in her range if you want to fully utilize her max potential. I had a lot of fun finding a place to put her back in the days. Operators like Walter is not only fcking crazy in damage, but has giga range and unfair survivability kit. It’s a gacha game so it’s understandable, especially for those that just want to clear stages braindead.

[deathmarch]

Ifrit Supremacy, stayed in the top 10 for almost the entire life time of AK LETS GOOO

[DSdvdDS]

Can you do this same video but calculating DPS of attacking 1 enemy? It would be really helpful to see how operators perform under high-def vs high-res enemies.
This kind of calculation only really makes sense for seeing which operator is good at clearing trees in Reclamation Algorithm.

[pankace]

You should probably have compared AOE DPS separately from ST DPS. Characters like Ray and Exusiai look terrible using your methodology, but would dwarf a lot of the DPS above them if all were measured against one target with extremely high HP. Obviously Wisadel would be #1 no matter what, but it would make things a lot more fair for all the units below her.

[cheshirecatto]

Maaan, not seeing Silverash and Eyja in the charts by the second half of the video makes me feel... old...
Haven't played the game in a REALLY long time and at the end of the video, Surt's the only one I know left in the chart. I still don't have the motivation to get back because I'm too lazy to learn all the new stuff in the game. 😅😅

[Gojiradogzillagodzilla]

knowing that Chalter is almost 4 years old makes me feel OLD

Love Chen, love Chalter. Both carried me in my early days along with Silverash and Apple Pie.

Hopefully we'll have a Silverash Alter at some point so that all my starter 6*s get some love, since Exia just got one.

[buriyburiy]

And not even close...
-Wis'adel The Limited One-

[moonlightcrew]

blaze being at the top 3, even if it was only at the very beginning, brings a smile to my face