I think it’s about time they include a stat to show how much damage someone has taken. As a support main, I have a general idea of who is taking the most damage, and who is taking an unnecessary amount of damage based on how often I have to heal them, but I don’t think the rest of the team knows. It would go a long way to improving peoples gameplay if they understood just how much damage they were taking and how much of a support’s resources they are using up to keep them alive.
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Damage taken & healing received by who. No more whining about not getting healing! Or maybe it’s deserved, either way good to have.
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Yes, and healing received. I’m sure they are tracking these stats, they just don’t let us see them because they fear it would breed toxicity. But honestly, there’s already toxicity against support players because the other roles don’t understand what is actually going on.
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Brilliant idea. Some people are just bullet sponges and never use line of sight, ever.
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I don’t even think it’s that brilliant of an idea. People have been asking for it since OW1.
i only like the idea for those people who think they never are getting healed but from my POV are clearly dying WHILE im actively healing them lol. I think generally though that information will be next to useless in most matches though.
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Well as a support, I generally know who is taking more damage than others. But I think if DPS could see how much damage they are taking, they would understand what’s going on behind them. Maybe some of them might not put the pieces together, but for those who understand the numbers, it would make a difference.
The biggest thing is that the rest of the team need to understand that the less time a support spends keeping people up, the more time they can spend contributing to confirming kills.
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I think it would be helpful, if I was in a game and saw I was taking too much damage I may adjust my play style.
and if I was on Ana and saw my DPS weren’t getting much healing from the Kiriko, I might switch to mercy, I think they are useful stats, as useful as seeing your death count.
i mean i AM in favor it. I’ve suggested on these forums before that it would be awesome if we had an “advanced statistics” page which we could customize for when we hit tab. I want something where like I can customize which stats I see when I hit tab. I don’t care about your total dmg lets say if you’re playing… lets say hanzo? I’d rather customize it so when i hit tab I see hanzo’s hit% and crit%. I wanna see his sonic arrow usage time etc… same for widow IDGAF what her damage is usually… I just wanna know if she’s taking shots / and hitting them. If i hit tab I wanna see zen’s discord time or something… IDK I’m just quickly shooting out ideas but i think you get the point. If I could I would customize half the hero rosters information that I’m shown during a match when I hit tab instead of who cares assists… or even elims… I wanna see final blows / sleep dart accuracy.
If there’s room after all that stuff yeah I’d like to see who is my damage sponges 
Most MMO’s / big titles have customizable HUDs… idk why we can only customize our crosshair. Seems weak imo. Why can’t we customize our HUD/tab information page to suit our wants
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They should add a bunch of stats to alleviate support scapegoating;
- Healing received
- Times saved by a support
- Times killed outside of support LOS
- Number of times enemy tank was ignored before they pressed W into the supports
The amount of players who can’t position at all and then blame the supports is absurd. It always seems to happen with DPS on terrible flanks or Tanks who can only ever operate when double pocketed. If you want to play a single-player game where you’re the superstar at all times just play against AI.
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