First off, let me say that I understand that the Medal System is complete garbage and in most cases, hurts the player more then it helps.
Case in point: I just started tooling around with D.Va and found that I was frequently getting Gold in Elims after matches.
Is Gold in Elims for D.Va a garbage stat in the same way it is with Moira? (ie, due to the constant chip damage).
Imo medals mean NOTHING
You should have gold elims as D.Va.
They bloat easy due to chip damage and D.Va should always be in the fight somewhere at least.
Kinda. Although if you are bronze or less in damage, it just means you landed popcorn shots on the enemy before they died.
Gold elims and gold damage… okay your DPS are slacking…
as an ex dva main it really doesnt matter much. gold elims, gold damage is situational. because you should focus on helping the main tank and peelling for your team as much as you can. so if you are stuck once with doing that you wont have those medal which is understandable
Medals in general are trash, but having gold’s as DVa is common. If you don’t have at least silver you probably aren’t aggressive enough or your DPS are amazing.
That hardly means anything since multiple people can have gold medals. It’s why they are trash and should just show us a scoreboard.
Yeah, this is what I was wondering. Could I use that as indicator/guide in some way to translate it to my gameplay.
And this makes sense, it’s “meaningless” in the sense D.Va does a ton of chip-damage (a-la Moira), but still could be semi-useful since if I’m in the fight enough + chip damage then I should medal in elims. Otherwise I might not have been doing my job.
Pretty much. Using the medals as a metric for everyone’s performance is asinine, but depending on your hero, and your team comp in general, the only medals that matter are elims if you are playing off tanks (are you being aggressive enough or doing enough chip damage to make space for your DPS) or the healing medal (usually for if your team has a hog or bastion, if a healer has bronze it doesn’t mean they are doing bad, but that hog and bastion need a little more healing).
I tend to look at damage and elims in conjunction. I want gold in both.
However, more of D.Va than a lot of people think is peeling. So I’d look at how effective my peeling is, too.