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These charts can give you a rough estimate on how much damage all the various weapons do in the game compared to others. The charts below were made by killing Roadhog (non headshots) with +300% health, which for Roadhog is 1800 health to take down for each given weapon. Keep in mind that weapons that can do headshots are typically a bit more overall powerful than what is shown on these charts.
Weapons in this color = do headshots.
If you click on each individual graph bar, it will take you to the Youtube video source where I got the data from exactly. I list various distances on some weapons along with pulse shots on weapons that use recoils.
The first chart ranks all weapons that has the highest DPS (Damage Per Second) to the least DPS.
UPDATES: 11-20-16 - The chart below is updated for the latest 1.5 patch changes, which include: Sombra, Soldier 76 and Widowmaker.
| Weapon | DPS (Higher score the better) |
|---|---|
| Bastion Sentry |
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| Bastion Sentry (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Reaper's Shotguns |
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| Roadhog's Scrap Gun (normal) |
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| Bastion Sentry (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Symmetra Six Sentry Turrets |
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| D.Va's Fusion Cannons |
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| Torbjorn's Alt Fire |
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| Zarya's Particle Beam (100% charged) |
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| Junkrat's Frag Launcher |
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| Zenyatta's energy orbs (with Discord Orb) |
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| Roadhog's Scrap Gun (alt fire) (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Tracer's Pulse Pistols |
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| Sombra's Machine Pistol |
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| Pharah's rockets |
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| McCree's Fan Fire |
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| Sombra's Machine Pistol (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| D.Va's Fusion Cannons (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Zenyatta's energy orbs |
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| Bastion Recon |
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| Bastion Recon (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Torbjorn's Rivet Gun |
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| Torbjorn's turret (LVL 3) |
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| Symmetra's Projector Beam |
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| McCree's Revolver |
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| McCree's Revolver (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Genji fan shuriken |
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| Hanzo fully charged bow shots |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Ana's Biotic Rifle (both normal and scoped) |
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| Widowmaker's Fully Charged Shots |
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| Mei's Icicles |
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| Mei's Icicles (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Tracer's Pulse Pistols (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Zarya's Charged Shots (100% charged) |
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| Widowmaker's 75% Charged Shots |
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| Bastion Sentry (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Reinhardt's Rocket Hammer |
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| Mercy's Blaster Gun |
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| Genji shuriken |
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| Zarya's Particle Beam (0% charged) |
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| McCree's Fan Fire (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| D.Va's Human Blaster Gun |
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| Torbjorn's Alt Fire (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Widowmaker's 35% Charged Shots |
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| Torbjorn's turret (LVL 2) |
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| Hanzo non charged bow shots |
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| Lucio's Sonic Projectiles |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Reaper's Shotguns (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Symmetra's Fully Charged Orbs |
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| Winston's Tesla Cannon |
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| Symmetra's Half-Way Charged Orbs |
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| Zenyatta's Charged Volley Shots |
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| Bastion Recon (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Bastion Recon (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Mei's frost blaster |
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| Mei's Icicles (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Zarya's Charged Shots (0% charged) |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Symmetra's Non Charged Orbs |
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| McCree's Revolver (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Torbjorn's turret (LVL 1) |
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| Widowmaker's Non charged shots |
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| Tracer's Pulse Pistols (LONG DISTANCE) |
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Individual Heroes
| Sombra | |
|---|---|
| Sombra's Machine Pistol |
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| Sombra's Machine Pistol (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Genji | |
| Genji fan shuriken |
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| Genji shuriken |
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| McCree | |
| McCree's Fan Fire |
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| McCree's Revolver |
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| McCree's Revolver (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| McCree's Fan Fire (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| McCree's Revolver (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Pharah | |
| Pharah's rockets |
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| Reaper | |
| Reaper's Shotguns |
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| Reaper's Shotguns (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| NOTES: Reaper's Shotguns dramatically drop off on damage with range. Long range was practically not worth listing because it took too long. | |
| Soldier 76 | |
| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Soldier 76 Pulse Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| NOTES: Pulse shots proved to be only a bit more effective to use when firing at long range. | |
| Tracer | |
| Tracer's Pulse Pistols |
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| Tracer's Pulse Pistols (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Tracer's Pulse Pistols (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| NOTES: Tracer's Pulse Pistols are practically worthless at long range. | |
| Bastion | |
| Bastion Sentry |
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| Bastion Sentry (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Bastion Sentry (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Bastion Recon |
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| Bastion Recon (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Bastion Sentry (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Bastion Recon (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Bastion Recon (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| NOTES:
A Bastion Sentry has the highest DPS out of all the heroes. He
even performs well at very long ranges. According to these tests,
pulse shots were less effective than just holding down the trigger for
long distance firing for both Recon and Sentry mode. One Interesting thing I seen with Bastion Vs Soldier 76's assault guns is that Bastion's Recon gun is slightly stronger in DPS overall compared to Soldier 76's Pulse Rifle, especially in medium range. |
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| Hanzo | |
| Hanzo fully charged bow shots |
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| Hanzo non charged bow shots |
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| NOTES: Hanzo's Fully charged bow shots do about 66% more damage than non charged shots. You can read here for the uses of non charged bow shots. | |
| Junkrat | |
| Junkrat's Frag Launcher |
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| Mei | |
| Mei's Icicles |
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| Mei's Icicles (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Mei's frost blaster |
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| Mei's Icicles (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Torbjorn | |
| Torbjorn's Alt Fire |
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| Torbjorn's Rivet Gun |
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| Torbjorn's turret (LVL 3) |
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| Torbjorn's Alt Fire (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Torbjorn's turret (LVL 2) |
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| Torbjorn's turret (LVL 1) |
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| NOTES: Torbjorn's turrets double in DPS with each level up. A level 1 turret is pretty weak in DPS. | |
| Widowmaker | |
| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| Widowmaker's Fully Charged Shots |
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| Widowmaker's 75% Charged Shots |
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| Widowmaker's 35% Charged Shots |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) |
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| Widowmaker's Automatic Rifle (LONG DISTANCE) [pulse shots] |
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| Widowmaker's Non charged shots |
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| NOTES: 75% charged shots are very similar in DPS to fully charged shots. This means it can be more effective to do 75% charged shots when you know you will be able to just keep firing non stop. Non charged shots proved to be very weak overall. Also pulse shots with the automatic rifle at long distances were basically pointless. | |
| D.Va | |
| D.Va's Fusion Cannons |
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| D.Va's Fusion Cannons (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| D.Va's Human Blaster Gun |
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| NOTES: D.Va's human blaster works similar to Mercy's blaster gun, but Mercy's is 15% stronger overall. D.Va's Fusion Cannons was extremely weak at long distances and was untestable at that range. | |
| Reinhardt | |
| Reinhardt's Rocket Hammer |
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| Roadhog | |
| Roadhog's Scrap Gun (normal) |
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| Roadhog's Scrap Gun (alt fire) (MEDIUM DISTANCE) |
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| NOTES: The 30% faster firing rate for the normal fire largely contributes to the higher DPS of the normal fire. | |
| Winston | |
| Winston's Tesla Cannon |
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| Zarya | |
| Zarya's Particle Beam (100% charged) |
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| Zarya's Charged Shots (100% charged) |
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| Zarya's Particle Beam (0% charged) |
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| Zarya's Charged Shots (0% charged) |
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| NOTES: From 0% charged to 100% charged, Zarya does about 100% more damage (twice as much). | |
| Ana | |
| Ana's Biotic Rifle (both normal and scoped) |
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| NOTES: Remember, Ana is not picked for damage dealing, but for her support abilities in healing and crowd control. | |
| Lucio | |
| Lucio's Sonic Projectiles |
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| Mercy | |
| Mercy's Blaster Gun |
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| NOTES: D.Va's human blaster works similar to Mercy's blaster gun, but Mercy's is 15% stronger overall. | |
| Symmetra | |
| Symmetra Six Sentry Turrets |
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| Symmetra's Projector Beam |
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| Symmetra's Fully Charged Orbs |
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| Symmetra's Half-Way Charged Orbs |
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| Symmetra's Non Charged Orbs |
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| NOTES:
A full area filled with all 6 of Symmetra's Sentry Turrets proves to
provide a very high DPS. But remember that Sentry Turrets can also
be easily destroyed. The Projector Beam stats is not practical
since it raises in level the longer it is held down, so take that value
with a grain of salt really. Another interesting statistic is that half-way charged orbs is very close in DPS to fully charged orbs. I thought that was very interesting. This means you should consider letting orbs go even before they get fully charged more often. Non charged orbs proved to be very weak however. |
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| Zenyatta | |
| Zenyatta's energy orbs (with Discord Orb) |
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| Zenyatta's energy orbs |
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| Zenyatta's Charged Volley Shots |
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| NOTES: Charged Volley shots do significantly less DPS than normal energy orb shots. But volley shots do have its uses. | |
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