Damage ratio
Damage dealt divided by damage received, a measure of how efficiently a player trades their hit points.
Also known as damage taken ratio, dmg ratio.
A ratio of 2 means twice as much damage dealt as taken. It rewards good positioning and armor use in a way raw damage does not: two players with the same damage per game are not equal if one spends a full health bar getting there.
It is read with the class in mind. A heavy tank that holds a corner is supposed to take damage, and a tank destroyer that takes any has usually been caught.
Related terms
Damage per gameThe average damage dealt per battle, the most quoted measure of personal output and the one most sensitive to which vehicles are played.Hit pointsA vehicle's health pool, which cannot be restored in battle and is therefore a resource to be spent rather than a buffer to be refilled.Damage blockedPotential damage that hit the player's armor and failed to penetrate, the ledger entry for playing a heavily armored vehicle well.Survival rateThe share of battles a player finished alive, which reads as caution or as staying useful, depending on the rest of the account.Destruction ratioVehicles destroyed for each one lost, which is kills per battle divided by how often the account dies.