Originally Posted by
Pendulous
I'm still not sure why people place such a big focus on "dps", in a game where that is just an unnecessary thing to calculate. It's a shooter game, not an RPG. Lucio's burst damage is high, his sustained damage is not, due to his three-shot burst. People don't hit every single shot, not even kind of remotely close. Let's stop using RPG terms to describe a shooter.
That being said, his damage still needs to be low. You don't complain about a character's damage, and only his damage, when there's a lot more to a character's toolkit than that. His damage is supposed to be low because he brings a lot more. The highest amount of healing, the third hardest hero to hit, the easiest character to get environmental kills on, and a group-wide speed buff. his damage is low for all that. Nobody is complaining about Zenyatta having the lowest amount of healing, because his high damage (for a healer) makes up for it.