I decided to do a little tracking on zero damage tanks. This is NOT about AFK tanks but any tanks that started the match but for some reason or other did zero damage. I played my normal games in the tiers 6 to 10 and tracked tiers of the game and which tier the zero damage tanks were. I stopped because I was getting bored and a little disappointed in the results. There are way more tanks not participating in damage than I thought by casual observation but surprised that it is pretty well spread out throughout the tiers.
Findings
Here are the games, top tier zero damage, bottom tier zero damage, total zero damage and zero damage tanks per game.
Tier | Games | Top | Bottom | Total | Per Game |
10/9 | 52 | 29 | 25 | 54 | 1.03 |
9/8 | 53 | 14 | 38 | 52 | 0.98 |
8/7 | 89 | 53 | 40 | 93 | 1.04 |
7/6 | 78 | 21 | 58 | 79 | 1.01 |
6/5 | 52 | 25 | 15 | 40 | 0.77 |
totals | 324 | 142 | 176 | 318 | 0.98 |
Here I took all the games played with each tier involved, total tanks that did zero damage, and the number of tanks doing zero damage per game.
Tier | Games | Tanks |
Per Game |
10 | 52 | 29 | 0.53 |
9 | 105 | 39 | 0.37 |
8 | 142 | 91 | 0.63 |
7 | 167 | 61 | 0.36 |
6 | 120 | 83 | 0.69 |
Green vs Red (Added)
Tiers | Games | Green | Red |
10/9 | 52 | 28 (51.9%) | 26 (48.1%) |
9/8 | 53 | 20 (38.5%) | 32 (61.5%) |
8/7 | 89 | 40 (43.0%) | 53 (57.0%) |
7/6 | 78 | 40 (50.6%) | 39 (49.4%) |
6/5 | 52 | 16 (40.0%) | 24 (60.0%) |
totals | 324 | 144 (45.3%) | 174 (54.7%) |
In the 324 games there were....
5 games where 4 tanks did zero damage (1.54% of games)
14 games where 3 tanks did zero damage (4.32% of games)
29 games where 2 tanks did zero damage (8.95% of games)
This means that about 7% of tanks that start a match will do zero damage during any given game. Oof.
Conclusions
Tier 8 is not so surprising as a bad tier for zero damage tanks. Tier 8 is the best tier for premium purchases where people will jump up tiers and then be outclassed. I expected tier 8 to be bad. What happens at tier 6? They performed horrible as top tier! I cannot think of a valid reason for all the zero damage tanks that tier 6 produced as top and bottom tier.
I know this is barely enough to take out inconsistencies but I think there was enough to realize that it doesn't really matter what tier you are in that there will be that guy who does zero damage no matter the tiers you play. There has to be that guy who gets nuked early by a TD or some other derp gun. There will be that guy who rushes straight in to 4 tanks to spot thinking he did a good thing.
PS.... I was only "that guy" two times in those 324 games and both times it was a result of derp. One time a camping Smasher hit me and other time I crested a hill and got double tapped by a waiting Grille and 183. This means out of 318 tanks that did zero damage I was only two of them ( 0.62%). That means there are a lot of tanks making up for my way lower than average zero damage percentage. I must assume that all the other players who are at or above 60% WR are like me who rarely put up a zero damage game. That means that there are other players out there who are doing this way more often than 5% of their games. That is what was really disappointing to think about.
I ran out of time but wanted to post. I will add more comments about what I found when I get more time later tonight.
Edited by _Weeping_Angel_, 26 April 2019 - 03:20 PM.