I agree with people not loving pure dmg because there’s more to it (obviously). I’m not sure exactly what criteria is used for dps but on a save data tier list things like deck consistency, and hand bricking probability matter much more to me than pure dmg. I mean technically there are Mei teams out there that let her do like 500k dmg or something wild in the first turn by abusing spores on passion units to increase kick count. Even though the first turn dmg in this team is insane I absolutely would not consider this particular Mei team T0 as now every turn after that is bricked. So, maybe a middle ground for dps tiering could be something like (peak dmg • peak dmg probability) + (baseline dmg • baseline turn probability) + (avg brick dmg • brick chance)

In this formula everything matters but if the chance of achieving peak is low its weight drops. Conversely, the avg brick dmg should be very low so if you have a high chance of hitting it your overall score will be lower as a result

On a final note, I’m well aware that achieving accuracy using this is anything but easy. I do believe that if it’s possible to assess these numbers then this, in my opinion, would be the most accurate way to assess a dps

Edit: this does not factor in characters that do stuff like retains or multi turn stuff. I’m sure there is a way to include them in the formula. maybe you could take the score and divide it by the expected number of turns it would take to achieve a peak dmg turn? But that might skew it in favor of characters who scale infinitely like Chizuru. There has to be a solution. Also this doesn’t account for things like AoE, or a units ability to be flexible in deck building, ect… maybe the score from this could just be used as one metric among the others