How do I know if I got a kill assist in Overwatch?
According to what I see in Overwatch, I have never gotten a kill assist. If I do considerable damage to an opponent and someone else seems to do the final blow, it still recognizes it as a kill. I look at my kills, and the count has gone up by one. Why is this?
Best Answer
This is one of the ways that Overwatch differs in design from a straight up shooter (be it arena or what have you) - the game tracks kills you participate in rather than kills you complete. This is related to why you don't see other players kill and death counts.
Quite simply, Blizzard does not want players comparing KDR, as it is a largely irrelevant statistic to how well you're playing the game for several reasons. Amongst these is the fact that death can be the correct play, such as if Reinhardt pushes a Self-Destructing D.Va off the map or out of range; additionally, kill count tells you nothing about if a player is effectively playing their role - it can be high when the player is contributing little in broader terms of tactics or strategy (for example, failing to protect Supports), or low despite the player being very effective and valuable (pulling the tank out of position, good Support, taking out that one problem enemy reliably, or whatever else).
In other words, the two are not distinguished because the distinction isn't relevant.
And as an aside, this is part of Blizzard's aim to avoid the issues that plague the communities around most shooters, and it seems to be working so far from what I can see.
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How does kill assist work?
To get a kill assistant, "player 1" must deal at least 41 points or more damage, then the enemy is killed by "player 2". If done properly, the kill feed will display "player 2 + player 1 <player 2's weapon kill icon> enemy". Players can still get a kill assist even after they have died.How much damage does it take to get an assist?
The idea is that now an elimination counts only when it's a final blow. So now the person who dealt the final killing blow is the one that gets the elim count. And the rest who helped by either providing utility or by damaging the enemy get that as an assist. We can now get rid of the final blow category.How are eliminations count in overwatch?
The Killfeed is an optional component of the HUD that can be turned on in the Game Options. The killfeed shows the six most recent kills and/or destructions, with the most recent at the top. It will display the victim on the right side and the killer on the left.How to Find The BEST SENSITIVITY For You (Overwatch 2020)
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Answer 2
As an addendum to DanmakuGrazer's answer, Overwatch's Anniversary update (May 23, 2017) now displays kill assists as part of the kill feed in the upper right corner.
The player who performed the killing blow will have the largest icon on the left, while players who assisted will have smaller icons to the right.
See also: When do assists show up in the kill feed?
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