For the researched patch, winners were chosen based on these metrics.
Categories

• • DMG / Shot​

  • Fire Rate [Shots Per Minute]

  • TTK (Adj) Torso Wearing Heavy Armor [Seconds]

  • DPS (Sustained)

  • Cost [aUEC]

• As in other studies, commonly used fire rates were chosen to avoid a clutter of options and results

  • C54 (Rapid)​

  • Custodian (Rapid)

  • Lumin (Rapid Burst 3)

  • P8-SC (Rapid)

• For TTK and Cost, these values are better the smaller they are, so those values were simply subtracted from "1" to get their relative lineup.