Exactly this . Hurts my soul when I see people play thrall spam chain lightning 247 for the whole game and then when they barely win damage they think they are the shit . Poking heroes , ones with aoe especially should most of the time win the raw damage done but , as it can be healed , it counts for little . When you deal damage and straight up kill a person every time , that ' s what counts . So look at kills and damage done in conjunction to get a better idea . And to add in illidan ' s case , he draws in a lot of fire . It ' s way harder to deal a lot of damage if you get targeted 247 , even though you are still as useful as the rest . If illidan tops , you could have a scenario where he ' s so bad people focus the nukes first and he wins that way , just an example . Stats are far from self explanatory even though that ' s a lot less likely to happen .