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WN8

Wargaming Numerical 8 (Performance Rating)

In one sentence:

Community-built performance metric scoring damage, spotting, kills, and base capture against tank-specific expected values.

What it means

WN8 is the dominant community-built skill rating in WoT — a formula that scores eight stats against expected values for each specific tank, normalizing across vehicles and tiers. A 'good' KV-1 player and a 'good' Bat.-Châtillon 25 t player score similar WN8 even though their raw damage/kill numbers are radically different. WN8 is calculated externally (not by WG) and visible on third-party sites like wotinspector, blitz-clan-stats, and many in-game mods.

How it's calculated

WN8 = weighted sum of (damage ÷ expected_damage), (spots ÷ expected_spots), (kills ÷ expected_kills), (assists ÷ expected_assists), (defense ÷ expected_defense), each compared to per-tank baselines — capped to prevent farming a single stat.

Typical values

Color brackets (community standard): <450 Very Bad (red), 450–650 Bad (orange), 650–900 Below Average (yellow), 900–1,200 Average (light green), 1,200–1,600 Good (green), 1,600–1,900 Very Good (cyan), 1,900–2,350 Great (blue), 2,350–2,900 Unicum (purple), 2,900+ Super Unicum (super purple).

Example

A player averaging 2,400 damage on a Tier 10 medium with 1.3 kills and 1.5 spots per battle might score 1,800 WN8 (Very Good). The same raw numbers on a Tier 5 SPG (where expected damage is much lower) would score 2,800+ (Unicum).

Why it matters

WN8 is the de facto skill measurement that clans, platoons, and community discussions use. 'Sub-1000' is a competence floor for clans, 'over 2,000' qualifies for top-tier competitive teams. It's not perfect — it can be farmed via certain tanks/playstyles — but it correlates strongly with team contribution.

Common pitfall

⚠ Optimizing for WN8 by avoiding losing matches (going passive when your team is losing). Skilled players push damage in any match — the WN8 'long-game' rewards sustained aggression more than win-rate gaming.
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