You'll often see on here that people will try to discredit or credit another's argument based solely on what their KD is. If it's high, then people give that argument more weighting, and if it's low, they give it less. This is both ridiculous, incorrect and just utterly nonsensical. KD ratio in pvp is a measure of how much you die, and how much you kill. There is no implied skill there, because KD ratio doesn't take into account how that was achieved. You don't know if they are boosting, cheating, taking advantage of their crappy connection and Destiny's lag compensation, or just good. People seem to want to seek a high KD as proof of their skill, but in reality, it just cannot be the case that someone will get a consistently high KD in a competitive game. As you do better, the game finds you tougher challenges. As you do worse, the game finds you easier challenges. Unless you are literally the single best player in all of Destiny, you really shouldn't be expecting to float much either side of a 1.0. A 1.0 says you kill as much as you die. If you were doing better than that, then the game would put you against better opponents, or with even worse team mates, until your score started to settle down a little. Logically, it's impossible to consistently maintain a high KD unless you're manipulating that system in some way. KD is so easily boosted, and people do this. Honestly, the next time someone boasts about a 3.0 KD, go and check out their stats. 9 times out of 10, you'll see they have around 7k sniper rifle kills and around 1k of anything else, because sniper camping is the most common means by far that people KD boost by. It's legit, it's not an exploit, and it's easy to do, especially with some rifles that have a really high aim assist (called 'target acquisition' in game). These people don't get a 3.0 because they are stupidly good at the game and are just wasting everyone in one on one combat. These people camp out in a corner somewhere where nobody goes, and then they snipe when the odd random player happens to wander close by. They'll end the game 5/1, but that's a 5.0 KD. They'll run from every engagement until they can find a corner. And that's where they will wait, all game if necessary, even for a 2/0 result. They aren't "good" at Destiny because of this. Then there are your lag switchers, who don't often die because they are actually just cheating. And they do it for KD. There's literally nothing else in this game to cheat for. you don't get a rank, or extra rewards. And then there are people who just quit out of the games they are starting to die in, and wait for the games where they are matched against people they can beat. Outside of boosting the stat, there are other reasons why KD isn't really a good indicator of skill, even if it's "legit" (which in any case wouldn't be far either side of 1.0 with normal gameplay). KD doesn't take account of objective play. For example, in Control, a player may die twice but capture three control points, thereby vastly increasing the points earned by the rest of their team for further kills. Or, in games that use CTF, a flag carrier may not get a single kill, but yet win their game, and score all the points. KD also doesn't measure the value of your play. A single kill on an enemy who just picked up heavy ammo probably just saved five or six deaths on your team, and is likely worth more than two kills gained elsewhere. And really, in a game where we have 1 hit kill panic button supers, quick time to kill gameplay, two shot kill red death/thorn, heavy weapons, and often a 6v6 environment.........you really need to question someone claiming a consistent 3.0 or higher KD in 'regular' gameplay. Most of the time, there's another reason. And the next time you tell someone to 'get gud', I hope you don't mean KD.