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Edited by lightsaber558:
11/3/2015 11:01:14 PM
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Do you think k/d determines skill?
I play the crucible for fun. When I go in competitively, I usually do pretty well. Most of the time I end up at the top of the list with a very positive k/d.
Sometimes, I get outplayed. I can admit that. I leave a game with a bad k/d because I made some poor decisions that game.
However, sometimes I let my little brother play. He is 7 and he dies a lot. Sometimes I create fun challenges for myself like: I cant reload or I have to crouch for the whole game.
If these things ruin my k/d, so be it, but I dont think it means I am "bad" at the crucible.
Edit: By the way, I was terrible in year 1, but now I do pretty well. If the overall k/d reset in year 2, I would be much better.
This is why I say no. Because even though I am good at crucible now, my old games from when I was bad drag me down.
Edit: A lot of people have given me some great responses stating why they chose no and yes.
In many ways, the answer is both.
If you have a low k/d, you might just mess around alot. You might have fun and not give a crap about your k/d. However, if you try really hard, you can easily score at top of the list.
If you have a high k/d, you might be very serious when you play crucible. That is fine if thats what you enjoy. Because you are a serious player, you will have a higher k/d.
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4 RepliesOf course it matters. Only scrubs say it doesn't.
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Definitely shows skill....to a point, good players have some bad games, bad players have some good games....k/d shows the general skill of a player but could be adjusted by .3 +/-
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My Pvp k/d sucks. Most of the time I suck. So yes, it shows skills.
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I think it shows experience rather than skill
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7 RepliesMost with good k/d play with stacked teams. I'd love to see some of these guys play by them self and see how good that k/d really is.
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My halo KD and skill in the other hand
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It's hard to keep a good kd always playing with randoms. When you play with a team then you can communicate and work together.
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Same story here bro
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Edited by o Apollyon o: 11/6/2015 8:19:19 PMNot if you main a hunter. Gg, hungering blade, throwing knives and blink shotgun carried you there. I miss halo 3s player card. Halo 3 was all about winning. Youre k/d meant nothing if you had a 90% w/l ratio. Also take into account that it had a true skill ranking system. If you were a 50 then you played against 46-50'S every game
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It's not an absolute indicator of skill, but it does a lot to show how good a player is. A player with a .9 is going to be worse than a player with a 1.2 the vast majority of the time.
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Ish. Like 2.5 is more telling than 0.8 But you can't really say 1.9 is better than 1.7 I play alone, I play objectives, I try to win, I try different loadouts. I'm at a 1.7-1.8 overall. I could probably break 2.0 if I try hard all the time on fireteams. Idc.
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It doesn't take into account camping. That's the one glaring fault in shooters. You can tell players with stick skills..hats off to them. But anybody else is usually sitting back waiting to get a kill which takes no skills at all.
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Without cheap one shot/melee kill stuff, maybe.
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Mathematically / scientifically you have the question backwards. K/D is a function / result of skill, not the other way around.
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Lol people dont like play with me cuz I play rumble the most and yes I'm a lone wolf but I'm a caring lone wolf why dont people understand you can be both
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2 RepliesDo you think killing way more people than people killing you determines skill? I mean im sure it has nothing to do with skill. It must be luck.
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For the average player, kd is a stable and realistic statistic that reflects you ability to kill while avoiding dying yourself. It loses its significance when people play specifically for their kd. You may sit in the back of the map camping and sniping, and get a 2 kd to show for it, but that 2 kd doesn't accurately give you a way to compare yourself to the rest of players. Until you actually play the game for the objective, your kd is a pointless statistic.
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The answer is not both... kd ratio is meant to show your skill. That is the point of having one in the first place
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It doesn't matter what people say about this, everyone would rather a 1.5KD player than a 0.8KD player for something like trials.
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K/D definitely shows that a player has skill. Would you rather be on a team where everyone has below a 1.0 k/d or 2.0 + k/d?
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1 ReplyDoes having herpes AND genital warts determine sexual promiscuity?
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Try doing the scope in challenge, where you cant lower your sights the entire game.
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Yes and no. In PvE a person could have been stuck with bad players and his KD suffered or that person could just suck. PvP a person could have sucked at the beginning but improved as the game went on, KD is a little difficult to get up.
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No. And I say that due to the facts of bounties and exotic quest that make you play in a different manner
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K/D says how many kills you get on average before you die. Unless there is a [b]Skill-ometer[/b], then they only way to measure skill is by actually seeing them play.
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4 RepliesEdited by A4EEL007: 11/5/2015 6:35:38 PMPeople that suck will vote no. Scrubs keep capping the wrong flags and flipping spawns making us lose. Keep telling yourself your 0.87 k/d helped the team more than the guy that finished top lol.
