KD matters but not as much as Win loss. There are way to many scrubs with 2kds. They camp in objective modes while completely ignoring the objective while losing. They dashboard or straigh up quit when the meet a good player. If you can win consistantly then thats more important than not not getting killed 1 or 2 extra times. Id rather have someone willing to die to get a flag than someone who avoids a flag to get a few extra kills.

9+win loss 2+kd. (i play lots of solo, only sniped for first 3 1/2 prestiges and have finished all but the bullet III challenge on the riot shield)

I am not a "try hard" per say

Go to a bank and ask for $3,000 just because you got a 2.0 K/D and see what happens.

In Domination matches, more often than not, the team with a bunch of guys who went 15-25, 18-30 but captured a tonne of flags, will win. I would much rather play with those guys than the ones who went 12-1, 18-3, but never went anywhere near a single flag.

Good points rlbl. There was a dude bragging about his 3+ KDR on another board but when you looked at his stats, his win percentage was 29%. That either means he actually sucks or he quits A LOT.

Domination for example only requires the capturing of 2 points, then you just pound the other team in the ground for the rest of the match and win. So i'd say yes K/D has a significant benefit. This is how we (My clan) play.

agreed.

my team takes out air support often before it even reaches the map.  it is VERY funny when we take down a care package air support before it even drops 1 crate.

After a match where the opposing team did not even get 100 pts in dom, I heard one person say "I don't get it, these guys all suck. They are low on the leader baords so how did we lose!?"

I responded: "The leader board shows score, and kills, KD etc... but it doe snot show how well people play as a team. You guys lost because you are not a good team, you are good individual players, even though you are a clan. I would hate to play against you in TDM, but in dom. you guys need to shape up"

We all got along so they stayed in the lobby for many games. A few games later, they finally beat us.

(yes I said doe snot)

Here is an interesting question:

I have seen a few people say that "KD is not the only factor... but coupled with SPM (score per minute) gives a better indication..."

Challenges do not count in the score do they?  I am ranking (relative fast) because I get a butt-load of challenges done using the specialist class. A lot of people wonder why I am 1/2 way through 9th with a low amount of time played, and with garbage KD (not worried that it is 0.79... yeah 0.79)

I would say NO stat shows the true quality of a player.

(yea my WL is ok )

R-L-B-L (on elite)

Agreed, however a good player will still do good with randoms, w/l is harder to control as a random though it's no excuse to start killwhoring mainly in dom / kc like many do.

Rlbl man you do rank up very fast, what is your secret? Did you use a lot of double xp and specialist constantly, even then it's insanely fast especially for your k/d *no offense. I mean I play the objective constantly (mainly dom), near the top 1000, & I just hit 10th the other day with around 8 days. I did use the same guns way too much I guess..

I typically played Domination, but when you have 1 person who insists on trying to capture all 3 flags... you get screwed over. So I stopped worrying about any stat (including WL).

When I play with friends (or people with mics who agree on the play style), it is an easy win (unless the other team is organized and has the same strategy... that makes for a FUN game).

Stats are stats. If one plays to achieve good stats: go for it. I persoanlly do not care (I used to, but it got too frustrating so I stopped caring)

K/D is far to easily manipulated to be the end all sign of a good player.  Most of the time when I see a guy with a 2+ k/d it typically signals to me that they are a camper/stat padder who will bolt at the first sign of things not going there way.  There are very few guys like Gotcha (seen him play)  that I would call legit on their 2+ and you can tell it quickly cause you will look down at the score and it will be 1500 - 200 before you know it and they will have at least one kill streak called in before you realised what happened.  Again there are some but they are few and far between and when you play with or against them you know it.

To me the guys that typically I pay attention to most of the time in a lobby are those that have that 1.5 + 1.75+ type players.  Typically these guys are really aggressive and can throw up alot of kills.  I find them to usually be the hardest players to go against most times.