User blog comment:Fbhuvjhvbnvfdkv hfd/KS - Kill steal or Kill secured?/@comment-12443575-20140514025320

To an extent, it can actually hurt a lot to get the kill on the wrong champion on your team. Let's say Leona takes a 500G shutdown instead of Twitch. Okay, Leona can add 220G from passive gold income and buy a chain vest, getting better survivability to dish out more CC for the next baron fight. But now Twitch only has 125 assist gold out of 500 he would have got, which sets him 375 gold away from finishing his GA, and he gets jumped on by the recently shut down Talon during the baron teamfight. And Leona would have arrived in time if Twitch had the GA.

But it rarely, if ever, happens in most games, so as long as the kill is taken it doesn't really matter who gets it, unless someone takes 90% of all the kills and doesn't carry the team with all that gold.