User blog comment:D4rkWolf75/Kill Stealing, Gold distribution/@comment-24170465-20140501013346

The distribution of gol on a team does often matter, if, for example, the support takes all the kills (maybe not a great example) then the adc will be left with half the gold they could have gotten, which is a disastrous change that may make the adc nothing but a delicious squishie to feed off of. In general, I agree that sometimes complaining about ks is excessive. But the only case where it really is important often has to do with toxic players like the bitch you mentioned, in that the rest of the team gets little gold. But you do need to make sure that people lacking in gold get the kills.

I also agree with CptCthulu's comment. Unfortunately people will often look at your first two numbers (I know I'm guilty of this, including when it comes to judging how well I've done myself), see low kills and higher deaths, and only pay attention to assissts if it's the support.