User blog comment:Fbhuvjhvbnvfdkv hfd/KS - Kill steal or Kill secured?/@comment-5266525-20140514032718/@comment-10257787-20140514204722

"First of all what you're telling me is that you actually care more about your KDA then the game. If your KDA makes you feel good then I don't wanna play with you."

"... where the flying fuck did you get this impression from? I don't think you understood what I wrote."

Absolutly fucking true, in this case both of the meanings, kill stealed and kill secured are very overused. Just because you can't be 100% sure if the enemy dies, you can't just take every kill, while the other way around, even if the kill is secured with no chance for the enemy to get away you can take the kill. It depends on the game

What you're trying to do is paint the whole world in black and white, but it doesn't work that way. there are endless shades of grey between. There isn't just a dark side when you only ks, and neither are all of the kills you take secured because you're on the white one.

Judging a person just because they like to have a good KDA is bullshit. Most of the players around here go for a good KDA, me myself included. The other ones just won't admit it, but they do it too. And that's a good thing, because wanting to have a good kda is what keeps the game interesting. There are a few who just want kills and everything else doesn't matter, but people like me like to have many kills, only a few to no deaths and as much assists as possible. With other words: I always try to get fed in order to carry, i always try to not feed enemy and i always strive to help my teammates get kills as well. Even if i don't believe that the game can still be won, i still try to do my best, and do you know why? because i want to have a good KDA. I know a lot of people who only play to win and in a situation were it seems clear that it can't be won anymore they start to troll. KDA-lovers won't do that.

So of course kill steals exist. If i flash in, ult and ignite an enemy and i know i will die for that kill (jungler appeared for example) then i don't want that greedy yi to flash in, alpha strike and then "secure" the kill, while the enemy was ignited when he had 100 health left, then that is absolutly a kill steal and by no means a kill secured.

In 95% of the cases that happen around the rift you can say that it isn't a steal if following factors are true:

1.) you participated in getting the kill in the first place properly, so lets say you dealt at least 20-30% of their remaining life.

2.) That wasn't the for example 3rd time. What i mean with this is, that when you gank a lane as jungler the whole time, and you take 5 kills in a row while the midlaner doesn't even get one that its a ks, even if you did the larger part of killing said enemy 5 times

3.) You aren't awfully far ahead. if you have 20 kills at minute 20 (has happened often enough) and you still take all the kills you ks. But i know did all the damage and ... YOU KS. Kill Steal.

4.) you didn't harm your team in order to get a kill (holding back a teamfight changing ult for getting a kill, im looking at you amumu)

5.) and yeah, common sense, even if you burst your enemy with one strike down (fizz), you deal still the most damage but its still ksing...

TL;DR: There's both, kill secure and steal, it depends on the situation, but if one takes all the kills, no matter if they deserve it or not it isn't good for the moral of the team