The Halo Waypoint makes up a small percentage of the Halo community. I’m sure if you ask 15 random players in BTB, maybe 1 or 2 of them will admit to ever posting a topic. With that being said, I think we are too hard on what we conceive as being “average”. It seems a lot of us here like to think that 1.5 K/D, 60% win percentage, and Diamond is average. C’mon.
If Halotracker is any indication, my friend is average.
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His 1.02 K/D puts him in the top 54% percentile. - His 50.3% win percentage puts him in the top 58% percentile. - As a SR65(ish), he’s already in top 10% of time played.
With that being said, I would say that the most accurate definition of an average player in Halo 5 is:
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1.05 K/D (Team Slayer) - 50.5% win percentage - High Gold/Low Platnium Rank - 11.0 kills per game (Team Slayer) - SR 30-40
SR rank shouldnt play into how a player is ranked. You can play nothing but warzone and get a high SR rank, then move to Arena and not know anything. There are pros that are only 50 SR because they play customs and scrims.
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> SR rank shouldnt play into how a player is ranked. You can play nothing but warzone and get a high SR rank, then move to Arena and not know anything. There are pros that are only 50 SR because they play customs and scrims.
noted. everything else listed still applies.
I’m merely observing that most players are around SR30-40ish since that’s about the average playtime of most of the population. There’s hardly any SR100s and hardly any SR5s.
One of my favourite reddit posts.
Seems to me somewhere around Gold 4 is average.
Are you saying the average player since Halo 5’s launch, or the average player CURRENTLY playing? I guess smurf accounts are artificially dragging down the average, but the average rank of people that are still playing Halo is much, much higher.
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> > SR rank shouldnt play into how a player is ranked. You can play nothing but warzone and get a high SR rank, then move to Arena and not know anything. There are pros that are only 50 SR because they play customs and scrims.
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> noted. everything else listed still applies.
> I’m merely observing that most players are around SR30-40ish since that’s about the average playtime of most of the population. There’s hardly any SR100s and hardly any SR5s.
I find a lot of 145+ in slayer. I know there’s a bottleneck there but I’d say 2 out of 5 matches has at least a 145 in it.
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> SR rank shouldnt play into how a player is ranked. You can play nothing but warzone and get a high SR rank, then move to Arena and not know anything. There are pros that are only 50 SR because they play customs and scrims.
That would be me 
Yeah, I’m pushing on 145’s doorstep, but I play a ton of WZ. I did make Diamond 3 in FFA, though…so that’s something, I guess.
ha take that Emily! i told you im above average
I agree OP, with the exception that K/D can be tricky. A silver and a champ could both have the same 1.05 k/d, but the champ player would have much more skill. I’m not sure how halotracker figures it. It says I’m top 31% in k/d, but I can tell you now I’m not top 31% skill. SR is probably a safe way to judge time played, with the occasional exception. I’m on the extreme end of that: SR145 with @24 days in multiplayer according to waypoint. No wonder my wife is complaining.
So, the average rank is 30-40? That means that players are on average losing interest in Halo 5 within their first 2-4 days of playtime (Since that is around the amount of time it takes to get up to 30-40) even accounting smurf accounts, that is extremely low.
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> So, the average rank is 30-40? That means that players are on average losing interest in Halo 5 within their first 2-4 days of playtime (Since that is around the amount of time it takes to get up to 30-40) even accounting smurf accounts, that is extremely low.
I’ve wondered what it would be like for a new person to start Halo 5 at this point. I started at launch, learned and leveled up with everyone else. I’m not sure how long I’d play warzone if I was brand new and getting pelted with Ultra Banshees, Nornfangs, etc. while I shot back with my base BR. Seems like a tough hill to climb. Especially with all the fluff the req system has now.
VadersUncle66 you’re totally right, its kind of frustating to start in halo 5 at this point, I know it because I started like 6 months after the release and my younger brother is just starting, its hard and getting smashed isnt funny, plus the thing that if you dont have at least diamond rank you’re not even average, thats just plain stupid! Its just a game after all…
It would be really interesting if 343 revealed what the average team arena rank was. I’ve always been in the plat range and I’ve always considered that average. Diamond through champ seems like smart players with decent aim and a good fireteam. Bronze through gold feels like casuals mixed with solo players doomed to stay low from lack of a good fireteam. Plat seems like the perfect middle ground for good solo players that occasionally team up. That’s my view anyway.
But do you know why grass is green?
You have to be careful in how you classify player skill to begin with. Halo is a team centric game in most arena playlists. Team play, or lack thereof, is going to influence K/D, win percentage, playlist rank, etc. Using these metrics to judge player skill without context is foolish. About the only way to get the context is to comb through game history and see gameplay of the player in question, and even that is subjective.
Why care what is considered average anyway?
Like many plants, most species of grass produce a bright pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll absorbs blue light (high energy, short wavelengths) and red light (low energy, longer wavelengths) well, but mostly reflects green light, which accounts for your lawn’s color. The big question is…did i Google that or am I that dang smart? Ok yeah I googled it.
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> Like many plants, most species of grass produce a bright pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll absorbs blue light (high energy, short wavelengths) and red light (low energy, longer wavelengths) well, but mostly reflects green light, which accounts for your lawn’s color. The big question is…did i Google that or am I that dang smart? Ok yeah I googled it.
Yes, but many species of prairie grass has a more light brown tan-ish with mixes of green color. This is due to the grass maturing to spread seeds from the head of the plant (much like wheat) these types of grass are much taller than normal “lawn grass” average height ranging from 2-3 feet tall.
But out the real question is… Did I make this up?
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> What about bluegrass?
Everything is a little extra strange in Kentucky…
i kinda figured average would be .95-1.05 KD and a 48-52% w/L ratio
being high gold ranked, maybe plat 1 or 2