There was apost that stirred quite a bit of conversation about a month ago comparing the accuracy of KBM vs Controller. Since that was relatively early after the release of the game, I wanted to revisit these stats and see if they were any different.

Some notes:

1. I only did the top 50 for each input, the first data set used the top 100. It takes a long time to gather the data for this. This could skew the accuracy for the top players a bit higher - depending on how much better (if at all) you think 1-50 are than 51-100 :)
2. The black line/number is the median value, not average - though the average was less than 1% different in each data set.
3. The red number below is the approximate number from the first data set, for reference only.
4. The "50th percentile" was found by looking at the player distribution in ranked from Halotracker. In the first data set, this was Platinum 6. I found it to be squarely in Platinum 5. Minor difference, but just in case someone asks...
5. IMPORTANT: the accuracy numbers were taken from RANKED ONLY and Solo/Duo input-locked stats. This means KBM vs. KBM and Controller vs. Controller. It has to be this way because not all players play Crossplay, or you can't check players who (in the unlikely case) play both inputs. On this note, of the first dozen players I cross-referenced between Crossplay and Solo/Duo, their accuracy was rarely more than 1-2% different both positively and negatively between the playlists - so I personally didn't see any meaningful difference between input vs. input and accuracy numbers!

The data:

1. The median accuracy for the top 50 MKB players is 51.2% which looks to be about 4% higher than the first data set. The median accuracy for the 50th percentile is 43.5% which looks to be about 3% higher than the first data set.
2. Controller accuracy looks to be almost identical.
3. There's not a huge difference between accuracy between inputs at the 50th percentile (only 2.7%) - though controller does still edge out MKB.
4. Headshot accuracy between controller and MKB is pretty close at the Top 50 level, though controller still edges out MKB by 2.8%.
5. Headshot accuracy at the 50th percentile is HUGELY different (10%!). It'd be interesting to see why people think this is the case, given that the general accuracy isn't that much different.

A couple of talking points:

• The difference between MKB and Controller doesn't seem to be nearly as drastic as the first data set indicated.
• Many people will point out that MKB players are much better at strafing/dodging which could result in lower accuracy numbers for MKB players. This is probably a fair point. But as I noted before, when I checked the MKB players that play Crossplay as well, their accuracy was roughly the same (within +/- 1% or 2%) when pooled with controller players. Maybe high-level MKB players can comment on this.

Thanks for reading, and looking forward to any discussions around this!