Rarest PUBG Achievements: List and Percentages

24 August 2026 · 8 min read

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The rarest achievement in PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS is “Shoot the Knee,” held by 0.7 % of the game’s owners. The developer’s official description states the condition plainly: kill 10 players with a crossbow. The game has 37 Steam achievements in total, and below are the ten with the smallest share of owners.

A quick note on method first: everything below comes from the official descriptions on Steam’s statistics page, along with the percentages listed there. There are no coordinates, no “optimal routes,” no farming times here — Steam doesn’t publish that kind of data, and we’re not going to make it up.

Where to check your own progress on Steam

Some basics first. The overall stats — what share of owners have unlocked each achievement — are shown by Valve on the public achievement statistics page for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS in Steam Community. That’s the exact page every number in this article comes from.

Your own personal progress lives somewhere else: the Steam client’s library page for the game has an achievements tab, and it’s also reachable from your profile’s game list. That’s where you see what you’ve unlocked and what you haven’t. The overall player percentage and your own progress are two different things, and it’s easy to mix them up.

If you want the full picture across all 37 achievements rather than just the rare ones, there’s a separate piece on that — PUBG achievements on Steam.

What the percentage actually means

The percentage on the Steam page is the share of game owners who’ve unlocked that specific achievement. That’s it. It doesn’t tell you why the number is low.

There are at least two possible reasons, and the statistics don’t distinguish between them:

• The condition is genuinely hard. It just doesn’t happen without deliberate effort.
• Nobody’s really going for it. A player isn’t picking up a crossbow because they can’t — they’re not picking it up because they see no reason to.

So “0.7 %” is best read as “this happens very rarely,” not as “this is the hardest thing in the game.” Below, achievements are grouped by what the condition actually asks for — that makes it clearer what the small number of people who unlock them are actually doing.

Unusual weapons: the crossbow and the pan

The two most telling cases on the whole list.

Shoot the Knee — 0.7 %. Condition: kill 10 players with a crossbow. This is the absolute floor among everything covered here — nothing else on this list drops this low. Steam doesn’t say where to find a crossbow or which modes it turns up in — it only gives the wording of the condition.

Don’t Pan Me Bro! — 8.8 %. Condition: kill another player with a pan. One kill, not ten, not a hundred. And yet nine out of ten owners still don’t have it — a solid illustration that a low percentage doesn’t equal difficulty.

What links the two: both revolve around a weapon that ordinary game logic doesn’t exactly recommend. For a full rundown of what weapon classes exist in the game, see PUBG weapon classes.

Bare hands

The First Rule Is… — 5.7 %. Condition: kill 20 players with your bare hands. Twenty separate moments where you kill someone with no weapon at all.

Look for the in-game name exactly as written, ellipsis included — we keep original names as they appear in the interface.

Grenades: two rungs on one counter

Here Steam shows a pair of achievements that differ only by a number:

The gap between them is roughly two and a half percentage points, and that’s the entire drop-off between one bar and the next. In other words: most people who reach the first one also reach the second. What’s hard here isn’t the number itself — it’s building the habit of killing with grenades at all.

Vehicles: two different methods

Vehicle-related achievements also come in a pair, but the conditions are fundamentally different.

Fury Road — 3.8 %. Condition: kill 10 players with a weapon while riding in a vehicle. You’re doing the shooting; the vehicle is just where you happen to be sitting at the time.

Fast and Furious — 7.8 %. Condition: kill 10 players by running them over with a vehicle. No weapon needed at all — the vehicle itself does the killing.

Both hinge on whether you use vehicles at all, and how. There’s a separate piece on the vehicles themselves — PUBG vehicles.

Loadout: Ghost

Ghost — 6.1 %. Official condition: equip a suppressor in every weapon slot. The description even throws in a hint — figure out which weapons can take a suppressor.

This is the only achievement on this list that isn’t about kills at all. It’s about what’s in your hands and in your slots at a given moment. Steam doesn’t spell out how many slots there are or which suppressors fit which weapons, so neither do we.

Cumulative counters: just a lot of kills

The last two are pure counters, no exotic weapons involved.

CQB Master — 8.1 %. Condition: kill 200 players with a shotgun, SMG, and/or pistol. Close-quarters combat, but weapons from three classes count together toward the total.

Long and Winding Road — 9.5 %. Condition: kill 1000 players by any means. The highest percentage among everything covered here — and, not coincidentally, the biggest number in the condition itself. This one comes down to sheer hours played: no special technique required, just time in the game.

The full top ten by rarity

The pattern is visible without much digging: rarity here isn’t driven by how big the number is, it’s driven by how unusual the action is. “1000 kills” sits at a higher percentage than a single kill with a frying pan.

What we’re not claiming

⚠️ It’s worth drawing the line clearly here.

• We don’t know exactly how to pull these off. Steam only publishes the wording of the condition. Where to find a crossbow, which modes or maps make something more likely — the official description doesn’t say, and we’re not going to relay fan-made guides as if they were official.
• We don’t know if these percentages still hold today. This is a snapshot of Steam’s statistics, and it shifts along with the player base.
• We’re not claiming this is exactly the ten rarest out of all 37. These are the ten achievements for which we have both an official description and a percentage.
• We’re not giving any kind of “how many hours this takes” estimate. That’s not a Rockstar title, and PUBG’s developers don’t publish figures like that either.

Official updates and rule changes are published on pubg.com; we cover the latest ones separately — PUBG updates and patches.

Quick summary

The rarest achievement covered here is “Shoot the Knee,” held by 0.7 % of players, and almost every rare entry on this list is tied together not by a big number in the condition, but by an unusual method: a crossbow, a pan, bare hands, grenades, running someone over. Steam gives you the wording and the percentage for these — everything else is best left unguessed.