As a constant red bar player for the first 1.3 yrs. of playing PvP I can tell you my shots did not register most of the time and i got killed on average 0.87 sec by Suros, Vex and Atheon Epilogue most of the time in early yr 1. I just don't see how red bar benefit some people in PvP unless they are doing something "funny" to make themselves red bar on purpose.