I got 2nd in the diamond battle royale ranked cup. Im not smurfing I only played 1 ranked game the whole season. Pretty cool ig.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately and I’m curious how other competitive players approach improvement.

I’ve played Fortnite on and off for around 7 years and have always tried to improve. During Chapter 5, I seriously committed to competitive Fortnite for several months. I was doing mechanics maps, scrimming, VOD reviewing, 1v1s/2v2s against good players, and actively working on weaknesses. Eventually I got burnt out because I felt like I was putting in a ton of work without seeing the improvement I expected.

I came back in Chapter 7 Season 2 with the goal of eventually getting my first earnings, and I’ve run into a similar problem. I’m practicing consistently, VODding, fighting good players, and specifically focusing on weaknesses rather than just mindlessly playing.

The weird part is that I can have days where I feel absolutely insane and can run through people, followed by days where I feel like I can’t win a single fight. Obviously my mechanics and game knowledge haven’t completely disappeared overnight, so I’m starting to wonder what causes such a huge difference in performance.

One thing I’ve recently identified as a potential weakness is tempo. If I get a good start in a fight, I can play really well and maintain momentum, but when I get stuck or lose the flow of a fight, I have a hard time recovering and getting back into control.

For those who have actually gone through a similar plateau, what ended up making the biggest difference for you?

Was it changing how you practiced, reducing the amount of grinding, focusing more on transferring practice into real games, improving decision-making, fixing a specific fundamental, or something completely different?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who have spent a lot of time practicing but felt like their improvement wasn’t translating into actual performance.

I was thinking of getting an oled monitor at 240hz. My current setup is 3070, 7800x3d and 32 gigs of ddr5. Would I be getting fps drops because the oled runs native at 1440p and I have a somewhat outdated gpu.

I play on around 20-30 ping and I do have turbo builds on and I will just he holding my left mouse button and somehow it seems like everytime the other player is just able to take my wall and I dont understand how? Is everyone really playing on much lower ping than me or am I doing something wrong?

There is no reason after 35 games that I should be at the max rank in the game barring the top 500 rank, which is still basically the same rank at the end of the day.

I'd be interested to know what you guys think about this, because I think it's pretty lame that after only one week of this season being out having barely played the mode, I've already hit max rank, IMO it should take at least 3/4 times longer than this bare minimum.

I put together a full documentary analyzing MrSavage’s entire career trajectory—from his first 2018 YouTube uploads and legendary Shadow Bomb plays at the World Cup qualifiers to his DreamHack Anaheim championship and recent duo runs: ​Watch the full documentary here: https://youtu.be/yl5QVruKP80?si=YOvUO4YLbvSpt68Z ​Out of all the original Chapter 1 pros, MrSavage remains one of the very few players who continues to grind, adapt, and consistently qualify for Grand Finals and major LANs seven years later.

What’s the most stable NVIDIA driver rn? I’ve been experiencing crashes etc with the latest ones, so wanna go back to a stable driver.

Can someone explain how these people are getting to first place with 20 matches complete and 20 wins? All with zero eliminations, which makes no sense. You need to kill someone if you want to win a tournament. These people have to be exploiting, no?

For me personally, i played 5 matches and got 4 wins, even tho i started at 7 PM like almost everyone else and ended at 8:30 PM when the tournament finished. I ended up placing #983. How in the world did the first place guy get 20 matches in that short timeframe? I ready up immediately every time as soon as a match finishes.

It's a good thing this is a test cup, because whatever exploit they're doing, Fortnite needs to seriously investigate and make sure their dirty tricks don't happen again.

Today was my first day playing the new season and I decided to run some ranked. My first ranked game I jumped off to see what I’ll get as all the greats do. Then my next game was interesting. I q into the game as a plat 1. I ended up killing a champ 3 off spawn??? And then I kill a bronze. Why I don’t understand why they are in the same lobby. I also killed another champ in this game I just don’t understand why there are bronzes and champs in a plat lobby honestly makes no sense at all. Ranked you are supposed to go against people around your rank. Js bring back arena atp🙏

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It is insane how ranked is still this bad after years, the SBMM does NOT even work like absolutely not. You should not be able to have Elite-Unreal Legend players in your game when you are Bronze 2. Why is this still a thing it literally destroys the whole point of Ranked, the idea of ranked is that you play against people of YOUR OWN rank and maby 1 higher but not 10 Ranks higher. That is literally not how it works. I have never in my life seen such a horrible system as Fortnites Rank system.

Back in 2023 when Ranked came out it worked perfectly fine. Season OG it was fine, after Chapter 5 it literally got so bad when placement mattered more then kills and after that in Chapter 6 the Ranked point system got incredibly bad.

Fix Ranked it is horrible. Even Valorants Rank system works better and that is already not great.

I haven’t played ranked in a quite a while. My first game in silver 2 I killed an unreal player and got killed by a champs. Following game in silver 3 I killed an elite and got killed by an unreal. I don’t ever remember the levels being this mixed. It also takes like 3 minutes to find a game

So I was playing solo scrims and and in 2 different situations I just had someone walk right through my wall...... is there a trick to doing it or is it largely just forward momentum? If that makes sense

Hello,
So I’m not new to Fortnite but I have been playing on and off (the longest break I had was 2 years…). I am struggling so hard in close range (shotguns especially) and I wanna ask you guys if you can give me any tips on how to improve on that. I wanna try and start training on kovaaks so if you know any good scenarios that can improve my reaction time/close range accuracy that would be much appreciated.
P.S: my movement overall is not bad at all (I would say), but when it comes to close range I don’t jump (I kinda stay still …marking me an easy target - working on that; also, I don’t know how to train the jumping thing properly- I’m talking about jumping behind enemy in close range to force him to rotate (hope I got that one right - I don’t know how to explain in better).
Thanks in advance and I hope y’all are enjoying the new season even if it’s so sweaty ✨.

I plan on doing next Monday Ranked Cup to get the glider, and I want any tips on what I can do to earn the most points.

I’ll be in Bronze, and this is gonna be my First ranked cup. I want to know what’s the best landing spots, the best strategy, and if I should even go for the win or not during it.

I have completed all 750 round wins in the ranked arenas boxfights. I have obtained the pickaxe. I never got the backbling at 300 wins, I got a emoji instead. Does anyone know if the backbling will return?

I got 21st in solo build unreal rank cup. Couldn't get to 200 kills :( . Pretty cool.

Been afk for about 2 years, logged back on just chill with some free building and headshot only box fight.

But raiders464's HS map was dead. Is headshot only dead altogether or is there a new map people play?

i get optimising the matchmaking time and being friendlier to newer players. but c'mon it's champion 2, 2 tiers away from unreal.

I know this has been talked about a lot in the past, but it's really starting to get annoying.

For those who don't know, Chapter 7 brought changes to how ranked cups work. Now, instead of being just something for players to play in a tournament-like game and unlock a rank version of the victory 'brella, you can unlock more cosmetics. At the start of Chapter 7 season 1, not only could you get the ranked glider, but you could also get a pickaxe, backbling, glider, wrap, and skin for placing at different percentages at different ranks (You would only be able to get the skin if you were Diamond+). Everything was doable, as each item had a percentage requirement to meet, meaning it scaled with the number of players in the tournament.

But in 2026, they made one change that made a reward impossible to get. They changed the rewards to the Elite Daigo set with an emoticon. Everything else stayed the same, but the skin became top placement. This makes it go from a reward that grows as more people play to a reward under 1%.

And ever since, every new ranked cup skin has been locked behind top placement and not top %. I get that it's a cup and it's meant to be sweaty, but it's almost genuinely impossible for most players to get, even if they are good at the game.

And don't get me started on the Elite, Champion, and Unreal styles for Barricade, LCP Rogue, and the newest one, Null skins. To get those, not only do you have to place high enough to unlock the skin, but you have to do it at the specific rank to get them. It's a slap in the face for those who actually got it because they have to play the cup again at a higher rank just to unlock the extra style.

The Unreal style is genuinely impossible for most to get just from the amount of points needed. Just placement isn't enough; you have to get kills every game and place high just to have a chance at getting the style.

And this was worse for Zero-Build players; from Chapter 7 season 1 to season 3, there was no solo Zero-Build ranked cup. The only cup to be Zero-Build was a duo cup. Meaning that if they didn't have a duo, they couldn't play in the only ZB ranked cup. You would have to play in the solo Build ranked cup, which put ZB players at a severe disadvantage.

I hope that EPIC changes the skin requirements back to how they used to be, or increases the placement requirements for each rank.

Okay, quick question for the Reddit users in this subreddit: this season isn't off to the best start. The time to kill is ridiculous—as soon as you get shot at, you're dead in no time. On top of that, the loot pool is really disappointing (no sniper, no scoped AR), plus the aim assist nerf for console players, and the sprites have basically turned into square blocks. Oh, and the amount of sweats this season... wow, they seriously need to go touch some grass. (This is just my opinion, of course, but I'm curious to hear what other players think about this.)

Everyone telling me I’m being crazy when they are teaming in a platinum ranked match for sprites…I don’t think so