7 Secrets That Fortnite Pro Players Won't Tell You!

in this article today we're gonna be going over 5 things that Fortnite pros don't tell you about going pro in Fortnite. Being a pro Fortnite player is obviously an aspiration that many Fortnite players have at least to some degree. And trust me I totally get it, some of these guys make a lot of money, they are legitimately famous, and they literally get to play article games for a living. Many people wouldn't agree but it's actually fairly similar to being a professional athlete in many aspects. But when it comes to actually becoming a pro, it definitely isn't as straighforward as it may seem. 

So, without further ado, let's get right into it. Alright so the first thing that pros probably wouldn't tell you about what it takes to go pro, is how much time you need to put in on a daily basis. So I'm definitely not a pro myself, but I know and talk to a couple legitimate pros on a fairly frequent basis, so I can personally attest to how much time they really put into the game. Sometimes it will literally be an all-day affair and I'm 100% serious when I say that. They'll wake up, play creative or arena for like 3-4 hours straight, then maybe take a break for lunch or dinner depending on what time of the day they woke up, then they'll play another 3-4 hours of creative or scrims, take another small break for another meal or whatever, then finish off the day with a final session of scrims on a different game mode of whatever they haven't already played. 

I mean plain and simple, that is just an insane amount of playtime, and it's a consistent every day thing. It's rare that you see any of these tops pros not play the game at all for anything more than like 2-3 days in a row. I love Fortnite as a guy it's definitely my favorite article game of all time, but if I had to play it for 8+ hours a day pretty much every day, there's no doubt in my mind that I would begin to just absolutely despise it, and I think the majority of people would agree with that sentiment. And that pure amount of hours put in per day on a daily basis is actually one of the biggest differentiations between being a pro gamer and a pro athlete. 

Here's a controversial statement that I'm sure at least a decent amount of people disagree with, but honestly I'm about 99.9% sure it's true. Over the past 2-3 guys like Clix, Benjy, Bugha, really any top pro honestly, those guys have put more time into Fortnite over the last 2-3 years than pretty much any major athlete has put into their sport. More hours than Lebron has put into basketball, more hours than brady or mahomes has put into football, so on and so forth. With all those sports, there is a physical limitation to how much they should play in a given day. You don't want to be practicing football, basketball, soccer, or any other sport for 8-10 hours a day, because your body would start to break down on you at an alarmingly fast rate. But with a article game like Fortnite, you can play 10-12 hours straight even with really no physical repercussions at all. The effect that it has on your mental state is a whole other story, but let's just leave it at that. 

So I know playing Fortnite all day may sound like an absolute dream, but I think a lot of people underestimate the time that these guys put in. It isn't a 2-3 hour scrim session and then doing whatever you want for the rest of the day, it's probably more like the opposite, 1 2-3 hour break and then playing Fortnite for the entire rest of the day. The next thing that pros won't tell you about going pro is how hard it is to stay as a pro once you make it. I don't think I've ever seen a competitive game with less consistency when it comes to who the top 5-10 players in the world are at any given time. If you were to go back even just 1-2 years in the past an look at a list of the top 10 competitive Fortnite players at the time, and then compare it to a list of the top 10 players now, my guess is that you'd see barely any overlap. Not none because guys like Saf, Zayt, Mitr0, Benjy, and a few others have been towards the top for a while, but other than that, you're just constantly seeing players rise and fall in the rankings on what seems like a monthy basis. 

And I actually think that's a really good thing as a whole. In my opinion the main reason why it's so hard to consistently stay at the top, is because Fortnite is onen of the few games where pretty much every tournament has an open qualifier. There are literally millions of competitive grinders out there, so if you slack at all, it's insane how quick you these top players can be overtaken by people who were relatively unknown just a few months prior. Other games like COD have leagues, where as long as you're on a pro team, your spot in the top tournaments is always going to be guaranteed. On Fortnite that isn't the case at all, and it's why you see even super top level pros miss out on grand finals all the time. Another aspect of going pro that people donn't really know about is the importance of having a good friend group, and there's 2 main reasons for this. 

First off having a friend group filled with other really good players near your skill level is so important for practicing and improving. Because these pros have so many really good friends, they can get a 1v1 or full zones wars/box fight lobby full of insane players with like 1 discord message. Someone without a great friend group would have to try to find random people in discords, maybe post on twitter, and worst case scenario, may even just need to play creative fill which will probably result in not a super skilled overall pool of players. The other really important positive of having a great friend group especially at the pro level is that it gives you connections, and that's crucial when it comes to getting in the pro-level discord scrim servers or for finding duos/trio/and squad partners for events. 

As the saying goes, sometimes it's more about who you know than what you know, and this is really a case of that. The next sort of secret about going pro in Fortnite or really any article game for that matter is at least to some degree, genetics do play a factor. A few months ago a popular Fortnite pro named young calc created a bit of drama by basically implying that natural talent matter more than practice for Fortnite. Now I think that's stupid beccause if that was the case then players wouldn't to play 8-10+ hours a days sometimes, and also you woudl never see pros quote unquote fall off because it's not like you can lose natural talent. So even though I think he went wat overboard with that, there is at least some truth to what he's saying. 

There are just some pros out there that can pick up a game they've never played before, and instantly be better than someone whose grinded for weeks and maybe even months. It could be faster reaction time, better natural hand eye coordination, faster brain processing power...some combination of that. Now luckily it's not like pro sports where you need to be a top .001% athlete on the planet to even have a shot, but genetics and natural talent do matter for going pro, it's just a question of how much, and for that there's no definitive answer. The final thing that many people don't realize about going pro in Fortnite especially, is that for the most part, the younger you are the better. 

I remember back in 2019 during the Fortnite world cup, someone crunched the numbers and the average age of every player that made the finals for solos and duos was like 14 years old or something. As I've said a few times before, Fortnite is really the most mechanicall intensive competitive game that I've ever seen. Well, it turns out that once you're like 11 or 12 years old reall, that's when it's the easiest for you to build muscle memory quickly. It's a big reason why most of the older pros, and it's hilarious that in Fortnite old is like 19 or 20, those guys really rely on having high IQs and game sense. But the younger pros who are just entering their teen years are typically the most mechanically gifted and quote unquote cracked players.