This Is Why You Aren't Getting Better At Fortnite! Fortnite How To Get Better

This article today is going to be a sort-of sequel to a article I released a few months ago during season 5 of Fortnite. It was tilted something along the lines "Here's why you're not getting better at Fortnite", and it ended up being one of the most well-received and popular articles I've ever made. So, this article is basically going to be a follow-up, with some new things I've learned about the process of improving as a Fortnite player over the last few months.

So, without further ado let's get right into it. Alright, so the first thing I want to go over in this article is the importance of going beyond just playing public match Fortnite. And this tip I think is going to be most helpful for guys that are already at least solid at Fortnite, but, I think it still applies no matter how good or bad you already are at the game. 

So let's say you're a player that has anything over like a 2 or 2.5 K/D, with that K/D, you're very likely an above average player. Obviously, stats don't tell the whole story, but, in the average Fortnite game, somewhere around 100 total players will be eliminated, and somewhere around 95 of those eliminations will be recorded by other players. So, with some simple math, that puts the average K/D at right around 1, and if you have a 2 or a 2.5 then you're almost definitely above average. Now as I'm sure anybody who's played public match Fortnite would be able to tell you, it's pretty much a mixed bag when it comes to player skill. 

And, that's probably the same way for really any video game without a skill-based matchmaking system. You can get into one fight and it could be against a guy who doesn't even know HOW to build, and then 5 seconds later you could be fighting a guy who played in the winter royale. And that is a cool concept, but here's the thing, I'm a strong believer that you don't really learn much from fighting players that you are considerably better than, and, to a lesser extent, you don't really learn much from fighting players that are just unbelievably better than you. 

That second point is definitely not true all the time, so I'll get into a little more detail about that shortly. But, getting back to the main point here. If you're at least pretty good at the game, ya know: you've been playing for while now, you play a decent amount, you watch the top streamers, you know a lot of building techniques, all of that good stuff that's a part of improving and generally being a good player, how much are you really going to improve by fighting a guy who just stares at you while you shoot him from like a ramp-wall headglitch? The truthful answer is, you're really not gonna improve at all. Now, obviously not all of your fights in a public match game are going to be against new or just very bad players. I would say that the skill level of public matches are actually at an all time high right now. But, that doesn't change the fact that there are going to be a lot fights where you don't really learn anything or improve as a player at all. It kinda boils down to a kinda cheesy quote you guys have probably heard "practice doesn't make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect." 

If you're practicing 3-point shooting and you put up 1000 shots, but, they're all taken with awful form, yeah you'll probably get a little better. But, in all likelihood you could improve your shooting much more effectively by taking only 400 or 500 shots, but this time with perfect form. How the heck does that all relate to Fortnite? Well, I wanted to talk about this same topic in my previous "why you aren't getting better at fortnite" video, but, at that time the only viable alternative to public matches, were discord solo snipes/scrims. Those were and still are decent, but, they can be hard to get into, it's a somewhat confusing process, even the most stacked lobbies only have like 30-40 people actually from the discord, it definitely has a fair share of flaws. 

But, about 1-2 months ago, Fortnite added pop-up cups into the game. And if you guys follow my channel, you probably know that I talk about these things a lot. They're basically scrim/competitive lobbies, that also incorporate skill-based matchmaking to ensure that every lobby is filled with players near the exact same skill-level. I truly believe that these pop-up cups are hands down the best way to improve as a Fortnite player right now, and so many people just flat-out ignore them. I can tell you from personal experience, that playing in super-competitive and "sweaty" lobbies, really forced me to improve as a player, in a way that just playing public matches really never did. When practically the entire lobby is the exact same skill as you, it forces you to really be on your a-game 24/7, and it makes every fight feel like a challenge, you learn your weaknesses super quickly because you'll frequently get punished for them. 

And I think there's this misconception that these pop-up cups are only for the best of the best fortnite players. That isn't true at all, I do think it's MOST beneficial for those players, since public matches are usually a breeze for them. But, even if you're just an average player seriously go out and give a pop-up cup or 2 a legitimate chance. It will make you a much better player in the long run. And you track your progress along the way. Let's say your first pop-cup attempt, you get 10 points in 2 hours. Then, next time you get 13 points in 2 hours. Not only are you improving, but, you're literally seeing tangible proof of your improvement, which, can be tough to come by in most cases. The next piece of advice I want to give to players looking to improve is to not just ignore improving your mechanical skills. I'll give you a great example of what I mean by this. 

So, I have a friend that is a pretty darn good Fortnite player. I'm not sure what his stats are looking like in season 7, but, he's around a 3-3.5 K/D player. Before fortnite he played a ton of Call of Duty so his aim is really good, he has solid positioning, he plays a decent amount so his IQ is also pretty good, but, he is just lost when it comes to building. I mean seriously, his most advanced ramp rush is single-ramp wall, he can barely do 90s, he always loses high ground right away in build fights, it's clearly a very major weakness in his game. And, I'll always tell him like "hey bro, even though you're a really bad builder, 

you're still really good at the game, if you just sat down, went into to creative mode and really focused on building, you could be an insane player." And he always tells me that it just isn't worth it, he feels that he is already good enough without building, so why practice it, how much better could it really make him? And although I kinda understand his argument, I've just always disagreed with it. I mean, just look at a guy like nickmercs for comparison. He has always been this guy who has the best aim and along with that his positioning and IQ isn't very far behind his aim at all. And I think early on in his Fortnite career when he was just playing public matches, he kinda had the same mindset as my friend, he was so dominant because of all his other skills, that he really didn't need to work on his building.

 But, what I think really propelled nick to improve as a builder, was playing competitively. He, saw that that to really succeed on that level, he was going to need to really sit down and put a lot of effort into improving as a builder. And that's exactly what he did, and if you look at his building now compared to where it was at only a few months ago, it's really a night and day difference. Now, I know the mechanical skill that most people struggle with is aim, and I'll admit, that is hands down the hardest thing to improve on, especially if you play on console because you can't just do something like kovaak's aim trainer, which is a PC only thing in case you didn't know. 

I'll probably make a video specifically focusing on improving aim in the near future, but, I'll be the first person to admit that so much of getting better accuracy is just practicing. So don't hesitate to shoot those practice dummies in the playground shooting drills. And finally, this last little warning definitely isn't applicable to every body, but, if you are using anything less than the most ideal settings in Fortnite, trust me, use them. I'm mainly referring to instant editing, builder pro builds instantly, having a building sensitivity multiplier, all of that stuff. I know there's a decent amount of people look at a setting like instant editing via custom bindings, and go "yeah that sounds cool, but, I don't wanna learn the new muscle memory for such a small difference". 

Trust me I understand, I was a person that didn't even switch to builder bro until about 3 months after it came out because my mindset was "I'm so used to standard button layout and I don't wanna fix something that isn't broken." By not using the most ideal settings you're plain and simple putting yourself at a disadvantage and really limiting your skill ceiling. So yeah, you may be trash for a few days while you learn all the things you've switched up. But, trust me, it's definitely worth it. And, I hope the majority of you guys have already made that switch, this tip was mostly for some of  the newer players.