Hey what is going on guys, in this video today
we're gonna be going over how to determine
your skill level as a Fortnite player. I'm
a big believer that if you want to get better
at Fortnite, the first step is to understand
how good you currently are. For example, if
you're a below-average player it probably
isn't a great idea to try to learn a bunch
of super-advanced techniques. Now, unfortunately,
without any help it's pretty hard to judge
yourself as a player in a totally unbiased
way. I'll be the first person to admit that
at times I'll blame everything except myself
when things go wrong, and if you make a habit
of doing that, you start to see yourself as
a flawless player that just gets really unlucky
all the time when that may not be the truth.
So the purpose of this video is to help you
determine your skill level in as unbiased
of a way as possible, and without further
ado, let's get right into it!
Alright, so early in Fortnite's history it
used to be pretty easy to determine your skill
as a Fortnite player. Back then the only game
modes available at the time were regular solos,
duos, and squads, and almost everybody played
those modes seriously 100% of the time. Because
of that, you could just go on fortnitetracker
to check your stats, and that would give you
a pretty good idea of how you compared to
the overall player base. But that's no longer
really a viable method because a lot of those
stats will be misleading for a variety of
different reasons. However, there is a basic
stat that I still believe to this day is one
of the best indicators of player skill possible,
and that's kills per game. Just like in sports
there's no one stat that can 100% accurately
determine how good a player is. And also just
like in sports, certain stats can be almost
artificially manipulated either intentionally
or non-intentionally. Since you don't die
when you win games in Fortnite, common measures
such as K/D can become super inflated if you
just camp and string together a couple 3 or
4 kill wins. Same deal with win%, you could
be a below-average player but play with all
the time with 3 super cracked friends, and
even though you're barely contributing, you
could easily achieve like a 30 or 40% win
rate. But what makes kills per match a much
better indicator of skill is that it's almost
impossible to inflate or manipulate. If you
play super aggressive and push everybody you
see you're definitely gonna give yourself
a chance to get more kills, but you're also
much more likely to die which obviously ruins
your kills per game. If you play super defensive
and only take the fights you know you can
win, your max kills per match is only gonna
be like 2 or 3. So here's a really good first
step to test your skill level. Over the span
of your next 10-20 games or so, play as seriously/tryhard
as possible and after each game just write
down how many kills you got. You don't have
to play all the games in one session and I
think it's fine even if you switch game modes
at some point. At the end of however many
games you wanna play add all those kills up,
and then divide it by the total number of
matches. Once you have your final kills per
match number calculated think about this:
In a Fortnite game there are 100 total players,
and other than maybe 1 or 2 fall damage/storm
deaths per game there will be roughly 99 total
kills. So the average kills per match across
all of Fortnite is just under 1.0. So I would
say if your kills per match end up being between
0.75 to 1.5, you're roughly an average player.
Then 1.5 to 2.5 is what I'd define as solid/above
average. 2.5 - 3.5 would be really good/great.
And then anything above roughly 3.5 - 4 is
what I'd consider an absolutely elite Fortnite
player. Just to give you a personal example,
my lifetime kills per match across all game
modes is a little over 5, and in this current
season, it's actually right around 5.5. Now
I wanna make it very clear that this is just
1 test and it definitely isn't perfect. First
off a 10-20 game sample size is small enough
to where outlier games can really skew your
results. If you're averaging a consistent
1-2 kills each match and then you get a really
lucky lobby and have a 10 kill pop-off game,
that's going to single-handidly double your
kills per match. Also, even though Fortnite
reduced the strength of skill-based matchmaking,
it's still definitely there to some degree.
So if you only look at kills per match a player
averaging 1.5 kills in the lowest skill lobbies
would technically be better than a player
averaging 1.4 in the highest skill lobbies.
The next step to determine your true skill
as a player is to judge your mechanics. Now,
are mechanics the end all be all in Fortnite,
definitely not. There are plenty of above-average
to great players that have average or even
worse mechanics. However, you also have to
realize that those players are rare. Fortnite
is probably the single most mechanically demanding
shooter game of all time, and because of that,
it's hard to keep up if your mechanics are
lacking. Now even though I said at the beginning
of this video that players can be really biased
and or even just unsure of their overall skill
level, I don't really think that's t the case
when you ask people to rate their individual
mechanics. I ask my viewers at the end of
videos all the time to rate certain skills
such as their aim or building from 0-10, and
you'd be shocked how few unrealistic responses
I get. I barely see any people say 10 or even
9, the vast majority of answers are in roughly
the 4-7 range which is super realistic. So
just to give you a quick little guide to rate
your own mechanics, let me describe what a
5/10 average player looks like for building,
editing, and aim: For building a 5/10 would
be a player who has pretty much mastered the
basic building techniques, but doesn't really
go beyond that. You know 1 or 2 basic high
ground re-takes, you can do the simple ramp
rushes but probably not the double floor ramp
wall, and you can 90 at a decent speed but
good players will frequently beat you to high
ground. For editing, a 5/10 player would be
someone who definitely knows all the viable
edits in the game, but you're noticeably slower
than a lot of players you see online. And
because of that, you can't really do any advanced
double or triple edits, and you probably struggle
a bit in box fights because fast editing is
absolutely crucial there. Then for aim I think
this is definitely the hardest one to quantify.
But in my opinion, a player with 5/10 aim
would be solid in AR fights, but your weakness
is in point-blank range shotgun fights. It's
not like you never hit shots but you don't
hit many 180s or 200s and you really struggle
when you have to make quick flick shots. So
for each of those categories, evaluate how
you compare to that theoretical average 5/10
player, and give yourself a rating, then add
those ratings together and divide by 3. If
you're between 0 and 3 your mechanics are
likely below average, 4 to 6 is pretty much
average, 7 or 8 is good/really great, and
then 9 or 10 is absolutely elite. Again, your
mechanics don't singlehandedly make you good
or bad but they play an absolutely huge role
in that.
So the next skill test is to evaluate your
performance in arena mode. I specifically
saved this video topic for near the end of
this season because by now I'm guessing the
majority of you have played arena mode in
some capacity. Even though arena mode definitely
isn't perfect for many reasons, it's the closest
thing to a ranked game mode that Fortnite
has. And why that's so important is because
it's a game mode that pretty much everybody
playing takes super-seriously, it uses competitive
settings which rewards skill more than public
matches, and most importantly your total amount
of arena points are constantly either rising
or falling based on your performance. So when
you've played arena mode enough in a given
season, eventually you'll reach a point that
I call your skill ceiling. When you first
start playing arena mode it's very easy to
gain points. From 0 - 1500, there's no bus
fare at all so it's literally impossible for
your points to go down. But then as your points
keep going up and so does the bus far, it
becomes harder and harder to continue increasing.
And eventually, you'll hit a point where you're
basically treading water so to say, you aren't
really gaining points but you also aren't
really losing them either. That right there
means that you've basically hit the perfect
amount of points that truly represents your
skill level. Now, if you're on console arena
is extra hard because once you hit around
3-4 thousand points, your lobbies are without
a doubt mainly going to be comprised of PC
players which puts you at a major disadvantage.
So a lot of people have this mindset that
if they can't reach champs which is 6k points
then they're bad, but I really don't think
that's the case at all. So I know these are
kinda arbitrary numbers but based on my experience:
If your skill ceiling in arena is anything
under 2000-2500 points or so, you're likely
a below-average player. Then between about
2500-3000, I'd call average, 3000-4000 I'd
say is above average. 4000-6000 is really
good, and then if you can get into champs
on console you're undeniably a great player.
However, keep in mind that this mostly refers
to solos. If you play duos or trio arena and
just get carried by 1 or 2 other great players,
obviously that makes your points a lot less
meaningful.
I truly believe that if you combine your kills
per match across a solid sample size of games,
the unbiased rating of your mechanical skill,
and your arena mode performance you'll get
a really good picture of how good you are
at Fortnite. It doesn't tell the whole story
but it's a solid overview.
So, I hope you guys enjoyed this video, and
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