Hey what is going on guys, in this video today
we're gonna be going over how to play aggressive
or w-key on console Fortnite. If you're a
console/controller player you're probably
a fan of watching other console/controller
players, and if that's the case you probably
see a lot of aggressive play, and therefore
you may want to sort of copy that playstyle.
I've always been an aggressive player myself,
I'd rather get 10-15 kills and die than get
4 or 5 kills and win, so I definitely feel
qualified to speak about this topic. So, without
further ado, let's get right into it.
Alright, so the first thing I wanna talk about
in this video is why it's so crucial to get
tag damage while trying to play aggressive,
and how a lot of people don't truly understand
why that's so important. So when most people
think of really successful aggressive players,
they probably think of guys who just run up
to people's 1x1s and basically pressure and
bully them. And honestly, even though that's
a pretty broad generalization, there is a
lot of truth to it. The vast majority of successful
aggressive players wanna turn as many fights
into close-range engagements as possible,
because the close you are to someone, the
quicker you can outplay and hopefully eliminate
them. But the truth is, the majority of players
aren't going to have much success if they
just blindly copy the playstyle of a top-tier
aggressive player like wavyjacob or clix.
Those guys can win fair fights against even
really good players like 90% of the time,
and that just isn't a realistic thing to expect
unless you're personally a top 0.0001 percentile
player. So one of the ways that more regular
players like you and I can succeed while playing
aggressive is by getting pre-fight AR tags.
Most people think that hitting their opponent
with some AR shot before you push does 1 or
2 positive things for you, but in reality,
it's more like 3-4. The first and most obvious
one is the fact that it lowers the opponent's
total health. If you and your enemy both start
the fight with 200 health, but you land 2
SCAR shots before they reaction build, they're
now gonna be at maybe 130 health. And that
creates a nice advantage for you before the
fight has even really started. The second
positive is the other one that most players
understand, it makes the enemy at least temporarily
play defensive. They get hit so they're gonna
reaction build and likely box up, therefore
you can push forward without much fear of
being shot at or contested for high ground.
Another positive people don't really consider
is that when you hit an opponent with a shot
or two from ya know 20+ meters away, it gives
you a chance to get a very quick preview of
their skill level. That may sound a bit odd,
but if I shoot a guy not facing towards me
and he immediately builds a flawless 1x1 to
block my shots, that's a pretty solid indicator
that he's at the very least a decent player.
On the flip side though, if I shoot a guy
and he takes a little while to react then
he builds a wall in the wrong place because
he can't identify where the shots are coming
from, that tells me there's a pretty good
chance he isn't that great. Obviously this
isn't always going to be the case, but being
shot at does test your reaction time and general
awareness which are really important skills
in Fortnite. The final positive is that it
gives you a chance to gauge the enemies' health
as well. For example, if you hit a guy for
33 blue and then 33 white, you know that he
was probably around 125 health. What that
means is that he probably doesn't have any
shield or else he would've used it already,
so now you know you're fighting an enemy whose
probably at or below 100 health at this point,
and he very likely doesn't have any shield
to use throughout the fight either. So hopefully
that helps you understand that pre-fight tags
do so much more than just getting a little
chip damage. They give you a huge clues as
to how you want to treat the player that you're
about to push.
The next aspect of playing aggressive I wanna
talk about is the close-range part of the
fight. AR tagging or even hitting snipes is
always nice, but when it comes to being aggressive,
the most important part of any fight is what
happens when you get within about 5-10 meters
of the enemy. And to be a bit more specific,
you're going to need to be very good at dealing
with enemies who box up and wait for you to
make a play on them. So the first piece of
advice I want to give for dealing with boxed
up enemies while playing aggressive is to
be patient at first. Like I alluded to earlier,
when people think of a really aggressive playstyle,
they envision someone who sees a boxed up
enemy, and then just goes full steam ahead.
No waiting, they're just gonna either phase
into the box right away or break and replace
the wall and make some kind of crazy edit
play. But again, unless you're just an insane
player, that playstyle will not work for you
over a long period of time. You may get lucky
and kill your first 2 or 3 players if they
aren't that great, but good players will punish
you for being too aggressive. One of the most
common ways they'll try to do this is by immediately
editing out on you. They'll kinda play possum
for half second and hold out their building
menu, but then they'll pull out their shotty
and make an offensive edit since they still
own the wall. So, because of that, something
I'll do a lot is just sort of stare at the
front wall with my shotgun out. Not for long,
usually only like half a second, but doing
that makes it so that if the guy inside the
box tries to immediately make an edit on me,
I'm ready to blast him with my shotty. The
other interesting play you can make in this
situation is a tactic that's become more and
more popular recently, and it's most commonly
referred to as pickaxe baiting. What a lot
of smart players inside a 1x1 will do is wait
for you to pull out your pickaxe when you're
attempting to break and replace their wall,
and as soon as they see that, they make an
edit and go for a shot. It does take some
pretty quick reaction time but mouse and keyboard
players especially can pull that off fairly
consistently. So now you have a pickaxe in
your hand and they have a shotgun aimed towards
you body, don't think I really need to say
anything more than that. So one way to counter
that is to pull out your pickaxe for a half-second
or so, and then immediately switch back to
your weapon. Now sure, most of the time this
probably won't really do anything. But every
once in a while you'll catch an enemy trying
to make an edit, and now you can blast them.
And even the times when nothing happens, it
at least makes your enemy second guess making
a quick edit if they planned to do it at any
point in the fight.
Another important aspect of playing aggressive
is knowing how to heal with 3rd partiers.
If you're constantly pushing people and getting
into a lot of fights, you're basically going
to be the perfect target for players who like
to 3rd party fights. You need to understand
that if you can't finish a fight within about
30-45 seconds, odds are someone nearby is
going to hear the shooting or see the building
and start to 3rd party. And unfortunately,
even if you're insane at finishing fights
quickly, there are going to be times where
it simply isn't possible to kill the enemy
before someone starts 3rd partying the fight.
So the most important that you need to know
when it comes to getting 3rd partied is that
you always need to prioritize the enemy who
presents the greatest immediate threat to
you. If you're at the front wall of someone
chilling in a 1x1 and you get shot from 40
meters away towards your side, you don't wanna
turn your back to the boxed player to return
AR fire. But on the flip side, if you beat
someone to high ground and then they jump
a few levels down and box up, in that situation
if you were to be shot from the side, the
enemy whose further is the one that you want
to target initially, at least until you hear
the player below you start to build back up.
The final thing I wanna quickly discuss in
this video is the best way to practice playing
aggressively. I can give you all the tips
are tricks in the world for this, but if you
don't put them into practice in real games,
they probably aren't gonna help you all that
much. I believe that hands down the best mode
to practice and perfect an aggressive playstyle
is solos. The most important skill for being
successful when pushing as many fights as
possible is being able to win 1v1, and there's
obviously no better place to practice that
than in a solo. And more specifically, I'd
actually recommend arena solos more than anything
else. The reason is, once you hit the amount
of points that truly represents how good you
are as a player, you're going to be put into
lobbies full of people very near your skill.
So unlike in public matches where there's
a lot more variance among the players you're
fighting, most of the people you push in arena
should give you very high-quality fights.
You don't really learn anything by just absolutely
destroying a bad player, and the same thing
goes for when you GET absolutely destroyed
by an incredible player. So when you're in
these solos just get into the mindset of pushing
pretty much everybody that you see. Sure,
you'll probably have some deaths that could've
been avoided if you played more passive, but
dying and evaluating what you did wrong is
a really important step on the road to improvement.
So, I hope you guys enjoyed this video and
if you watched the entire thing be sure to
let me know with a comment down in the comment
section below. On a scale of 0-10 how aggressive
do you think you are as a Fortnite player
when you're just playing normally. I'd say
I'm probably like a 9 and I'd love to hear
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