Hey, what is going on guys, in this video
today we're gonna be going over 6 simple box
fighting tips/tricks for console fortnite
players.
Even though box fighting is a little less
in the meta now than it was the last 6 months
or so, it's still a crucial aspect of Fortnite.
Even in just your average public match game,
you'll probably find yourself in at least
2-3 box fighting scenarios if you're able
to survive until anywhere near the very end.
And if you play any kind of competitive match
or arena mode, good luck being consistently
successful if you're a weak box fighter.
Now some of the tricks that certain player
use in box fights get ridiculously advanced,
so much so it's almost impossible to emulate
if you play on a controller.
So because of that, the tips that we're gonna
focus on in this video are going to be fairly
simple in nature to the point where they won't
take hours to learn and then master.
So, without further ado, let's get right into
it.
Alright, so the first tip in this video is
going to involve the ever so popular peanut
butter edit.
In case you're unfamiliar with that term,
it's probably the single most popular and
used box fighting technique in the game, and
it revolves around the very basic top right
corner 3 tile edit on a wall.
Even without doing anything extra, the peanut
butter edit on its own is very powerful despite
being so simple.
You have left side peak advantage over your
opponent, and the triangle you make s right
about at head level, so you can kinda peak
over the wall at any time and get off a shotgun
shot on your enemy while exposing very little
of your player model.
Now, the tip here isn't just the peanut butter
edit because I'm sure most of you guys already
knew about, the tip is a mistake that a lot
of people make when using the peanut butter
edit in boxfights.
What a lot of people do when they make the
edit and wanna shoot, is they'll go to about
the middle part of the peanut butter triangle,
jump straight up, and then shoot.
On the surface seems like a solid idea, you're
totally protected until you jump, and then
when you do, yeah a decent amount of your
body is exposed but it's not an insane amount.
That may be true, but there's a much better
way of doing this.
Instead of jumping straight up into the air,
you wanna still go the same middle part of
the triangle where your entire body is covered,
but this time when you jump you don't wanna
just straight up, you wanna basically jump
sideways to left.
This not only makes you harder to hit because
you're moving much more than just up and down,
but on top of that, a lot more of your body
is covered when you do the sideways jump.
Will it maybe be a tad bit harder to hit your
shot since you're doing a more advance jump,
yea I guess so.
But trust me, you're gonna be almost unhittable
compared to the straight up and down jump.
So tip #1 helped you guys do the peanut butter
edit correctly, now I'm gonna show you guys
a fairly simple way to counter it.
Let's say you're pushing an enemies 1x1 in
a box fighting situation, and as you get close
to their front wall they make a peanut a butter
edit.
The first step is what any decent player would
instinctively do in this situation, place
a structure to protect themselves, and for
this trick, we're gonna place a ramp.
This will protect you, and since the enemy
most likely has their shotgun out, they probably
won't even bother to shoot the ramp.
Then as soon as you place the ramp, you wanna
start running up it, and make a half square
edit and confirm it, and if done correctly
you'll end up right next to them inside their
box.
You were protected the entire time while pushing
them, they would have no idea what you were
doing, and now this should be an absolute
slam dunk shotgun fight for you to win.
The reason why this works so well is because
when someone puts a ramp in front of your
1x1, what every single player on the planet
assumes is that you're gonna use that ramp
to get on top of their box and try to break
in from there.
And since you're sprinting up the ramp before
you make the edit, that looks exactly like
what you're doing.
Nobody expects to get pushed when they make
a peanut butter edit so this will catch every
enemy off guard.
The next tip is a super simple one for when
you go to break and replace walls.
What a lot of good box fighters will do when
you try to break and replace their wall is
go for an offensive edit and shotgun play.
This is especially concerning if dealing with
a mouse and keyboard player since their flick
shots are nasty and they have scroll wheel
reset.
So one way to protect yourself against that
kinda play is by simply placing a ramp on
the left side of the wall you're trying to
take, and then doing the break and replace
from there.
It doesn't lower your odds of getting the
wall at all, but it provides you a good amount
of cover from any edit play the enemy inside
the box could make, it gives you right-hand
peak advantage if you end up replacing the
wall and making an edit, and if the enemy
tried to edit out the side or back of the
box and starts building for high ground, the
ramp already puts you one level in the air
which is actually really important.
As I've said before, build battles for high
ground usually get decided within about 3-4
ramps being placed, so if you start with a
1-level advantage that's obviously really
significant.
Tip #4 on our list is the importance of piece
control.
As the name kinda suggests In box fighting,
piece control refers to how many building
pieces in the immediate area that you own
vs. how many your enemy owns.
In these close range and very congested fights
with lots of building and editing going on,
owning building pieces gives you offensive
opportunities because you can instantly edit
on the enemy whenever you want, safety because
if you're surrounded by pieces that are all
yours they can't instantly edit on you, and
the ability to quickly re-position because
editing takes a fraction of a second while
breaking a piece and running through it takes
much longer.
So knowing that here are 2 quick tips I wanna
give regarding piece control.
First off, don't just worry about claiming
pieces that your enemy is directly contesting,
worry about claiming as many pieces as possible
in the immediate box fighting area.
It's very likely that at some point in the
fight either you or the enemy will re-position,
and when that happens, you wanna be in control
of as many pieces in the new fighting area
as possible.
Building on that, the 2nd tip is to try to
make sure the fights you take are within pieces
you own.
If you re-position into a box where your enemy
owns 1 or 2 of the surrounding pieces, it
just puts you at too high of a risk for a
surprise edit.
That's something you need to look out for,
and if you recognize it, branch out further
into a new box so you know with 100% certainty
that you own everything.
Tip #5 is the importance of recognizing and
attacking weak building pieces in box fights.
Wanna know the reason why heaving sniping
into a 1x1 is such an overpowered technique?
Well, it's because it allows you to instantly
destroy a building piece without giving the
enemy any chance to realize what's happening
before it's too late.
But, you don't need a heavy sniper to do this
if you learn to look for weak building pieces.
Almost nobody takes the time to repairs walls
or roofs in a regular game and you can take
advantage of that.
If you see a wall that looks like it's 1 shot,
instead of playing slaw and tactically going
for a break and replace, a better play may
be to pull out your shotgun, 1 shot that weak
wall, and jump into the enemies' box like
you see pros do all the time with a heavy
sniper.
If they're healing up or were looking in a
different direction you're gonna win that
fight pretty much every single time.
It's a really simple tip to implement into
your game that so many people either never
learned or just don't pay enough attention
to.
The 6th and final box fighting tip for this
video is such an incredibly simple one yet
also very important.
When you know an enemy is about to push your
box please please please place a cone at your
feet.
Despite this being the absolute easiest thing
to do in the world, it provides many benefits.
It makes it so that the enemy can't place
a ramp in your box if they get the wall and
mongraal classic you, it provides a little
extra cover if a team were to try double heavy
sniping your wall or if someone just phases
in and wants to take a 50/50 fight, plus if
the enemy does get your wall, you can instantly
edit the front 2 squares on the cone to turn
it into a ramp and then edit out the side
or back.
It really doesn't get much more simple than
that so there's literally no excuse to not
do this unless you have under 10 total materials.
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.
I wanna know, on a scale of 1-10 how would
you personally rate your box fighting skills
in Fortnite?
I practice box fighting a lot so I'd say I'm
a solid 8 or so but I wanna hear from you
guys.
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