You're telling me Fortnite is just now getting a ranked mode?

pcgamer.com:

Tis the season for substantial competitive updates to the biggest battle royale game around: Fortnite is getting a fully-fledged ranked mode in its next update, and Zero Build fans are getting in on the fun too. Fortnite's ranked mode will follow a traditional divisional structure with players climbing from Bronze through Diamond, with three upper-division ranks in Elite, Champion, and finally Unreal.

It's basically your bog-standard battle royale competitive mode, which is why I'm surprised it's taken Fortnite five years to implement it. Fortnite technically already has a competitive mode in Arena, a tournament-style playlist with separate rules from Battle Royale and Zero Build, but Epic has decided to discontinue Arena at the end of the season in favor of the new Ranked.

Ranked will be playable in all three variations of Battle Royale (solo, duos, squads) and just one Zero Build mode (duos). Epic's announcement blog(opens in new tab) doesn't mention why Zero Build is limited to Duos, but it could be an effort to avoid splitting the playerbase of Fortnite's less popular mode in a way that impacts matchmaking times. You'll have a different rank for Battle Royale and Zero Build.

Here's how the ranking divisions break down:

Interestingly, once you've reached the rank of Unreal, you can't be knocked out of it for the remainder of the season. Instead, your Unreal rank is displayed against all other Unreal players (similar to Overwatch 2's «Top 500» division). Epic will maintain an official online Unreal leaderboard(opens in new tab) (link not live yet) for players to «flex» their rank publicly, but you can opt out of showing up on the leaderboard by changing in-game privacy settings.

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