Last season, I made FNCS Grand Finals for the first time ever. And because of that, I figured I should get back on my grind, bringing tutorials to you guys to help you improve as well. So in this video, I'm going to talk about how to go from an absolute beginner to a pro.
No matter your skill level, I'm hoping that this video and my next one will help take you to the next level. The video coming out later this week is going to talk about things that separated me and Piggle as a duo. So to make sure you don't miss that, make sure you hit that sub button down below. And without further ado, let's hop into it. The truth of getting better in Fortnite is that it really comes down to three steps.
First off is learning the basic mechanics of the game. Second is learning how to fight. And the third is upping your game sense. Timestamps are down below if you want to skip around.
We're going to start out with how to improve your mechanics. If you're new to Fortnite and really can't build and edit at all, the main thing that you should be doing is spending your time in practice maps. Maps that have like piece control drills, free building drills, aim courses, stuff like that until you get comfortable with your keybinds and learn how to do some of the most fundamental moves in the game.
I know this isn't the most fun step to be stuck on, but as soon as you finish this step in the process, that's when you're going to start seeing fast improvement. I put down in the description my three practice maps that can help you improve mechanics. As soon as you can do these three maps with no problem, that's when you know you are by far set to go on to step number two. The three maps down below are my Jiven practice map. This map has everything from aim drills, retake trainers, piece control drills, and it really has everything you need to improve.
The second map, and I really recommend this one if you struggle with fighting in the game, is my how to piece control map. This map helps you get better at fighting because it literally teaches you all the different piece control scenarios you're going to run into in an actual game. And if you don't know what piece control is, it really just means how to use your builds wisely throughout a fight.
So that map is going to take you from a beginner fighter to hopefully an intermediate level fighter. The third map is the how to build map and this is just another place where you can learn some of the basic retakes in the game. That map also has voice tutorials to help you learn the drills.
At this first step, you know, where you're just trying to learn the fundamentals of the game, you can 100% go play the actual game. But think about it like this, if you don't know how to do basic retakes and basic piece control drills, it's like going into a chess game without knowing how to do an opening. or not knowing even how the pieces move.
Or it's like going into a basketball game without even knowing how to dribble the ball with protection with your arm out in front of you. That's why I really recommend spending most of your time learning these drills right as you're starting off. I also attached a few videos down below where I really break down these drills if you need extra assistance. But with that being said, let's hop into step number two. This is the step where you need to start getting better at fighting.
You now should have some pretty solid skills to apply to fights. It doesn't mean you're going to go from step 1 to step 2 and just instantly win every fight. You need to gain fighting experience, confidence in fights. Your first week, maybe two weeks, even a month may be a hard time winning even the simplest of fights.
But the more fights you take, the more those skills from step 1 are going to transfer into your game. Those basic piece control drills, peek shots, all that stuff is going to slowly start slipping into your normal gameplay. While you're in this step 2 phase, I do recommend going into those practice maps at the start of the day. Spend 15 to 30 minutes in there at most.
But spend all the rest of your day playing 1v1s, some of the forever maps down in the description, or even hopping into some ranked games. But once you have those basics down in the practice map, stop spending your entire day in there, get into the action, and really start trying to apply it. Like I said, it's not going to transfer over instantly, it's going to take a long time, but the more you practice fighting, the more it'll transfer over. and with time, you will become a good fighter.
I personally think that you should spend a majority of your time at this stage in 1v1s. Practice fighting against players that are at your skill level or better. If you're fighting someone that you can beat 10 times out of 10, don't keep playing against that player.
Get out of there. get yourself in a challenge, that's when you're going to see the most improvement. But make sure you're doing stuff that you actually enjoy. If you're playing this game and you're not enjoying it, you're doing it wrong.
If you guys haven't seen, we've continued to expand our Forever brand to other maps. It started out with Forever Zone Wars, the map where you play Zone Wars, you infinitely respawn and you can drop nukes. But now we just expanded to box fights.
All those codes are down below. I personally think they're some of the most fun places to practice. Now you might be wondering, when do you know you're done with step number two? When should you stop focusing on?
all your time on fighting practice and go on to step three. I personally think you should always be getting some fighting practice even if you're in step three, but you can start moving on to step three once you're able to one, W key and ranked somewhat successfully, and two, win some fights in solo victory cups. If you're unable to win your mid game fights in the solo victory cup opens, then you need to keep on working on your fighting. But if you're able to start dropping like 10 kill games in the start of a solo victory cup.
you're at a good point. But like I said, you're never going to stop your fighting practice. Pros practice fighting at the start of every single day.
So even as we go to step three, keep on practicing that fighting at least for 30 minutes at the start of each session. Now moving on to step 3. At this point you really shouldn't need to spend time in step 1 anymore. At this point those maps you should be able to do in your sleep. You should warm up with some 1v1s, 2v2s, maybe some forever zone wars. But at this step is where you should be stepping into the world of scrims.
Every single night there's scrims in different discords such as Vital Scrims, Manu's Open Scrims. There's a ton of scrim servers out there just ask around and if you're watching this video drop some scrim servers that you use down in the comments. If you're in the NA server, Vital scrims is some top tier practice, and Manu scrims are a good starting place. They're definitely going to give you a challenge though.
I'll give you guys some tips on what you should be focusing on in scrims, but first let me tell you what scrims are if you've never actually scrimmed before. Scrims are basically where every competitive player goes to practice for tourneys. There's usually some rules involved, unless if they're throwing money into the tourneys, and those rules help to make the scrims feel like a real tournament. It helps it so that the storm surge becomes active and the end games are stacked. It just makes it feel more realistic all around.
So the biggest thing you should be trying to take away from these scrims is how to loot off spawn efficiently. Really get a drop spot down while you're in scrims. If you're ever uncontested, try to plan how you can loot the drop spot the fastest. But if you're contested, try to figure out where the alpha points are. Where exactly you should be pulling out your glider to get the best drop.
Off spawn is one of the biggest things to improve on in scrims. In fact, one of the most important things in tournaments, especially FNCS where storm surge is a big problem, is getting out of your drop spot soon enough so that you can get storm surge tags early on. So focus on early game and scrims big time, even if it's just looting. And that leads into the second thing that you should be focusing on is how to get storm surge.
If you're new to scrims, you're most likely going to be dying to storm surge a lot, or you're going to be forcing fights that you shouldn't be taking. So if you're struggling with surge, watch back your games. Look at opportunities to sneak on opponents around you and get some sneak tags. Look in replay mode and try to see different places that you could have positioned on the map where a lot of people rotated past.
Those are the type of positions that you could build a huge tower at to look for storm surge tags. And if you ever do fall below surge, try to figure out what fight would have been actually good to take. There's a lot of times where I've fallen below Surge and I force a fight that was just not the right fight to take. Sometimes just being patient and healing off from the Storm Surge is the better bet. It's really situational, but that's the kind of stuff that you can learn in scrims.
If you only play the tournaments, then you're only going to get that practice. But the people that play scrims are basically going to get double the tournament practice. Because they're going to have the tournaments that they're learning from and the scrims they're learning from. Every day of the week, they're getting practice versus if you're not scrimming, you're not going to be keeping up. thing to be learning from scrims is just team chemistry, how you can be rotating better in endgame, what refreshes to go to, and really get in rhythm with your duo.
That's something that's slept on. Rhythm is everything. If you guys aren't on the same page for a split second in endgame, that can kill your game.
So the more practice you can get with your duo, the better. But the funny thing is, last season, me and Pigle did not scrim a single time. And you might be thinking, okay, so doesn't that disprove everything you just said about scrims? Well, the answer is no.
The reason we didn't scrim and still did well is because we both have a lot of scrim experience from the past, but there were a lot of things that attributed to me and Piggle making grands last season. First off, Piggle's just crazy at the game, so that definitely helped, but there was a lot of other stuff that went into it, and in my next video, I'm going to be breaking down what those differences were. So if you want to hear me talk about some of my thoughts on how we did well last season, make sure you tune into the next video. I hope this video helped you guys out, and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace.