Fortnite Reload Ranked Guide – How to Rise in New Ranks

Fortnite Reload Ranked could be the thing to massively expand this game mode. What do we know about a competitive game mode?

Fortnite Reload Ranked is here a bit sooner than we expected! after being rumored in leaks, the full release arrived in the very next update. Not only do we have Fortnite Reload Ranked, but new rewards for players too.

What are all of the Ranks and how can you level up in-game? These are the Fortnite Reload Ranks and how progression is going to work.

Getting A Fortnite Reload Rank – Placement

When you first jump into Ranked, you’ll be given a preliminary rank. You only get this after one game. What decides where you’re initially placed?

Just like normal Fortnite, this isn’t very clear. The game acts like your first round is a placement match that decides where you go. But this isn’t true.

Players have noticed their actual performance in this game has nothing to do with where they end up. You can hot drop the busiest spot on the Reload map, instantly die, or win a round and the result will be the same.

Instead, it seems like the game decides where you start based on your general matchmaking rank, then just throws you into a game at around your level before announcing your rank.

This means there isn’t much you can do to influence your starting rank. Even getting tons of kills and winning the game hasn’t made a major difference to players. Once in your rank though, you can level up by performing well.

All Fortnite Reload Ranks

Once you’re given your rank, how far do you have to climb? This is how the Fortnite Reload Ranks are broken down:

• Bronze
  • Bronze I
  • Bronze II
  • Bronze III
• Silver
  • Silver I
  • Silver II
  • Silver III
• Gold
  • Gold I
  • Gold II
  • Gold III
• Platinum
  • Platinum I
  • Platinum II
  • Platinum III
• Diamond
  • Diamond I
  • Diamond II
  • Diamond III
• Elite
• Champion
• Unreal

Once you hit Diamond, the tiers go away and you’re just in a general rank. However, the other ranks with tiers don’t have a major difference between them. It’s just to facilitate a wider player base.

These tiers only change who you’re put into a match with too. There’s no different Fortnite Ranked loot pool or anything like that.

How to Level Up in Fortnite Reload Ranked

Ranking up in Fortnite doesn’t have specific values given to each action. There are no clear points you gain for placement or kills. However, leveling up in Fortnite Reload Ranked seems to come down to two major factors.

First is placement, and next is kills. Since this is Reload both factors work a bit differently. Placement doesn’t become a major factor until later in the game. This will likely mean a lower impact on Fortnite Reload ranked progression outside of endgame placement.

There are also reloads to consider, which means kills are a bit cheaper. Epic has made two major differences clear for Ranked Reload.

Reload Differences

Since the Reload factor in the game can make things play very differently, there are two major changes here for Ranked Reload.

The first is a bonus for eliminating an entire team. In Reload, this means the team can no longer reboot. Doing this will speed up your progress quite a bit.

The other rule change is for elims on the same players. If you’re farming a bad team over and over again, you’ll get considerably less credit. Progress will slow by a lot after killing the same player twice.

These are both fairly understandable changes. It looks like getting killed won’t effect your progress though, so you don’t have to worry about a bad kill to death ratio if you’re racking up kills and placement.

Teams

Reload isn’t a solo game, how is rank decided among an entire team? The player with the highest rank determines your matchmaking.

So if you’re in a team of a Gol player and an Elite, you’ll be in Elite lobbies. This is to prevent players from gaming the system using team members of dramatically different ranks.

A player under-ranked for your lobbies might not make it easy to win Fortnite games, but if you’re far apart in rank this is the best you can do.

Ranked Resets

Fortnite Ranked Reload will feature Ranked resets just like the normal game, although we don’t quite know the timing yet.

Normal Fortnite Ranked mode resets the ranks with each new Fortnite season. Reload doesn’t have seasons.

We know we’re in the first period for reload, but not when it will end. It might end up following the pattern of Battle Royale and resetting as the season changes. Although, that’s just a guess.

Ranked Reload could end up resetting much less frequently. It could be whenever the loot pool sees a major change.

While we know Fortnite Reload is permanent, we don’t know Epic’s plans for it yet. In the future, we might see bigger changes for the Reload map and balance over time, which would give a good period to reset the ranks.

This is one of the areas where we’ll have to wait and see what happens with Fortnite Reload Ranked.

Who Can Play Fortnite Reload Ranked?

Ranked isn’t being locked away behind a ton of progress in the game, but Epic has made a specific quest a bottleneck for the mode. You’ll need to have played at minimum 5 games to get into the mode.

Only players who have outlasted 500 opponents can enter Reload Ranked.

The time it takes to achieve this will depend on what you’re playing. In Battle Royale, it can be done in five games if you just win one after another. However, in Reload it’ll take longer. Assuming you don’t always win it’ll also take a little longer.

This isn’t a hard barrier to get past though. Players should be able to progress past 500 opponents in a day or two. So, everybody can get involved with Fortnite Reload Ranked.