When you see your enemy take out their pickaxe, what would you do? Look, you’ve got to put yourself in the mindset of your enemy. This will usually bait your enemy into taking a shot at your newly reset wall, which can break the build because it has less health when reset, leaving your opponent completely exposed for an easy kill Editing out a tile in your wall so it looks like you’re going to go for a shot, but then instantly resetting your edit of the wall.By hitting different walls and moving around you can use sound cues to your advantage by disorienting your opponent Hitting one side of a wall with your pickaxe so your opponent will try to hold that side of the box, but then attacking another side to easily replace that wall.So when your opponent goes for the edit because he thinks you have your pickaxe out you’re prepared to take a shot Taking out your pickaxe to fake hitting a wall and then equipping your shotgun.Well, you can do similar things when box fighting. In other words, you show your opponent one thing, but you do something else. Because you go in the opposite direction when your opponent is distracted and looking somewhere else you can safely take the high ground. You’re probably already aware of some of the things you can do when build fighting to confuse your opponent.įor example, faking a high ground retake in one direction when you actually intend go somewhere else. The more advanced you get at box fighting, the more important psychology and mind games become. When you take control of the walls, they can’t edit out in that direction.Īnd when you take control of everything your opponent is helpless and you can get the kill. When you take control of the roof, your opponent can’t edit out the top and take high ground on you. And they understand the importance of taking control of the builds in a box fight and they build in the direction they think the enemy is going to go. When you watch Fortnite pros play, you’ll notice that they rarely get third partied when box fighting.īut I’m sure you’ve experienced box fights that go on endlessly with your opponents constantly escaping and running away.įortnite pro players do things differently to you. What this means is that you should be thinking about where your opponent wants to move next and building there so you can cut off their escape. So you want to preemptively take control of the builds.

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