Last year we completed a list of the ten best sweetest skins in the game. Many of these skins have retained their “sweat” status, but since then many updates from Item Shop have been seen.
As most players know, a Fortnite sweat can not only be distinguished by their skin. Their pickaxe and back bling also tell a story, which is why we’re opening this list to include additional, sweaty Fortnite cosmetics.
Like we said, a lot of last year’s skins are still drenched in sweat, and we do not include them here. If we missed a clear sweat skin like Crystal, Sparkplug and Aura, you can find it on our old list. This one is designed to be an addition to the list rather than a substitute.
OG Cosmetics
We listed the “OG” Season 1 and 2 skins in our last article, but did not mention the rear bling, emotes, glider and even the banner icon that accompanies it.
OG sweat almost always wears a Season 2 skin, a Black Knight backing or a Banner Back Bling that displays the OG Battle Bus icon – something only Season 1 players have.
Banner Screen / Cape Back Bling
Speaking of the banner screen and cape, it’s another favorite of the sweaty Fortnite community.
We don’t see as many Banner Bregade skins as last year, but the two rear bling options are still very common.
It’s easy to understand why. These are the only cosmetics that your Banner means anything to, and the customization options make it a great value.
Siren-vel
Thanks to Benjyfishy, the Siren skin has become one of the sweetest skins in the game. The EU pro started covering the skin as soon as it came out, and his legion of supporters followed.
Epic Games even offered the Siren skin and Star Wand pickaxe (discussed below) as a Benjyfishy bundle. It is safe to say that Siren has become one of the sweetest skins in Fortnite in recent years.
Driver Pickaxe
The Driver Pickaxe is a sweaty cosmetic that we understand well. The swing animation and the crop sound it makes can be our favorite from any pickaxe in the game.
Sweaty Fortnite players like the pickaxe because it is slender and relatively quiet.
Riding gliders
Sweaty Fortnite players love the ride-on gliders. These include gliders such as the Dragacorn Glider, Astroworld Glider, Silver Surfer Glider and a few others.
Players using mobile gliders are a little harder to hit while in the air. It’s not that much of an advantage in the current Fortnite season, but it’s always something you want on your side if you take Fortnite seriously.
Chaos Agent vel
The Chaos Agent is one of the only male skins that beards wear regularly. It’s easy to see why it has the same advantage as most female skins – a smaller character model.
Tfue used this skin as his head when it was first released – while he was still playing. Partly for this reason, many other competing Fortnite players have started picking it up and using it in tournaments.
Sun Sprout Back Bling
The Sun Sprout back bling is perhaps the sweetest back bling in the game. We do not understand why this is the case – beyond its benefits – but here we are.
Everyone who buys the Sun Sprout at least thinks they’m good at the game. They’ve probably been logging into Creative Mode for hundreds of hours, shouting ‘Box like a fish’ in a squeaky, pre-puberty voice every time they play an opponent.
Dynamo Skin
We hardly included the Dynamo on this list because we were sure we were dealing with it last year.
Dynamo has been one of the sweatiest skins in Fortnite since its release, mainly because Mitr0 and other pro players have used it as their main skin.
We included Dynamo in our most hated Fortnite skins article, and it remains so today – in part because of how sweaty players view it.
Star Wand Pickaxe
Why is this pickaxe so sweaty? Your guess is just as good as ours. Many benefits use it which undoubtedly contributes to the sales, but we do not really know why it became so popular in the first place.
The noise is minimal, which is a plus, but so is the sound of many other Fortnite picks. There was a short time when this pickaxe got faulty and did 75 damage, but we doubt that is why so many skilled players still use the Star Wand.
Either way, the Star Wand is currently the sweetest pitch in the entire game.
Superherovel
In all likelihood, the superhero skins have become the sweetest skins in the game. Even the male variants are usually worn by skilled players, which is rare.
Part of the reason the superhero skins are so sweaty at the moment is the all-black variant. We have written several articles on how difficult these skins are to see, and Epic is working on a solution.
Even if this skin style is eliminated, the superhero skins remain one of the sweetest skins in Fortnite. By the time they wrote it, they might even have surpassed Aura as the number one sweat skin in the game.
So, there you have it: the ten sweatiest Fortnite cosmetics for 2021. It will be interesting to see which skins, pickaxes, rugbling and even gliders take over the throne over the course of the next year.
We’m sure we missed some cosmetics because we limited our list to just ten. Let us know what we skipped on Twitter @FortniteINTEL.
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