What Is The Victory Crown In Fortnite

How to get a Fortnite Victory Crown, and unlock the Fortnite Crown Emote

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The Fortnite Victory Crown is a fresh gameplay element that provides an additional reward for those who win the battle royale, though the stakes are loftier if you lot desire to claim it. If yous're victorious and win a Fortnite Chapter three Season one match y'all'll begin the next one proudly displaying a Victory Crown, but this will glow and help you opponents chase yous down equally a more attractive target. That's the risk, but if you lot survive it and proceed to take the win while wearing the crown then you'll too claim an elusive Crowned Victory Royale, in add-on to unlocking the Fortnite Crown Emote that displays the exact number of special victories you've racked upwardly in Fortnite when you perform it. If you want the lowdown on how the Fortnite Victory Crown works, nosotros've got all of the details right here.

How to get a Fortnite Victory Crown

Fortnite Chapter 3 Season 1 — (Image credit: Ballsy Games)

At that place are two means to get hold of a Fortnite Victory Crown, which is the cardinal to unlocking a Crowned Victory Royale. The first method is to cease in a high enough position during a match, after which you'll automatically beginning the adjacent match wearing your Victory Crown. This is available in the core game modes, for the following concluding positions:

Solo: The top histrion only
Duos, Trios and Squads: The players in the top squad only

Annotation that when Chapter 3 originally launched, the top four players in Solo and the summit two teams in Duos would all be rewarded with a Fortnite Victory Crown, and then that iii to four players in total would receive them in each match. However, Epic announced on December 9 that this had been reduced to only the winning player(s) in each battle royale, making Victory Crowns a considerably rarer item to discover in a lucifer at present.

The second style to receive a Fortnite Victory Crown is to steal it, past eliminating a player that was wearing one. When that thespian is eliminated you'll encounter a notification in your feed that they've dropped a Victory Crown, and it volition appear on the map every bit a crown icon. The offset player to become to it and option it upwardly will then vesture the Victory Crown, making them eligible for a Crowned Victory Royale but also more than visible to other players.

How to earn a Crowned Victory Royale and unlock the Fortnite Crown Emote

If yous win a match while wearing the Fortnite Victory Crown so that will count every bit a Crowned Victory Royale, which you can identify by the crown shown on top of #1 Victory Royale. The showtime time you do this you'll unlock the Fortnite Crown Emote, aka Crowning Achievement, which reveals how many Crowned Victory Royales you've achieved whenever you activate it. Notation that this functions as a standard emote, and then you'll need to add information technology to your emote cycle in your locker unless you want to search through the menus each time to activate information technology.

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