While Apex Legends continues to grow in popularity with critics, the public, and streamers, the titan that is Fortnite hasn't quite been o🦹vershadowed by the new Battle Royale title from the guys and girls at Respawn Ent🅠ertainment (not just yet anyway.)
While the aim of a machine and the reactions of a Shaolin monk will help you defeat the 99 other players looking to wipe you out, a big chunk of your survivability is contained with what weapons you manage to scavenge from the battlefield and how much the gods of fortune are smiling on you. Without a good weapon by your side, you aren't bound to do too well in Fortnite.
Akin to fighting games, Fortnite and many other titles have somewhat of a tier system when it comes to the weapons that are available. This applies to all weapons in the game, and it pay🍬s to know what's the best tool for a given situation, especially when it comes to the Legendary weapon variants.
Not all weapons are created equal. While some of the Legendary weapons have positives, there are a few of tꦑhem that may seem great on the surface but be impractical or comparatively weak against some of the other Legendary choices on offer.
20 ♓ ಌ Not Worth It: Minigun
While the Minigun has insane firepower and can rip player built structure♋s to shreds in a matter of seconds, it certainly has its drawbacks. Being such a bulky piece of kit, the Minigun requires you to remain static while you shoot, leaving you incredibly exposed to any other players in the area.
It also takes time to spool up to fire, meaning any quick trigger fingers will take you down before you’ve even managed to shoot a bullet. Not only that, it will overheat after jus🦄t six seconds of continuous fire.
Its infinite amm♌unition is certainly appealing, and it does have a fairly good drop rate from Supply Drops at around 33%, but if you’re looking for a tool to destroy players’ bases, an RPG is a far more effective choice.
19 ꧑ Worth It: Assault Rifle (SCAR)
The Legendary Assault Rifle, more commonly referred to as the SCAR due to its resemblance to the real-life weapon, is one of the best all-around guns you can pick up in the Battle Royale title. The🧸 main reason players love the Assault Rifle so much is that it is justꩵ .
It dishes out a stern 198 damage per second, has 🐬a respectable clip size of thirty bullets, has a relatively good reload time at just over two seconds, and the chance𝔍s of it being bestowed unto a player is just shy of 6% from a Supply Drop.
Being a jack-of-all-trades, the Legendary Assault Rifle is 🐼a solid choice for any encounter no matter what range you’re taking on your target from.
18 No༺t Worth It: Burst Assault Rifle (Vault)
Modeled (at least visually) after the real-life FAMAS assault rifle, the Bu𒐪rst Assault Rifle has seen its Common, Uncommon, and Rare iterations locked away in the Vault. The Epic and Legendary versions however still remain intact.
Anyone not well acquainted with Fortnite terminology, a weapon being “vaulted” means its no longer available 💖in stan𝓀dard Public play, but can still be used in the Playground mode and the Creator mode.
The Burst AR is a powerful weapon to have in your arsenal, but one that can be very hit and miss to use. It has a higꦑh DPS at just over 173, but it kicks like a mule, and burst weapons in general are often disliked by players because of this.
It’s 🅰certainly not to be sniffed at, but between the Burst ⛄Assault Rifle and the SCAR, the SCAR wins every time.
17 Worth It: Hand Cannon 🤪
No Sniper Rifle?🦹 No problem! With a Hand Cannon in your holster,.
While that may have sounded like🐷 a cringey sales pitch, the Hand Cannon is actually a viable substitute for a Sniper Rifle as it has a surprisingly long range. Couple this with its high damage output (sitting at 78 points) and seven round clip, and what looks like a mere Desert Eagle tribute becomes a one-handed Sniper Rifle.
As it excels at being a great r🗹anged option, the Hand Cannon doesn’t do too well up close and perꦅsonal. So even though its a pistol, you’re better off using a Shotgun or SMG of some sort in close combat.
16 Worth It: Suppressed Assaul𓄧t R🌜ifle
As with most games, adding a suppresso🅘r or silencer to a weapon means that you sacrifice a percentage of damage and/or damage drop-off for having your location on the map๊ concealed from other players when firing.
Added in Content Update 5.40, the Suppressed Assault Rifle has almost identicaꦺl stats to the regular Legendary Assault Rifle, just falling short on damage where it sits at 33 compared tꦅo the SCAR’s 36 (and therefore also lowering its DPS.)
Choosing a Suppressed or regular Assault Rifle boils down to how bothered you are about being seen when you’re shooting. The Suppressed variant requires more trigger discipline when firing compared to the⛎ normal SCAR, but keeps your position hi🌄dden.
It’s all down to preference.
15 💙 Worth It: Heavy Sniper Rifle
If there’s one piece of kit you can rely on to take out your enemies from a bazillion milꦛes away, its the mighty Heavy Sniper. Sure, there are plenty of other strong sniper rifles in the game and it does suffer from a long reload and a single bullet magazine, but .
The 🍌Heavy Sniper can dish out a gigantic 157 damage and does a devastating 1100 damage to structures. Its a spot of contention which is the best sniper in th🗹e game; while some prefer the Heavy Sniper, others favour the Bolt Action Sniper Rifle. However, due to the Bolt Action Sniper Rifle being recently vaulted, the Heavy Sniper has pretty much won by default.
14 Not Worth It: Heavy As𓆉sault Rifle
Again, this weapon isꦫn’t anything to be scoffed at, but its outclassed in almost every department by other weapons in its family.
The Heavy Assault Rifle actually deals a decent 180 points of damage per second, has an almost 4-second fire rate and magazine clip 🔜of twenty-five bullets. The problem lies in that the Legendary Assault Rifle (SCAR) one-ups it in every category that truly matters, those being DPS, fire rate and reload time.
Ano🐽ther main gripe is൲ that the weapon has a substantial kick to it when fired, meaning it has to be tap fired to keep its spread from going all over the place. Whereas the SCAR can fire automatically with a controllable amount of kickback.
So basically, just go for the SCAR.
13 Worth ꦉIt: ✨RPG
Providing a hefty whack of damage, sit🔯ting with a fairly good drop rate, and doubling🍎 as an unorthodox method of transport, the Rocket Launcher is always a good thing to have in your back pocket.
The Rocket Launcher does a very strong 121 damage and actually has a pretty good chance of popping up in෴ a game thanks to its 8% Supply Drop probability and can put out a massive 413 damage to buildings, making no hidey hole as safe as it mi🀅ght seem.
The Rocket La൲uncher (along with most of the explosives in the game) has been tweaked in a number o💧f patches to make them as balanced as possible without making them feel useless.
12 Worth It: Compact SMG ♚
If you’re after a weapon that’s both fast and furious, the Compact SMG will meet your criter⛦ia 🌃and then some. While it may only deal 21 points of damage, its crazy fire rate allows its DPS statistic to sky-rocket to 210!
On top of this insane damage per second stat, it boasts a forty (yes, forty) bꦍullet clip. Unless your opponent happens to have a Legendary Shotgun of some sort to counter you, you’ll be able to dominate close to mid-range combat situations purꦦely thanks to its ferocious speed.
There’s a very slim chance you’ll get one from any chests or floor loot as the drop rates are belo꧟w a 1%, although you do have an almost 15𒊎% chance of finding one in a Supply Drop.
11 ꦬ Worth It: Heavy Shotgun (Vault)
Recently Vaulted in Patch 7.30 that arrived in January 2019, the Heavy Shotgun has both positives and negatives that divide playerꦕs who look for different attributes in their close range weapons.
Now that the H𝐆eavy Shotgun has been put away in the Vault, the Pump Shotgun has become the de facto king of shotguns. The Heavy Shotgun 🏅doesn’t quite give the same “oomph” that the Pump Shotgun does, but it does have better range and a faster rate of fire.
Like I said, the recent patch sealing the Heavy away in the Vault means that the Pump Shotgun now reigns supreme as every🐟one’s first choice shotgun. If you’re playing Playground or Creator however, the Heavy is a fine choice to use.