There is nothing as frustrating as missing your shots. You finally cornered the opponent, boxed him up, went for a shot, and missed. Poor aim is like the snowball effect, when you start missing shots your confidence plummets making you miss more shots and the cycle repeats.

What you need is to practice your aim just like you practice your building and editing. However, training aim is a bit more complex than training building and editing. For starters, most people don’t know how to aim train. You can’t just go and practice hitting flickshots and call it aim training. It works of course but that’s just one aspect of it. Aim training has a lot of different aspects to it and that’s what this guide is about.

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To give you an easy and effective aim training routine that you can modify to your comfort. This guide is catered to players of all skill levels. No matter where you are in the Fortnite competitive journey you can definitely benefit from this.

Aim Training in Fortnite - The Fundamentals

To get consistent aim you need to consistently train the aim fundamentals in Fortnite. This includes everything from your shotgun duels, long-range AR battles and even sniping. You can train these things as well. It’s better to train the basics of the aim itself. This will then translate to your aim in Fortnite. Keep in mind, that aim isn’t the only aspect of Fortnite, there is movement, positioning, and much more. Just training your aim will help you land shots consistently but it’s just one cog in a machine. This article will mainly focus on the aim, but it’s recommended that you train other aspects as well.

With that covered, let’s talk about the key fundamentals of aim in Fortnite. It’s actually quite simple compared to other shooters like CS2 or VALORANT. Aiming in Fortnite boils down to these 4 specific pillars.

1. Flicking - Moving the crosshair to a target as fast and accurately as possible.
2. Tracking - Keeping the crosshair on the target while it's moving.
3. Crosshair Placement - Positioning the crosshair to where you expect the enemy would peek from.
4. Right-hand Peeks - taking shots from the right side, usually being in cover on the left. It allows you to take shots without being shot back by the enemy.

Flicking and Tracking aren’t new terms in aiming. They’re two of the most important parts of aiming irrespective of any game. Flicking and Tracking constitute the core mechanics of aiming, they are part of any shooter out there, be it Fortnite or anything else.

On the other hand, crosshair placement and right-hand peeking are part of Fortnite’s aim fundamentals. They are more habits than aiming mechanics. But, these habits result in a huge advantage in fights and must be trained for overall aim improvement.

Fortnite Aim Training Routine

The goal of this aim training routine is to cover all fundamentals and be easy to incorporate into your daily Fortnite session. We will go over each fundamental and how to train them. The routine in total should take you 15-30 minutes. You can increase it as you get comfortable and consistent with it. With that said, here is the routine.

Task 1: Flicking and Tracking

You can use any tool or map for this, whatever you enjoy. This guide is for both KBM and controller players so we will be primarily focusing on in-game maps, but using Kovaaks or Aimlabs is also good.

For this routine, the Raider464 Mechanics Training Map is the main pick. You can use other maps too, just try to find similar exercises. However, we would highly encourage you to use this map, as it has everything you need in one map.

For flicking, find any exercise that has stationary targets spaced apart and you have to destroy each of them. In Raider’s Map, Shotgun 180 works well for this. You can also play Gridshot and Tile Frenzy in Aimlabs and Kovaaks respectively. Focus on maintaining a 90+ accuracy, don’t go for high scores, you are not competing in aim training but in Fortnite. As you get more accurate, try to ramp up the speed.

Tracking is also similar, find any exercise that has randomly moving targets. You can try AR Tracking in Raider’s map or tracking exercises in Aim Trainers, whichever works for you. The goal here is also to focus on accuracy. You will struggle at this in the beginning but that’s good. It proves your tracking was bad and now you can work on improving it.

Do this for about 2-5 minutes, do not overtrain, it does more harm than good.

Task 2: Crosshair Placement and Peeking

These two can only be trained in Fortnite, so aim trainers won’t work here. Crosshair placement is all about keeping the crosshair where the enemy is going to be. For starters, just try to keep your crosshair centered. Do this after an edit, build, or anything that you do in Fortnite. After every action always try to move your crosshair to either the center or where you know the enemy is going to peek from. Having good crosshair placement reduces the amount of movement you need to hit the target. If you had perfect crosshair placement, you would only need to make very few adjustments.

Peeking is all about timing. It’s trying to catch your opponent off guard. The best way is to use right-hand peeks, as you can take shots without getting hit back. Peeking and Crosshair Placement go hand-in-hand, so both must be trained together.

For this step, Raider Mechanics V4 has a dedicated section for training peeks. Just make sure, to also incorporate good crosshair positioning while you are doing this task. Do this for about 3-5 minutes every session.

Task 3: Aim Duels

Aim Duels is a more realistic way of putting the flicking and tracking fundamentals. There are a lot of maps out there for aim dueling, but Raider’s Mechanics V4 has a section for that too. It works by placing you and your friend in a 1x1 box and gives you a lot of hp. The first to kill the other wins. If you don’t have a friend, the Raider’s map places a bot for you instead.

Since most fights in Fortnite end up in close quarters, you must train this. Plus, it combines both flicking and tracking into one exercise. 2-3 rounds of this is enough per session.

Task 4: Bringing it All Together

The final step is to combine all the fundamentals into one exercise. This step also becomes a testing phase to see how much you have improved. For this step, you have to 1v1 another player. It can be realistic, build fights, or box fights. You can choose whatever you like, just focus on incorporating what you learned in the training, such as peeks and crosshair placement. This step not only improves your aim but also warms up your mechanics for your ranked session.

That is the entire routine, it’s simplistic but it works. Plus, it’s easier to be consistent. You are allowed to add more to it if you feel like you lack somewhere. As you improve, try increasing the difficulty of this exercise. Maybe making the targets harder to hit or choosing a difficult variation.

Just aim to do this daily, and you will see your aim become more consistent and accurate. Here is a short video if you are still confused.

How Long Should You Train?

One of the biggest mistakes players make while aim training is to train for too long. It might be obvious to think training more equals more improvement. But, it actually does more harm than good. An ideal training session should be less than 45 minutes. But, that’s a training session, not a warm-up. A warmup should not be more than 15 minutes.

You should only do your full training routine after your Fortnite session or at some other time. You can alter the length of the routine we mentioned and use it for both warm-up and training.