- [Announcer] There is one thing that keeps people
coming back to Fortnite Battle Royale above all else.
And that is the huge amounts of variety and personalization
in the cosmetics that are released into the game.
A lot of the skins released into Fortnite
stick to a given theme within their season,
though some can also break away from the theme
in spectacular ways.
We're already three weeks into the new season,
and there have been plenty of incredible skins
released already.
So we are going to be taking a look
at the top five best Fortnite Season Five skins so far.
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on this video and subscribe to ArcadeCloud,
Epic Games will finally put the Ghoul Trooper
and Skull Trooper skins back into Fortnite Battle Royale.
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Number five, Suntan Specialist.
We are now in the middle of summer,
and because of that, a lot of people may have been
expecting the general theme of Season Five to be about
summer with skins relating to summer activities,
like the beach or the pool, but that was not to be.
Instead, the theme of the map related to the
overarching storyline of the Battle Royale mode,
with the rocket from the villain base causing
a giant rip in the sky and allowing
a whole bunch of historical and otherworldly locations
and skins through into the game.
But, as is common with Battle Royale cosmetics,
not all of the skins in the store shop and the
Battle Pass are based around the theme,
which means some of those summer-themed skins
that we were all expecting
have made their way through the cracks.
The Suntan Specialist skin is probably one of the better
summer-themed skins and was available from the in-game
store for 1,500 V-Bucks.
The character was actually the male version of the
Sun Strider skin from the Season Five Battle Pass,
though most people seem to agree that the Suntan Specialist
is a bit cooler.
This guy is clearly a lifeguard.
His outfit complete with a rescue T-shirt,
a whistle to blow at people if they start running
by the pool, a bag around his waist to store things,
and a pair of blackout glasses.
If you buy the skin, you also get the rescue ring
back bling, which further shows off
the character's lifeguard nature.
It's basically exactly what you would expect.
A life preserver ring from a pool or a boat
with some rope tied around it for easy throwing.
Number 4, Chomp Sr.,
plus a cool shark laser glider, oo.
Every July, the Discovery Channel runs a special event
for a week and has been doing so since the late '80s.
This is, of course, Shark Week.
A week of shark-based programming that was dedicated to
conservation efforts and correcting any potential
misconceptions about the many species of sharks
that are out there.
As the years have passed, the Shark Week television
event has just become bigger and bigger,
and now games like Fortnite are trying to get in on
the Shark Week action.
Chomp Sr. is a really awesome skin.
It's basically a guy in a super goofy shark outfit
with some sort of utility belt around his waist.
Who knows, maybe he's a late comer
to the superhero squad.
Instead of Batman, he's Sharkman, uh, heh, heh.
Most of the skin is pretty simple.
He just has a white front and a blue back
like you would expect from most sharks.
The coolest part is the guy's head,
which is basically a giant shark head
with giant pointy teeth and a jaw
that bounces slightly when you run.
With a dude looking out from within,
it makes for a pretty imposing sight.
The Chomp Sr. skin comes with the legendary shark fin
back bling, and honestly, the skin looks pretty weird
if you don't use them together.
Like sharks look super gross without a fin on their backs,
laser shark.
Number three, Ragnarok Final Tier.
Ragnarok is the Tier 100 skin for the Fortnite Battle Pass.
After either buying your way or working your way
through 100 tiers of the pass, you will finally be rewarded
with this, honestly, awesome skin.
For a start, the skin is clearly based on
the Nordic myth of Ragnarok, which talks of a series
of future events, which would result in the death
of the gods Odin, Thor, Tyr, Freyr, Heimdall, and Loki,
as well as many natural disasters and their global flooding.
(groans) The usual.
The skin has bright glowing eyes, tattoos that glow blue
across his arms and chest in the form of Nordic runes,
and comes bundled with the frozen shroud back bling,
which is essentially a badass cape.
But all of that isn't the real reason
the Ragnarok skin is so cool.
During Season Four, Epic Games introduced
the new concept of skins in the season Battle Pass.
Skins that could evolve depending on how much
of the game that you played, and that concept has come back
in this new season.
Ragnarok is one of the skins that utilizes
this leveling system, slowing growing in epic-ness
as you get more and more experience.
In total, you need to gain 500,000 XP to get up
to the full Stage Five version of the skin,
which is the coolest of them all,
and it looks totally different from the original.
At Stage Five, your character now wears a full suit of armor
with the right arm backed up even further
by some spooky looking bone plating.
Instead of a human head, you have an incredible
demonic skeleton mask, oo.
Perhaps meant as a subtle nod to Surtur
from one of Marvel's surprising hits of last year,
Thor Ragnarok, your eyes glow blue,
and so do the very tips of your horns,
and on top of all that, you'll have also unlocked
the awesome-looking Permafrost pickaxe.
Number two, Wreck Raider and Reef Ranger.
Let's go back to the summer themed skins now
and talk about the Wreck Raider and the Reef Ranger.
Okay, okay, I know.
We're technically including two skins at the same spot
for this one, but technically, they're the same skin,
just a guy and a girl version.
That happens a lot in this game, you know.
The Wreck Raider skin is the guy version of the two,
but honestly, in my opinion, it is definitely
the better of the two skins.
This guy is wearing a black and blue wetsuit
as well as a pretty simple diving mask
attached to some breathing apparatus.
On his oxygen tank, it looks like there is some sort of
shark face painted on, just to stop it from looking
too dull, I guess.
He also has a pair of flippers on his feet
and some shin pads on his legs, though,
to be honest, the shin pads kind of raise some questions.
I mean, doesn't that sort of raise the risk of you breaking
your own swimsuit open with the metal, ah, which
would defeat the purpose of wearing a swimsuit?
Either way, shin pads aside, this skin is pretty cool.
Of course, on the other side of things
there's the Reef Ranger.
This skin comes alongside a different back bling,
which in my opinion just isn't as cool
as the shark mouth one that the Wreck Raider comes with.
It's a bright yellow and is also really bulky,
and the only thing they have done to try and make it
look interesting, is an edgy Illuminati-style pyramid
and an eye at the top, and a couple of stickers.
It's a conspiracy.
The mask is also a lot more bulky, stopping you
from seeing most of your character's face.
Again, the wetsuit itself is yellow,
just like the back bling, which I feel like
would make you stand out way more
than the subdued blues of the Wreck Raider.
Don't get me wrong.
The Reef Raider is still a pretty good summer-themed skin,
but the Reef Ranger is definitely the best of the two,
in my honest opinion.
Honorable mention, Drift.
The reason it's not a number is because it's overused
and is the default skin for Battle Pass holders.
The honorable mention for this video
probably has to be the Drift skin.
Now don't get me wrong, this skin is actually awesome
when you level it up to Stage Five by getting
200,000 XP, your character has changed almost completely,
gaining a really sweet animal mask and a coat covered
in Japanese symbols that glow a vibrant purple.
But we can't give it a number in my opinion
purely because it is the default skin
for the Battle Pass holders.
Due to that, the skin is incredibly over-used
with pretty much everyone able to use it.
Skins sort of get some of their cool points
because of how rare they are.
I mean, look at the Skull Trooper
and Ghoul Trooper skins.
People are still begging for those to come back
even though they are relatively simple,
and that's all because of how rare they are.
Unfortunately, even though it looks incredible,
Drift is just too common
to get an actual spot on our list.
Number one, Archetype.
The Archetype skin is probably one of the most talked
about Fortnite skins recently, all because people
don't know when or where it will be coming.
There have been discussions of supposed leaks
about this new skin being the new Twitch Prime release
with many people suggesting it has a similar aesthetic
to the other Twitch Prime skins in a military sense.
And then all the other Twitch skins also came with
the back bling, a pickaxe, and a glider.
Now I have to admit,
Archetype does share the same digital camo
on the back bling and the pants of his outfit,
but he also looks way more futuristic than
the other two Twitch Prime skins.
Instead, he almost looks like a superhero skin
that should have been added in the last patch.
Not only that, some data miners have suggested that
the character's actually going to be released
in the Fortnite store due to some lines of code,
so things are really up in the air as to
when this skin will be releasing.
The skin itself just looks plain cool.
His face is not one you would expect.
Instead, it is completely boxy and robotic
with lights shining out of the front.
It is unknown whether these robotic features
are actually his face, and this character is
some sort of robot, or whether it is a mask,
and he is someone from the future, like The Visitor.
He also wears a black-hooded jacket that has some
really nice green trims.
Alongside the Archetype skin,
a new back bling, a glider,
and pickaxe will be released obviously.
The pick is called the caliper pickaxe
and has a very sleek design
with that really sweet green trim.
The back bling is a simple rucksack
with a digital camo across the top portion,
and almost cape-like material at the bottom.
It's the glider that is probably the coolest
of these three additional add-ons though.
With twin helicopter rotors on either side
and plenty more of that green trim.
Whenever this skin eventually releases,
I honestly can't wait, though it would be
pretty sweet to get it for free with Twitch Prime.
There are sure to be even more incredible skins
revealed for Season Five of Fortnite in the coming weeks.
So we'll probably have to end up making a follow=up
video really soon, but for now at least,
these are the top five best Fortnite, Season Five skins.
Do you agree with our picks on the list?
Or do you think that there are some incredible skins
already added in Season Five that we missed out.
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