- [Narrator] Pretty much everyone
is playing Fortnite Battle Royale at the moment.
Its high speed combat and building mechanics
set it apart from other battle royale game modes,
allowing people to engage in a much more
accessible form of 100 player fight to the death battling.
Considering how popular the game has become
and the fact that it's still growing,
I guess it's no surprise that celebrities
were going to start playing Fortnite as well.
Hey guys, Arcade Cloud here,
and today we're counting down our list
of the top 5 celebrities who play Fortnite Battle Royale.
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Number five, Chance the Rapper.
As you can probably tell by the name,
Chance the Rapper is well, a rapper.
He was born in 1993 and since starting his career,
has won a whole bunch of awards for his music
including Best New Artist,
Best Collaboration and Best Mixtape.
With the hectic lifestyle of being a world-class musician,
it may be hard to imagine Chance the Rapper
sitting down to play some video games,
but when he does, Fortnite is at the top of his list.
In fact, he loves the game so much
that he even sent a tweet to Nintendo of America
to try to get the game on the Nintendo Switch.
I mean, that would be pretty awesome, right?
Well, I guess if it happens, we now
have Chance the Rapper to thank.
Like most Fortnite players, Chance the Rapper
has some good games and some bad games,
and sometimes when he loses, he gets mad
and posts videos up on his Instagram story.
In this clip, Chance had been killed
by a player called Jreiley427,
a death which just cost him the number two spot
in that game's leaderboard.
Chance doesn't exactly sound super angry
like some people do when they lose a game,
but you can tell that he's only
just keeping his rage under wraps.
Now, I don't know about you, but if I get killed
late on in a game of Fortnite,
I usually stick around the see
if the guy who killed me ends up winning.
I guess it's because if you get killed by someone
and they win the game, it's not as bad
as if you get killed by a loser.
I guess Chance and I have that in common
because he stuck around to the end
to see if Jreiley427 came out on top.
He didn't; Chance got killed by a loser.
Also, if you're paying attention to the screen,
he actually managed to get into the top three
without getting a single kill.
And I don't know if that's impressive or just bad.
Number four, JTBrown23.
It's always awesome to see the worlds
of normal sports and esports collide,
and JTBrown23 sits directly between the two.
JT's day job is that of a winger
on the Anaheim Ducks ice hockey time.
In ice hockey, the winger is a forward player
who mainly sticks to the sides of the ice rink.
Wingers are usually divided up
into the two different types, defensive and offensive.
JT's style is more offensive, leading up him to pick up
quite a few goals and points in his athletic career.
Before he started at the Ducks,
JT was part of the Tampa Bay Lightning's squad,
knocking back eight goals and 22 points
over the course of 78 season games,
putting him third based on the team with a +16 rating.
I'm not sure how much the skills of an ice hockey winger
translate over to the accuracy and strategic building
needed in a game of Fortnite,
but if you wanna find out,
you can check out JT's Twitch page, JTBrown23.
That's right, JT isn't just a famous ice hockey player.
He's a streamer with almost 6,000 followers on Twitch.
He plays the Xbox One version of the game,
and considering he's already Tier 64 in Season Three,
it's safe to say he probably plays the game quite a lot.
By the end of his most recent three-hour stream,
JT was able to pick up three wins,
which is pretty respectable for someone
who would have split their time between playing Fortnite
and practicing the high intensity sport of ice hockey.
Number three, XXXTentacion.
Considering how popular Fortnite actually is,
it probably isn't surprising to hear that
more than one rapper is getting their Fortnite fix.
XXXTentacion is a rapper from Florida
who started off on SoundCloud back in 2014.
Since then, he's released one album last year
called 17 and will be releasing
another album called Bad Vibes Forever later this year.
His first album managed to debut at number two
on the Billboard 200 and the lead single
managed to hit number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100.
So, he has some pretty good sales behind him.
That's pretty much expected when you cover
so many genres, though, because X is not only into rap.
He's produced hip hop, rap rock, trap, R&B, emo hip hop,
alt rock and lo-fi music over the years.
And with such a widespread of genres,
it isn't surprising that he has a wide audience.
X plays Fortnite on the PS4 and sometimes he plays
on stream with the Youtuber ImDontaiGaming.
Unlike people who game professionally for their job,
it seems like X is in it for the fun.
He doesn't care about winning,
he doesn't care about getting shot,
he just cares about having
the most amount of fun in the game.
That's not to say he doesn't get hyped
when he gets some kills, though.
X can get just as hype as anyone when he scores some kills.
Number two, JuJu Smith.
JuJu Smith-Schuster is number 19 on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He's a wide receiver, and for those of us
who don't follow football because we're nerds,
they're a kind of player who's basically
like the linchpin of the entire team.
They're the key player
in most of the passing plays of a game.
They play out near the sidelines,
furthest away from the rest of the team,
and use their superior speed to make their plays.
To be a wide receiver, you need to have
power, speed, situational awareness and reaction times.
I guess when it comes to gaming in general,
JuJu's pro football skills come in handy,
because not only does he play Fortnite Battle Royale,
he's also part of the FaZe Clan.
Now that the NFL season is over, JuJu has actually
moved into the FaZe house and has started spending
more time uploading videos on his Youtube channel
and streaming Fortnite on his Twitch channel.
I'm sure after playing a long session of Fortnite,
you've wondered what it was actually like
to experience the game in real life.
Well, I guess that JuJu Smith has wondered that too,
because in the video he posted on Twitter,
he basically recreates the beginning of every
Fornite Battle Royale game ever.
The camera pans around at JuJu hitting things
with a toy axe that's glowing a bunch of different colors.
Clearly, he's trying to grab some resources to build
before the fight starts.
Then, just like any good Fortnite player knows to do,
he puts his axe away and throws out some emotes
because everyone knows that a game is destined to fail
if you don't do a dab and a cowboy dance
at least once before you get going.
Number one, Lil Yachty.
Playing Fortnite for the first time
is always a pretty difficult thing to do,
especially if you've never played
a battle royale style game before.
All of the new mechanics aren't exactly explained to you.
You're just sort of dropped into this map
out of a giant floating bus onto an island
filled with weapons and you're expected
to just know what to do or learn by dying a whole bunch.
No one's immune from that first game of Fortnite,
not even the American rapper and singer Lil Yachty.
Although he may be well known for his music,
he definitely is not well known
for his Fortnite playing skills,
and that's because back in December,
they were basically nonexistent.
So far, Lil Yachty has only released one album,
but there's another one on the way called Lil Boat 2
set to be released later this month.
Well, that's unless Yachty's time playing Fortnite
doesn't somehow set him back past his deadline.
In this clip, we see Yachty playing Fortnite
for the first time somewhere around Christmas.
It's pretty clear that he's never played
a battle royale game before,
especially not one as colorful and strange as Fortnite.
He pretty much doesn't know how to do anything
in the game and gets killed
by a guy with a pickaxe pretty much instantly.
His second game goes a little bit better,
like just a little bit.
He manages to pick up some guns
and then gets picked out from behind.
But considering Yachty dropped $99 on V-Bucks,
you know he's probably still
playing this game to this very day.
And there you have it, our list of the top five celebrities
who play Fortnite Battle Royale.
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