Could the Skull Trooper Return to the Fortnite Daily Item Shop in Season 6?

Season 6 of Fortnite Battle Royale is finally here, and the community is now anxiously awaiting to see what kinds of new cosmetic items Epic Games will bring to the daily item shop throughout the next few months. However, one skin that many members of the Fortnite community are hoping to see make a return to the daily item shop for Fortnite in Season 6 is the fan favorite Skull Trooper skin. 

Fortnite - Skull Trooper Skin

The Skull Trooper was first released back in Season 2 of Fortnite when the title was nowhere near as popular as it is today. It was released alongside a whole slew of other Halloween themed cosmetic items during October of last year. Unfortunately for newer players, the Skull Trooper skin has not been available for purchase since then, which has in turn made the Skull Trooper one of the rarest skins in the popular battle royale game.

With Season 6 of Fortnite taking place right through Halloween of 2018, players have begun to speculate that Epic Games could possibly be bringing the rare outfit back to the daily item shop around Halloween, as the title is gearing up for a Halloween theme with decorations and other spooky items making an appearance on the map lately. 

One of these players is OpTic Gaming content creator and popular Fortnite community member Jack "CouRage" Dunlop. While watching the Season 6 trailer for the first time, CouRage states when the Skull Trooper skin makes an appearance that the skin is "definitely coming back". 

Another reason that points in the favor of the Skull Trooper making a return to the daily item shop for Fortnite in Season 6 for the Halloween season is how Epic Games has shown in the past that it is not afraid to release rare skins that have only been featured in the daily item shop for very short periods of time.

The two prime examples of this would be the Red Knight Skin and Power Chord skin who had both been seen as two of the rarest in the battle royale title, until Epic Games had made them available in the daily item shop once again. Back when the Red Knight was first added back into the Fortnite daily item shop, CouRage explained why he felt that the community should expect to see Epic Games release rare cosmetic items from the very early days of Fortnite Battle Royale again. 

Red Knight returning means that I truly think it is only a matter of time before every “rare skin” returns to the shop.

It follows how Epic Games wants Fortnite to be inclusive. Gives the new players a chance to have legendary items. Also, removes the account selling scams.

— OpTic CouRage (@CouRageJD) July 4, 2018

While there will no doubt be plenty of excited players waiting to acquire the Skull Trooper skin if it does indeed make a return to the daily item shop of Fortnite this Halloween season, there is also a significant portion of the community who feel that Epic Games should not add back the older and rarer outfits.

The reasoning for this notion is that this section of the community feel that players who have supported the battle royale game from its early days, when many thought it would just be "another battle royale game", and bought the likes of the Skull Trooper skin should be rewarded by continuing to posses a rare skin which would no longer be the case if Epic Games allowed the newer set of players that  have come in later seasons to purchase the Skull Trooper skin.