Ninja's Worst Places to Land in Fortnite

Onstream today, popular Twitch star and Fortnite player Tyler “Ninja” Blevins went into detail regarding his picks for the worst places to land in Fortnite, much to the chagrin of his voice chat friends.

The face of RedBull Esports and one of Twitch’s most-watched gamers, Ninja has a long and vibrant history with the Epic Games' made Battle Royale. Making everyone’s ears perk up when he starts to speak his actual opinion on the game that essentially helped make him famous. 

In recent months, Ninja has started to find his stride as he searches for a comfortable cruise speed to set. Where he would refrain from being opinionated while he was setting world viewership and subscriber records, now that things have calmed down a bit, we get to actually hear from Ninja (the person) a lot more. 

Talking about places he hates to drop, Ninja makes a point that plenty of the “hot drop” locations are actually areas in which most players will leave shy on materials and health or even shields.

Ninja’s Worst Place to Land in Fortnite

• Pleasant Park

• Retail Row

• Tilted Towers

“All of those places are like, hot drops, that have not enough Mats and Loot to actually get healing and materials when you come out of it, if another squad lands there,” Ninja said of his three choices. 

Many places in Fornite have become unviable for squads to land now that the siphon-on-kill mechanic has been removed from the game. In order to have a good shot of surviving beyond the first phase of the game, players must accumulate as many healing items, and materials as they can. 

BasicallyIDoWork aka Marcel begged Ninja not to say Pleasant, right before he listed Pleasant. “Heck, Pleasant, sometimes you can come out of there with no shield,” Ninja added. “That place is terrible.” 

In games where half a dozen squads will often land at places like Retail Row, it’s very difficult to leave there with enough resources to survive the rest of the game. That is unless you wipe out every other player that lands there. 

Where do you like to land when you head into a match with your squad?