A tiny little game called Fortnite: Battle Royale, about which you may or may not have heard, continues to be a global sensation, further trouncing early predictions that Epic's free-to-play cash cow is just a flash in the pan. Or maybe it's just a very, very long flash.
Either way, young and adult gamers alike continue to board the battle bus by the millions each day, fighting it out in the hope of securing that tasty chicken dinner... oh wait, wrong battle royale. One of the most definitive aspects of Fortnite are its multitude of skins, so we're taking a look at the rarest ones you may not even ever see. What Are Skins? This should be pretty well known by now, so unless you're not a gamer who happened to bumble into this article, or have by some trick of astronomical chances only ever played titles that didn't have skins you'll know this. That said, we like our bases covered, and some explanation is needed as to why some of these skins are rare today, even though they might have been easy to get in the past.
Being a free-to-play title, Fortnite generates revenue by getting players to purchase v-bucks with real cash that they can then spend on in-game cosmetics. These include skins, which change the appearance of your in-game character, and they cost various amounts of v-bucks. Some are cheaper and thus more common - some skins can be earned without spending money too, these are arguable the most common - while more expensive ones will appear less. Some skins are no longer available simply because they're older, or were part of a limited promotion.
Since skins are essentially an in-game status symbol, most people want to parade around in the newest and fanciest ones. This means that older skins, even if they were cheap or easy to get, may become 'rare' insofar as few people choose them anymore. In other cases, a skin may have been trivial to acquire, but was only available for a brief amount of time, or was attached to some kind of real-world event making them exclusives that cannot be acquired anymore. A number of things affect a skin's rarity. Many of the skins on this list made it here for different reasons, so let's dive into it! The Rarest Skins Purple Skull Trooper
