Fortnite has no shortage of unique and highly sought-after skins. Everything from originals to Star Wars and Batman to Marvel—there's something for everyone. But there are those who seek out the truly rare and unique. When it comes to determining how rare a skin is, we base it on how long ago the item was in the Item Shop. Otherwise, it becomes too subjective. Keep scrolling past the rarest Fortnite skins and you'll find our lists of rarest back blings, emotes, gliders, pickaxes, wraps, music, and bundles in the Fortnite store. So, with the ground rules established, let's get into it!
The Infiltrator skin is a rare outfit that was released on November 19, 2017. It's one of the OG skins, as it was around during Season 1 of Chapter 1. It was last available on August 1, 2019.
Black Widow Outfit
One of the first Marvel skins to come to Fortnite was the Black Widow outfit. It was part of the Avengers set that was released on April 25, 2019. It was last available on May 6, 2019.
Special Forces
Special Forces is the rarest of the rare. It was released on November 1, 2017, during Season 1 of Chapter 1. It was last available on January 24, 2019.
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This is more as a suggestion, but try making just one of Tron skins appear on rarest, its 10 of them and they are gonna take a lot of space(like the snakepit one does)
so, listing off: Munitions major,Tango,steelsight, Deo, Yeehaw, all returned from skins(id check the ones not on 50 bc a couple returned too)
Halloween backblings returned(14-19)
Breezy, tsss, Fandangle, busy and some others on emotes page returned
Mainframe returned
Bottom feeder, crossroads returned
and a couple of rare wraps returned too
list is all outdated at this point right? i can mention the ammount of items on vault, rare streaks, and such that returned this or past week and are still on list
The Ice Queen outfit and the Snow Day emote should be on these lists as they’ve not been released for over a year, just because they’re Holiday cosmetics it doesn’t mean they’re not rare
uh, shouldnt Pivot glider and angular axe not be on the list? I mean, both are from reflex set and not returning, and Reflex is not on rarest skins one so I believe both shouldnt be on gliders & Pickaxes
This is a mostly automated list. It features the rarest skins. I’ll look into the rarity of those skins and see if they’re worth mentioning, but our primary method of determining what belongs on this list is the frequency in which they appear in the item shop.
This list is updated automatically and is set only to exclude holiday items. We wanted to include the holiday items, but since they only show up once a year, the list is filled with Holiday items if we don’t exclude them. Otherwise, the “rarity” is sorted by the last time they were featured in the shop. We’re trying to adjusting this list to better suit the interests of our readers, but at the moment, they’ll have to stay. Thanks for noticing this, though! That’ll be something to consider when we give this article a makeover.
Something I always thought would be super cool to see is a Top 100 rarest Fortnite items (skins, emotes, sprays, backblings, banners, etc) of all time, not just item shop wise but to really think about how few people may have it. I know it would be very hard and sort of dominated by banners (specifically stw banners) but it would be so cool.
Caution came back and a few other skins I thought u should know man in case you update the page
Hey thanks for letting us know, but when the site refresh happens this list gets updated, so it was already removed when I looked at it 🙂
This is more as a suggestion, but try making just one of Tron skins appear on rarest, its 10 of them and they are gonna take a lot of space(like the snakepit one does)
Sadly I don’t think that’s possible. BUT I’ll see what I can do, as it’s a great idea! Thank you, Ampha!
dozer should not be here
Fixed!
This really needs updated. At least 10 of the items in this list have come back in the last few weeks
just missing to remove far out man and dreamflower, both returned w tidy
We’ve fixed the page! Let me know if it’s accurate!
so, listing off: Munitions major,Tango,steelsight, Deo, Yeehaw, all returned from skins(id check the ones not on 50 bc a couple returned too)
Halloween backblings returned(14-19)
Breezy, tsss, Fandangle, busy and some others on emotes page returned
Mainframe returned
Bottom feeder, crossroads returned
and a couple of rare wraps returned too
list is all outdated at this point right? i can mention the ammount of items on vault, rare streaks, and such that returned this or past week and are still on list
Steelsight returned
uh, is it normal that opera browsers dont update at all? i’ve checked on my chrome and page updates correctly, but on opera it doesnt
Are you using Opera GX or normal Opera?
Lazy shuffle has returned too
Sypherpk locker bundle isnt returning w icon skin being a thing, so I think it might be better to remove it from bundles
Airhead and Maverick are back
I had the Fresh emote and refunded it 🤦♂️
Very nice article. I absolutely love this website. Stick with it!
Hotwire is back
The Ice Queen outfit and the Snow Day emote should be on these lists as they’ve not been released for over a year, just because they’re Holiday cosmetics it doesn’t mean they’re not rare
King Krab is back
Galaxy skin?!
uh, shouldnt Pivot glider and angular axe not be on the list? I mean, both are from reflex set and not returning, and Reflex is not on rarest skins one so I believe both shouldnt be on gliders & Pickaxes
Rhinestone glider is back
Dude, u fr forgot ab Galaxy Skin????
will there be a list update because skins came out
toxic tagger, zina, and riot have all come out
Synth came back
Grit came back
uh, Both clash and matchpoint returned, idk if its a visual glitch for me or its really not updated
Wherea clash can clash and roit return already
Quick question could you throw a honorable mention to the OG football skins.
This is a mostly automated list. It features the rarest skins. I’ll look into the rarity of those skins and see if they’re worth mentioning, but our primary method of determining what belongs on this list is the frequency in which they appear in the item shop.
The OG football skins are never going to return, they were replaced by the new models, therefore they don’t belong in the list.
This list is updated automatically and is set only to exclude holiday items. We wanted to include the holiday items, but since they only show up once a year, the list is filled with Holiday items if we don’t exclude them. Otherwise, the “rarity” is sorted by the last time they were featured in the shop. We’re trying to adjusting this list to better suit the interests of our readers, but at the moment, they’ll have to stay. Thanks for noticing this, though! That’ll be something to consider when we give this article a makeover.
Something I always thought would be super cool to see is a Top 100 rarest Fortnite items (skins, emotes, sprays, backblings, banners, etc) of all time, not just item shop wise but to really think about how few people may have it. I know it would be very hard and sort of dominated by banners (specifically stw banners) but it would be so cool.
Clash is my rarest skin that I bought.
Uh, just pointing out but sash sargeant is still on the top 6 rarest thing even tho it has returned last month to the shop
Good catch! I updated that list.