If you are looking for Fortnite's Rarest Skins then we've got all the rarest outfits, back bling, pickaxes, emotes, gliders, and items in this post. We're including the top 50 rarest skin based on how long ago they've been seen in the item shop. This isn't a perfect methodology, but it's as close to a scientific-method as we can get for this kind of list.
Rare skins in Fortnite has been a controversial subject. Players that have them don't want them to return because they want the reward of being around in the beginning of the game (OGs). Newer players obviously want to get a chance to grab all the skins they like.
Epic has made an interesting compromise for the Skull Trooper skin. This was a very rare skin and hadn't been in the shop for a year. When they brought it back, they gave OG owners of the skin a style that will not be available for people who buy the skin new. This is a nice way to reward older players, while not keeping popular skins away from people who just got into the game.
The rarest skin in Fortnite is probably Aerial Assault Trooper! Why do I think that? Well, because it's just not that great of a skin. While most people would put Renegade Raider at the #1 spot, but if you played back when it came out, you most likely picked it up. It's just an overall better skin, so it's way less likely that people bought Aerial Assault Trooper because it's a pretty bland outfit.
The fact of the matter is that we have no idea which skin is the rarest. There's no official way to tell! Epic would have to release the numbers or just outright tell us what skin is least owned across all accounts. It's unlikely that this will ever happen.
What are the top 5 rarest skins in Fortnite?
This is very tough, so I'm going to try to compile a list out of all the skins by age and how hard they were to get at the time. Here's the top 5 rarest skins in my opinion:
I think the first four are pretty obvious, these are really old skins when the game had just really come out. Fortnite wasn't a smash hit straight out of the gate, and it took some time to get going. So, I think those early battle pass skins are pretty rare. Double Helix is on the list because I'm not convinced people bought a Nintendo Switch to get a Fortnite skin. You likely already had a Switch, and I don't think a skin was going to encourage you to get one. With promotional skins, it's very hard to know how popular they are.
What are the rarest item shop skins?
The way we're determining the list of the rarest item shop skins is by looking at the skins that haven't been seen in the longest period of time. However, we're leaving out skins that were exclusive to special events or promotional material. It wouldn't be fair to include them since most of them were supposed to be in the shop only one time! The following list represents the six outfits that have been missing from the item shop longer than any other outfit.
Special ForcesInfiltratorSledgeMunitions MajorVectorSureshot
Most of these skins haven't been in the shop for over 900 days, and we're not sure when they'll make it back.
These are skins you CANNOT get anymore. They won't be back again unless Epic changes their policy completely. I'm only including the skins from the very first season of Fortnite because we know for sure these are rare. Trying to determine whether or not certain Battle Pass Seasons are rare is impossible. These skins were available for purchase if you got your Season level to a certain point. You could then purchase them with V-Bucks.
Outfits
Gliders
Pickaxe
Rarest Fortnite Item Shop Cosmetics
Now, these skins are ones you might actually have a chance to get. These are being determined automatically based on the last time they were seen in the item shop. Do NOT ask if a certain skin is rare, there's no way to tell in any real practical sense.
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Hey, my name is Mark, and I'm a video game enthusiast! My earliest memory was playing Worms on the Amiga against my Godmother, yes the Amiga, massive box type thing, needed eighty-five thousand floppy disks to play one game, maybe a slight exaggeration. Ah, those were the days!
I love RPG’s, and The Legend of Zelda series. Dogs are pretty awesome.
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.
Hello! So, this is a difficult article to handle because many people have different views about what is considered “rare”. Ultimately, we just decided to go with the last time those items showed up in the shop. Some of them were less than 900 days ago, but most of them were more than 900 days. We’re currently figuring out a way to approach this article because there are so many new cosmetics coming out that it’s nearly impossible to keep track (even with the automatically generated list).
Uh, shouldnt Hacivat be removed from the rarest thing? It already came back to the shop and such
Also i dont think Codename E.L.F should be on that list, since it has been Bundle skin for more than 1 year, and we all know its not coming back to the shop
We’ve updated the list to better represent the list of the rarest item shop skins. I didn’t see Hacivat on the list, though. Does it still show up for you on this list? Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
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.
Stingray skin came back, 3 days ago.
Uh, Stingray has returned 2 days ago
Blockade runner is back
Pls remove dare and wrangler off the list they both came back
Dare and wrangler came back
Shade came back
Also just out of curiosity, why’s only sledge showing on the 900+ days thing when it shares the same day w Vector and sureshot is less rare?
Hello! So, this is a difficult article to handle because many people have different views about what is considered “rare”. Ultimately, we just decided to go with the last time those items showed up in the shop. Some of them were less than 900 days ago, but most of them were more than 900 days. We’re currently figuring out a way to approach this article because there are so many new cosmetics coming out that it’s nearly impossible to keep track (even with the automatically generated list).
Sash Sergeant (my rarest skin) came back
Dare and wrangler came back
Uh, shouldnt Hacivat be removed from the rarest thing? It already came back to the shop and such
Also i dont think Codename E.L.F should be on that list, since it has been Bundle skin for more than 1 year, and we all know its not coming back to the shop
We’ve updated the list to better represent the list of the rarest item shop skins. I didn’t see Hacivat on the list, though. Does it still show up for you on this list? Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
It did, thanks for correcting It 🙂
HACIVAT came back
The Aerobic Assassin skin has returned to the item shop. Her set are rare.
Aerobic assassin came back
What about cliffhanger the pickaxe is that rare
I’m pretty sure Wiggle Wild was recently released…