The first weekend of the World Cup qualification in Fortnite is over, and especially the Baller has dominated the rounds. However, this vehicle brings a problem for the meta.
How is the World Cup qualification being destroyed by this? The Baller provides players with protection. Additionally, it allows you to reach places that you cannot access without this vehicle.
Anyone without a Baller by the end of the round is at a disadvantage. You can shoot at the vehicles, but this leaves you quite exposed to your opponents. Moreover, the Baller can then quickly escape. Without the vehicle, you are significantly less mobile.
How the Baller dominated the World Cup qualification
This is shown in videos: If you watch videos from the round endings over the weekend, you can see the Baller everywhere. A video was published on Reddit that shows 12 different Ballers, while only one player is seen who is without the vehicle.
This player clearly has trouble playing, as he doesn’t even know which Baller to shoot at first. In the end, the player is eliminated without a vehicle, while the Ballers continue to jump around.
This is the tactic with the Baller: Many pros have utilized the Baller for their tactics. They usually sit in there with 1500 materials and a good weapon set.
The Baller has a total of 200 health. Therefore, as a player, you gain additional protection that you do not have without a Baller. If the Baller is destroyed, you can quickly build and still have full health.
Furthermore, you can reach higher positions effectively with the Baller and dominate from there. The Baller seems to be the ideal vehicle for the endgame.
That is why it is a problem: The Baller is well-suited for the endgame, but apparently too strong. If you don’t own a Baller, you are almost helpless against this dominance.
Moreover, there are significantly fewer build battles and fights towards the end of the round. It only aims to shoot each other out of the Baller.
Whoever sits in the Baller cannot act on their own; the fights are relatively static: Those who want to attack must get out of their Baller and make themselves a target.
What can be done about it? Epic had already reduced the Baller’s health from 300 to 200 beforehand. However, this did not significantly harm its dominance.
The Baller could be further weakened or removed from the game for the qualification and other tournaments. However, Epic may also aim for such gameplay and keep it as it is. It’ll be interesting to see.
In the meantime, the “Boogie Bomb” has established itself as a means to attack players in the Baller – but to use them, you also need to be on the ground.
The streamers have another problem at the Fortnite World Cup:
