Fortnite is incredibly intense when you jump from the Battle Bus armed with a team. Playing solo can be suspenseful, but playing as a team requires coordination, chemistry, and a ton of communication. 

Placing well in a duos, trios, or squads tournament will take quite a bit more practice compared to playing alone. Teams will need to feed off each other's energy, move throughout the map together, and engage enemy teams as a unit. Failing to do so could result in an early exit from a match and tournament. 

Check out these tips to make the most out of your next duos, trios, or squads Fortnite PlayStation Cup. 

Find and Play Your Role

Professional Fortnite teams usually abide by roles when they jump from the Battle Bus, although the individual roles aren't particularly strict in their definitions. Players usually fall into one of the following categories: 

• Fragger — the main slayer who leads the team into (and wins) most fights. 
• Medic — player who carries more consumables and monitors their teammates health and shield levels
• In-Game-Leader (IGL) — the teammate that uses their game sense to make rotation decisions and other callouts. 

Other roles exist as well, and some teams combine these roles into hybrid positions based on their strengths and weaknesses. It's important to know what you and your teammates excel at so you can maximize your performance. Is your team good at starting and finishing fights fast? Have two players take on the fragger role with one taking over IGL responsibilities.

Other support items can help players play their part. Chapter 4 Season 1 introduced the Guardian Shield, or an energy shield that can absorb enemy fire, which is good for holding a position, but prevents the player holding it from returning fire. This shield can be used by an IGL or medic to cause a distraction or protect other players who are returning fire in a fight. 

Your role can be whatever you want it to be, just make sure to use what the island gives you to play it well. 

Make Callouts

Any given Fortnite match can go from a quiet looting session to a full blown firefight in seconds. It can be easy to get lost in the action and focus only on what's in front of you without keeping your team in the loop. But that lack of communication is a recipe for disaster. 

Teams should be constantly communicating. Each player should be calling out – and marking with the in-game ping system – what they see during a fight. Enemy locations, flanks, weapon usage, and health levels should all be common knowledge in the middle of a fight. Callouts help teammates focus on the same objective. For example, you can make a group decision to focus fire on the weakest enemy in order to kill them faster, giving your team a numbers advantage. 

Don’t get us wrong, fights can still be hectic. Callouts should be as short and descriptive as possible so teammates can immediately understand what you're saying without having to ask multiple questions. 

Callouts aren't just for fights, either. It's important to let your teammates know what you see while looting as well. You may have an ideal loadout, but they may be missing a shotgun or assault rifle. Communicate, communicate, communicate. 

Split Up, Die Alone

It's unlikely that you'll run into many one-on-one fights during a trios or squads match, so it's important that you stay within a close proximity of your team. Drift too far away and you could end up dead after running into another group. You'll find yourself outnumbered and will most likely lose that fight. Teams need to stick together at all times, especially when rotating or attacking. 

The best time to start a fight is when you have the element of surprise. Instead of firing off shots as soon as you get a whiff of an enemy player, you should inform your teammates and let everyone line up a shot. Attacking together could mean a shorter fight and less health and shield lost. 

Coordinate Augments

A new addition to Chapter 4 Season 1 are Augments. These include a variety of abilities that pop up randomly throughout a match, including those that let you see the next circle or mark enemy opponents when you hit them with an assault rifle. Each player will get to pick four Augments – one at a time with a cooldown period between each – over the course of a match. 

Some Augments are incredibly useful, and only one player needs to activate it for it to benefit the entire team. Storm Mark checks the surrounding area for enemy players and marks them whenever the circle changes. Forecast shows one player the upcoming circle inside the current circle on their map and mini map. Both are incredibly useful to help plan rotations and check if an enemy is close by. For each, only one player needs to activate them. The first player who sees them pop up should activate and then notify their teammates. 

That player can then communicate the information they get from the Augment, letting other players grab other useful Augments like Bush Warrior, Bloodhound, Aerialist, and Splash Medic. 

Share Loot, Share the Load

The loot you gather in a duos, trios, or squads match is your team's loot. It'll do you no good to engage in a fight when your partners have barely enough shotgun ammo to defend themselves. That's why it's important to share loot – especially ammo and consumables – no matter what. 

If you have six shotgun shells and your teammate has zero, give them three. If you have two Small Shield Potions and no shield, make sure your teammate gets one of them if their shield is depleted. Your team plays as a unit, and refusing to share will make that unit weaker in the long run. 

Now it's time to put this information to the test in an upcoming Fortnite PlayStation Cup. Playing as a team is an entirely different experience when compared to flying solo, but practice makes perfect. You'll be a team player in no time by using this guide and listening to your squad.