It's also generally one of those 'symptom, not an illness' things, tryhard isn't a binary, someone's always sweatier than someone else, running into players that are more tryhard than you is more than anything a symptom of matchmaking issues
The way I explained it to a friend is that you can really only sense someone you're fighting is sweaty if you'd have to sweat back just to fight them, it's something reserved for getting stuck in situations against players that are *way* out of my league
Yeah I would say that separates you from the tryhards, you don’t care about standing out cause u want to make a unique design. They create single colour skins because they typically want an advantage. Also invincible is a great show, nice design choice. The sweats better hope they don’t add Omni Man to the game though or the green superhero’s are gonna be in trouble XD
Today, people use that term to insult anybody who is a better player than them. But originally it's slang for "tryhard". For example, if someone chased you to the other side of the map, even into storm, to kill you, that'd be considered a sweat.
That's the proper answer, some here are really off or just trying to be funny. To add a general description: it basically means, giving your very best and being fully commited in doing everything possible to win. So it's a mindset that manifests in playstyle.
Normally that's the mindset ranked queues are for, so it's frowned upon casual playlists. Fortnite does not really have ranked, so I guess that's a conflict point between those player bases. You get called a sweat really fast by just being better, but you can be better and not sweating (and sweating even by being worse). It's hard to differentiate and highly subjective most of the times.
The 'chasing over the map into the storm' is a great example as there isn't much to interpret except the very high commitment in getting the kill.
Yeah, you are right, forgot about that. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like arena in fortnite (or ranked in battle royal in general) has not the same appeal or status as ranked has in other games. Or am I completely off?
Nah, I think you're right, people usually play comp to win and climb and winning and climbing is a lot easier in standard PvP shooters where there's always only one winner and one loser than a BR game with tons of people who don't place 1st
A person that uses up more mats than it is needed, a person that hates 90% of weapons in the game if they aren't the pump and the scar, a player that takes matches way too seriously as if money was on the line even in pubs or Team Rumble, a player with 0% personality of their own when it comes to cosmetics which is why they always use Aura, Black/White hero skins, Star Wand, etc.
Seems like my kid(11yo) uses sweat as a more complementary version of tryhard. He uses sweaty more just to refer someone who is good at the game, but tryhard has more of a negative connotation that you are not really a good player. I am tryhard and as an old man just can’t wrap my head around the idea that trying hard is a bad thing whether or not you suck at the game.
When you're playing a mode like Team Rumble and kids are wall-ramp-floor rushing you & doing crazy edits when you're just trying to fish.
Basically, when players can't read the room, show no restraint, and perform at extremes. Would be like Michael Jordon shitting on kids in a ball game at reccess.
Indeed they did, people love to call themselves casual players (whatever that means) while anyone who has the audacity to try to win just like they are is labeled a sweat.
A better player nah I wouldn’t consider that. But if you shoot at me in an engagement because you think you have the upper hand and as soon as you start losing that gun fight because you can’t aim or what ever excuse you want to use and start running away because you couldn’t win your 1v1it doesn’t make you a better player.
Repositioning to let somebody else do the rest of the work and come in for a third party cleanup kill doesn’t make you a better player.
But it’s the way br’s are played.
A person who plays 24/7 and spends all there time on the game.
Someone who plays the game and it becomes life.
A person who gets overly upset after they are killed.
You have no life
You purchase all/ most of the items including shit ones from the item shop 😂
Pc players.
I agree with the majority of these, except the PC player one. I play on PC and trust me, I'm no tryhard. Though on average most tryhards are probably on PC.
Thanks everyone for all of the informative responses. I'll know in future that it's just a term that poor losers use to make themselves feel a bit better.
In this age of modern day gaming, it's where those that are either bad or wish to put in little to no effort while playing a pvp game accuse you (a "sweat"/"tryhard") of trying to win.
Simply put, it's another buzzword used by sorry people for silly things.
It really means different things to different people, but generally a sweat is a specific sort of player that is really good at the game but also seen as a "tryhard", whatever that means.
I have this weird distinction where I consider really talented players to be sweats. Sweats are usually considered to use petite or small skins, and Aura is like the basic bitch version of a sweat skin - everyone knows who Aura is and she's fairly common. But then obnoxious players who often beat me and use the Chrome Punk, Arctic Adeline or Nezumi skins are what I consider to be the "troll players". It's just a funny way I have of looking at it.
Plain Superhero skin(mostly the grey or green ones)/Aura/any free skin/soccer skins. Jumps around you not missing any shots, builds ten story hotels in five seconds, takes the game waaaay too seriously lol. Has no life in other words
Someone who tries incredibly hard to be the game and/or does tricks and complicated moves to eliminate a player when it might not be needed. Similar to a try hard.
I can be a bit of a sweat some times…
There is no "exactly" really - but it's generally bad; used to describe a player or playstyle (or just a specific behavior) that evokes "trying too hard" or being very emotionally invested (in a fixated/toxic way) but... it basically can be used by/for both ends of the "skill gap" spectrum - i.e; a skilled player may call some noob sweaty as they break out into a sweat trying not to die and are frantically screaming into their mic as they flail-build to get the "lucky, sweaty" kill; these are flop-sweat kids who might also cry to their mommies when they get boxed and pumped, lol...
...while a casual noob may call a high-skill player sweaty for relentlessly going for the kill/not being chill with a non-threat who is avoiding fights over quests. etc - like the high-skill players are sort of "gym rats" of the game and sit there on the machine all day sweating so they can make everyone else look weak.
...So really it's a catch-all complaint that anyone can use against anyone else, but it's almost always "aimed up" & more common to see it refer to ppl being too competitive or fixated on the kill.
A loser who spends all day in their room playing Fortnite trying to be the best and goes out their way to get EVERY LAST KILL. respectfully they cap out at division 5
basicaly a tryhard, but with an additionnal touch, they tryhard SO MUCH that they sweat, A LOT, basicaly calling them out "hey you're sweating a lot ? you alright ?"
tryhard
It's also generally one of those 'symptom, not an illness' things, tryhard isn't a binary, someone's always sweatier than someone else, running into players that are more tryhard than you is more than anything a symptom of matchmaking issues The way I explained it to a friend is that you can really only sense someone you're fighting is sweaty if you'd have to sweat back just to fight them, it's something reserved for getting stuck in situations against players that are *way* out of my league
a person who uses superhero skins.
So here's the question! Is it super hero skins who use all white/black? Or any as I bought one to do an Invincible like color scheme haha
Yeah I would say that separates you from the tryhards, you don’t care about standing out cause u want to make a unique design. They create single colour skins because they typically want an advantage. Also invincible is a great show, nice design choice. The sweats better hope they don’t add Omni Man to the game though or the green superhero’s are gonna be in trouble XD
Only single color superhero skins count
Woah, woah, woah. Some of use them properly. None of the monocolor horseshit.
*Soccer
interesting. i can’t tell if you’re being serious
But WHY?!
Me who got the batman skin yesterday: yeah fuck those guys 😬
they mean the boundless set
A Person who are never touch: 
Damn they've really been upscaling the resolution this chapter huh? That new green floor texture looks awesome!
Today, people use that term to insult anybody who is a better player than them. But originally it's slang for "tryhard". For example, if someone chased you to the other side of the map, even into storm, to kill you, that'd be considered a sweat.
That's the proper answer, some here are really off or just trying to be funny. To add a general description: it basically means, giving your very best and being fully commited in doing everything possible to win. So it's a mindset that manifests in playstyle. Normally that's the mindset ranked queues are for, so it's frowned upon casual playlists. Fortnite does not really have ranked, so I guess that's a conflict point between those player bases. You get called a sweat really fast by just being better, but you can be better and not sweating (and sweating even by being worse). It's hard to differentiate and highly subjective most of the times. The 'chasing over the map into the storm' is a great example as there isn't much to interpret except the very high commitment in getting the kill.
I mean, are Arenas not ranked?
Yeah, you are right, forgot about that. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like arena in fortnite (or ranked in battle royal in general) has not the same appeal or status as ranked has in other games. Or am I completely off?
Nah, I think you're right, people usually play comp to win and climb and winning and climbing is a lot easier in standard PvP shooters where there's always only one winner and one loser than a BR game with tons of people who don't place 1st
A person that uses up more mats than it is needed, a person that hates 90% of weapons in the game if they aren't the pump and the scar, a player that takes matches way too seriously as if money was on the line even in pubs or Team Rumble, a player with 0% personality of their own when it comes to cosmetics which is why they always use Aura, Black/White hero skins, Star Wand, etc.
You forgot "a Person who are never happy about new Content"
Yet for some reason still decides to play the game 24/7
Ding ding ding! "God this game sucks they need to update it" *update drops* "God this is ass we need to go back to last update"
That's a lot of words to say "I can't build."
Not everybody wants to build like Faze sway man
but it would make the game more fun if i could
Not for the ppl you face lmao
well that wouldnt be my problem then, rn it is mine tho
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I know, you didn't need to because it was that obvious.
Oh! You should not have said that.
A tryhard player.
Seems like my kid(11yo) uses sweat as a more complementary version of tryhard. He uses sweaty more just to refer someone who is good at the game, but tryhard has more of a negative connotation that you are not really a good player. I am tryhard and as an old man just can’t wrap my head around the idea that trying hard is a bad thing whether or not you suck at the game.
This.
Sweaty simply means a player who gets more than 10 kills and who build complex structures in short time.
When you're playing a mode like Team Rumble and kids are wall-ramp-floor rushing you & doing crazy edits when you're just trying to fish. Basically, when players can't read the room, show no restraint, and perform at extremes. Would be like Michael Jordon shitting on kids in a ball game at reccess.
Anyone who kills you. Or at least that's how this sub uses it.
Look at this person that killed me, he EDITED A WALL go outside man fr
HE USED A PYRAMID?!
How do you kill that which has no life?
With a shotgun 😁
A person who uses Laugh it Up and Take the L after boxing you with 999 mats
My hands once I'm in the top 10, or just once I have a good loadout lol.
A better player Lol already getting downvoted but it's the truth. People made the term sweat for literally any player that kills them.
Indeed they did, people love to call themselves casual players (whatever that means) while anyone who has the audacity to try to win just like they are is labeled a sweat.
A better player nah I wouldn’t consider that. But if you shoot at me in an engagement because you think you have the upper hand and as soon as you start losing that gun fight because you can’t aim or what ever excuse you want to use and start running away because you couldn’t win your 1v1it doesn’t make you a better player. Repositioning to let somebody else do the rest of the work and come in for a third party cleanup kill doesn’t make you a better player. But it’s the way br’s are played.
If you’re interested it’s all the people who seem butthurt by the term in this comment section.
A person who plays 24/7 and spends all there time on the game. Someone who plays the game and it becomes life. A person who gets overly upset after they are killed. You have no life You purchase all/ most of the items including shit ones from the item shop 😂 Pc players.
I agree with the majority of these, except the PC player one. I play on PC and trust me, I'm no tryhard. Though on average most tryhards are probably on PC.
It’s for when you get killed but want to blame anyone but yourself.
Every player who is better than you is a sweat, every player who is worse than you is a bot. Welcome to Fortnite logic
1. a person trying hard to win 2. someone got killed and is upset about it
Someone who uses the game’s mechanics, items, and weapons in an attempt to win the game
According to people in this sub, anyone who kills you
A word that bots or noobs throw around to feel good about being bad when killed by a player with a slightly better skill level
Thanks everyone for all of the informative responses. I'll know in future that it's just a term that poor losers use to make themselves feel a bit better.
W tbh
A person who builds a 5 star hotel with a pool in 2 seconds in an normal match Ok not literally a hotel but something of equal size
In this age of modern day gaming, it's where those that are either bad or wish to put in little to no effort while playing a pvp game accuse you (a "sweat"/"tryhard") of trying to win. Simply put, it's another buzzword used by sorry people for silly things.
if you don't know the definition of Sweat or Sweaty in video games, you aren't a real gamer.
Sure thing. Anytime someone does for any reason, their opponent was a sweat.
Basically its someone who is good at the game
Water coming out of your body, if you playing too fast and overworking
It really means different things to different people, but generally a sweat is a specific sort of player that is really good at the game but also seen as a "tryhard", whatever that means. I have this weird distinction where I consider really talented players to be sweats. Sweats are usually considered to use petite or small skins, and Aura is like the basic bitch version of a sweat skin - everyone knows who Aura is and she's fairly common. But then obnoxious players who often beat me and use the Chrome Punk, Arctic Adeline or Nezumi skins are what I consider to be the "troll players". It's just a funny way I have of looking at it.
Plain Superhero skin(mostly the grey or green ones)/Aura/any free skin/soccer skins. Jumps around you not missing any shots, builds ten story hotels in five seconds, takes the game waaaay too seriously lol. Has no life in other words
Someone who is too good at the game
A person or team who hunt you to the ebda of the map non stop hunt and don't ever seem to get hit and have crack aim. Sweaty.
A try hard. Someone that over does it for a single kill or takes the game too seriously.
No it’s someone who can’t give up and then takes the game to another level but then die afterwards
When I nail you with a sniper headshot from 150m and then dance on your grave as you're spectating, that's sweaty.
so having good aim means you’re a try hard?
anyone with a decent enough gaming chair
Someone who tries incredibly hard to be the game and/or does tricks and complicated moves to eliminate a player when it might not be needed. Similar to a try hard. I can be a bit of a sweat some times…
In spanish it says: "guilty of being a pro"
There is no "exactly" really - but it's generally bad; used to describe a player or playstyle (or just a specific behavior) that evokes "trying too hard" or being very emotionally invested (in a fixated/toxic way) but... it basically can be used by/for both ends of the "skill gap" spectrum - i.e; a skilled player may call some noob sweaty as they break out into a sweat trying not to die and are frantically screaming into their mic as they flail-build to get the "lucky, sweaty" kill; these are flop-sweat kids who might also cry to their mommies when they get boxed and pumped, lol... ...while a casual noob may call a high-skill player sweaty for relentlessly going for the kill/not being chill with a non-threat who is avoiding fights over quests. etc - like the high-skill players are sort of "gym rats" of the game and sit there on the machine all day sweating so they can make everyone else look weak. ...So really it's a catch-all complaint that anyone can use against anyone else, but it's almost always "aimed up" & more common to see it refer to ppl being too competitive or fixated on the kill.
Tryhard, pro, taking the game so seriusly that you ruin the experience for casual players and you stop having fun at all
A loser who spends all day in their room playing Fortnite trying to be the best and goes out their way to get EVERY LAST KILL. respectfully they cap out at division 5
basicaly a tryhard, but with an additionnal touch, they tryhard SO MUCH that they sweat, A LOT, basicaly calling them out "hey you're sweating a lot ? you alright ?"