Ashely Claudino is an Evergreen Staff Writer from Portugal. She has a Translation degree from the University of Lisbon (2020, Faculty of Arts and Humanities). Nowadays, she mostly writes Fortnite and Sims 4 content for The Best War Games.
Accolades have been in Fortnite for a few years now, but a few seasons ago, Epic Games decided that it wanted fans to take them more seriously than ever. Before, gamers would be rewarded XP for completing certain Accolades, but unless they memorized them after getting them for the first time, there was no way of knowing what they had to do to unlock them.
This is why an Accolades collection was added to Fortnite, allowing players to check them at any time they'd like. This feature incentivizes fans to try to complete all Accolades available and acquire them as many times as possible so they can compare their stats with their friends near the end of the season.
Updated on March 4, 2025, by Ashely Claudino: As is standard whenever a Fortnite season launches, Epic Games reset and changed many of the Accolades available in Chapter 6 Season 2. This season, many Accolades changed categories and 71 were removed or entirely. While before gamers were rewarded for various tiers of similar Accolades, many of them were vaulted and replaced by a medium-difficulty version, rather than allowing fans to finish the easiest and hardest tiers.
How to Get Accolades in Fortnite
There are 100 Accolades to unlock in Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2, 71 less than last season. Accolades work like in-game achievements, and players will naturally unlock most of them simply by playing Fortnite Battle Royale. However, some of them require gamers to do specific tasks in-game, and they won't be able to get them unless they check out the Accolades list in the Collection tab. The Collection tab can be found in the Quests menu, which can be accessed while in the lobby.
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Players should make a note of the Accolades they'd like to unlock and then play a match following its exact requirements. For example, the "Knife to a Gun Fight" Accolade can only be obtained if the player wins a match only dealing damage with melee weapons - doing this by chance is nearly impossible.
Complete Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 2 Accolades List
Here are the various Accolade categories in Fortnite:
First in Match Accolades
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Accolade
Description
1
Early Bird
First player to pick up a legendary or better item
2
Finders Keepers
First player to collect a weapon from an eliminated player