John Wick has been a big part of the Fortnite Runners season. Not only has the dashing action hero been featured in the Battle Pass, but now he has also been added as a new sprite in Epic’s online multiplayer game.
Since their makeover this season, sprites have become extremely popular in the Fortnite community. During this period, a few special sprites based on notable real-life and fictional personalities were also introduced, such as Vini Jr Sprite and Batman Sprite.
The most recent addition to this list of unique sprites is the John Wick Sprite inspired by the protagonist of the namesake film franchise. Below, you can learn more about this sprite and how you can get your hands on it.
John Wick Sprite availability and usage
Unlike the other sprites introduced so far, the John Wick Sprite is exclusive to Fortnite Reload. However, once get your hands on it and extract it, you can also bring it with you on your escapades in other Fortnite modes, such as Battle Royale.
As an extension of the above possibility, you may also come across the John Wick Sprite in modes other than Reload if someone who extracted it earlier chooses to equip the sprite and bring it to a different mode.
You can put the John Wick Sprite to good use in situations where you are surrounded by enemies. That’s because equipping it grants you the ability to locate nearby opponents by knocking down any one of them.
What this perk helps you do is, when you are in a place crawling with opponents, you can knock one down and immediately mark where the others are lurking. This can prove very beneficial in strategizing your next move or planning a tight escape.
How to find and extract John Wick Sprite in Fortnite
The John Wick Sprite is a Mythic-tier sprite, viz., it’s among the rarest sprites in the highly popular live-service game. It can be obtained from chests in Fortnite Reload or picked up as loot from other players in modes such as the standard Battle Royale and Zero Build. As a result, the primary way to get hold of the sprite involves ransacking through the Reload map and unlocking as many chests as you can.
However, it’s worth noting that extracting the sprite might prove to be more challenging than obtaining it. And that’s down to there being no Extraction Sites in Reload’s map. So, you would have to go back to chest-hunting and look to get a Portable Extractor instead, which, being Legendary-tier, is very hard to come by.
Fortunately, there is another considerably easier way of getting the Portable Extractor. This involves purchasing it from a Mending Machine in exchange for 50 Gold. Moreover, obviously, you can also extract the John Wick Sprite by simply winning the match.
Wrapping up
By restricting the John Wick Sprite’s spawn locations to Fortnite Reload’s map, Epic Games has certainly tried to mix things up a bit. This not only gives players a refreshing change in their quest for sprites but also offers a strong incentive to dive into the recently Simpsons-ified Reload mode.
Overall, it’s a smart move by Fortnite devs to leverage the popularity of sprites and of the Springfield map—whose previous iteration was available in Battle Royale instead—in order to make Reload more appealing and boost its engagement.
