Epic recently brought the divisive mobility item the Crash Pad Jr. back into Fortnite’s loot pool, providing a flawed yet useful movement tool.
Key Highlights:
- The Crash Pad Jr. is a single-use trampoline players can toss and bounce on.
- It originally released in Chapter 2 and was recently unvaulted.
- Some criticise it as useless since fall damage prevention bugs out.
- But it still helps reposition and offers an emergency landing option.
- The Crash Pad Jr. spawns as floor loot and in chests.
- It stacks up to 6 slots so carrying some proves useful.
- Mobility remains important, especially in the no-build mode.
The Crash Pad Jr. functions as a portable trampoline that characters can quickly deploy on the ground or beneath themselves mid-air. It provides a handy mobility trick to avoid fall damage or reach higher ledges.
But some players call the Crash Pad Jr. useless since its fall damage negation often glitches out, causing users to splat despite attempting to negate.
This causes the community to favour the trusted shockwave grenades for movement across the map as an ideal replacement. Shockwaves are currently in the item pool, so carrying them over the recently unvaulted Crash Pads makes sense.
Yet when working properly, it grants quick repositioning and an emergency landing option.
Even with its flaws, the mobility item deserves a slot as a situational escape tool. Its potential merits outweigh its irritating defects.
Filling a Vital Battle Royale Niche
In the high-stakes world of Fortnite Battle Royale, mobility equals survival. Rotating between zones safely or escaping confrontations often depends on items offering speedy traversal or quick repositioning.
By occasionally providing an extra mid-air jump or negating gravity’s laws, the Crash Pad Jr. supplies a handy trick for specific scenarios. Players find themselves trapped atop towers or needing to cross open terrain where this modest tool can make a difference.
It may not be an ideal item, but the item’s situational benefits justify its return from the vault.
Easy to Obtain Yet Limited Use
As an Uncommon rarity item, the Crash Pad Jr. frequently pops out of chests and floor loot. Stocking a few in your limited inventory slots poses little issue.
Yet with only six maximum stack size, players still must be deliberate about when to play their trampoline cards. Mindlessly tossing them will quickly squander your supply.
Since it occupies a valuable equipment slot, carrying just one or two for emergencies makes the most sense. But finding them rarely proves troublesome.
Imperfect but Welcome Utility
While the drawbacks of movement limit its overall utility compared with more reliable options, its low rarity makes it a convenient supplementary movement tool.
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In the right circumstances, its unique vertical or horizontal repositioning shines. And incremental advantages augment survival odds in the high-stakes Battle Royale environment.
So despite its clunky implementation, the Crash Pad Jr. rewards clever opportunistic use for those able to look past imperfections. At worst, it eats an inventory slot. At best, it wins you the match.