Fortnite burst onto the gaming and creator scene in 2017. By 2018, streamers like Ninja, Chica, Gotaga, and Dakotaz helped turn the 100-player shooter into a phenomenon.
Now, in 2025, Fortnite is much more than just its humble loot and shoot roots. Alongside the nail-biting battle royale chaos it’s game is known for, Epic Games has added the Guitar Hero 3-like Fortnite Festival, a Minecraft-inspired mode called Lego Fortnite Odyssey, and the ability to allow creators to make their own game modes. But even as the game’s scope expanded and exploded, Epic Games has remained focused on the creators who are directly responsible for Fortnite’s success.
Acknowledging the importance of its creator economy, Epic regularly celebrated its community with cosmetic additions and new skins. The Icon series honored top Twitch streamers and YouTubers, reinforcing the bond between the game and key influencers. While not every Icon skin was universally loved—some were fire, others less so—these releases confirmed Epic’s commitment to creators.
Inspired by the growing collection of Icon creator skins, which is set to include Kai Cenat as the latest addition on Friday, Sept. 12, we narrowed down the top ten to identify the best collaborations thus far. To determine the ranking, we considered each skin’s visual design, relevance to the creator’s brand, and overall impact within the community. We gave extra weight to skins that pushed stylistic boundaries or celebrated gaming milestones.
Without further ado, here’s our list of the best Fortnite creator collaborations.
Released: Sep 25, 2024
Rubius ranks among the top Fortnite creator collaborations for his visually striking skin that transforms him into something straight out of a comic book. Based on his Virtual Hero comic series’ Mad Kat persona, the Norwegian-Spanish YouTuber and Twitch streamer’s skin is highly customizable, with options for hair, glasses colors, and unique aura effects. It’s not the most frequently used, but Rubius stands out for both design and relevance. Unfortunately, though, this skin is nowhere near being the best on the list.
Released: Feb 26, 2023
Flakes Power deserves his place high on this list thanks to a collaboration that radiates charm, optimism, and joy. The Brazilian YouTuber’s skin, which features two styles (original and Phantom Power) and a glow effect, accurately captures the creator’s personality and on-screen persona. The skin’s bundle adds a logo-emblazoned back bling and a Phantom-style transformation emote, though the included electric pickaxe is probably the less memorable part of the set. Flakes Power ranks not only for design but also for breaking ground as the first Brazilian Icon series creator skin outside celebrity collabs—a significant milestone for diversity and representation. Ws in the chat.
Released: Nov 13, 2020
Since Fortnite’s debut, the Australian YouTuber has been a leader in the content creation space, entertaining fans with challenge-driven videos that have amassed over 90 million views. The demand for fun challenges never waned, making Lachlan’s inclusion in our ranking well warranted. So, it was only right that Epic Games blessed the Australian YouTuber with a skin of his own.
The skin resembles Lachlan, with a design that appears to aim for a heroic interpretation of the gamer. Drawing on Lachlan’s PWR gaming organization, his Icon skin incorporates electricity and movement in its design language across the back bling, emote, and pickaxe. Quiet as kept, Lachlan’s pickaxe, back bling, and emote were so dope that the assets were used again when Epic Games added DC Comics’ The Flash to the game in 2021.
Released: May 8, 2022
In Chica’s Icon series reveal trailer, the gamer briefly explained what she wanted her skin to represent: “Puerto Rico because I was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and I want it to show my community, LGBTQIA+, and [my community], my Pollos!” And you know what, Epic Games did not let her down.
Chica’s skin includes some of the best uses of Fortnite’s reactive and variant style features across any of the Icon series costumes to date. The skin comes with three different styles for players to choose from, including the Puerto Rico flag-inspired default form, Prismatic Streak, and Royale Streak. However, the illest aspect of the design is the Hunter Mask, which changes color and appearance depending on the style the player chooses. The best combination for this skin, in my humble opinion, has to be the Prismatic style with the Hunter Mask.
Go ahead and look at the skin on Fortnite, right now — it’s fire, gang.
Released: Jun 16, 2024
If you were to look up the definition of a wholesome Fortnite creator, you would most likely see a picture of Nick Eh 30. The Canadian gamer has been grinding the battle royale title since Chapter 1 and, throughout all of the game’s highest and lowest moments, has remained a beacon of light in the Fortnite community. Now that I think about it, Nick should have been one of the first to receive an Icon skin in the game, but I digress.
Epic made Nick’s skin one of their finest collaborations. It has three customizable options: helmet, accessory, and style. The King style grants a crown with electrified cybernetic details—a badass look. Hitting opponents with his Eh Crown pickaxe triggers the “Ehhhhh-mazing” voice line, one of Nick’s many known signature catchphrases. The skin bundle also includes an emote featuring Nick’s original music, “Never Back Down.”
Nick Eh 30 said during his reveal stream that Epic took over two years to develop his skin. The care shows. #ForTheEhTeam
Released: Sep. 23, 2022
At first, I wasn’t impressed by Sypher PK’s Icon skin. I saw the costume from afar and thought it was “meh.” But then my colleague Jake showed me the true beauty of Sypher’s costume and I saw the light; my God, I saw the light.
Sypher’s in-game interpretation rocks a simple red shirt, black jeans, and shoes with a bandaged right arm. Nothing too special. When players select the skin’s various style choices, though? That’s where the real magic is. Sypher PK’s Empowered style transforms the Icon skin into Epic Games’ version of Nightmare from Soul Calibur 2 (one of the greatest fighting games of all time, by the way), with a powered-up armored one-arm sleeve replacing the previous bandage. Playing into Sypher’s Oni logo, the armor is fueled by Oni’s Curse, a powerful purple-colored aura that honestly looks hard as hell. A Possessed style option is available too, which simply makes Sypher PK look, well, possessed. Adding to the badassery, players can even don a mask a lá Mortal Kombat 1’s Sub-Zero and Scorpion. Hold up, though, because Sypher’s bundle still isn’t finished. Unlike the other Icon creators, PK’s bundle set comes with i
Sypher’s Icon skin highlights Epic’s attention to its creators and ability to translate player identities into distinctive in-game representations.
Released: June 22, 2020
The Aussie gamer known as Loserfruit was the second content creator to receive her very own skin in Fortnite and was the first female to join the Icon series. In that same breath, Loserfuit’s skin is also the first and only icon series skin to not have any additional features, such as changeable styles, reactive qualities, or even customizable hair. However, the skin makes up for it with one of the sickest rainbow effects in the whole game. Period. Plus her bundle comes with emotes, back bling, and a pickaxe that accurately captures Loserfuit’s essence as a streamer, which, as we’ve seen with some of the collaborations so far, have not always been accurately adapted.
Nonetheless, Loserfruit’s skin is fire; now Epic Games just needs to give my girl some new styles or reactive qualities or something!
Released: March 5, 2021
LazarBeam’s skin pays homage to his humble beginnings as a construction worker for his family’s business — a job he held before gaining fame on YouTube. So, naturally, his skin works in that blue-collar charm; LazarBeam dons construction boots, a company polo, padded gloves, and a handy tool belt draped around his waist. Playing into the construction motif, players can switch between various styles for LazarBeam, which include a hard hat, some shades, or going full vacation mode and sporting a tank top. Lazar’s pickaxe is a sledgehammer called Ol’ Mate Sledgy, a callback to his on-stream weapon of choice when destroying old PCs, and even features an emote dedicated to a well-deserved lunch break. And don’t worry, the Australian gamer’s favorite original Fortnite skin, the Merry Marauder, is well represented with the Baby Gingy back bling — a tiny gingerbread man complete with dope a hard hat of his own. The amount of detail Epic Games put into this Icon skin is incredible and shows you just how much the company appreciates its community.
Released: Sept. 12, 2025
Ever since Kai Cenat and iShowSpeed got their hard-earned win during that unhinged OG Fortnite Marathon stream, the two creators were destined to receive Icon skins of their own. And while we’re still waiting on Speed’s skin, Kai was the first to be blessed by Epic Games.
Kai’s Icon skin was first teased using the Las Vegas Sphere during the creator’s announcement for his Mafiathon 3 stream. Fortnite Cenat hopped out of a portal, rocking a tank top, camouflage shorts — which appear to be a nod to his love for A Bathing Ape — a crispy pair of Air Jordan IVs with a matching hat.Yes, the fit sounds basic on paper, but in my opinion, the beauty lies in that simplicity.
With Kai’s skin, I think Epic Games has mastered its ability to bring creators to life without making them look off-model, while fine-tuning animations, emotes, and other details. Put simply: Kai looks like Kai—what a concept and a milestone. However, the tank top variant isn’t the only skin Kai received. Cenat was also blessed with an AMP version of himself, one that literally radiates aura, complete with a Gold chain and watch, his signature Black Crocs, and an AMP-branded hat.
But wait — that’s not all! Cenat’s Icon skin bundle includes a pickaxe decorated with his AMP detailing, because of course, we gotta get these Ws by Any Means Possible, a cute Hamster companion named Lil’ Cenat, which utilizes the game’s revamped Pet feature, and a second back bling modeled after his busted ass chair, which features a special guest. Additionally, Epic Games added the Tylil Dance soundtracked to “Violent Crimes” by Kanye West, marking the first song from Ye to be featured in the popular shooting game. Fye.
And let me say this, Kai Cenat getting a skin is a special moment for Black boys and girls who look up to him and his friends. Representation matters, and it’s going to be special to see many of them play with their favorite creator, who looks like them, in a game they love. And who knows, there might be a child watching this happen now who will get their own video game skin one day — all mentally possible because they saw Kai and AMP do it. Ws in the chat.
Regardless of how dope this skin is, though, this Icon series costume isn’t the best yet…
Released: Jan. 17, 2020
Ninja arguably ranks at the top of our list, not just for being first but for doing it right. Yes, we know that Summit1G’s 2018 skin arrived in the game earlier, but Ninja was the first official Icon series creator.
Epic Games made a statement by going all out for his collaboration, setting the standard for those that followed.
Ninja was there at the very beginning, streaming and making Fortnite content so popular that he wound up becoming one of the de facto faces of the game. I mean, he was so big that he was invited to Times Square to get people to do a Fortnite dance in the rai—actually, let’s not talk about that. Anyway, Epic took Tyler Blevins’ gamer name to heart when designing his Icon; the company draped the player in full ninja garb, complete with katana pickaxes, and one of the illest idle stances ever. My boy looks like he’s about to hit you with a crazy cross chop. Ninja’s character has five extra styles, such as a reactionary feature, a masked variant, a Fortnite Raven version, and the Blitz Boss form — the only Icon skin that received a skin from the recently added Blitz game mode. The bundle was complete with Ninja’s signature Pon Pon dance transformed into an emote to celebrate racking up royale Ws.
Looking back at the moment Ninja received his Icon skin, it cemented him as one of the most famous streamers and Fortnite creators on the internet. It’s difficult not to get emotional thinking about how perfectly Epic Games managed to capture Blevins at the peak of his powers.