How to Mantle in Fortnite—What is Mantling?

Fortnite is full of quirks and things for players to do, including new challenges and rewards like the most recent Paradise Discord Quest. Sometimes these challenges will ask you to do certain things, like "mantle five times in five seconds." Completing these challenges can be difficult if you aren't sure what the challenge is asking you to do.

If you've encountered any challenges asking you to mantle but aren't quite sure what mantling is, you aren't alone. Mantling can often be confused with climbing, and chances are you've probably done it a lot in Fortnite without even realizing it. But, just to avoid any extra confusion, let's go over what mantling is in Fortnite, and how you can complete challenges that require it.

Mantling is essentially a form of climbing. It was added in Fortnite in April, so players are still getting used to the new mechanic. Don't fret, though, mantling is a lot easier than you'd think because your character does it automatically.

In games like Fortnite, mantling is a mechanic designed to make scaling high structures much easier. For example, the walls you can build in Fortnite can easily be mantled by jumping toward their top. Instead of simply falling back to the ground, the player character will grab onto the lip of the wall and pull themselves up and over it. This allows you to climb up those structures and you can even chain climb using this mechanic.

Now that you have a better idea of what mantling is, let's talk about completing challenges that require it. Several challenges can require mantling. These challenges might ask you to "mantle five times in five seconds" or "damage an enemy within five seconds of mantling."

Essentially, these tasks want you to mantle by approaching a tall object and jumping up to it. For the challenge that asks you to damage opponents, you'll need to shoot an enemy within that first five seconds of mantling up a wall.

This can easily be accomplished by building a wall while chasing an enemy, jumping over it so you mantle, and attacking them. If you damage the enemy, you'll be rewarded with a challenge completion.

If you're trying to mantle five times in five seconds, you can easily complete the task by building up four walls in a cross-like pattern. Then, approach one wall and start jumping. Make sure to aim for the next wall when you hop over, as you can chain the mantles together to easily complete this challenge.

Mantling in Fortnite can be really handy. It can help you complete various challenges and will even make it harder for enemies to hit you, especially if you're using cover that's already built up on the battlefield.

Fortnite is always adding new mechanics and character skins for players to unlock. The hit battle royale is expected to run its Halloween event in October, and Fortnite players should expect to see more skins, like the Boba Fett skin, making an appearance in the item shop.