Upgrading characters, known as Heroes, in Fortnite Save the World primarily involves two key processes: leveling them up and evolving them. These methods enhance your Hero's stats, unlock new abilities, and increase their overall combat effectiveness.
Leveling Up Your Heroes
Leveling up your Heroes is the most common way to increase their power. Each level gained boosts your Hero's base stats such as Health, Shield, and Hero Ability Damage, making them stronger in combat.
- Required Materials: To level up a Hero, you will primarily need Hero XP (Experience Points) and sometimes Training Manuals.
- Process:
- Navigate to your Hero inventory.
- Select the Hero you wish to upgrade.
- Choose the "Level Up" option.
- Spend the required Hero XP and Training Manuals to increase their level.
Evolving Your Heroes
Evolution is a critical process that allows your Heroes to surpass certain level caps and gain significant power boosts, often unlocking new perks or abilities.
Crucially, once your Hero reaches level 10, you will have to evolve them before they can be leveled up again. This is a gate that prevents further leveling until the evolution process is complete.
- When to Evolve: Heroes must be evolved at specific level milestones (e.g., Level 10, Level 20, Level 30, etc.) to increase their maximum level cap.
- How to Initiate Evolution:
- Once your Hero reaches the required level (e.g., Level 10), the "Level Up" option will be replaced or supplemented by an "Evolve" or "View Evolution" button.
- Select this button to see the specific requirements for evolution.
- Evolution Requirements: Evolving a Hero requires various specialized evolution materials, which become increasingly rare and diverse as your Hero's tier increases. Common evolution materials include:
- Pure Drop of Rain
- Lightning in a Bottle
- Eye of the Storm
- Storm Shard
- Specific Hero schematics or Manuals
- Progression Lock: It's important to note that you may not be able to evolve your Hero if you haven't progressed far enough in Fortnite Save the World. Certain evolution tiers are locked behind main quest progression, ensuring players experience the game content in a structured manner.
- Benefits of Evolution:
- Increases the Hero's maximum possible level.
- Unlocks new perks, abilities, or enhances existing ones.
- Significantly boosts their Power Level and combat potential.
Other Ways to Enhance Hero Effectiveness
While leveling and evolving are the core methods, your Hero's overall effectiveness can also be boosted by:
- Hero Loadout: Strategically choosing your Main Hero and Support Team Heroes to synergize their perks and abilities.
- Research Points: Spending Research Points (earned over time) in the Research Lab provides global statistical boosts to your account, benefiting all your Heroes.
- Skill Tree Progression (Legacy): In older versions of Save the World, a Skill Tree provided character and account upgrades. While the current system is more focused on the Hero Loadout and Research, fundamental progression still impacts your Hero's base capabilities.
By consistently leveling up and evolving your Heroes, you'll equip yourself with a powerful roster capable of tackling the toughest challenges in Save the World.
