Black Knight Fortnite account: what the Season 2 skin is actually worth

Short answer first: Black Knight is one of the few Fortnite skins whose premium survives a fair comparison. The median Black Knight listing on our shelf sells for $191.86, against $41.89 for the median Fortnite account; the cheapest listing with it is $98.01 and the dearest $1,472.48. Right now 89 of the 1 961 live Fortnite accounts carry it. Those numbers move as stock moves; the Black Knight accounts shelf is where they come from, and it also prints the median of accounts without the skin and how the two groups' lockers compare.

What Black Knight is

Black Knight was the top reward of the Season 2 battle pass, the first battle pass Fortnite ever sold, at the end of 2017. You reached tier 70 during the season or you did not get it, and Epic has never put it in the item shop — battle pass rewards are the one class of cosmetic Epic has kept out of the shop consistently. The Black Shield back bling came with it, and most accounts that have the one have the other.

That makes it a marker as much as a skin: an account with Black Knight was active in the winter of 2017–18, played enough to finish the pass, and has survived eight years without being banned or recovered. Buyers pay for the marker. They also, usually, get the seasons around it — Chapter 1 pass items that stopped being obtainable at the same time.

Why this one carries a premium when many rare skins do not

Rarity alone does not price a Fortnite skin. Plenty of skins that cannot be bought sit on cheap accounts, because the account around them is small or the skin is simply not wanted. The test we apply on every item shelf is whether listings with the item ask more than listings without it once you account for the size of the locker — a bigger account costs more for reasons that have nothing to do with the badge.

Black Knight passes that test: the shelf page shows the two groups holding lockers of similar size, and the group with the skin still asking a multiple of the other. Compare that with skins whose premium evaporates once you look at locker size — the OG skins tier list walks through several. The reason is demand, not scarcity: Black Knight is the Fortnite skin people recognise from across the lobby, and it has been the shorthand for "OG account" since Season 3.

What you are paying for besides the skin

The spread inside the group — from $125.95 to $362.62 for the middle half — is the account. Three things explain most of it:

• Locker size and the other exclusives. A Black Knight account with the rest of Season 2 and 3 on it (Sparkle Specialist, The Reaper, Rust Lord) prices above one where the pass was finished and the account then slept.
• Access type. Full access with the original email is the whole purchase for an account this old: without it the account stays recoverable by whoever holds the mailbox. The card states the access type; read it before the price.
• Platform links. A console linked in 2018 that cannot be removed narrows who can use the account, and the listing says so.

The by-platform split below is drawn from the shelf as you read it:

What to check before you buy

1. The locker screenshot: Black Knight and the Black Shield back bling, plus whatever else the listing names. The badge on our shelf is checked against the account data, not the seller's text, but the rest of the locker is what you are paying the spread for.
2. Full access and email change. For a 2017 account this is not a detail.
3. Bans and warnings on the account — an old account has had time to collect them.
4. The Fortnite account value page for where the whole shelf sits today, so the premium you are looking at is a premium over today's median and not last season's.

Selling one? The how to sell a Fortnite account guide covers what buyers of exactly this class ask first, and the listing form takes the skin from the locker so the badge appears on the card.