Fortnite v41.20 Sprite Guide: All 5 New Sprites, Abilities & How to Get Them
- v41.20 (16 July 2026) added five Sprites, not five in total: Batman, Air and Seven are findable in matches, while Vini Jr. and Pollo come from Mythic chests. Sprites themselves are NOT new — Epic launched them on 5 June with Chapter 7 Season 3.
- Epic’s own v41.20 post names only the Batman Sprite: you unlock it through the Hot Bat Summer quests, and it lets you deploy the Bat Cape midair AND find rare Sprites in chests more often — a second clause most write-ups drop.
- You only keep a Sprite by extracting it. Die or leave and it drops to Level 1 and is gone. They’re also disabled in competitive modes entirely.
- Nobody — not Epic, not the wikis, not the datamines — has published how much XP each Sprite level needs. Every level-up table and tier list you’ll find online is either opinion or invented, and fortnite.gg’s percentages are a collection tracker, not drop rates.
Fortnite’s v41.20 landed on 16 July 2026 — the “Hot Bat Summer” update — and it brought five new Sprites. Before anything else, two things almost every guide gets wrong: Sprites are not new in v41.20 (Epic launched them on 5 June), and there aren’t only five of them (there are at least 21). Here’s what actually arrived, how to get it, and — the part nobody else will tell you — which numbers floating around are simply made up.
Heads up: Sprites are disabled in competitive modes entirely. Everything below applies to unranked Battle Royale and Zero Build.
What a Sprite actually is
Straight from Epic’s own announcement when the season launched on 5 June:
“Find a Sprite, Extract It, Collect It… Find one in a match and extract your Sprite to add it to your collection. Bring them to future matches and get their powers from the jump!”
So: a Sprite takes your Back Bling slot, gives you a passive power, and levels 1 to 5 during a match. The catch is the extraction — a Sprite is only yours permanently if you reach an Extraction Site and get out with it.
The five new Sprites in v41.20
Here’s the honest scope, because “5” gets reported loosely: three are findable in matches (Batman, Air, Seven) and two come from Mythic chests (Vini Jr., Pollo).
And a sourcing note worth being straight about: Epic’s own v41.20 post names only the Batman Sprite. The other four are reported by outlets, not by Epic.
| Sprite | What it does | How you get it |
|---|---|---|
| Batman | Deploy the Bat Cape midair — and find rare Sprites in chests more often | Hot Bat Summer quests (Epic’s own post) |
| Air | Sprint speed and jump height up; nullifies fall damage | Regular chests and Sprite Chests |
| Seven | Enemy foot trails visible to your whole squad | Regular chests and Sprite Chests |
| Vini Jr. | Sprinting makes your slide destructive; elims boost fire rate and reload | Mythic chest drop (secondary-sourced) |
| Pollo | On an elimination, slowly replenish shield for you and nearby squad | Mythic chest drop (secondary-sourced) |
That Batman entry is worth a second look. Epic’s wording is: “Batman Sprites grant the ability to deploy the Bat Cape midair, and find rare sprites in chests more often.” Most round-ups quote the cape and drop the second half — but the second half is the one that compounds, because it makes every chest you open more likely to pay out.
How to get every Sprite
Epic never publishes one consolidated Sprite list; acquisition is scattered across the v41.00, v41.10 and v41.20 notes. So here’s the merge:
The shape of it: the roster is overwhelmingly chest loot. That’s why “where do I find the Air Sprite” mostly has no answer — it isn’t in a place, it’s in the loot pool. Only a handful have a real route worth planning around:
- Batman — Hot Bat Summer quests (the only quest-locked one of the five)
- Ghost — roams at night
- Fishy — better odds from fishing
- Striker — score a goal at the Soccer Pitch
- Boss — defeat any boss
- Burnt Peanut — Relic Chests
Two v41.20 changes that help: Sprite Chests now guarantee an Epic, Legendary or Mythic Sprite — or a higher-rarity variant — and Rare Sprites now only drop as variants, at reduced odds. The Sprite Locator and Extraction Site Booster are unranked BR and Zero Build only, and expire at season end. One correction while we’re here: the Lucky Locator is not in v41.20 — Epic pushed it to v41.30, though several sites list it as live.
Shiny Hours: 18 July
Epic’s post gives one dated, actionable window. On 18 July, 2–4 PM ET and 9–11 PM ET, everyone starts with a Batman Grapnel Gun and Self-Revive Device, Batman Sprite and Beach Buggy spawns are increased, and Gold, Gummy, Galaxy and Holofoil variants appear more often. If you want the Batman Sprite or a shiny variant, that’s the window.
The numbers that don’t exist
This is the part that matters most, and you won’t find it elsewhere — because most Sprite content is produced by sites selling accounts.
There is no published XP table. Sprites level 1→5 and each rank costs more, but Epic has never published the thresholds — and neither has the wiki, Fortnite.GG, or any datamine. So every “level-up table” you find is invented. It’s also why our planner reports the XP you earned and refuses to predict a level, and why there’s no level-growth chart in this guide.
What IS published is the per-action XP: elimination 200, knock 100, container 75, assist 75, extract 100 — and the single most useful fact nobody reports: bot lobbies pay about a quarter (50 / 25 / 19 / 19). Mastery Monday doubles Sprite level-up speed and Dust, and it’s the one multiplier Epic documents itself.
fortnite.gg’s percentages are not drop rates. They’re its “OWNED” collection tracker — which is why v41.20’s new Sprites all read 0%. Several sites republish them as drop chances anyway.
Per-level ability values are a trap too. Datamined figures exist, but they’re in units you can’t compare (seconds vs percent vs shield-per-tick), sources contradict each other, and three of six abilities were rebalanced within six weeks. Of the five new Sprites, only Seven has a complete per-level set at all.
And most Sprites have no fixed spawn. The tidy “Water spawns near rivers, Earth in forests, Fire in cities” scheme comes from a single low-authority site — the same one that published a 0.000098% drop rate.
Plan it out
Our Sprite Selector & XP / Dust Planner filters all 21 Sprites by rarity and route, and works out your match XP and what a Dust summon costs — using only figures that are actually published, and without pretending to know your level.
Frequently asked questions
How many new Sprites are in Fortnite v41.20?
Five: Batman, Air, Seven, Vini Jr. and Pollo. Three are findable in matches; Vini Jr. and Pollo come from Mythic chests. That’s five new — the full roster is at least 21.
How do you get the Batman Sprite?
Through the Hot Bat Summer quests, which unlock gradually. It’s the only one of the five behind quests rather than loot. Its spawn rate is boosted during Shiny Hours on 18 July.
How much XP does each Sprite level need?
Nobody knows. Epic has never published it, and no wiki or datamine has it either. Any table claiming otherwise made the numbers up.
Can you use Sprites in competitive?
No — Epic disables them in competitive modes.
The bottom line
Grab Air or Seven out of any chest, chase Batman through the Hot Bat Summer quests (and use the 18 July Shiny Hours to do it), and remember the only rule that really matters: a Sprite you don’t extract is a Sprite you don’t own. Be sceptical of any level table or drop rate you see — including the ones that look the most authoritative.