If you’ve ever sworn you built that wall before the shotgun blast hit you, you know the pain of high latency in Fortnite. Flying blind without your network stats in a game where milliseconds make the difference between wins and losses is a rookie mistake.
Turning on your ping display, officially called “Net Debug Stats,” is the first step to diagnosing whether your internet is failing you or if you need to hit the aim trainer. This is how you can enable the overlay in Fortnite on PC, console, and mobile.
How to Show Ping in Fortnite
The setting is buried in the UI menus, not in the video settings that most players check. Follow these steps exactly to get the data overlay live:
- Press Esc in-game to open the sidebar menu from either the Lobby or mid-match, or press Start/Options on console.
- Click the gear icon to access the main settings menu.
- Press the Tab key to go over three icons from the left. The icon to look for is a rectangle with UI elements inside.
- Scroll down past the reticle settings until you locate the HUD Options header.
- Look for Net Debug Stats and toggle it to ON.
- Make sure to press Apply Triangle /Y/ A depending on your controller before you exit.
Once enabled, you will see a small text overlay near your minimap, usually top left or top right-displaying two critical metrics:
- Ping (ms): The round-trip time of data traveling from your machine to the servers of Epic.
- 0-20ms: God tier. You are probably living inside the server room.
- 20-50ms: Standard competitive range. perfectly playable.
- 100ms+: You’re in the danger zone. Expect delayed builds and “ghost” shots.
- Packet Loss (Down/Up): Represented in white or red lines. If this isn’t 0%, your connection is “dropping” information entirely. This causes what we refer to as “rubber-banding” (teleporting players) and is way worse than high ping.
While you’re in the settings, go to the Video tab-its icon is first-and switch Show FPS to ON. Pairing your frame rate with your ping gives you the full picture of your system’s health. High ping means it’s your internet; low FPS means it’s your hardware.