For the article on the unreleased outfit of the same name, please see IO Trooper

Henchmen

IO Guards are hostile AI in Fortnite: Battle Royale. They were introduced in Chapter 2: Season 5 and reappeared in Chapter 2: Season 7, Chapter 2: Season 8, Chapter 3: Season 1 and Chapter 3: Season 2.

Description

IO Guards are hostile Henchmen which normally spawn at IO-related locations. They will attack the player on sight after a brief period of time, and are alerted immediately if the player is spotted by a Sentry Camera, Gunnar or Doctor Slone. All IO guards will be eliminated once all in the area are knocked, and they will attempt to revive each other if they remain alive. Players can shake down an IO Guard to reveal other Guards in the area.

IO Guards have 250 total HP, with 100 Health and 150 Shield, plus 100 Health whilst knocked.

Spawn Locations

Chapter 3: Season 2: The Daily Bugle, Condo Canyon, Coney Crossroads, Rocky Reels, Tilted Towers, IO Airships, Command Cavern, The Collider and The Fortress
Chapter 3: Season 1: Mole Teams
Chapter 2: Season 8: IO Outposts, IO Convoy, IO Staging Facility
Chapter 2: Season 7: IO Camps, Satellite Stations, Corny Complex
Chapter 2: Season 5: Elevators

Loot

IO Guards drop the following items when eliminated. They also drop a Healing Item and respective ammo with the weapon they drop.

Item	Icon	Rarity
Stinger SMG		Rare
Striker Pump Shotgun		Rare
Bars		Common
Data Card		Quest Item

Item	Icon	Rarity
Assault Rifle		Uncommon
Burst Assault Rifle		Common
Rail Gun		Rare
Bars		Common

Item	Icon	Rarity
Pistol		Uncommon Rare
Assault Rifle		Uncommon
Pulse Rifle		Rare
Rail Gun		Rare
Bars		Common

Item	Icon	Rarity
Tactical Assault Rifle		Rare
Tactical Assault Rifle (Rare Chance)		Epic
Tactical Assault Rifle (Rare Chance)		Legendary
Bars		Common

Music

Chapter 3: Season 1
Sound	Description
	Patrol
	Base
	Threatened
	Threatened (IO Layer)

Chapter 2: Season 7
Sound	Description
	Patrol
	Base
	Guard
	Threatened

Chapter 2: Season 5
Sound	Description
	Patrol
	Alerted
	Threatened

History

Chapter 2: Season 5

Update v15.00: IO Guards are added. They spawn from Elevators and have 350 HP.
Update v15.21: IO Guards no longer spawn in competitive, therefore eliminating any chance of a player having a Tactical Assault Rifle in Arena or competitive game modes.

Chapter 2: Season 6

Update v16.00: IO Guards are removed, along with the Elevators they spawned from.

Chapter 2: Season 7

Update v17.00: IO Guards are re-added. They now spawn at various Satellite Stations throughout the map, which all appear to be Imagined Order installations. They also protect Doctor Slone at Corny Complex.
June 10th hotfix has reduced the amount of guards that can spawn in an area. The spawn rate has been decreased from 21 to 14 I.O. guards.
August 7th: IO Guards no longer spawn at Satellite Stations. They now only spawn in Coral Castle, Sludgy Swamp, and Corny Complex.

Chapter 2: Season 8

Update v18.00: IO Guards now spawn at IO Outposts and IO Convoy. An IO Guard has a 50% chance to spawn at the third stage of Sideways Anomalies.

Chapter 3: Season 1

Update v19.00: IO Guards have been removed at the start of the season, with no IO Outposts on the map.
Update v19.01 Week 5: IO Guards are re-added. They now spawn at various Mole Teams throughout the map.
- 4/1/2022: Mole Team: Omega appeared near Logjam Lumberyard.
- 9/1/2022: Mole Team: Ryder appeared near Haven's Oasis, it is south of Greasy Grove.
- 1/19/2022:Mole Team: Dash appeared east of Sleepy Sound.
Update v19.20: IO Guards now spawn at Covert Cavern and protect Gunnar.
- 2/2/2022: Mole Team: Epsilon appeared near Coney Crossroads.
- 2/11/2022: Mole Team: Raven appeared near The Joneses.

Chapter 3: Season 2

Update v20.00: IO Guards are now stationed in The Daily Bugle, Coney Crossroads, Condo Canyon, Rocky Reels, Tilted Towers, and the IO Airships that fly over them.

Chapter 3: Season 3

Update v21.00:After the events of Collision only one IO Guard remains on Artemis, he spawns as a Neutral Henchman at the ruins of Outpost Omega.

Quests

Chapter 3

Eliminate IO Forces
Eliminate IO Forces

0 / 3

25,000

It's heist time, baby!
Eliminate an Imagined Order Operative to collect a Data Card

0 / 1

25,000

Chapter 2

Lore

“

Maybe "they" pluck skilled combatants from The Loop to use as security?

”

— Batman

IO Guards are an army of troops trained by Imagined Order to guard their bases. They are picked from skilled combatants from The Loop, whether a Snapshot or the real person. They are mostly stationed in The Bridge, and work under the command of Doctor Slone.

Suit Abilities

Immune to The Loop
- Their air tight suit protect them from the the Loop's memory resets.

Slone and a pair of IO Guards create a Convoy and reach to the IO Staging Facility. During The End, The Foundation infiltrates The Bridge and saves Agent Jones from his cell, while groups of IO Guards try to stop them. Foundation uses his Railgun to Rift the IO Guards to different Realities, and throws a guard into The Zero Point.

Chapter 3: Season 1

The IO send team of IO Guards, Mole Teams to the surface of Artemis. Gunnar and his IO Guards drill through Pinnacle Peak and build Covert Cavern inside.

Chapter 3: Season 2

IO Guards, alongside IO Patrols protect the IO's location. The IO use guards as disposable troops and kill them off while destroying their Outposts on purpose to cut their losses.

Chapter 3: Season 3

Only one IO Guard is left on the island and he calls himself "Guard".

Voice

Current Voices

Idle	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Suspicious	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Suspicious Ignore	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Full Alert	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Full Alert Idle	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Lost Target	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Knocked	1
	2
	3
	4

Old Voices

Knocked	1
	2
	3
	4
Full Alert	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
Lost Target	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Idle	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Interrogation	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Suspicious	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
Suspicious Ignore	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
	6
	7

Gallery

Trivia

Their main theme is IO ATTACK.
IO Guards first appeared in the Chapter 2: Season 5 Story Trailer, in which they were seen frantically running around The Bridge.
The Outfit can be obtained on developer accounts and is called IO Trooper with the Uncommon Rarity.
- This Outfit can also be obtained by eliminating an IO Guard as the Mystique outfit, and using her Shapeshifter Emote to temporarily transform into one.
Doctor Slone's entourage guards are stronger than normal IO guards.
In the Comics and Cinematics, they are also seen using a bigger variety of weapons like Tactical Shotguns, Assault Rifles and Submachine Guns.
- It it is also revealed that some IO guards are snapshots of Agent Jones who have been trained to be a security team for IO.
During Chapter 2: Season 5, in the Unvaulted LTM, IO Guards could drop an Epic or Legendary Tactical Submachine Gun, as well as a Bandage Bazooka instead of their normal loot.
In Chapter 3: Season 1 IO Guards gained the ability to use ziplines along with Gunnar.

Notice

The Featured image for the IO Guards is not official, but was made by u/Sanretros on r/FortniteBR
- Their post: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/mk15pu/io_guard_concept_featured_image/.

Epic	Charlotte
0 / 1	Eliminate IO Guards	18K 40
0 / 1	Clear the area of those bucket heads, will ya? I'd use my sword, but cursing them feels like a bit much	18K 40

Legendary	Doctor Slone
0 / 1	Collect access card from an IO Guard	45K
0 / 1	I need you to do something for me. But it can't look like an inside job. Hold onto that. You'll need it later.	45K

Legendary	Marigold
0 / 1	Damage an IO Guard	30K
0 / 1	Need to give you a good cover identity. Attack an IO Guard and we will put you as an enemy in our systems. We're going dark.	30K

Epic	Kymera
0 / 250	Damage IO Guards	30K
0 / 250	Eliminate all defenses. Enemy meatsacks: harmed.	30K

Epic	Bunker Jonesy
	Shakedown an IO Guard
	The Imagined Order is watching. Always. That's how they keep control. You see? There's alll sorts of structures under the ground!

IO Guards

Henchmen

Contents

Description

Spawn Locations

Loot

Music