Best Landing Spots in PUBG Mobile (Ranked by Risk)

Where you land determines more about a match than anything you do in the next five minutes. It sets your loadout, your position relative to the first circle, and whether you spend the early game fighting or preparing. Most players choose it in the two seconds before the plane door opens.

Reading the flight path before you jump

The line the plane flies across the map is the single most useful piece of information you get, and it is available before anyone has jumped.

• Players concentrate near the path. Anything directly under it, or within about 300 metres, will be busy. Anything more than 800 metres off it will be close to empty regardless of how good the loot is.
• The ends of the path are quieter than the middle. Most players jump in the first half. Staying in until near the end of the route consistently gets you a calmer landing.
• A path crossing a hot location makes it far worse. Pochinki is always contested; Pochinki directly under the flight path is a bloodbath. The same named location varies enormously match to match based on this alone.
• Check where the path does not go. A high-loot area at the far edge of the map, on the opposite side from the flight line, is effectively a safe drop with good loot — that combination is the best available and most people never look for it.

Landing mechanics: arriving first

Four seconds is the difference between having a gun and being shot with one. The mechanics are simple once someone explains them.

• Dive steeply to fall fast. Aiming almost straight down gets you to roughly 234 km/h, which is terminal velocity. This covers little horizontal ground but gets you down quickly.
• Glide at about 45 degrees to cover distance. Around 130 km/h, travelling much further horizontally.
• Combine them. The fastest way to reach a target 800 metres away is to dive steeply toward it and flatten out near the end — not to glide gently the whole way. Most players glide the whole way and land second.
• The parachute opens automatically at a fixed height, but you can deploy it early. Deploying early then gliding is slower — only do it if you need to cross more distance than diving allows.
• Aim for the roof, not the door. Landing on a building’s roof and dropping in beats landing beside it and running to the entrance.

Hot drops — when you want fights

Land here if you want practice, kills, or a fast match. Expect to die early often; that is the trade.

How to survive a hot drop: land on a roof rather than the ground, grab the very first weapon you see even if it is a shotgun, and stay on the top floor. Players who land on the ground and run between buildings looking for something better die at a much higher rate than those who take one building and hold it.

Safe drops — when you want rank

Land here if you are climbing. You will get a full loadout uncontested and reach the top twenty regularly — which, as the rank system guide explains, is worth far more than kills.

The middle option most players ignore

There is a third category that gets far less attention than it deserves: a mid-tier location adjacent to a hot one.

Land in the small cluster of houses 400 metres outside Pochinki rather than in Pochinki itself. You get a full loadout in peace, and then — around ninety seconds in — you are positioned on the edge of a town full of players who have just fought each other, are low on health, and are looting bodies in the open.

This is the highest-value early game available, and it works on every map. The equivalents:

• Erangel: the houses between Pochinki and Rozhok, or the small compounds south of Georgopol.
• Miramar: the buildings on the hills around Pecado, or the outskirts of Los Leones rather than its centre.
• Sanhok: the huts near Bootcamp rather than Bootcamp itself, which is an extremely strong play.

It requires patience — you have to actually loot rather than immediately pushing the noise — but it converts other people’s fights into your kills.

Landing as a squad

The most common squad mistake is landing four people in four buildings and calling it "spreading out". It is not spreading out; it is four separate one-versus-four fights.

• Land within about 50 metres of each other. Close enough that any of you being pushed can be supported within seconds.
• Call the drop before the plane doors open, and mark it on the map. Deciding mid-air is how squads end up scattered across 400 metres.
• Take separate buildings in the same cluster, not the same building. Same cluster means mutual support; same building means you all loot the same three items.
• Whoever lands first calls contact immediately. The information matters more than the kill.
• Regroup before moving on. Do not start rotating with two players still looting — that is how squads get picked apart one at a time.

For detailed breakdowns of each map’s terrain and rotations, see the Erangel guide, the Miramar guide, and the Sanhok and Livik guide.