To me, Zombie Liu Kang was made just to go with that certain phase where any fighting game main hero went through a dark phase in their series such as Ryu from Street Fighter having Evil Ryu and Jin from Tekken having Devil Jin
To me personally, New Era Liu Kang is goated and Fire God from MK11 is close 2nd. I never really liked this character when I was younger, but growing up I started to love him. Seeing his story and watching him become the new Time Keeper AND Fire God just made me smile and feel content with him as a whole. Great ranking, could agree with it (except for 1st and 2nd place :D )
Zombie Liu Kang's backstory is more along the lines of Raiden being sick of Earthrealm being put in danger so he resurrected Liu Kang's body to go on a rampage around Earthrealm to kill the potential "threats". Of course that was because Raiden accidentally consumed Onaga's dark magic during his respawn moment. Anyway this resulted in the zombie pretty much killing the Shaolin at Liu Kang's tomb and so-forth. He never really made it to the Netherrealm because zombies can't go to the Netherrealm.
Unpopular opinion.. but my favorite is Zombie Liu Kang.. my favorite is definitely MK11's Elder God Liu Kang and Watchful Patron I love the mystery behind it 🐉
My Top 20 designs of Liu Kang🔥🐉 1. MK1 New Era 2. MK1 Watchful Patron 3. MK1 Union of Light 4. MK9 primary 5. MK11 Fire God 6. MK11 Young Justice 7. MK11 Permanent Ink/Shaolin Flame 8. MKX Dark Emperor 9. MK11 Art of Wushu 10. MKX/11 Revenant Liu Kang 11. MKX primary 12. MK9 alternate 13. MK Shaolin Monks 14. Zombie Liu Kang 15. MK Deception human Liu Kang 16. MK 4 17. MK 3 18. MK 2 19. MK (1992) 20. MK vs DC
You got my back on those decisions, especially the low and high ones. Can you believe they used 23 in Raiden's flashback?? Even Lao looked FAR better! It's like a Taven ripoff, tbh. 19 wasn't really one of my favorites even though it's supposed to symbolize age! Even Kung Lao looked better in every aspect in MKX. Dark Emperor I wish was higher. Personally, I liked the armored look in MK9. MK11 has the all-time BEST designs, especially for Liu in all forms! Exceptional Top 5! Chef's kiss! Maybe do Nightwolf or Kung Lao's kostumes next!
now if i were younger id definitely give you shit for zombie liu kang but im older and looking back i do agree with the design, they couldve made him more messed up and rotted looking with an explanation that the dark magic screwed up his body from being somewhat degraded and falling apart to now way more chipped away
While the brazilian costume is my least favorite one by far, I fell like I have the note that, unlike Jonny's, it's not a soccer skin. It's suppoused to be based in a brazilian martial art.
i always liked zombie liu kang but youre 100% right. thinking about it i liked it because of the armageddon intro, but he never actually uses the chains in kombat. I think if they made him a seperate character like cyber sub zero it would be way better, and ofc a few more changes, part of the sillyness of the zombie thing is he was JUST as fast and hoppy as when hes alive, if he was slower, stronger, and uses the zombie thing and chains more, it would be way cooler i think. as it stands that skin is just an interesting but poorly executed c9ncept
Hmmm, I liked Zombie Liu Kang from Deception (OMFG, I just realized MK Deception turns 20 this year! Damn) I just remember thinking it was cool they brought him back from his bs death as a zombie, but I agree that they should of put more into it storyline wise like they did when Raiden was corrupted after he sacrificed himself. That Halloween skin, WTF! He looked like a zebra, that's horrible lol. I did like his revenant costume at #13. Watching this list, it just reminds me why I didn't notice most of his costumes cause I find most of them bland and boring to be honest (and he mostly just has his shirt off like Johnny Cage) but I agreed with the top two. Liu Kang's looks when he became a God were his most noticeable costumes and looks that stood out.
my personal top 5 liu kang's designs / costumes (MK) of all time: #5: MK shaolin monks's base costume #4: MK9's base costume #3: MK11's fire god costume #2: MK vs DC universe's base costume #1: MK1 / 12's base costume
The Brazil skin for Liu Kang is not football, but 'Capoeira', which is a style of african-brazilian martial art combined with music and dance, and uses mainly legs and kicks which kind of makes sense with the MKX liu kang, and soccer one for jonny makes sense since he is a super star and here in brazil soccer players are one the most well paid and famouses stars. I personally don't like the culture of our contry, but for the ones that are proud of it, it makes a lot of sense and NetherRealm Studios knew what they were doing with that pack
Honestly, I kinda agree with this ranked list. I also have the MK11 fire god Liu Kang costume as my number one choice. A few things though: 1. The mk4 3rd alternate costume was supposed to be an homage to Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury movie and 2. I would probably add the MKSM costume to this list as that was great fusion between MK2 and MK3’s Liu Kang costume with some added details such as the dragon design on his pants
I agree that MK11's Fire God Liu Kang costume is the best one, but I would go with the Fire and Thunder version because the orange leg bands and belt complement the blue pants.
I have a question Nick. How do you think of the variation names for the characters? Specifically for mk11. When I can’t think of anything I just use your variation names so I’m sorry if I’m just plagiarizing you. 😞
MK Deception messed up with Lou Kangs human skin. If you look at his ghost skin, his clothing was different (you can find him in Konquest mode in Edenia and Outworld, his costume was 100x better than what we got
Wasn’t Liu kangs base skin in mkx just a what if he didn’t turn into a revenant and just aged like everyone else because to me it was a nice touch to see a more older Liu kang even tho not much changed except his hair being longer and it being grey(sorry bad grammar😅) this is the same case for Kung lao too
Zombie Liu Kang and Fire God Liu Kang are the only good ones. Revenant Liu Kang sucks. I do agree he should’ve used the chains tho. Missed opportunity.
I feel so unsure As I take your hand And lead you to the dance floor As the music dies Something in your eyes Calls to mind a silver screen And all its sad goodbyes I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool I should've known better than to cheat a friend And waste the chance that I'd been given So I'm never gonna dance again The way I danced with you Time can never mend The careless whispers of a good friend To the heart and mind Ignorance is kind There's no comfort in the truth Pain is all you'll find I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool I should've known better than to cheat a friend (Should have known better, yeah) And waste the chance that I'd been given So I'm never gonna dance again The way I danced with you Never without your love Tonight the music seems so loud I wish that we could lose this crowd Maybe it's better this way We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say We could have been so good together We could have lived this dance forever But now who's gonna dance with me? Please stay And I'm never gonna dance again Guilty feet have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know you're not a fool I should've known better than to cheat a friend And waste the chance that I'd been given So I'm never gonna dance again The way I danced with you Now that you're gone Now that you're gone Now that you're gone Was what I did so wrong, so wrong That you had to leave me alone?
Honestly Everything in MKX is desaturated and that really annoys me its very Un-MK and too edge lord and backpedaling the looks of the women it saps the charm to appeal to people who don't even play the games
Finally my favorite character
Finally someone hates Zombie Liu as much as me
nah yall don’t deserve to have an opinion 💀
Shut up@@elbtrio7550
To me, Zombie Liu Kang was made just to go with that certain phase where any fighting game main hero went through a dark phase in their series such as Ryu from Street Fighter having Evil Ryu and Jin from Tekken having Devil Jin
Good point! Where Evil Ryu and Devil Jin are cool, I never thought that about Zombi Liu Kang.
Nah Zombie Liu Kang deserves to be higher at least near Revenant Liu Kang
Being honest, Zombie Liu Kang is my favorite outfit of any character in Mortal Kombat.
The Brazil skin for Liu Kang is not football, but 'Capoeira', which is a style of african-brazilian martial art combined with music and dance.
Meu mano achou que era futebol só pq era do brasil, bizarro
@@carlosdfariapois é, pelo jeito agora se joga futebol com calça
To me personally, New Era Liu Kang is goated and Fire God from MK11 is close 2nd. I never really liked this character when I was younger, but growing up I started to love him. Seeing his story and watching him become the new Time Keeper AND Fire God just made me smile and feel content with him as a whole.
Great ranking, could agree with it (except for 1st and 2nd place :D )
Zombie Liu Kang's backstory is more along the lines of Raiden being sick of Earthrealm being put in danger so he resurrected Liu Kang's body to go on a rampage around Earthrealm to kill the potential "threats". Of course that was because Raiden accidentally consumed Onaga's dark magic during his respawn moment. Anyway this resulted in the zombie pretty much killing the Shaolin at Liu Kang's tomb and so-forth. He never really made it to the Netherrealm because zombies can't go to the Netherrealm.
DECEPTION ZOMBIE LUI KANG IS TOP 3 AND I WILL DIE ON THAT HILL!!!
Ngl id die right next to that spot, mkd zombie Liu was one of my favorite costumes in general. Up there with MkSm Kung Lao though
You might die alone
Unpopular opinion.. but my favorite is Zombie Liu Kang.. my favorite is definitely MK11's Elder God Liu Kang and Watchful Patron I love the mystery behind it 🐉
yeah i agree although its not my favorite but definitely its badass...mk deception was a dope era
My Top 20 designs of Liu Kang🔥🐉
1. MK1 New Era
2. MK1 Watchful Patron
3. MK1 Union of Light
4. MK9 primary
5. MK11 Fire God
6. MK11 Young Justice
7. MK11 Permanent Ink/Shaolin Flame
8. MKX Dark Emperor
9. MK11 Art of Wushu
10. MKX/11 Revenant Liu Kang
11. MKX primary
12. MK9 alternate
13. MK Shaolin Monks
14. Zombie Liu Kang
15. MK Deception human Liu Kang
16. MK 4
17. MK 3
18. MK 2
19. MK (1992)
20. MK vs DC
MK1 Order of Darkness is so cool too
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Bro what 💀
Never thought I’d be this early. Great list. 🐉
7:32 The reason it’s so bad is because it the concept art for Liu Kang is because they wanted to show a “young” Liu Kang.
Number 12.. the Order of Darkness Skin was unlockable in Season 5 Kombat League at Grand Master rank and is one of my personal favorites...
The chosen one and Earthrealm's protector🔥
You got my back on those decisions, especially the low and high ones. Can you believe they used 23 in Raiden's flashback?? Even Lao looked FAR better! It's like a Taven ripoff, tbh. 19 wasn't really one of my favorites even though it's supposed to symbolize age! Even Kung Lao looked better in every aspect in MKX. Dark Emperor I wish was higher. Personally, I liked the armored look in MK9.
MK11 has the all-time BEST designs, especially for Liu in all forms! Exceptional Top 5! Chef's kiss! Maybe do Nightwolf or Kung Lao's kostumes next!
Honestly, I mostly agree.... your #3 is my #1 but that's about it.
I really like cranky old man Liu Kang from MKX, but I think it’s due to his intro dialogues. 🐉
“The color is so desaturated”
That one sentence describes the entirety of mkx art style. I don’t like it at all
now if i were younger id definitely give you shit for zombie liu kang but im older and looking back i do agree with the design, they couldve made him more messed up and rotted looking with an explanation that the dark magic screwed up his body from being somewhat degraded and falling apart to now way more chipped away
Ideas:
Every Kung Lao Skins Ranked
Every Rain Skin Ranked
Every Sonya Skin Ranked
Every Kano Skin Ranked
I love Rain. Can you please do that for me? 😊
Awesome list Nick! I agree with most of your picks!
And did you just say you're working on a SPIDER-MAN costumes ranked?? Let's goooo!!!
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Love the support here!
Dark Emperor from mkx is like a top 10 Lui Kang skin in my opinion
English teacher feedback: instead of “more unmemorable,” try “less memorable”
Thank you for the feedback there!
Man MK11’s graphics are so much better than MK1’s graphics
MK9 Liu Kang is best & badass.
cap he’s basic 💀
While the brazilian costume is my least favorite one by far, I fell like I have the note that, unlike Jonny's, it's not a soccer skin. It's suppoused to be based in a brazilian martial art.
The brazil skin for liu kang is not football
I have to agree, I love the Order of Darkness skins. I'm currently having Liu Kang wear one I get in Weekly Quests.
The turkey gobble got me
Can you rank the animalities in trilogy because I searched it up and there aren't any good ranking videos on them
i always liked zombie liu kang but youre 100% right. thinking about it i liked it because of the armageddon intro, but he never actually uses the chains in kombat. I think if they made him a seperate character like cyber sub zero it would be way better, and ofc a few more changes, part of the sillyness of the zombie thing is he was JUST as fast and hoppy as when hes alive, if he was slower, stronger, and uses the zombie thing and chains more, it would be way cooler i think. as it stands that skin is just an interesting but poorly executed c9ncept
Hmmm, I liked Zombie Liu Kang from Deception (OMFG, I just realized MK Deception turns 20 this year! Damn) I just remember thinking it was cool they brought him back from his bs death as a zombie, but I agree that they should of put more into it storyline wise like they did when Raiden was corrupted after he sacrificed himself. That Halloween skin, WTF! He looked like a zebra, that's horrible lol. I did like his revenant costume at #13. Watching this list, it just reminds me why I didn't notice most of his costumes cause I find most of them bland and boring to be honest (and he mostly just has his shirt off like Johnny Cage) but I agreed with the top two. Liu Kang's looks when he became a God were his most noticeable costumes and looks that stood out.
my personal top 5 liu kang's designs / costumes (MK) of all time:
#5: MK shaolin monks's base costume
#4: MK9's base costume
#3: MK11's fire god costume
#2: MK vs DC universe's base costume
#1: MK1 / 12's base costume
New era is absolutely goated, a fresh take that shows Lui Kangs responsibility and godhood
The Brazil skin for Liu Kang is not football, but 'Capoeira', which is a style of african-brazilian martial art combined with music and dance, and uses mainly legs and kicks which kind of makes sense with the MKX liu kang, and soccer one for jonny makes sense since he is a super star and here in brazil soccer players are one the most well paid and famouses stars.
I personally don't like the culture of our contry, but for the ones that are proud of it, it makes a lot of sense and NetherRealm Studios knew what they were doing with that pack
Like The Video Everyone! Let's Go!!!!!!! 👊🏻🎮🐉🦂🦂🦂✌🏻
Honestly, I kinda agree with this ranked list. I also have the MK11 fire god Liu Kang costume as my number one choice. A few things though: 1. The mk4 3rd alternate costume was supposed to be an homage to Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury movie and 2. I would probably add the MKSM costume to this list as that was great fusion between MK2 and MK3’s Liu Kang costume with some added details such as the dragon design on his pants
I actually really like the Brotherhood of shadow skin but absolute favs are Zombie Liu Kang and Permanant Ink Liu Kang
I agree that MK11's Fire God Liu Kang costume is the best one, but I would go with the Fire and Thunder version because the orange leg bands and belt complement the blue pants.
I have a question Nick. How do you think of the variation names for the characters? Specifically for mk11. When I can’t think of anything I just use your variation names so I’m sorry if I’m just plagiarizing you. 😞
MK Deception messed up with Lou Kangs human skin. If you look at his ghost skin, his clothing was different (you can find him in Konquest mode in Edenia and Outworld, his costume was 100x better than what we got
MK11 base costume "Art of Wushu" is my favorite. 🐲
Liu Kang do be drippy
Hey there my friend it’s me moody cage
Hi Moody!!
@@the_NNPW niceeeeeeeeeee videos bro keep it up my dude
@@the_NNPW what’s up bro
Agree with your top 3 for sure!!!!
At first I thought Liu Kang’s Mk deception skin was a revenant skin and I can see why it was at the bottom of the list and I don’t like it either.
We need a injustice gods amount us 1 skin rating video 😊
Liu Kang! The Best Around!
UMK3 will always be my favorite design
My boy, my favorite MK kharacter the main hero, Fire God Liu Kang 🐉 🐲 🀄 🔥 🙏
I agree with your #1
This video kicks.🐉
Re 24: It's just Ho Sung Pak in sweatpants. Frankly, I'm surprised it's at 24 and not 26. (Can't beat Zombie Liu Kang lol)
Putting Zombie Liu Kang at the bottom should be considered a crime.
Can we still get that MK1 Collectors Edition skin even if we didn’t pre-order that specific edition?
Wasn’t Liu kangs base skin in mkx just a what if he didn’t turn into a revenant and just aged like everyone else because to me it was a nice touch to see a more older Liu kang even tho not much changed except his hair being longer and it being grey(sorry bad grammar😅) this is the same case for Kung lao too
All Rain Customes Ranked please
Putting it on my list.
Honestly I despise the Zombie Liu Kang, I also feel that they never should have killed him off in Deadly Alliance to begin with.
Do shao Kahn next🐉
I’d love to cover Shao!
@@the_NNPWshao be sick
🐉🐲 my least favorite liu kang costume is zombie liu kang and my favorite is fire god liu kang
LETS GOOOOO
Please do Kung Lao next!
It's my little brother's favorite Mortal Kombat character
@@isaiah2himmy favourite was original scorpion hanzo hasashi
@@nobody-yk2hu he's not bad as Kuai Liang, but Hanzo is always better
I need a Shang Tsung ranking vid
For how much he changed over the years, that’ll be fun to rank.
@@the_NNPW indeed, great vids btw ♥️♥️
Pls do smoke next🙏🙏🙏
Zombie Liu Kang and Fire God Liu Kang are the only good ones. Revenant Liu Kang sucks. I do agree he should’ve used the chains tho. Missed opportunity.
just a small injection to the convo.
i thought raiden became corrupted in Deception from his failed sacrifice/su*c*de
these are genuinely got to be the worst takes i think i’ve ever heard in my life time
Yeah really bad takes i heard ever 💀
I agree.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion
@@eclipsethefox4397 I realize that and I respect his opinion. I'm just sharing my disagreement with his opinion.
not if it’s that ass 💀
Brazil Liu Kang is above Zombie Liu Kang. Let that sink in.
Damn my top three were zombie, Dark emporer and mk11 revenant....granted i also think liukang is hella over rated
I feel so unsure
As I take your hand
And lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies
Something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad goodbyes
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Time can never mend
The careless whispers of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is all you'll find
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
(Should have known better, yeah)
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Never without your love
Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe it's better this way
We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say
We could have been so good together
We could have lived this dance forever
But now who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay
And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should've known better than to cheat a friend
And waste the chance that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you
Now that you're gone
Now that you're gone
Now that you're gone
Was what I did so wrong, so wrong
That you had to leave me alone?
This is about reptile right
4:10 Liuy Gordo 😂
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Plz do kung lao skins.
Really? Zombie Liu Kang below Brazilian? That's just dumb
But...what if I want to be mean about my opinion? 🐉 🐲
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In my opinion mk11 revenants looked way worse than mkx
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Honestly Everything in MKX is desaturated and that really annoys me its very Un-MK and too edge lord and backpedaling the looks of the women it saps the charm to appeal to people who don't even play the games
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Zombie Liu is honestly the worst costume.
u don’t deserve an opinion 💀
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