"We Overwhelm You." - Competitive History of Ermac
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Happy New year!
May 2021 be better for all of us.
Let's hope so
Happy new years mate
Your fans to yourself and Jake: "We overwhelm you."
Thanks for all the content and here's another year to growth.
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Happy new year! Hope 2021 is better! Can you do a vid on Reptile please? :)
This is unsanitary. Ketchup is wearing yellow, now its impossible to recognise the 2 from each other
What
Mustard has a bigger beard. If he shaves, then we're fucked.
I totally agree. Ketchup should be rocking the Sektor Red, and Mustard should be rocking his Klassic yellow
1:35 he had the exaggerated swagger of a white man
“We are many you all but one.”
Ermac is still a good character but I just don't really care for his Fatalitys but I love his play style
What a great way to start the year, a competitive history of airmac
lol I remember when I thought his name was pronounced that way back in MK Trilogy until it got corrected in later games 😆
I used to jokingly call him that because of his teleslam.
@@gabrieltejada1697 For what it's worth, it makes sense given the origin of his name, "Error Macro." Error isn't pronounced ur-rer (at least commonly that I know of), but rather air-rer.
@@gabrieltejada1697 I still pronounce it like that. lol
Don't forget, in the hands of a professional, he becomes an AirMac Pro. XD
I also liked his naming origin. The Midway team always had fun with their names.
“Error Macros” were the cause of some glitches back then and they decided to name a ninja after them in Ermac. Pretty interesting.
Was looking for this comment, by far my favourite name origin next to Tobias Boon
I don’t even play mk anymore and I watch this
Same tbh 😂 It makes me wanna play mk9 again lmao
I’ve never played lole
@@dayyton3163 best one
@@thebadwolf3088 trueeee
I don't even like mortal kombat and I can't get enough of these videos
It saddens me that NRS made a really cool looking Ermac design in MK11 and refuse to let us play as him.
Yeah he looks so fuckin sick
He's back in MK1 as dlc but NRS butchered his design :c
@@squash589when I saw him I actually thought he was a straight up new character. That’s the mark of a bad design
@@theskullboy8700 same thing happened to me when I first saw him in the KP trailer. We legit thought he's a new comer until he opened his eyes .-.
@@squash589 so with the early story reveal. We were……….half right?
YOOO LETS GO my favorite rumor turned charecter. I loved playing him in mk9
I’m salty that mk9 isn’t downloadable on Xbox 1
@@DefinitelyNot_Ai_Probably Yeah i wish they would remaster it for current gen consoles bc i enjoy it a lot more than any other 2d mk game
@@DefinitelyNot_Ai_Probably it is now but only if you have the disc of the game
@@DefinitelyNot_Ai_ProbablyI ordered the disc for mine and it was so much fun replaying it
Ketchup : "I want to thank you for watching our videos and being patient"
Me : "Ketchup isn't supposed to wear yellow 😤" 😂👍
*We are many, you are but one!*
Though in your case, you are the One Being with all of this knowledge you’re dropping.
20:30 - Ermac: “Ca-Caw! CA-CAW!“
Lol
"nothing about him was broken"? that character had one of the fastest uppercut recoveries on the whole game, only him and Rain had those tools. Ermac's dmg was insane.
Comboing from uppercut in MK9 was actually more related to height than recovery. Ermac and Rain could do it between many combos because they have specials that put the opponent very high, but in theory most characters had a way to convert from uppercut depending on height and position.
Also I don’t think Ketchup meant Ermac was bad when he said nothing was broken about him in MK9. He was still good at various things (including his meterless damage), just there were higher tier characters better at those things.
Ermac was my first main in MK9. He's great at starting Combos but he really lacked any real damaging combos and whack/hard to input overheads and lows. I think one of his lows was like a back+attack, down, forward+attack which neither were cancel able at the end nor did any real damage without the last attack. I had to drop him for either Scorpion or my other real main, Raiden.
But yeah, he was really basic. I think it was to balance his sweet specials. His teleport was punishable AF, only his air teleport was really what you wanted to use. He had one real full length combo which suffered when not striking mid. My buddies used to say, bro you just do the same moves. I was doing his best chain. Where the 'expert' characters had like 3-5 and better overheads and lows. Since he had the special that juggled, he really didn't have any other juggles. He was also pretty slow. He had a couple good but not really damaging quick starters. Basically the rest of his moves were so slow that you weren't catching anybody with them unless they wiffed. Again, Ermac's base combos were some of the weirdest inputs in the game.
Design: 8/10
Move Set: 6/10
Hmm Ermac had a decent career, which im very glad he's my favorite pallete swap ninja.
Deception and MK9 is still his best look.
I just want to say I genuinely love this series thank you for still doing it
LETS GOO I WAS WAITING FOR ANOTHER ONE OF THESE! also when’s the next mk meta
I’m hoping he does Deception.
@@angelsilva7207 Same
man, hearing you say mk9 "back in the day" makes me feel old, specially when knowing ermac since ultimate 3
Lmao truth
This video was such a treat.
Was awesome to see myself as one of the two MK9 ermacs to watch. Really made my day.
Ermac is my favorite player in MK9 and X
Ermac was one of my favorite characters to use for in MK 9.
I kind of want to see a competitive history video for the Joker, considering he's technically been in two Mortal Kombat games. I guess you can fit in his appearances in Injustice 1 and 2 as well if you really want to.
This definintly will make 2021 way better, love from all us Ermac mains
Hey, about those other Ermac strings in UMK3. They actually all have uses in competitive play.
HK, HK, LK, bHK is a mid that does more damage than the HK, LP pop-up, so it is used in the corner because you can't launch the opponent. You can also combo an OTG lift from that string midscreen.
The HP strings are very useful because they begin with a jab, so that means they can be glitch jab option selected. The HP launcher string is used midscreen and the HP kick string is used in the corner for the same reasons as the knee strings.
I've never understood why Ermac has an axe in Deception and Armageddon, it feels so aesthetically at odds with the rest of his design
like "yeah here's our mystic ninja man, we gave him a battle-ax"
My theory: Ermac themselves named the axe. They heard the phrase "killing them with Kindness" and wildly misunderstood.
What weapon would you want him to have?
@@sephlock4767A rapier would be stylish
Reptile next 🙋♂️
Same here.
20:31 Ermac bird in his natural habitat.
Reptile next pls
My wish exactly.
0:48 - So unmasked Sub-zero is just a piñata full of legs? I knew it!
My favourite MK character. Happy to see he’s been consistently good throughout the years.
Ermac is the rearranged spelling of the word "Cream"
And "Cream" is the Stand of Vanilla Ice.
Perfect way for me to start 2021and thank you again for the gameplay feature! Spectral is and will forever be the most fun il have in a fighting game.
Beautiful as always bro, all the best for 2021 ❤
Imagine what kind of characters would be created if modern rumors lead to the creation of new characters
Great way to start 2021!! A competitive history of my favourite character! Happy New year from Argentina Ketchup and Mustard!
Happy New Year to you, Mustard and your whole condiment crew! Thanks for all the things you guys do for the video game community. I wish you all a swell 2021 and look forward to ingesting more content as it becomes available!
I remember dressing up as ermac on Halloween 8ish years ago.
The Mortal Kombat devs when they see a fake rumor: Wait that’s a good idea. Let’s add it in.
Recently as my dad moved to his new house after marrying, he got mk9 for his ps3 since we'd spend more time with more people in the house
as much as they love me, they dont like when i pick the funny red ninja guy
My family boutta hate me after i keep picking ermac in the mk 1
Happy new year bros, if this is anything like the Fujin video we will be playing Ermac real soon 🤣🤙
I'd actually really dig a Dairou history of, I know its all 3D era games but h was in all three (iirc?)
Ik this is old but y'all did Master of Souls dirty. His vanish move is literally a better reason to play him than soulball. Soulball is awesome and like 45% of the reason I'd use MoS, but the vanish completely changes everything about his jump. Like, you can jump teleport, jump vanish, jump float ground pound, jump float teleport, jump float vanish, or jump and float>vanish multiple times and never touch the ground. You can throw his soulball in the air during that and instantly get a fat combo, and obviously NJP is the main tool. Literally made people quit with vanish.
i really hope he comes back in mk1, he's so much fun to play whenever he's in these games
Thank you for the video !
I like the fact Ermac started with a rumor error macro, turned in a red ninja and finished like sorcerer master of souls ! He's not just a palette swap ninja and it's for the best.
Cant wait to see the video for Smoke
God I miss Ermac.
master of souls was insanely fun
that vortex is just MMMMMMM
Master of Souls was so scrubby.
All should fear a mage.
All should fear a ninja.
All should fear the ninja mage.
Everybody else can fear them... I'd prefer to give him a hug. Poor construct has been through too much.
Happy New Year K&M, I would love to see a video on controller settings. I mean like (Input Shortcuts) (Button Shortcuts) (Release Check)? What are the positives, & negatives of having them on or off?
Thanks Guys!
MKX was the game that made me really like Ermac 😂
Gameplay wise or lore wise?
@@gabrieltejada1697
I'm assuming gameplay-wise. Ermac was scrub-friendly and didn't do anything in the story.
@@RJ-rp8yd scrub friendly? lol his spectral variation wasn’t easy to use and his master of souls variation was risky while Mystic was his safest variation and only beginner friendly variation.
@@gabrieltejada1697 Gameplay wise yeah, he’s always been pretty cool imo; but I never really played him lol
Love these. Can’t wait for Liu Kang and Johnny Cage! Let’s get some thicc episodes!!!
Happy new year dude!
My fav character, thanks for covering him!
He thinks we all only played mk x and 11 lol
Is that what youngsters do?
FINALLY! A deception breakdown. Deception meta when?!
Mr Error Macro himself, this guy was a glitch in Mortal Kimbat Matrix!
Cream does not exist.
Great series, Kano next please
Seeing him in Deception is cool, I'd really love to see a MK Meta video for Deception. Also ones for MK2 and Deadly Alliance as well. I love these breakdowns!
If you want any character to be added, just spread a rumor about him being a secret character during the MK1 era
So... y'all hear about the cheat code for SCP 076-2 in MKX? You never unlocked Abel? Amateurs.
(Shameless attempt to convince Netherrealm to add Abel to the roster, he's built for this)
Happy New year, listening to this video makes me want to try him out in mkx. Wasn't a big fan of MKX because I felt like there was just so many overhead and low mix-ups, which is kind of ironic because I am a Terminator player in MK 11. and I hope 2021 treats everybody better than last year
First video I watched Nd already love this series
I like the MKX gameplay where all characters and all variations have crazy good stuff so it balances out. Plus the runs combos and fast pace make it my top mk game ever.
Error Macro 😉
The Mac needs to return
Love this video! Been playing Ermac since MK Deception and had such a good time with him online! Sucks he didn't make MK11 but hopefully he will show up in MK12.
I remember all the error rumours surrounding his name. That was such cool times when it was all new.
I kind of wish I played all the games between trilogy and XL
I just was too busy and when it came to prior games I would learn every move and mean every move including all Shang Tsung morphs when he could morph in to any character. I was in my 20s by then though so working and clubbing every weekend. The 1st 3 games were during my teens so had plenty time to learn everything.
thanks for your hard work this year, ive been following you guys since the end of MKX, one of my favorites videos this year is that long set Rain vs Fujin you guys did a couple weeks ago, 2 flash characters at high level is always something that im interessed! My brother is now living in London so we had a eye on the situation there all the year and i happy that you guys are slowly getting the vaccine, stay safe and keep your amazing job! shoutouts from brazil!
You should do one for mileena
Great job 💕, can you do Kitana competitive history next?
ERMAC is extremely underrated as a character and playing him. I really liked him.
Got to love the squished roaches effects in that stage from MK Deception/Armageddon. 😂 Poor Ermac has a lot of roach blood under his shoes.
Awesome video ermac is such a beast
In arcades Erma, klassic subzero, and millennia were DLC! You needed 25 cents
“As of right now”...what do you know that we don’t? 🤔
Ermac is arguably my favorite MK character besides Fujin. By far to me the coolest ninja. Every game he's been in I kill people with him hehe, though I did feel he played a little odd in MK X change of pace for him. I hated how he was limited to certain moves via a variation. I preferred MOS due to the slam. I wonder if he'll be in MK 11 with the many rumors flying around. Ermac is like the king of juggles.
I still remember in Deception I discovered his unbreakable Axe juggle within the first few days on Xbox back in the day early 2000's now, with his D2 uppercut into TK combos were the best lol. I was like yeah I'm totally abusing this haha especially when near or in the corner lol. MKA he got downgraded a bit losing the Hua Chuan but was still fun. He was a beast is UMK3, but also fun and a juggle monster in Deception too for sure. MK 9 he's also a beastly character, juggle monster and zoning God in that game. Loved using him against everyone on Xbox MK 9. He was cool in MK X but didn't feel quite the same as he was previously. If he's in MK 11 I can only imagine the juggles he's going to have with the slow pacing of the game.
I always liked older ermac cuz he was more rushdown heavy, the modern ermac is fun but a little bit more slow paced for my liking. I'd love to try him properly in MKX one day because his mixups look so sick to this day
@@PNDKM Yeah haha I hear ya. UMK3 and MKT he was fun for sure, I mean I guess everyone was kind of rushdown more or rushdown heavy with that game and the run, jab cancels and all. For me my style, I love to stay back, zone and keep distance from people lol so I really loved him in MK 9 especially. One thing he could also do that you did touch base on that I loved utilizing far was his levitation cancels, alot of times I'd do it then cancel it then immediately buffer into his TK push, it would get people jumping almost everytime thinking I'd do the ground pound. I felt this tactic worked well against non teleporters especially.
Yeah his mix ups in MK X are kind of nuts and faster paced.
Ermac the badass hero in the original timeline only to be screwed over in the new timeline, **sigh** I want him to be redeemed again 😢
Agreed, he's cool in the new timeline because of his badassness, powers etc but felt more developed and also powerful in the Original timeline. I loved the whole Kenshi freeing him and Ermac training him to become more powerful via Telekinetic training in return for freeing him.
@@MKF30 they could’ve easily done this in MKX except this time it would happen on screen instead of being off screen through text but noooooo.
@@gabrieltejada1697 Exactly, Ermac is way cooler snd more interesting when he's a good guy imo too. Remember deception he beat the other good guys with ease while Onaga was mind controlling them. He was immune to it, hopefully the next time he comes back he'll be good again.
Good Ermac is best Ermac.
@@ShiftyGuy777 Yep! And that was sooo lame how they wrote Shang Tsung returning with Ermac's MK X ending sadly canon, so he floats into loneliness and Shang magically appears out of nowhere(after death some how not even explained) and kills Ermac by taking his souls...then they make him fall in the pit onto a spike in the krypt(which I know that's confirmed not canon) but still they punked Ermac hard....
Actually only 1 thing can take such an incredible and loved character from us
The terrible and disrespectful writing in the last 2 mk titles lol
Who "kills" key characters with so much potential OFF SCREEN? 🤬
I miss master of souls
This breakdown was dope
this is my favorite series of MK content, keep up the awesome work man!
Really wish I was around during MK9's competitive scene, I joined the party super late (like 5 years late 🤦♂) and the new MK games don't have the charm that MK9 does sadly.
Error macro
I'm in no way interested in Mortal Kombat or fighting games in general, but the video was so good I had to watch it until the end.
That is so strange lmao
some of mkx' animation decisions are so nutty. why is spectral ermac flapping his hands while flying
I loved Ermac in MKX, Master of Souls was so fun, guess wrong twice and that’s round over
I loved playing ermac in mk trilogy, mk deception, armageddon and mk9, I didn't play him too much in mkx for some reason.
Netflix: “Are you still watching?”
Someone’s daughter: 0:51
Okay, where is competitive history of *Subzero* and *Scorpion?* Throw *Smoke* in there too...
I find myself rewatching for the twentieth time.
I have sourced a console.
I shall defeat you ketchup
Wait, are you ketchup?! If you are im a big fan of you and your brother❤️💛🤘🤘
Thank you as always for your hard work.
Much love Ketchup, all of the content you put out this year was top notch, especially the Competitive History series. May this coming year be a big hit for this channel and for you!
Bird Ermac isnt real he cant hurt you
Bird Ermac: 20:30
Ermac the Red ninja he’s so fun to play his physic abilities are always a joy to play the tele slam has and always will be broken
I just like mortal kombat.... I literally have no clue wtf you are talking about! Lol
That part at the end really helped man, thank you.
Did you know that his name originates from Edward Robert Macaroni?
why do you sound like that blasted salami????
Aren't we both british? That's probably why fam
@@PNDKM yeah thats why ig
Wow Ermac MK9 and Jade MK11 are surprisingly similar in ways
We need Ermac, Reptile and Smoke in Mk11
That never happened lol, hopefully in mk12
Yes! And can we get some SCP rep in game? Anyone who read the files *knows* Abel is all about fighting and killing. Shao Khan would fall in one round.
Great vids I love you he historical fighting game content
MK in the early 2000’s was weird but awesome asf