The Most BROKEN Special Move In EVERY Mortal Kombat Game
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Check out Lordknight's breakdown of Broken Moves with Mustard. It covers some examples I didn't mention here!
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We need a new competitive history of Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Kano, Sonya, or Shang Tsung. It takes a lot of ideas to make. Take your time, Ketchup.
@subaraz johnny cage would be cool to
@@subarazWhen he started the series he emphasized wanting to focus on non-main characters, so who knows when we’ll get those, given those are all popular first MK characters
Scorpion competitive history when Civvi
That Tekken one bgm I'm hearing?
I hope to see competitive history of Shang some day
He's coming, just let the meta of 11 and 1 keep going so it can be longer and more knowledgeable
He’s never been top tier outside of umk3 I’m guessing.
I genuinely think they have some kind of bias against him at this point
Tbh I feel like Shang Tsung is soooo hard to balance. Like we all know it'd be super duper cool to make it so that he can move steal mid combo, then reset into the nastiest 52% combo on someone. But it has to be incredibly difficult or else Shang would be way too broken. Shang is fun as zoning though lol
@@kujo4388 he's lower mid in UMK3 I think. He has that infinite, but not a whole lot else.
13:30 I feel like everyone has forgotten ermac being absolutely broken on MK X launch. Like legitimately broken, meter fills with levitation. It was insanity
I remember him gaining a meter instantly with levitation, but I... think it was locked behind Spectral? And in the early days, Ermac players were all in on Master of Souls and Mystic.
They got rid of it...but it was nothing like that lol
i thought was on mk9
he got nerfed and still clapped
8:19
The disdain in his voice reminded me of the legendary MrGSTAR321 rant on Bo'Rai Cho
What a legend man! I hope he's good wherever he is.
Ahhh mrgstar what a man
Look at this mess! Fucking disgusting, absolutely disgraceful!
GStar is a true legend. One of the best gaming channels out there.
Apparently everyone hates Bo'Rai Cho
Super, Sugar punch design and here
I'm surprised that Kitana's fan-wave wasn't picked for MKII, considering it's one of the few times an arcade game had to get rebalanced during revisions.
Gentlemen, we must now relentlessly request a Competitive History of Bo Rai Cho video
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I want a competitive history of Bo Rai Cho
Nah im good
@@jvr6809 no your not.
@@jvr6809agreed. Hard pass on that one.
Sareena be playing ghost and goblins
Get the fkng knife
Soo true. I got a chuckle from this haha 👍
" 3f unblockable lunching ground pound " sounds fair said the dev
Yeah what a brilliant idea
back in MK9 there was a bug with kabal, idk how it goes but if u did some attacks, then the other player could freeze in place forever!
God. Crystalline Tremor. I've been watching a lot of old MKX tourneys lately, and he's absolutely ubiquitous.
Haven’t even started the video and I know the tombstone drop is going to be on there. It has to be.
Legit one of the most broken moves in ANY fighting game
Like there's moves that play neutral for you but rarely is one almost 100% of any given time unavoidable AND unblockable, follow-uppable at any situation (you can hit strings even after hitting an opponent all the way from the other side of the screen, no kidding, check UnderDawg's video on the move) and instantly full screen
And DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE STARTUP, it could be 5x slower and IT WOULD STILL BE BROKEN
You have no idea how fast I press those notifications when you release a new video, they're truly a highlight of my day!
Thanks a ton!
We GG + MK fans are a rare breed.
Haven’t seen the video yet. Cant wait to see Dairou’s tombstone drop!
I really love the Tekken 2 music in the video, I love hearing Jun's theme anytime
Ahh thank you I was wondering where I’ve heard that lovely tune before
@@ryanbailey6900 it's my favorite Tekken song
@@mandalorianhunter1 Mines probably Venezia from Tekken 1 or the credits roll from the PS2 version of tekken tag.
@@maxxdahl6062 nice
0:11 nightwolf's entry is how i use to walk to school
Damn. I thought I was the only one who got struck by lightning every time I enter school
I still to this day don't know why you aren't invincible when teching a throw like multiple other fighting games lol
In the Game boy Advance version of deadly alliance, the Frost's slide attack could be chained into itself and become a (extremely easy to perform. In fact. one of the easiest infinite ever existed in a fighting game) true infinite. It was Super OP.
I didn't realize there was a GBA version of MKDA
Just a simple matter of opinion, I am more or less retired but for UMK3, I think it's valid statement to say that Kabal is number one in the game; however, he loses HSmoke & Ermac matchups at least 20-80. Most of his options are invalidated by these two ninjas as I've demonstrated in the past. Instant airs don't matter to those two ninjas.
yeah... I found it funny Kabal is figthing Ermac in the video
Rain's lightning move in MKT was pretty broken. It had a simple input (i think it was b,b+lp), came out quickly, and juggled the opponent. It got me through most of the ladder.
Just block it
Another great idea! I love seeing these quicker snapshots of awesome stuff in each game!
Another broken thing about Noob's disabler projectile is that it resets the combo hit counter when it ends lol
For those that don't know yet, "Bo Rai Cho" is supposed to sound like "Borracho", which is Spanish for "Drunk(ard)"
Hablo español y es una traducción borracha
@@nieveceroBorracho estaba al que se le ocurrió ese nombre
@@nievecero and drunk or drunkard is the English version. He is correct.
As a Mexican American, when I got MK:DA, my dad and I caught that right away and we were like "is he a drunk dude?" Before even playing as him to see.
The Tekken 2 stage music was perfect. Tekken is freaking amazing!!
Agreed
That's what that's from. 😂
That Tekken 2 music in the background.. 👍 👍 My favorite of that franchise, too.
Have it on my Playlist. Got the gane and a lot of the tracks as my stage music in Tekken 8
In Vancouver, we seemed to get some really early (probably test) versions of MK 2 & 3.
The first place I saw MK2 had a bug that allowed you to do the first half of Sub Zero's fatality during a match. It was unblockable and you didn't unfreeze. Once you had a life lead, all you had to do was land the freeze and win.
Arcade inside Metrotown had the first MK3 in town, and it was also clearly a test copy. It had a revision happen to it seemingly every week. An early version of Shiva's stomp was a lot faster, extremely hard to avoid, and unblockable. If you got a knockdown with her, you could start spamming it and it would connect as an opponent stood up but before they could possibly do anything. I beat the game on the hardest difficulty just flicking the stick up and down (no other moves.) Luckily that was fixed the next time I went there (I worked in the mall, was there every day), and is probably why she is notoriously terrible.
Lucky, we never got any test revisions or early revisions. But we did get general release versions the day those would come out luckily.
You should do bottom tier characters with broken tools. Maybe characters that can’t use them well enough due to the meta. Or characters that were nerfed the hardest in any given game.
They've covered Scorpion in Injustice going from broken to bottom 1 and mentioned that Sub in MK9 was made useless because of the nerf to (i think) ice puddle.
@@mostverticalproductions4808 I’m sure there’s more examples. Could be good
I don't think it's likely to see a character with broken tools to be bottom.
But maybe characters that are only viable because of some broken trait.
@@llSuperSnivyll sheeva mk9 has some really fucked up setups and tech. she is the worst in the game. i mean like ONE tool that is strong but isnt enough to save the character. there are plenty of fighting games with bottom tier characters that have one strong aspect about them but cant really use it against players who know how to deal with it.
MK4 was truly an awesome game that gets so little love
I think Sheeva dragon stance and stomp prepatch were some of if not the most broken specials in 11. She got stomp setups off her amp fireball in the dragon stance, and back then dragon stance jailed off her block strings, so she got a bunch of chip damage and pushback on block. It made her really oppressive. She could cancel dragon stance for free too, and for some characters they had no counterplay to stomp depending on their walk/dash speed.
The fact that NRS banned someone from a tournament for calling them out on it shows how broken it is.
@@otaking3582 yeah I’m surprised they didn’t mention sheeva prepatch tbh. I know they said before they personally didn’t think stomp was that broken(at least at high level) but I thought with stomp AND dragon stance Sheeva as a whole was busted af when customs first came out.
I'm convinced I'll watch a tier list of literally anything
Can't believe Sheevas stomp isn't on here
Shoutouts to LordKnight. Kabal's gas blast in UMK3 is an effing nightmare when you're against him, but a Godsend when you play as him.
Sidenote, will you guys be at Combo Breaker this year? I'll PROBABLY be bringing my supergun with MK4, Hokuto no Ken, and Real Bout 2.
Especially if you’re Sheeva 😂
03:26 That song is “Nobody Catch Me” from Tekken 2. It’s a catchy one.
I love how there's Tekken 2 music playing during the video. I think it's King's Theme around the 19 minute mark.
lei wulong's classic tk2 theme on a video that revisits the older mk games.i feel nostalgic 😢
That dagger toss turning sareena into the guy from ghouls and ghosts
I would have picked nomad dash for mk9. Plus frame cancels, meter build, combo optimization, flash parry with ex nomad dash which is a SAFE, armored, plus frame string for one bar.
back in my day, you get beat up for spamming projectiles
Playing Tekken 2 music in the background of a Mortal Kombat game video.
To be more accurate on crystalline , it is possible by quick strings like scorp and Kano 11. The second hit hits tremor before he recovered from the set animation
Most broken move in MK1 is the matchmaking desync.
15:13 I love the Sheeva N64 High Kick shoutout/easter egg/whatever you wanna call it lol
Dawd mkX predator trap into overhead attack for an impossible overhead/low hit from predator and his mine
Drill Kick with Tanya in 4 doesn't need a combo to go max damage; I've done it. It's super broken and 7 or 8 of those and you get hit with that max damage repel.
In mk1, u forgetting the hype combo of johnny cage. It has to be on this list
In mortal kombat vs DC I found a guaranteed trick to counter the flash years ago. Scorpion has a move where he engulfs himself in flames and stands still. Well if you hold down the button to do this special move he will in fact stay on fire and can only be countered by projectiles. I realized flash has no projectiles and when he does his dash attack he cannot penetrate the fire aura around scorpion thus rendering him completely useless.
Liu kangs fireball is the cheapest/most broken in mortal kombat 2. It does air mid and ground. You can also quick jump shoot it
11:06 - Came here for MK vs. DC. Was Not disappointed.
9:41 - "it is unavoidable here."
.5 seconds later - _avoids_ _it_ _by_ _jumping_
I love the vid but I gotta say as someone who is not really knowledgeable on mk11 you didn't really explain what the move did. I get that it breaks mechanics but the move itself was not explained. I can look that up myself or maybe it was obvious by looking but I still think it would've been nice.
Anyway loving the uploads!
I remember once playing Mortal Kombat 1 on a Genesis emulator and when i was on the ground, Sonya just did a leg grab, i was confused then later i managed to defeat her
Amazing video once again. Didn't know about Mileena's roll in MKG, that was news to me.
I've long enjoyed your videos for the logic presented to support your claims. You have good video clips and good explanations both of which support your point of view exceptionally well.
every character has a "juggler" move you just have to know which moves to chain. kabal has a run cyrax has an uppercut,sonya has the grab,scorpion has the spear or the legsweep kick,lui kang has multiple flying kicks,sub-zero you can chain multiple freezes,there are ways with every character that you can win without your opponent never being able to throw a punch
I see Ketchup got the Tekken music bug from playing a bit of Tekken 8
My thoughts too 😂
Can't disagree on MK11, fighting Jacqui was as fun as fighting an inoperable brain tumor.
I mained Jade and just hoped that her anti air projectiles would render "flying" Jacqui, Kabal, and Joker grounded and that those copiers then had no gameplan once it became a no fly zone. I would spam anti airs and not feel one bit bad about it under those circumstances.
Love the old school tekken soundtrack in the background xd
Ain’t watched the vid yet but I predict tombstone drop in deception
I cant remember which version it was, it was one where you could move in 3d but raiden had this move where he basically turns himself into a spinning missile and you could just do it repeatedly till your opponent was dead and non of us ever figured out how to stop it. We actually had a standing rule that we wouldnt use that move if we played his character.
Kenshi's Sento stance needs to be a full kameo bar.
What do you mean?
Sento Stance isn't a kameo move.
Right! Got myself confused! My bad. What I meant is that Sento stance lasts forever, I would say it needs a lesser duration.
Rains kick in ultimate mortal kombat that kicks opponents across the screen was pretty broken... Once i land that lightning strike then that water ball followed by a kick it turns into an infinite combo
I got puggles as most broken move in X. Flex isn’t real armor cause he has animation if he gets hit. Any quick two hitting string will punish it
"If Tremor gets hit while flex, who cares?"
>kuatan chest bump has entered the chat
Special moves are awesome
I love the Jackie Chan soundtrack in the background.
Please make a Kompetitive History of Scorpion 🦂!!!!!!! 👊🏻🎮🐉🦂🦂🦂✌🏻
I’ve been using fan lift with havik to meet opponents in the air seeking neo plasm. Khameleon really opened up some fun stuff with havik
surprised Sektor didn't get the pick over Cyrax in MK 2011 (MK9? I dunno) because he had a straight up infinite that made me stop playing online. Maybe it got patched out but yeah, I wasn't gonna find out after encountering countless Sektor players online just spamming the teleport infinite lol
I Hope to see competitive history of cage some day
Love you guys. Thanx for an awesome vid 😃
Hey guys. I am enjoying your content for a long time. I was wondering if you are interested in competitive history of Injustice 1/2 or similar themes like this video for those games.
Oh man, that Tekken 2 music got me all kinds of nostalgic
I would also add as a honorable mention MK2 Jax back breaker. It can be mixed with jump kick to create 2 hit combo with around 25-33% dmg
Bro thinks he’s MrGSTAR321 talking about Bo-Rai-Cho ☠️
UMK3 kabal fireball is a good choice but I think the spin is worse. Instantaneous start up move that completely invalidates jumping
umk3 rain's round house kick better be on here.edit: okay fair, maybe a top 3 broken moves of each series? it'd certainly be on there, lol. i know my friends made a house rule we couldnt use rain because of it.
I love the small sigh before talking about Bo Rai Cho Godly OP Move, truly the strongest in Deadly Alliance.
Mortal combat 3 had near infinite with strider (same as mk1 throw).
Just land a running throw as strider.
Running throw as strider catapults the opponent behind your current position. Running back to them and doing the running throw again coats about 5/100 stamina (there is recovery). Youll time you next run throw when the "get up" animation is happening so they cant interact with you.
If you dont %100 combo (because it was the first hit) you'll leave them on deaths door.
10:09 in my opinion I think the most broken move in mk armageddon has to be mileenas teleporting drop kick because it has no cooldown, meaning you can repeat forward forward A over and over and over again to finish your opponents in seconds
Kabal from the Cabal
These sorts of videos always make me think of the Game Gear ports and what I think of them in such a regard. If you were to have listed the handheld versions as separate entities, absolutely I think Jax's Gotcha Grab would win out for MKII. In that version at least, it was absolutely an infinite. Once you land one of them, you have the match in the bag, since you drop the opponent at your feet after, and as they get up you can do the movements again, and catch them just as they stand up.
I don't think I ever figured out which move would be a broken one in the first game on Game Gear, and I never got a copy of MK3 (in fact, as a kid, I didn't know there was a Game Gear port of that one).
Rain's lightnight attack in UMK3 was definitely the most broken. Once you get hit with it then it can be spammed until you lose
Rain’s water ball and lightning strike were the most broken special moves in MK3 and MK Trilogy. A player could hit and stun his opponents indefinitely with those moves.
My first ever online mortal kombat match was MK: Deception and it was vs a Dairou. He did the tombstone over and over. I never played it online again.
Great vid. Love the Tekken 2 BGM!
I loved Reiko's flip kick. Air traps em with an infinite combo
"the idea of performing high reward but unsafe move and making them safe by another special move is ABSOLUTELY insane" well!thats common these days
yeah it's common if you misquote what he said lol. It isn't just about using a special move to stay safe. Bro's special literally replaced his hitstun 💀
That Fujin's crossbow bolts aren't on this is an absolute travesty. Back + shoot forward + shoot is simply the most broken unbeatable combination.
I always loved Kabals Air Guitar blast on MK3/UMK3
I would argue Quan chi's throw in deadly alliance is more busted if timed right you can chain it in an endless loop of his throw.
Kabal’s gas dash in MK11 might be worse cause it’s completely meterless and just leads to game breaking pressure that we hadn’t seen in so long, even with Jacqui being top 5 the entirety of 11
I'd like to see who's the better character in every MK game between 2 iconic characters, Scorpion and Sub Zero
its def sub zero
hes been outright top 5 in some games if not #1 while scorpion has been bottom of the barrel before
@@hypedup8081 in one of the 3d era games scorpion is broken tho, what I meant is which one is better between the 2 in each game one by one
@@qYdS_6650 yeah scorpion was broken in the 3d era but thats itand even then sub has also been broken in one of them
mortal kombat trillogy - Rain - special move : mind control orb! you can get flawless every time as long as you can get that first one in
So basically picking Sareena in MK Armageddon is like the Knife in Ghost & Goblins (AVGN reference)
3:28 using classic Tekken in a Mortal Kombat video is crazy work!! Salute though 🫡
If you're talking all versions of UMK3, Rain's roundhouse kick is pretty OP too 😂
IMO the best move of mk2 is barakas chop chop
Can you do a ranking of every mortal kombat stage of all time
Taven’s Dragon Rush from Armageddon was the best move visually 😂
It's amazing how flawless the original version of this game is
I have never heard anyone say that Mileena's sai throw or Jax's ground pound are even decent moves. They have always been regarded as the worst moves to possibly ever exist in Mortal Kombat early games. Nobody wants to hold down buttons for seconds to use some weak attack.
i was thinking this too. doesnt scorpions teleport punch make both sai and groundpound useless too?