Mortal Kombat 1 - Easiest to Hardest Character Tier List! 

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I love Rain so much. Not only is he really fun but people having almost no idea how to react to 75% of what he does is just great.

As a Shang main I suggest to others to go through and learn at least 2 mixups on every character. It throws off the opponents pacing and creates openings because they had to deal with Shang before but now they're dealing with their own mixups.

I was expecting to play 3 characters, but I’ve been playing about 8 because of you making their combos look so cool. Thanks for the inspiration ❤

Awesome tier list review! Definitely in the tops for relatability. Even with showing us the full list at 5:44, listening to your reasoning for each character was worthy. Very on 🎯

As a Havik main I can understand your stance on the controversy. As fun as it can be to play him, making an opening can be tricky especially if your opponent knows the match up. There really isn't much you can do pressure wise with his moveset without a cameo to help with safe combo or to extend combos. Love Havik and he's got great potential but there's adjustments you have to make fighting with him compared to others. Awesome vid!

Awesome tier list love the distinction with easy to play vs win literally came into wondering what I’d be haha you should do a “Easiest to Hardest to win with” or “What your main says about you” too I’d love see it

Sindel has a hard time opening people up because she isn't mixup-oriented like she was in MK11 with her low and overhead starters and scream cancels. I kinda wish they kept some of that in MK1. I do agree that her levitation combos are tricky, I've put playing as her online on hold until I master them. I agree with Li Mei's placement because I constantly take advantage of her plus frames and she has good synergy with Scorpion.

3:26 He says Havik is hard to play, but it didn't take me long to learn him, I admit he's confusing but that's what makes him the most fun

I plan on learning every character. I just max leveled scorpion a couple weeks ago, as well as Shoa and Rain before him. Chillin with scorpion till the end of the KL season

I’ve been waiting for you to make this video

I’ve never enjoyed playing a character as much I do Rain in this game….unbelievable mixups and the animations are just so darn 😍

Im a Havik main and I watched a different video about how he was pretty easy to get used to because he can do pretty much anything, but you putting him in the hardest tier boosted my ego so much. Though In my opinion the only hard part about Havik is that his launching attacks are really slow, thats it though.

I'm a pretty new player, just started playing MK1 and I tried SO hard to get comfortable with Ashrah, but she was just too hard for me to get to a point where I wasn't just frustrated the whole time. I am using Kitana now, but I hope to go back to Ashrah once I'm better at the game :)

I've been playing Rain/Scorpion since day 1, ironically because I thought he was going to be a good zoning character...which didn't end up being the case. However, I ended up still loving his kit and sticking with him regardless. He was definitely tricky to learn but the combos can be very satisfying; plus the hard-to-blockable setups can sometimes clutch you out a game.

I'm shao main. Once you get a grasp of the cans and can nots, he becomes pretty straight forward. A breeze to master and probably one of the most fun you can get out of mk1.

The reason i wanted to main kenshi was because when the fatalities video came out, i thought his were the coolest, especially the second one, little did i know how much time i would spend labbing to even learn his regular combos

You should definitely make a "Win With" tier list! Because thats what I thought just like you about when watching this video lol

I’ve played very few shangs but all I can say is that everyone who mains him always zone. Then once you corner him he either grabs or does that backwards lung then zone again (saying they zone w/him a lot then combo to get away to zone)

I love Quan Chi and Reptile! Quan chi got some crazy mix ups, kombos are a little difficult to pick up but once you do maaaaaan you whoopin butt!!

For me the only hard thing about Rains gameplay is how to use those water Portals

Shang, Rain, Sindel, and Ashrah, are my 4 best mains. I’ve been using Li Mei a lot recently though, she’s freaking fun bro👌

Rain kinda relies on his overhead or low. But if you land it haincombos are great and j love how paring him with subzero makes his combos amazing and his zoning actually broken. Seriously I had to fight a zoning Shang and ice shield just saved me from so much damage… Also ice shield allows you to walk through ice clones which allowed me to have a subzero try and attack me thinking I was frozen

Scorpion has been my favourite character since i was a kid playing mk2 for the first time. I loved his story, his moves and everything. When i saw what they did with scorpion in this game storywise i was super hyped. Then on release day when i played scorpion for the first time i felt super disappointed🤣

Hey, I’m not gonna lie you call on everybody who skip the video dumb at the end was pretty funny

Sub will be my forever main. Just simple but effective character

I love nitara so much actually, shes kinda difficult but since she isnt super popular, im not the highest rank, but some people get confused, and shes actually so fun and fluid, theres one mixup that ik is super reactable but if you slip its an easy 380 with one bar, you can do the same combo with her low too if you use sareena, and shes fun

Let's Go TrueUnderDawg!!!!!!! You're a great artist buddy!!!!!!! Can you please make a Mortal Kombat Onslaught video I've been playing it it's fun! Oh and BUFF SCORPION 🦂! 👊🏻🎮🐉🦂🦂🦂✌🏻

I've played a lot of Mortal Kombat growing up, so I'm not new to mortal Kombat, but i don't know anything like safe and unsafe combos, or anything like that, I'm just a casual player that enjoys playing with my dad. So imagine my surprise when I keep hearing everyone say that my favorite character and new main is the hardest character in the game to learn

I was a Shinnok main in MKX because i played Shang Tsung for a long time in other games. At some point, I was playing my opponents’ characters better than them after absorbing their souls

I started to main kenshi because I liked him as a character but man was I in for a rude awakening when I realized how hard he was to play. Tho he is fun when you get the hang of him

You actually can combo solo off of Nitaras sweep, You down, back 2 (up fly) into ex dive kick and it combos.

I'm a beast with smoke/frost But havik is a bit complicated however with sector. Thats double projectiles then double dash and its up to you from there💪😎

As someone who is shit at the game; i say they're all hard

I love playing with Shang Tsung.. when you get him down pack hes awesome!

I think rain is hard to fight against that first set , after that he becomes a lot easier to fight against cause you know how to punish him . The scariest thing is a rain just doing offense for free , you will get opened up

I wonder what each of the Kombat Pack 1 characters will be ranked, if I had to guess (Hardest to Easiest): Omni-Man, Takeda, Ermac, Peacemaker, Quan Chi, Homelander. Omni-Man looks like he'll take lots of quick inputs and command grabs, while Homelander, as many people are convinced, is probably gonna zone with his laser eyes and sonic scream mostly, but that is just 2 things he would use, what other specials would he have to zone with?

I skipped to the exact moment you said that if I skipped it was my own fault to not understand it. Feeling bad for doing it now hahah

glad to know i can play 1 character in every tier

U speaking on scorpion tells me all I need to kno 😊

I think Mileena is easy to learn, but as with Smoke ("if he teleports off the back of the screen, block low, and if he tosses a smoke grenade over your head, block high"), I think a lot of people know how to counter her. You can't just raw into the rolling ball or the teleports most of the time unless your opponent is in the air or is otherwise vulnerable.

Kenshi is like Fujin in MK 11, hard execution with a great reward. It's a shame how Shang is not like this.

Just bought the game and as a souls player I like to suffer so just gonna go and play reiko and nitara thanks for the recommendations

As a scorpion main I feel like you have all the tools to win you just have to be that much better then your opponent. With that said buff teli

As a Shao main I would argue that Shao is easy, he’s not as hard as people think he is. Yes I know he has 2 different movesets however he doesn’t have as many moves without his axe making it easier to memorise. Not to also mention without his axe his moves are fast, safe on block and can start combos. Pair him with Sonya then he’s insanely good dealing 35-40% damage with just 1 kameo meter

Amazing

Kung Lao has a bit higher skill ceiling than mentioned. He's the only character that can armor and then combo through gaps in certain strings. To play Lao at his full potential, you have to know each character's gaps.

I’ve played against many haviks and I will say, he has the best zoning in the game, he has high damage combos with cyrax, and he might just be the best character for spammers with his forward four. I’ve broken controllers because of this character because I main RAIN.

I love Ashrah so much! She’s a fun and elegant character.

Sitting on the toilet pushing out 💩while watching this 🔥💪

Starting at the most complicated was a good call lol

Mileena doesn’t feel too easy for me actually. Even though she has potential for combo it can be hard to land them especially with the her special moves

Although i main Rain I can't see Rain being harder than Nitara to play, cool comic as well

Rains moves being slow make him all the more difficult to utilize and learn You have to learn when to use specific moves because you can’t just throw them out whenever you want all the time

Honestly, the johny cage one didn't make sense since a lot of his combos can knock the opponent away or stun them. With sub zero you can freeze your opponent, taunt, than go for a combo. It's honestly really easy for johny to get his star power

Are you going to do a guide on every cameo? If u did sorry for asking

I’ve been mainly playing Mileena and Li Mei and so far Li Mei has felt better in fights. Mileena is fun but something isn’t clicking when I try to pull off her combos in an actual match

Ngl, johnnys combo 7 in tutorials was the hardest shit ive ever done 😂

I love havik, i know like 2 basic combos and still shit on these dudes who spent hours in the lab practicing their one big 40% combo. My only complaint with him is that a lot of his moves require a lot of start up so you really have to learn the timings and counters youre against

Best Kenshi gameplay ever

Shang Tsung is really not that hard to learn (especially paired with Sareena) once you get good at changing from young and old multiple times during combos and attack strings. Just like the combo showcase i posted. I agree about Kenshi being the hardest. But the easiest to learn is Sub Zero and Scorpion. I also think Nitara probably belongs in the top 5 hardest to master. She is just such a different playstyle than everyone else. Shes like a super glass cannon that has to spend meter constantly you hardly get to use breakers with her.

Mileena main here, i definetly would not say that mileena is easy, i would put mileena between hard and intermediate, theres a lot of things you need to learn as a mileena main and some combos are very difficult to do because of precise timing

Love seeing someone who knows what they are talking about Johnny. Not saying “he’s the easiest character in the game.” He’s easy to pick up difficult to master

Kitana you just gotta nail your back dash, B24 I think it is, good range that can catch people out and combo off. Nice combos as well, easy and fun but not stupid op. I find her fun with Sonya.

watchin this whole thing without having the game yet is ah W i think i wanna main Reptile and Kung. and learn kenshi jus to say i learned kenshi 😂😂😂

Great video only thing I disagree with is johhny i think he’s super easy like yeah to do his best stuff takes good skill but the thing with him u dont really need his best potential to do really good with him id put him intermediate just bc he overall is easy to pickup and dominate and yeah ik he said to play not win but those go hand and hand but great list overall

Raiden does have crazy damage. A level 100 got 80% damage on me consistently during 5 rounds in Kombat League. Granted the dude only did that string everytime... 5 rounds means I would win too.

Then I also hate Raiden. Because you could essentially do overhead- hard knockdown- storm cell. Then basically keep doing that until the opponent gets frustrated and blocks it inevitably opening up that low sweep combo starter. Then it’s 40-50% every time with Jax Kameo.

Our boi spoiling the list at 5:38

As a smoke player all you really need to do is teleport and throw the smoke bomb but since when could he turn invisible but I think he should be where he is

The fact he feels Johnny is more difficult than Smoke... smh

Scorpion and kung Lau changed place in the end

I use nitara with goro for the sweep into grab. Catches a lot of people off guard when it happens. I can’t get too big a combo out of it yet but I just got the game a few days ago so….😅🤧

I love playing Geras and Kenshi

I’m glad I main difficult characters geras rain and havik and reiko are my mains

TOP 6 RAIN, SHANG TSUNG, SHAO KAHN, KENSHI, JOHNNY CAGE, KITANA

Lie Mei has one of the best mix-ups. Low kick-high

I main Rain and… I was not expecting him to be up so high…

Very nice and informative list but the editing mistake at 5:41 kind of spoiled the rest of the video lol

With Havik i just let my inner chaos control my moves and it actually works

Do a most hated character list. I elect Smoke to be at the very top of that list. He is high risk but the mix up game, his teleport combos, and sarena assists is stupid. I mean with one meter it’s 40% every time. Even from players that aren’t good. Because, players have punished me and have had great combos but when it came to their defense I took them apart with Shao. And Baraka second most hated. Lol with Cyrax lol

In God rank Kitana is literally the hardest character to beat. When they know what they're doing with zoning, there is NOTHING. You can do.

Getting this game soon never played any mk titles and thinking about picking up mileena any tips/thoughts?

I’m probably just bad but smoke vapor cancels alone make him in the hard tier for me. I don’t main him but damn that shit is tragic when you open someone up and miss the cancel😢

Reiko: "With cmd grab hes difficult, without it he's garbage.." *THE GENERAL WOULD BE PLEASED!*

All of a sudden, it makes sense why I'm not enjoying the game. I've been unwittingly playing with the hardest characters to learn.

i was a scorpion main in mk11 I tried picking him up in mk1 but it just didn't feel right to me I remember how cool geras was in the trailer so I was like why dont i try him and now im grandmaster and he is the only character I use But one thing I don't like is that he barely has any mixups at all

I think smoke should be higher is sindel is in the hardest imo smoke cancels are a lot harder than her levitate combos. Smoke also tend to do his cancel more in so there’s more room for error

I am BRAND new to fighting games. I played the main story of Mortal Kombat 11 and played around with the AI in towers. I played Injustice 1's main story years ago. But this is the first time I've tried to actually get good at a fighting game beyond just beating the main campaign (which let's be honest, it's not that hard and doesn't really require you to know much about fighting games). However, I've been finding Geras to actually be the easiest character! The inputs for his sandstorm are a little difficult and that's really his only ranged attack. And sure, there's a high skill ceiling where you can do awesome stuff with his klone and stuff. But other than that? He has an easy special move that literally just... negates the next damage you take. And he can literally stop time and teleport to where the opponent can't block or anything. And managing his countdown charges doesn't seem too difficult. He's got a normal kombo that just gives him an hourglass. So I just do that kombo when I can and do the countdown ability whenever I get knocked back or they run away. Also as a new player I'm not very good at knowing when to amplify my moves or anything, so I often would go a long time with full meter. However, I've since learned that you can amplify his little Countdown move to just instantly give you max charges! So generally he has an easy move that lets you make a mistake and get out of danger. He has an easy way to attack without worrying about being countered or blocked. And he has easy normal kombos that do a lot of damage without having to learn crazy strings of precise inputs that weave in amplifications and air moves and dodges. And yeah, his little 4-4 blast is very fun and it's pretty easy to just do that and jump up for the punches and the grab that slams them down again. Not to mention his little f1-2-throw move! The f1 part isn't very impressive, but creating that wall with the 2 part is really powerful and often hits people dodging away or trying to run in to get me

As someone who just started mortal kombat, I am trying to main kenshi.. I probably should of did my research first…

I used to main geras and he was fun but I couldn’t get over 38 percent combos so I started using shao and now I have multiple 46 percent to 51 percent combos I land all the time

I don't understand why Kitana is so far from Rain when they are pretty similar characters. Both have many moves that they can use to zone effectively and have set ups that they need to learn like whirlpool or wind trap

ive mained rain, mileena, and lei mei. i personally find rain and li mei super hella easy to play. i legit got bored with them due to the lack of combo potential diversity. mileena is way more difficult in my opinion cause its way easier to drop her combos and almost everything mileena does is death on block.

W video

As a reptile main very rarely do i use invisibility. Its too short even a hit while blocking knocks you out of it and the time to reach invisibility is well too long. I usually only see it used in mirror matches

“Reiko is hard to play” *Looks at LTG Reiko gameplay… looks at my Reiko gameplay*

It figures the guy I'd ken to in the story mode is the easiest character in the game. I just like his movement skills. They either get me where I need to go or stop me from getting trapped.

Kitana has NO overheads and it makes the game so damn hard when every character I face has a built-in 50/50

I will download the mk 1 only for kung lao. As i play mk11 and my main character is kung lao😎. I like his hat usage within fight looks so dope.If u pay little attention to him, he is the stylish fighter(ok agreed jhonny is most stylish, when it comes to overall in game)with kungfu like the classic movies i have watched from china on Shaolin 😊. A extra confident shaolin monk with Razer hat😅.

I love that the 4 characters I wanted to learn the most was Rain, Shang Tsung, Kenshi, and Havik😂