@@FAiRWAYx I don't think this is a new spin on Scorpion. It's just putting Kuai Liang in Scorpion's costume and giving him his wife. I enjoy all the fresh takes in M1K with my favorite being Mileena and Kitana are actually sisters. But Scorpion/Hanzo is my favorite character in all video games, so the change really killed the game for me.
I think Reptile is more of an A tier character while he has potential he is always that character who you fight every now and then to make the chapters longer.
I 100% agree I think noob is one of the best designed ninja because he is so consistent in his design (except mk11, which I think is a little too slipknot, edgy, Batman who laughs)
I would not be upset at all if there was an MK game where the main story was Bi-Han dying, coming back as Noob Saibot, creates the brotherhood of shadow, and tries to overthrow the elder gods. If done right, that could make for an amazing story mode. Noob Saibot isn't just my favorite MK character, but my favorite fictional character. An after thought? Outrageous!
Ill never forget the first time we discovered Noob in mk2. We had our tournaments after school, and my buddy won 25 in row and it opened. We were all dumbfounded and highly amazed and just wanted to play as him
Noob Saibot was always so cool to me. I first saw him in Mortal Kombat Trilogy and I always liked how his sprite is a blank silhouette of a ninja. I also like how he has a clone
Reptile is ma boi since 1995 when I saw that iconic fight in the movie. Everything in his human appearance from the statue till the end of the fight was gorgeous! That fight impacted me so much that I main him almost in every game. Reptile and Liu are my favourite chars.
Please do a tier video of all female ninjas! -Kitana 💙 -Mileena 🩷 -Jade 💚 -Tanya 💛 -Skarlet ❤️ -Frost 🩵 -Khameleon 🩶 I personally consider Tanya a ninja despite never wearing a ninja mask since Khameleon did have Tanya's Surging Blast move in MK: Armageddon.
I already did my personal tier list for these seven above! What do you think? Imho polite criticism is more than welcome, just as long as we can keep civil conversation about it...
Tanya's mk4 design was based off of the Female Ninja design and in the mobile game she is considered a female ninja as she was featured in the Female Ninja pack for Women's day!
Yes they messed Rain up by making him a mage, he should stay as the son of argus. Yes Chameleon needs a juicier story, or maybe keeping his origins a mystery is how it should be and maybe he travels the realm trying to figure out who he is and why he has no memory. Perhaps make him a hero and him feeling the need to do good things ties back to his origins. The right writer has to do him
i agree with your ermac take; so much potential with character design but i really didn’t like the whole mummy aesthetic. i wish they would have stuck with the ninja base aesthetic with some additional green flare. great video!
Don't know why I like Tremor so much. I'm happy that Boon brought him back for MK1 even if it's just as a kameo. Would like to see him as a full character with an interesting backstory in future games.
Rain is the only Character that made Raiden fear him and render his abilities as neutral. Raiden is God tier so it's easy to say that Rain is God Tier maybe not in popularity but in Power ⛈️⚡
Wow im surprised you used my bad MK Special Forces gameplay for Tremor, lmao, but Its really cool to see that and seeing this Tier List of the ninjas of Mortal Kombat, with alot of it I would tend to agree with, very cool video indeed!
Hey! Thanks so much for being cool with me using it. I tried to play through to get to that point in the game but it was so unenjoyable. I appreciate the kind words as well!
In UMK3 with Rain and Noob Saibot I did so many flawless victories. Their combos were so long and destructive and their tricks could give you so much control. Fighting monsters.
I can’t give Reptile an S tier rating. He, like Baraka, never did anything of consequence in any of the games, save for when he was transformed into Onaga. Also, I think all of his looks post MK3 have been terrible, his latest being the worst by turning him into a fat giant salamander looking thing. Really like the character and his move set, it’s everything else that’s the problem for me.
The Reptile point is fair, and he’s had some low points, but I just think him being the OG secret character opened up so many possibilities. Also, not mentioned in the video, but Liu vs. Reptile in the movie is HYPE.
Brother, he was the FIRST SECRET CHARACTER (I’m really biased I love reptile). Also, he was crazy in UMK3 and was so cool they brought him back for an MK1 character . Also, his niche as a hard-zoner with combo tools has semi-consistently helped define the meta in some games. This is especially cool because in a lot of games he isn’t even a top tier, he just makes sure to fill a hole no other character can
My hot take is that they should have never spotlighted the Ninja character's as such defined individuals. The more that they defined who these characters were with individual looks and backstories, the more the MK cast was bloated with characters who were never going to *really* matter but the writing team was gonna keep pretending mattered. There's an air of coolness to the fact that they had these multi-colored shared designs that could have exclusively meant "Mook, Scrub, Complete Cannon Fodder" yet were all pretty uniquely capable in their own ways that made me respect them as palette swaps. Not all of them were great, but the less I knew about them they cooler they seemed.
I argue that Scorpion is NOT S-Tier because..... I.... eh..... I dunno, I've been drinking. He's great. He's the first character people picture when they hear "Mortal Kombat".
The ninjas are the mortal kombat staples. They are all such amazing koncepts, even if nothing gets done with them in the end. I love them all for vastly different reasons
Great job on making this video. I grew up playing ultimate Mortal Kombat three in the arcades back in the 90s. A lot of these characters I don’t even even know about until you taught me.😮
I was around when the whole fighting game craze started (and yes Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2 were the best at the time! No matter where you're at Those were the two main games! Lol) But now being 43 years old fighting games are boring to me but I do like how in depth you went because I used to love Mortal Kombat! And I never thought about how all the different ninjas stood up to each other. That's a really cool idea 🤘🤘 Great job!
Honestly, i completely agree with all of your rankings. Tremor is probably my favorite of the lesser known Ninja's. Are you going to do a video on the female Ninja's at some point?
if you go by purely game play in UMK3, Human Smoke and Ermac are the S-Tier, Rain is broken, noob is banned in competitive play because he is the most broken character, reptile/scorpion aren't great due to the lack of air throw and pop up combos, i really dont know about sub-zero, chameleon i dont believe is rated well because he is too random, tremor NA,
@@FAiRWAYx tremor was supposed to be the orange one, but if we want to create new: Orange: takeda, his a fusion of yellow scorpion and kenshi, who originally trained under red ermac, so he is orange; White: khrome, metal; Pink: Floyd, wind power; just like purple rain is a prince, pink floyd.
As I was one of the best UMK3 players on xbox, I can personally say the community list is 100% spot on. All the S tier ninja were some of the best overall on UMK3 and MK trilogy 🔥🔥 That Ermac juggle use to go crazy😮💨
@@deauxboysteeze8590 yep. Every story mode is just abt Liu Kang, Raiden, Kung Lao and some random villain Ed Boon chooses out of a hat before they start development
I can get behind this tier list. It's nice to see Reptile getting the love he deserves. Maybe not to the level of Scorpion and Sub Zero, but Reptile absolutely is an iconic ninja and one of the more iconic characters in the franchise. If there were separation in the S tier, S1 would be Scorpion and Sub Zero and Reptile would be S2, but they all deserve that tier for sure. The rest of the rankings are fair and honest, and I'm cool with it. Solid work, and great video.
You kinda underestimated Smoke a bit in this ranking, Smoke is more loyal than Sub-Zero(Kaui Liang) significantly because when Sub-Zero was about to get cybernized by the lin-Kuei he was about to rescue Sub-Zero but Raiden told him “no”. In MKX story mode Jax, Scorpion and Sub-Zero were saved and he didn’t want to do anything with his old friend Smoke. It gets worse in mk11 because in sub-zeros tower ending he chose his brother over smoke because of his sympathy towards his family rather than his own friend that help sub-zero get his revenge against his killer and beat Shang tsung and kano. Overall, Smoke is an extremely underrated character in the mk universe with his loyality for Kaui Liang.
If I remember correctly, Scorpion was excluded from MK3 because Daniel Pesina, the actor that played Johnny Cage and Scorpion, made an unauthorized appearance as Cage for an ad for a similar game (Time Killers) in the 90’s without permission. They fired him and that’s why Johnny Cage and Scorpion weren’t in the original MK3.
Me personally I always thought Reptile too be a B TIER Ninja because he was a jobber in the Midway games yeah he was cool looking but never wins fights and was just punching bag for the heros but great video bro
That first reptile encounter was so brutal, I encountered him by accident while learning the fatalities. I never beat him anytime after I learned about him 😅
This is mostly just speculation, but I would go as far as to say that Ermac advanced certain facets of game development, namely interaction with fans. In 1995, games didn't really acknowledge fan rumors or anything made by the fanbase. Once Ermac was created and everyone lost their mind, games started implementing ideas from fans into their games more and more.
Ermac is at least A tier to me because his story is actually quite deep, a legion of souls conflicted yet trapped together by sorcery in one vessel. He's also been good and bad depending on timeline which is neat. His powers are also awesome and i must disagree with his finishers not being memorable. His 3d fatalities, MK9 and MKX fatals are sweet. His MKX fatalities are insanely cool and disturbing.
Fair points all around! MK1 knocked him down quite a bit for me, but I can definitely agree that him flipping between bad and good makes him more complex than the others. Inner Workings is a great fatality looking back on it!
@@FAiRWAYx I liked his MK 1 story better than his second timeline where stays loyal to outworld blindly personally. His first timeline and current I like better personally, but to each his own! Cool video though I don't see many ninja tier lists seems half of them most fans love a lot.
@@FAiRWAYx Yeah they can all do more but sadly aren't utilized the best sometimes outside of Scorpion and Sub-Zero. Especially Noob-Saibot, hea always built up this badass but is ultimately fodder the worst out of all of them. He's rumored to be DLC in MK1 at some point so if he returns im curious what they do with him and if he'll be Bi Han again or not in this new timeline
My favorite has always been Reptile 🐍 Then I like noob saibot 🥷 and smoke 💨 and rain ⛈️ Then scorpion 🦂 and subzero ❄️ and chameleon 🦎. Then Ermac 🧟♂️. Then tremor 🪨
Reptile "He was the first hidden character in Mortal Kombat History" "He was the first hidden character in FIGHTING GAME history" Without Reptile, Akuma from Street Fighter might not exist. He is a legitimate note in fighting game history.
Reptile deff should NOT be S tier....MK1 made his character awesome but besides that hes been downhill since after mk3 and that reason alone is enough to put him in C rank at best. Smoke is most deff S tier though. Theres a reason fans have been asking for him since MK9
Scorpion is so overrated, he looks cool and has good gameplay but he’s a jobber to quan chi half the fucking times and has never been the main character except for the animated movie
Cyber-Smoke and Deadly Alliance Reptile (specifically those versions) are my personally favorite kharacters in all of MK. Losing all feeling and kontrol over yourself terrifies me and failing someone you kare about and growing to hate yourself is a tragedy that speaks to me...Plus, I raised an iguana for 22 years.
I think your tier list for each ninja is near flawless. I would argue that I think Noob is deserving of S because of his lore however I can understand him in A.
Yeah I strongly tinkered Noob and Smoke in S tier because they both are iconic. I can also see the argument for Reptile lower, but he was such an iconic inclusion in the OG game that I think he earned it
Wow I thought I was gonna get triggered when one of my favorite ninjas got ranked too low but I couldn’t agree more with this entire list. Solid reasoning & you love the klassic ninja costumes just as much as I do it seems like. Chameleon is the only ranking I don’t agree with since he is probably my favorite ninja of all time. I’m not even mad though because you explained how backstory is more important to you. Normally I would agree, but not for fighting games. I prioritize how cool the character looks, their moveset, style, etc. Basically all the physical aspects. Story isn’t that important to me since I usually only play fighting games to beat up my friends. I couldn’t tell you how much I loved being able to be a ninja that had the moves of all the others, how could anyone not like that? I can acknowledge that his MKT design isn’t kinda lazy for just being a more transparent version of all the ninjas but literally every other ninja was just a different color of the same design of each other up until MKDA. I don’t have a problem with his Armageddon design and think it’s pretty cool actually how his colors change to whatever ninja’s move he uses. For those reasons, I would have Chameleon be s tier (maybe A at the lowest) but I completely understand why you put him low when you include his backstory (or lack thereof really)
Really digging your videos. You have a nice voice, speak clearly and your content is well constructed. Hope you can keep going and I thank you for your work
