'They played the meta the best,' says Ryan Neal, an accomplished pro player who became the first European champion in 2011's Mortal Kombat.

Ultimate MK3's hierarchy is at once simpler and more complicated to sort out.Īt a glance, Kabal and Human Smoke are the undisputed best characters in UMK3. In vanilla MK3, Cyrax, unmasked Sub-Zero, and Jax were inordinately strong thanks to imbalanced move sets. Jax, Mileena, and Liu Kang stood at the top of MKII's food chain. Sonya and Johnny Cage dominated Mortal Kombat 1. In this excerpt from the book, funding now on Kickstarter, some of Ultimate MK3's best players break down the game's best characters, and how those killers rose to prominence over nearly 30 years of play.Įvery fighting game has a tier list. Craddock, and goes behind the scenes to reveal untold stories from the making of Mortal Kombat 1 through 4 and explores how the franchise impacted popular culture. Long Live Mortal Kombat: Round 1 – The Fatalities and Fandom of the Arcade Era is the newest book by bestselling author David L.

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