This is one of the best edited and entertaining tier list videos I've ever seen

MK 11's grind was a killer for me too. Liked the story mode, loved some of the gameplay, but it felt like such a step back from X when it turned into Injustice 2's gear-earning grindfest.

I've learned more about Mortal Kombat from this video than any previous source

Jason, Leatherface, Alien and Predator being in MKX was so freaking cool! Horror character fit in the game so well.

Tier lists need to be deployed sparingly, but this is an ideal moment.

I’m glad you gave Mortal Kombat Shaolin monks the respect it deserves we need more games in the Shaolin monk series

I wish they released modern compilations of the 3D games, those are almost going to become lost to time at this point.

Definitely need to do an MK clones Tier List. For once, I'd love to see just a row across the bottom of crap. 😂

I can't believe you rated Trilogy so low! Legit my favorite 2D MK game, I played it soooo much with my cousins! (I was born in 1995 so Trilogy was my first 2D MK game and that's probably making a big difference)

Props for giving Ultimate Mortal Kombat on DS its flowers. Hands down one of my favorite ways to play UMK3

Missed opportunity to name the ranks based on shao kahns phrases: "Excellent, outstanding, superb" etc

What I appreciate about Matt's list is that it actually looks like a proper bell curve. Most fall in the middle with only a few in the excellent and terrible slots.

Matt has to play more mk1 story mode. I want to hear his reaction of a certain part of the story.

The LA Knight cut was absolutely not something I expected to see in an MK video. I greatly appreciate it.

Decent List. MK9/2011 is Khampion for me. Out of all the games, its the only one that delivers on Story mode, Roster, Mechanics and Kontent. And its the only one that allows you to play Tag Ladder. Had too many hours of Couch Co-Op fun with it. Its also has the greatest Test Your Might Minigames we likely will ever get.

MKII was the first game I actually wanted so badly that I did extra chores to ensure I could buy it day one. And yes, my brothers and I would stay up until 2am playing this

MKT was not just our first MK, but our first fighting game and our first playstation game. We got a PS2 for christmas and got Agent Under Fire, Driver 1, and MKT. That character select screen is burned into my 6yo brain. I can remember never being able to beat CPUs but my brother and I would just jump at each other and mash buttons. Never saw a tower ending. Never saw a fatality (which is probably how I got away with playing it at all). It was just little me and Noob teleporting through childhood. It is unfortunate that it's also how child me learned CD's can easily become unreadable. I SOBBED over that one. To this day it's the only disk I've ever ruined.

When you got to MK X, I was shocked. Felt like I was the only one in this camp, but i think its one of the only games that I got 300+ hours in. It got me into MK as I was always a casual player.

Mk 9 to me felt classic but a little bit more enhanced with combat but in all honesty it was mix of the classic Mk with more elements added that made the combat and combos feel rewarding making it a solid mk game. X-Rays were cool, Characters had multiple fatalities, Stage fatalities: the god of war stage had 3 stage fatalities plus, forest of death, deadpool, street stage, subway, pit stage, nether realm and Babalities were back, Dan Forden wearing a shirt with the Toast on it when he says toasty in the corner and the pit stage had the witch, Santa Claus; the krypt had that stupid jump scare etc. (the silly stuff which might be cheesy but I love it anyway). Combos were ridiculous and looked flashy , then you had tag team combat (me and my cousin would play tag team arcade ladder and it was fun), test your might, test your sight, mk ladder, story mode, the mission tower especially the last one where you fight Goro, Kintaro, Mileena and Shao Khan on one health bar. Plus the presentation was great I mean just pressing the start button seeing an animation of Sub-Zero getting uppercutted by Scorpion in Shao Khans arena; you haven’t even started the game yet and it just sets the tone perfectly.

New Era was too powerful for this tier list. A tier beyond.

What a great list! Fair, detailed and fun.

MK3 and UMK3 both are the highest tier of MK for me. MK3 kame out right as I was introduced to Predator, so Smoke, Cyrax, and Sektor were instant favorites. Even tracked down the PS1 long box of MK3! Deadly Alliance, Deception, and 9 are all interchangeable for me in that second spot

Gotta be honest, even though i love the main games series...sometimes i believe i Shaolin Monks is my favorite Mk game, it just such an amazing spin off, i remember i played it with my cousin all the time, the only things i didn't liked about it was the fact that some secrets could only be unlocked with the need of another player and also the fact that sub zero and scorpion felt a little bit to simple gameplay wise in comparasion to liu kang and kung lao who had lots of moves, upgrades and fatalities.

I'd be down to see more tier list videos like this one in the future. Maybe with Spooky Season right around the corner, you could do a tier list for Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Friday the 13th, or any other horror-related franchise that takes your fancy!

I'm still chasing the feeling of MK2 fever to this day. What a monster that was when it came out.

I was not expecting an appearance from the YEAH! Movement in LA Knight watching a random mortal kombat tier list, you just earned yourself another viewer 😂

Holy shit, I had that exact same experience with MK Trilogy being my first exposure to that word and mispronouncing it the same way. I remember these two kids at summer camp laughing at me a bunch because of it lol

The disrespect to MK Trilogy lmao. Didn't even play the PS1 version which is top tier, and it's supremely better than Mk4

I agree 99.5%. I think Sub-Zero mythology should be down one spot. Not much just my little change having been a Kombatant since the first games arcade debut. Ive necer figured out how they pulled it off, but my tiny town bowling alley had MK1 arcade cabinet right on release. And man did we shovel quarters into that sucker.

MK3 holds a special place in my heart. I remember being a kid on a long car ride to up north with my family to go on a camping track. I was reading how to combos and special moves from a gaming magazine on the ride up there. When we get up north, settled in, etc, we went to a putt putt course to play some mini golf. The putt putt place had a small arcade to the side and it had a brand new MK3 cabinet. I played the shit out of that arcade machine. The memories of pulling off combos for the first time in a MK game and beating some random dude with Kabal who tried playing against me are always going to be part of my favorite moments growing up. IMO, I think MK3 is a step up from MK2 with the combos but I understand why someone would like one over the other. Awesome video Matt! You did nothing wrong, you did everything correct! *wink*

I couldn't agree more. The first time I saw a MK cabinet was amazing... But technically my first MK experience was I think... MK2 on Super NES... And curiosly right now I wanted to play some MK (I have no MK1 yet...) and decided to install XL because I think that I like it more than MK11... so it deserves to be the khampion. Thanks for the video bro.

MK9 is my favorite and it's purely because of it being such a nostalgia trip through the original trilogy just with better production value and the story mode. Behind that I can take either MK Trilogy PS1 or UMK3 After that... damn it's hard for me to actually rank favorites. I love most of this franchise and even the ones that are lower tier would still be games I could boot up and have an enjoyable time playing. This is my favorite fighting game franchise and overall just one of my favorite game franchises. I love that for something like an arcade fighter there is actually such an expansive and extensive lore behind it all

I still like the very first Mortal Kombat most. The older games had more of those disturbing screams and stuff. New games only have better graphics. Also the announcer sounded better in the first one. Fun fact: Raiden's cut Fatality from the first game is even better than theoriginal uncut Fatality lol

We didn't see a lot of movies in theatres growing up, most of the time we waited for home video. And the times we did go see movies we did so "as a family" my mom and sister got to pick. This is why instead of going to see Mortal Kombat my brother and I were dragged to go see "To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything. Julie Numar" despite MK having the same start time and rating.

My closest friend back in elementary introduced me to Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior on the NES. We would do sleepovers that were an excuse to rent all Friday13th movies, or Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, Nightmare on Elm - we'd grab a few 2player co-op games, some of those vague brawlers that flooded the snes or we'd try and rock Castlevania, Mega Man or Double Dragon in sequence... All while consuming the most unhealthy, likely-toxic snacks and drinks then allowed on the market (does ANYONE remember that Orbitz drink, O'Ryans chips or the popcorn that came with a slab of fudge you had to place inside a half-nuked bag of hot corn ?). Throw in some Vuarnet, Dr Zogs and British Knights and I'm hoping a lot of that is familiar to some people out there because we were all enjoying something awesome and did it all totally undisturbed, uninterrupted and were the last to enjoy lives that didn't turn reality into a subscription-based affair. Truly, the best of times.

I used to pronounce MK Trilogy as Tri-logy (like Trine). And my PS1 disc was scratched so sometimes it wouldn't work, or the music wouldn't play, and it would freeze constantly. But I still played the hell out of it.

Thank you Matt! When I saw you put MK2 on Supreme Master, I knew I could probably trust the rest of the video. You rationally explained your decisions and I never felt compelled enough to argue with your logic. Well done!

Considering putting MK Sub Zero at the same level of Trilogy is crazy.

Loved the video Matt! Just a reminder for future their list videos from left to right within the teirs are theirs on their own as in who is the best in the champion Tier should help with placing

I LOVE tier lists, this was a treat! My first MK was Deadly Alliance and I've played all the ones after that one but I never really touched the first four. The digitised graphics always looked kinda whack to me 😅 I have a special relationship with the PS2 trilogy because it was my starting point, but I always felt these games looked v janky compared to the Tekkens or the Virtua Fighters that were out at the time, but I still liked them a lot. Deception's Konquest mode was a moment in history to be remembered, hope NRS maybe decides to revisit it again, especially after Street Fighter 6's triumph with World Tour. I like to pretend I don't know what MK vs. DC is, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit I had a little fun with it as well. The Rebooted trilogy was also a fun era. I never really bought the hype for the story mode completely, particularly why every single other fighting game decided to have its own NRS story mode, but it is what it is. MK2011 as a whole is great in terms of cast (they look excruciatingly ugly though) gameplay is possibly the best it's ever been and I love all the iconic stages! The story premise is also interesting and fun to watch, but my main issue with this type of story mode is that you play it once and then you have no inclination to go back and play it ever again. MKX is where I started to have issues with the NRS way of doing things. The game's visuals look extremely outdated to me, the character models look like PS2 models, the sweat on the models looks like blisters, the janky animations are in full effect here and the story, one of the main selling points of the game, is the weakest out of the three. It was also really popular at the time for story-focused games to release random side crap like movies, comics, anime and whatnot containing canon parts of the story and NRS unfortunately decided they should also do that which is bullshit. MK11 is where FINALLY, for the first time ever in the series, character models actually look great! The stages are also pretty good and even the music, for the first time, is kinda memorable. Unfortunately, the grindy bullshit way of unlocking kosmetics and shit and gameplay eventually drove me away from the series. However... MK1 seems to be doing a lot of things right so I might just eventually return. I will wait for the extra ultimate komplete edition to come out for sure, but the story looks to be mostly doing things right, the characters, although most of the designs are a downgrade from MK11, look great and the stages are the best they've ever looked. Gameplay looks better than 11 but I do think the Kameo system is a bit goofy and the Kameo Kharacters themselves look like PS3 NPCs. Ultimately, I have a weird relationship with the series as it has a ton of stuff I love but also a ton of stuff I hate, compared to other fighting game franchisees especially, so it's always hard for me to not be critical of stuff I might otherwise excuse 😂

MK2 was the first i ever played. My older brother had it for his snes, and i learned the ropes by getting my ass handed to me when we'd play. It's the first game i loved. The gore was crazy, but the aesthetics were clutch. The colors/stages were somehow both drab AND vibrant, the music and sound effects memorable, and it was truly satisfying finally beating shao kahn. From there i was hooked

I go back to Deception just for Chess Kombat.. so good.

Man playing MK 1-3 back in the day was so fun making tournaments and laughing at friends that would be killed by fatetalities by CPUs because they were hard to do was fun af

Mortal Kombat Deception deserves to be S automatically because of Konquest mode. This game is the reason I love MK lore so much.

MK9 is my personal favorite MK game and would be my Khampion. In my opinion MKX is overrated, I think even MK11 is better. From 4 to Armageddon the games were all trash, though Armageddon at least gets points for its huge roster. I liked UMK3 better than MK2. Those are my hot takes.

Every Mortal Kombat game for the past 31 years. Really amazing that how many ports and sequels have been made, either both by Midway and Neather Realm Studios. Happy to see some tier list here.

Damn King blessing us with non stop content and I am fuckin' here for it

When you got to Trilogy and you mentioned that you used to pronounce it wrong, you had my full attention and was anticipating what you called it and I was thinking "please tell me that I wasn't the only that said it the same way..." and when you said it, I started laughing because I used to call it the EXACT SAME THING! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one and my best friend still cracks jokes every once in a while lol great memories

17:26 That terrified me. I avoided arcades BECAUSE of that kontinue screen.

Always a fan when Matt does a tier list!

Literally picked up the ds kombat the other week, so happy to see it included here! ❤❤

As much as I have my little differences with this list I can’t help notice how well made this video is

the callout to Gstar321 sent a wave of nostalgia through my soul

I have tons of nostalgia for Ultimate MK3! Didn't get any of the 3D era games and, by the time MK9 came out, I was busy with work and wasn't gaming in general until the pandemic shut everything down. Still, it was SF6 that got me back into fighting games as MKX and MK11 just have too big a file size for how infrequently I would play it vs an Elden Ring, Hades or Doom.

Idea for more kontent: the non-videogame MK material. Doesn't have to be a tier list, maybe just general overview and trivia

I've never been too much into fighting games in general (mostly because I suck at them) but I did play Ultimate MK3 and MK4 a lot with friends so they're the ones I think of when I hear Mortal Kombat. Those are the ones they had in the rental place and we played the hell out of them. Good times, even if my turn with the controller didn't last long.

UMK3 was my very first MK ever! I had it on the Sega Saturn and even had the strategy guide too! Been a fan of the series ever since.

13:44 I mean, promoting a competitor while in character is a pretty big bridge burning maneuver that it's not surprising they didn't want any sort of relation with him.

So excited! Kombat TIME!

It’s so nice hearing some reverence for MK3, I also have similar levels of nostalgia for it, but a lot of people dunk on it for how much it switched up the roster

MK Shaolin Monks is so good and I cant believe its never been remastered.

UMK3 & MK9 will likely always be my top favorites. Off topic, but I wish Link was back in the updated version of SC2.

I got ultimate mk3 for ds as a teenager and still have it, played that so much, even got all the characters for puzzle kombat.

Cooking with Scorpion was locked away in the taverns of my memory. Thank you for that.

12:08 I DID THE SAME THING, the Sam Raimi Spider Man Trilogy was the only trilogy i had, instead of "i want to to watch the Spider Mqn Trilogy" it was "i wanna watch the Spider Man Triology"

In my opinion this is how I’d rank them 1. MK9 (10/10) 2. MK1 (9.5/10) 3. MKX (9.5/10) 4. Shaolin Monks (9.5/10) 5. Deception (9/10) 6. UMK3 (9/10) 7. MK11 (8.5/10) 8. Deadly Alliance (8.5/10) 9. Trilogy (8.5/10) 10. Armageddon (8/10) 11. MK3 (8/10) 12. MK2 (8/10) 13. MK Gold (7/10) 14. MK vs DC (6.5/10) 15. MK OG (6.5/10) 16. Mythologies (5/10) 17. Special Forces (4/10)

38:39 I want to say this was my first mk game I saw my dad play 9 but I played this and you know what it was fun it was not good but for a comic loving kid it was fun

That OG MK music is so nostalgic and just great. Wish it was still in the game

This was an awesome video 🔥

2:27 Even Matt is sayin L! A! KNIGHT, YEAH!

With Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance they went the Pokemon route for the GBA, splitting the roster into two games: Deadly Alliance (GBA) and Tournament Edition (GBA), with TE getting the bigger half. I think, they still lacked Blaze and Mokap, but instead TE had Sareena, Noob and Sector.

I played MK Unchained so much on my PSP, such good memories and amazing roster, MK Deception just has a special place in my heart

Excellent takes

For a casual gamer, MK11 is the best. A ton of content, impeccable visuals, great characters, lots of single player content, the gameplay is definitely not what people make it out to be, the story is very good and a huge step forward in writing and scripting. GOAT.

i enjoy how seriously matt takes this.

Another great upload!! And What’s the video he said partially inspired him to make this video? I want to check out that out.

I feel like one of the only people who loved Ferra/Torr. They were so fun to play for me

I feel like the mortal kombat series is evolving in a good way. I can’t wait to see whats the future holds a good Mortal Kombat game or A meteor hits the earth I’m excited for both

The fact that you specifically use the character select music from the SNES version of Mortal Kombat as intro music is a very particular cut only us old AF fans would recognize.

My best friend and I played the hell out of MKII in high school. I had the SNES version and he had the 32X one. We still play it when we can, but sometimes RetroArch disagrees. I agree on MKX, for the same reason. I do love me some Predator. MK11’s grind really put me off. And I didn’t like it’s crypt as much as MKX’s. I owned Armageddon, but only remember the Konquest and Moto Kombat modes. I loved Moto Kombat so much.

I spent so many hours playing MK2. Lots of fun and my favorite fighting game ever

My own personal tiers: Champion - Mortal Kombat 9 Supreme Master - Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks, Mortal Kombat 1 Master - Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat 2, Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance, Mortal Kombat Deception, Mortal Kombat Unchained, Ultimate Mortal Kombat DS, Mortal Kombat 11 Warrior - Mortal Kombat 3, Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance/Tournament Edition GBA, Mortal Kombat Armageddon, Mortal Kombat X Novice - Mortal Kombat 4, Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Mortal - Mortal Kombat Gold, Mortal Kombat Mythologies Poo Baby Tier - Mortal Kombat Special Forces Ten Layers of Shit - Mortal Kombat Advance - Mortal Kombat Advance Can confirm MK1 is an absolute banger of a game.

jets and guns gold 2 has a mortal kombat tetris mini game that is pretty great and you tap out fatalities and special moves while the blocks are falling

I can't help but have a soft spot for the 1st mk3. Yeah we lost Scorpion,but we got "Smoke" (the first unlockable character). The apocalyptic theme, very dark and gritty almost 90s horror theme. Combos, Aminality. Just a different spectrum I thought. Maskless SubZero (badass moveset and he turned into a polar bear). Kabal,cyber arm Jax, Striker (as lame as he looked, he had a badass move set as well), Sheeva(finally getting to play a 4 armed character) Kano came back and was more brutal. Mataro was alot more intimidating.

We need a Double Dragon tierlist from you sir!

Haven't played MK in years simply because for some reason I am horrible at 3D fighters, except Killer Instinct for some reason I rule at KI, but MK1 has definitely got me excited for getting back into the franchise.

The krypt in MK11 was such a joy at the beginning, but I agree that the grind was killer

Bro one day a bunch of friends and we’re hanging out at a girls house and she happened to have a kopy of mortal kombat Armageddon for her PlayStation 2. There was a room of us and none of us had really spent any time playing that game. We ended playing all day long with the rules that if a character was the victim of a fatality then they couldn’t be selected again and it was one of the best times I’ve ever had playing video games. 37:22

Love the Mace soundtrack sprinkled throughout the video ❤

My list: Khampion - MK9, MKX, MK1, MK Unchained Supreme Master - MK Deception, MK Shaolin Monks, MK Trilogy, UMK3, MK2, MK Deadly Alliance Warrior: MK Gold, MK4, MK, MK Armageddon Novice: MK vs DC Mortal: MK Mythologies Sub-Zero Babality: MK Special Forces

MKX was the best possible “glow-up” of Outworld. Just a fantastic realization of the realm that is normally just remembered as “purple sky place”.

I'm glad to see i ain't the only one who was reading "trilogy" like "triology" :D

I rather enjoy the rambling about these, because we have a semi-similar experience growing up with these games. Though I was less into fighting games.

Things that seem insane to me: Putting MK1 below Sub-Zero Putting MK4 above Trilogy Otherwise, flawless.

I feel like Armageddon should be a little bit higher one of the really cool things I like was Kreate a Fighter. Building a champion, selecting your favorite moves was so much fun.

Now hear me out you guys, hear me out. Matt should do a Fatal Fury game tier list next. Ehh? Ehh? In all seriousness though, I would love to see him rank these games. I know that Mark of the Wolves is obviously the best one of them all but I wanted to see what all the other Fatal Fury games that came out before Mark of the Wolves are all about.

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 defines my teen years, MK2 is my pre-teen MK9 is my Jam in my 30s.

I remember being disappointed with Trilogy because I was hoping for a compilation of all 3 games (especially since the first two hadn't been ported to PS1 or N64), but instead it was just MK3 again with more characters. Still ended up playing a ton of it, mostly on N64 because the CPU was way, WAY easier in that version. PS1's CPU difficulty was ludicrously unfair.

Holy fuck, I also pronounce Trilogy as try-o-lo-gee back in the 90s.

I would've placed MK Tournament Edition on a higher tier. Yeah, it's not on par with its console peers. However, if it's anything like the GBA "impossible" ports SFA3 and Tekken, then its fun with tight controls despite only having four buttons. Those two games (alongside SSF2T) were lifesavers in college.