Check out Lordknight's breakdown of Broken Moves with Mustard. It covers some examples I didn't mention here! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdp5bKiFqKnZkoE.html

I hope to see competitive history of Shang some day

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

8:19 The disdain in his voice reminded me of the legendary MrGSTAR321 rant on Bo'Rai Cho

" 3f unblockable lunching ground pound " sounds fair said the dev

Sareena be playing ghost and goblins

Gentlemen, we must now relentlessly request a Competitive History of Bo Rai Cho video

For those that don't know yet, "Bo Rai Cho" is supposed to sound like "Borracho", which is Spanish for "Drunk(ard)"

Haven’t even started the video and I know the tombstone drop is going to be on there. It has to be.

God. Crystalline Tremor. I've been watching a lot of old MKX tourneys lately, and he's absolutely ubiquitous.

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.

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.

You have no idea how fast I press those notifications when you release a new video, they're truly a highlight of my day!

I really love the Tekken 2 music in the video, I love hearing Jun's theme anytime

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.

Haven’t seen the video yet. Cant wait to see Dairou’s tombstone drop!

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.

Another broken thing about Noob's disabler projectile is that it resets the combo hit counter when it ends lol

Another great idea! I love seeing these quicker snapshots of awesome stuff in each game!

That Tekken 2 music in the background.. 👍 👍 My favorite of that franchise, too.

Most broken move in MK1 is the matchmaking desync.

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.

The Tekken 2 stage music was perfect. Tekken is freaking amazing!!

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!

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.

For MKX, I'd say Mystic Ermac's enhanced push is another strong contender for being the most powerful special move in the game.

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.

lei wulong's classic tk2 theme on a video that revisits the older mk games.i feel nostalgic 😢

Kenshi's Sento stance needs to be a full kameo bar.

Mk9 Kung Lao teleport was pretty broken too dude. The amount of Kombos he could do just because of the teleport were absolutely ridiculous

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.

Can't disagree on MK11, fighting Jacqui was as fun as fighting an inoperable brain tumor.

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

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.

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.

Image how hard it would be to balance a fighting game.

I see Ketchup got the Tekken music bug from playing a bit of Tekken 8

Amazing video once again. Didn't know about Mileena's roll in MKG, that was news to me.

Ain’t watched the vid yet but I predict tombstone drop in deception

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.

Dawd mkX predator trap into overhead attack for an impossible overhead/low hit from predator and his mine

11:06 - Came here for MK vs. DC. Was Not disappointed.

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.

03:26 That song is “Nobody Catch Me” from Tekken 2. It’s a catchy one.

Johnny Cage's low light kick in MK1 was the most broken move ever, in any game

Great vid. Love the Tekken 2 BGM!

"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

I still to this day don't know why you aren't invincible when teching a throw like multiple other fighting games lol

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

Love your videos K&M ❤ KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK Y'ALL THE BEST 😎

Special moves are awesome

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’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

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!

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.

I Hope to see competitive history of cage some day

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.

That dagger toss turning sareena into the guy from ghouls and ghosts

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.

0:11 nightwolf's entry is how i use to walk to school

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

love tekken 2 ost! :D good stuff! tnx

Oh man, that Tekken 2 music got me all kinds of nostalgic

Love the old school tekken soundtrack in the background xd

No way Sub Zero Ground Ice was not the best special move in MK11

IMO the best move of mk2 is barakas chop chop

Best kind of content

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

I would have put Noob's ghost ball for UMK3 IF he was playable in all versions of the game. He's only playable without a code in the Sega Genesis version and the duration of the move was EVEN LONGER. Let me tell you my sister and I had to ban him in the household. Trilogy lowered the duration no matter how broken it was.

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 love the Jackie Chan soundtrack in the background.

I'd like to see who's the better character in every MK game between 2 iconic characters, Scorpion and Sub Zero

15:13 I love the Sheeva N64 High Kick shoutout/easter egg/whatever you wanna call it lol

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).

SICK!

If you're talking all versions of UMK3, Rain's roundhouse kick is pretty OP too 😂

"If Tremor gets hit while flex, who cares?" >kuatan chest bump has entered the chat

Does anyone else rememb er when Ed Boon said "Chemeleon & Khameleon will NEVER return in Mortal Kombat."? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I loved Reiko's flip kick. Air traps em with an infinite combo

I love the small sigh before talking about Bo Rai Cho Godly OP Move, truly the strongest in Deadly Alliance.

Let's be fair, if Sonya wants to get her legs on you, why would fight it.

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 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

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

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.

In mk1, u forgetting the hype combo of johnny cage. It has to be on this list

Can you do a ranking of every mortal kombat stage of all time

I had the lord of the rings thick players guide book for ultimate mk3 on sega. It had rains 100% combo that took me forever to learn

Taven’s Dragon Rush from Armageddon was the best move visually 😂

As a veteran of mk2 for a while, I can tell you that mileena sai shot, and jack ground slam are pretty broken but it is not the most broken moves in the game. The most broken moves in the game is raiden teleport. 😂

Nice vid

Smoke was the ultimate counter to cyrax with his shake for me Made them pay just for shooting it at me

I would argue that kano ball is a much more broken kameo move in mk1. It has a fast recharge, keeps everything safe, on hit it pushes you back full screen. On block it takes has you lose your turn. You can armor through it sure, but in most cases your opponent has recovered and is blocking again

idk MK Gold Sektor teleport was super broken. MK Gold Sektor might be the most OP character in MK history

Johnny Cage competitive history please! I have mained him ever since the very first MK game!

3:18 am I hearing Tekken 2 track from Michelle Chang's stage?!

It's amazing how flawless the original version of this game is

Am i the only one that likes the graphics of the first 2 games more than the rest? I like the more photo realistic look than the later versions

Tanya got the fox f-smash from smash 64 lmao.

I love how this is a MK video and theres Tekken 2 OST in the background. Hey, its great tho