Raiden is one of the most prominent characters in the Mortal Kombat games. He remains strong throughout the whole series, and it’s nice to see him giving a decent fight in MK11 as well. If you consider bringing Raiden into your personal active roster (or even making him your main), don’t miss this guide by Avirk. It’s a great chance to learn mechanics and fighting features from someone who knows the game’s competitive side. This Mortal Kombat 11 video covers the basics and explains some more advanced techniques for Raiden.

His tele being 2 slot or even not in his base kit is his main weakness

Your channel keeps nailing every one of my favorite characters. I'm really enjoying it!

Been waiting for this one! Great job coming through with it!

Forward 1 is also a good anti-air. You can use F-1 into electric fly. Very good jump punish

Man I play Raiden all the time and I lose, lose, lose. I've been waiting for this guide! Thanks Avirk!

Raijin is slept on

Honestly i think avirk should do all the character guides. His guides are really well made

I think his discharge special is also very strong against rush down characters, always blocking to build up electricity and release it to interrupt their inputs. It’s a shame that his armor breaker conflicts with storm cell because that threatens a lot of characters that have great aerial mobility but that aside, this video is very good.

Perfect guide, keeping it short was the best. Every other video I watched they spoke like they were explaining it to a dummy. lol

Dang. No Patient impulse.

its hard to land the 12 after the cell into jump 2 forward 2 any helps

Nice guide. I should start using these 311 pts combos. He has great ranged game as well. With thunder wave, you can harass with horizontal and vertical lightning strikes. Whenever the opponent closes in, you can run away with far teleport or superman flight. Whenever they try to play ranged against you, you can counter attack with the behind you teleport. This strategy can lead to rage quits against ranged-challenged characters because they can't reach you.

Thanks

LETS GO RAIDEN

Thanks 😁

I must consult with the Elder Gods

Why there is no dashing inputs?

Are the displayed buttons randomly generated? =\

On the first corner combo you can add a jump kick before the f32 ender for 527, gotta be perfect though

It was supposed to be t800 today! #t800tears Anyway keep the good guides!

8:43 wall combo

When doing the combos the displayed inputs were completely off, other than that this was a good guide 💯

Raiden works the best for me i easily made demi god. My problem is i cant find a guy like him. Im looking for a similar ability to storm cell.

O yeah Raiden is the man, like he says_Yet again you fell

10:01 Kronika?

How to AMP?

What’s like the numbers? For example 4,1,1

Truth and Light is my personal favorite Raiden variation (Jo Push and Lightning Rod). #RaidenGang #TruthAndLight

I wish they would give us some Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Annihilation movie skins for MK1 or even some skins from the new movie

Here’s one that I’ve been using, which is pretty tactical. So you do cell, amplify, then jump kick then electric fly

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Can’t get his f2 after the fj2

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7:11 go to combo

there is any invisible character in this game, since reptile isnt in it?

Would you consider making injustice 2 guides?

When are you guys going to make a Rain guide? 🌧️

his raijin variation is sooo cooked, it basically just makes it so you dont have to play raiden (generally one of the weaker kits iirc) i can only imagine how much better he'd be if he didnt lose discharge after his krushing blows

Mk11 Raiden: held back angry old farmer with a taser. He plays NOTHING like a thunder god.

Great guide but man did they do Raiden dirty in this game, MK9 and MKX Raiden were similar Jab pressure and evasion characters, meanwhile MK11 Raiden literally beats the opponent with the power of boredom.

I main Raiden since launch of mk11 and played him when got buff like hell but I drop the game since I didn't have fun anymore and problems with the game

Raiden is just easy to read, you have to really mix and go for yolo sh*t to win.

this guide is honestly not good lol. Recommending to rush people down with his b12 mix is a godawful idea, not mentioning how crucial his b2 and 243 are if he needs to rush the opponent down, or even suggesting the idea to blow up flawless block gaps with stormcell (b3 stormcell). Hell, not even a single mention of superman cancel. f11 is one of the best buttons in the game simply on how disjointed and good on block it is. d3 is his best counterpoking tool as you can't d1 backdash it unlike his d1 and if you block his counterpoke d3 he can backdash pretty freely after it. not saying avirk is shit or anything but he's certainly not playing raiden often lol. As good as raiden is with playing the lame game using only that is (not only boring as fuck but also) won't get you anywhere if you don't know how to defend upclose. You lose your turn or he gets you with some hit advantage you have to guess between strike/throw/b2/b3. His Strike leads into even further mixups with b12 but also to a great cancel with superman if you don't want to overcommit. 243 is only -3 and clips people because it can autoshimmy if they aren't too good on their defense or even get hit by the low because they're afraid of b2. b2 is a 19f overhead with pushback so it can be hard to punish as some characters and it gives oki unlike his throws. His throws send the opponent kinda far away so if you need to lame them out go for throws instead of b2's. 243 is his best meaty as well. f2 is a good gap closer. there you go.

yo dash fight tbh i prefer mk10 ,the game was better, Raiden was epic i could get 50 to 60% combos also there was a skill gap with the run mechanic against projectile characters just spamming with no skill and R1 amplify in mk10 it wasnt on a cooldown, and the L1 R1 ultimate when used in MK10 you gave up your combo attacks however in mk11 you now have that every game and its no skill also all your R1 amplifys are on a cooldown mk10 gameplay far better than mk11 but the story in mk11 was very good Raiden was epic, tbh they seemed to have focused on noob players getting run mechanic removed so they could spam projectiles R1 AMPLIFY on a cooldown and the ultimate is now used separately when you are low so your rewarded for being a bad player mk1o at least had a skill gap, mk11 gameplay kind of a disappointment.

Not helpful at all

This guide is trash you can't even do some of these combos anymore