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. Rain actually does appear in UMK3 for Arcade, but only in the attract mode of the game.Long Live Mortal Kombat: Round 1 – The Fatalities and Fandom of the Arcade Era is the newest book by bestselling author David L. Rain appears only in the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis versions of UMK3, and MKTrilogy, obviously. * These finishers aren only available in Mortal Kombat Trilogy. This Ending appears only in MKTrilogy and UMK3 for Sega Genesis. To prove his loyalty he embarked on a suicide mission to destroy Shao Kahn and end the menace once and for all. Enraged at the truth about his history, he joins Kitana in aligning with the Earth Realm Warriors.īut his allegiance comes under question when he mysteriosly disappears during an extermination squad attack. He learns that his father was once a general in Edenia's army and died at the hands of Shao Kahn himself. Like Kitana, Rain's origins also come from their former realm of Edenia. But it would be Kahn's own step daughter, the Princess Kitana who turns Rain against him.

Rain fights valiantly for the Emperor Shao Kahn. Stage Fatalities: Forward, Down, Forward, Low Kick.īrutality: High Punch, High Punch, Block, Low Kick, High Kick, Block, Low Kick, High Kick, Block, High Punch, Low Punch * Friendship: Down, Forward, Forward, Forward, Low Punch. * Animality: (Sweep) Block, Block, Run, Run, Block.īabality: Forward, Back, Back, High Punch. * Fatality 2: (Half Screen Away) Down, Down, Back, Forward, High Kick.

* Fatality 1: (Close) Forward, Forward, Down, High Punch. (Use the joystick to move your opponent in the air)Ĭombo 1: High Punch, High Punch, Low Punch, High Punch.Ĭombo 2: High Kick, High Kick, Low Kick, High Kick, Back + High Kick. Mind Control Orb: Down, Forward, High Punch. His allegiance belonging to Kahn, he chose to betray his homeland rather than suffer at the hands of Kahn's extermination Squads. Born of Kitana's former world of Edenia, Rain was smuggled away from the realm as a small child shortly after Shao Kahn's take over.

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