since mortal kombat has entered the nether elm studios era starting with mortal kombat NUMBER_TOKEN there has been one thing consistent across every game that the team has put out guest characters in either the base roster or released later on as downloadable extras after the game is released a guest character is one that is not from the mortal kombat universe either coming from a different game entirely or in most cases film or comics design wise the guest characters across the last NUMBER_TOKEN years have been wonderfully done each game having a theme of sorts maybe that's intentional maybe not it's hard to say but what i want to cover today is answering the question that some of you might have how good were these characters compared to other members of each roster join me as we break down every guest character since mkNUMBER_TOKEN all the way through to mkNUMBER_TOKEN note here that i will not be covering injustice in this video i want to cover mortal kombat only injustice is a story for another time once again i'd like to thank the people over at dash fight for sponsoring this episode dash fight is an all-in-one hub for fighting games here you'll find pro tips vods character guides tournament schedules and world rankings every inch of the fgc is carefully wrapped in one place they promote fighting games and empower the community on their path they've recently released tons of mkNUMBER_TOKEN character guides from pro players and have a bunch of evo NUMBER_TOKEN analysis for those looking to take their game to the next level i'll link their info in the description and pinned comment the very first guest that we see here is the god of war as kratos debuts in the mk universe on the playstation NUMBER_TOKEN version of mkNUMBER_TOKEN exclusively he wasn't playable on the pc or xbox versions i want to say straight away that the footage will be a bit choppy here i had to use the streamable service playstation now to capture this as i don't actually own a psNUMBER_TOKEN it was the only way i could capture the footage so i kind of had to make do what's interesting about kratos is that due to console exclusivity he was day one banned from competition so you'd never see him in tournaments leading to his gameplay being a bit harder to research than most and possibly the most hidden away guest character in today's list but if you boot up the game now and play as him he's got some absolute dirt and isn't your standard mkNUMBER_TOKEN character by any means first of all his strings and buttons in general are pretty slow slow as anything but they have this rather distinct god of war style where everything is heavy hitting visually over the top you even have some almost cinematic normals and strings that go figure is appropriate to the character specials are where the fun begins he has a stun attack that has great range does damage and leaves the opponent vulnerable to extra hits for a short time enhance this for a much bigger effective area this bow attack has mega fast recovery does great damage and when enhanced fires a third arrow acting as both another keep away tool and a combo extender after a launch this charge attack covers a lot of distance knocked down and when enhanced has armor on it but the main tool it brings forward is that it can be held down and therefore dash cancelled meaning on hit from very specific attacks he can use this cancel to extend
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN once again i'd like to thank the people over at dash fight for sponsoring this episode dash fight is an all-in-one hub for fighting games here you'll find pro tips vods character guides tournament schedules and world rankings every inch of the fgc is carefully wrapped in one place they promote fighting games and empower the community on their path they've recently released tons of mkNUMBER_TOKEN character guides from pro players and have a bunch of evo NUMBER_TOKEN analysis for those looking to take their game to the next level i'll link their info in the description and pinned comment END_SPONSOR_TOKEN