Once you reach Grand Master in KL you won the game

[Infevo]

Congratulations. At this point there is nothing else to see because every single other player you will be matched against will use just the same broken tactics you also are abusing. Sindel unblockables with Kung Lao, permanent block strings with bleed/chip damage with Baraka/Cyrax and the total abomination that is Raiden who is only beatable with flawless blocking, a mechanic that is useless online and he craps on with his kit as he can enhance stormcell and mix up the timing.

Moving on.

[Darth Cervantes]

This Sindel/KungLao combo sounds interesting. I haven't played any Sindels online yet and I'm also grand master (can't seem to get past it though)

[O-Qua Tangin Wann]

We're happy for you, really. In honor of your achievement, we'd like to present you with this Nier Automata blowup doll and a $10 gift certificate to Chuck E Cheese.

[Happy]

Oof that's a good one

[Kolumbo]

I have been in Demigod for a few days and I have fought: Lao/Lao, Tanya/Goro, Mileena/Scorpion, Scorpion/Scorpion, Ashrah/Sareena, Rain/Sub-Zero, Liu/Fujinko, Shao/Motaro, Shao/Lao, Kitana/Sareena, Kenshi/Frost, Shang/Cyrax, a couple Haviks, a couple Reikos, a couple Smokes, a couple Geras, one Reptile...

And yeah there have been some Barakas and Raidens and some other stuff I find annoying (like some of the Reikos and Smokes) in there. But I am constantly getting new challenges with new fighter combinations and new players with different playstyles. Plus if you watch the replays of some God rank fights, you'll see that most of *those* people could easily crush anyone who's crushing me - or you - right now. And if you look at the leaderboard you'll see the higher ranks aren't at all dominated by a handful of characters - there's lots of variety.

But tell yourself you've "won the game" if you want, I guess

[Shoah Kahn]

MK is a casual series for casual players, and the gameplay comes second to "winning" the game.

[alemtay]

Originally posted by Kolumbo:

I have been in Demigod for a few days and I have fought: Lao/Lao, Tanya/Goro, Mileena/Scorpion, Scorpion/Scorpion, Ashrah/Sareena, Rain/Sub-Zero, Liu/Fujinko, Shao/Motaro, Shao/Lao, Kitana/Sareena, Kenshi/Frost, Shang/Cyrax, a couple Haviks, a couple Reikos, a couple Smokes, a couple Geras, one Reptile...

And yeah there have been some Barakas and Raidens and some other stuff I find annoying (like some of the Reikos and Smokes) in there. But I am constantly getting new challenges with new fighter combinations and new players with different playstyles. Plus if you watch the replays of some God rank fights, you'll see that most of *those* people could easily crush anyone who's crushing me - or you - right now. And if you look at the leaderboard you'll see the higher ranks aren't at all dominated by a handful of characters - there's lots of variety.

But tell yourself you've "won the game" if you want, I guess

Been in demi god for about a week and what i have seen from my total playtime is 50% baraka/cyrax, 40% johnnycage/cyrax and 10% other cancer characters that just spam the same sh*t, like raiden/jax, mileena/scorpion and kenshi/frost, 0 new challenges for me, only playing against the same sh*t over and over and over again, i guess you must just be incredibly lucky!

[Kolumbo]

Originally posted by alemtay:

Been in demi god for about a week and what i have seen from my total playtime is 50% baraka/cyrax, 40% johnnycage/cyrax and 10% other cancer characters that just spam the same sh*t, like raiden/jax, mileena/scorpion and kenshi/frost, 0 new challenges for me, only playing against the same sh*t over and over and over again, i guess you must just be incredibly lucky! :♥♥♥♥: :lunar2019shockedpig:

Ok so in this thread alone people have now labelled Baraka, Raiden, Cage, Sindel, Mileena AND Kenshi to all be bullsh*t characters. And you don't have to look far to find other threads where people say the same thing about Reiko and Smoke.

That's 8 so far - any more we need to add to the list? Or is it maybe just that losing is frustrating, and it feels good to tell yourself "oh I only lost because that's a broken character"?

[popsicle]

Grand master is quite a good achievement in this game. Is a respected tier.

[ANSEL]

i cant even play ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ranked because the game keep crashing like crazy ♥♥♥♥ this game

[Juri's_feet_tho]

Demi god here......dude aint wrong....some characters get 20-30 hit combos easy, but each part of the combo is not unique. Its all string1, cameo, string1, cameo, string 2....its stale.

MK11 had way more creativity than this.

[Happy]

Originally posted by NRS Meta = Trsh:

Demi god here......dude aint wrong....some characters get 20-30 hit combos easy, but each part of the combo is not unique. Its all string1, cameo, string1, cameo, string 2....its stale.

MK11 had way more creativity than this.

Completely disagree as it was - viable string 1 meter burn viable string 1 meter burn viable string 2 meter burn viable string 3

That's what mk11 gameplay boiled down to. SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING

[Happy]

Also just my two cents - I believe there are a lot of great players at DG+ because it's quite the grind to just get to DG. When you get to rank 7 and higher people become way more focused on playing patiently, punishing and spacing. Frame traps are better, projectiles are used more often, broken gimmicks are definitely abused. I would say skill issue but I don't think most people realize -

"There is no knowledge... That is not power."

I'm kinda grinding midway through GM still but I know I'll get to DG as soon as my gameplay is cleaner. GL to anyone in KL as connections are awful sometimes D:

[MonkOS]

On demigod i get JC and Barakas a LOT, Raiden also but little less. I am mostly tired of Jhonny Cage as he is extremely annoying, everything is a plus and every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ string has a mixup.

[Happy]

Originally posted by MonkOS:

On demigod i get JC and Barakas a LOT, Raiden also but little less. I am mostly tired of Jhonny Cage as he is extremely annoying, everything is a plus and every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ string has a mixup.

My trick for johnny is always standing block the last hit of his 3 strings because if he knocks you down with his low ender you have a bigger advantage than he does. His last hit in the 3 strings is always an overhead, same with his forward kick. Sure he can go from the low into the DP extender but most of the time they are banking on not spending meter for a combo starter

[Kolumbo]

The other trick with Johnny is to learn where you can interrupt his strings with kameo reversals, raw ducks, and up blocks - all those nasty strings have ways they can be interrupted and punished, and once you start doing that, all that Johnny pressure just melts into nothingness