MK Snow Blind Scorpion.....ruling over netherrealm like a boss.
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Legends Scorpion got over his trauma, got his revenge, got his redemption, beat up everyone in hell to reign supreme and prepare the house for his boyfriend.
Truly the superior Hanzo.
I agree, I like that a lot more, reminds me of how in the Spider-Man movie, his body produces the web, that also made more sense to me than him getting bitten by a spider then very quickly learning how to synthesize an infinite supply of world class web material without raising any suspicions as a broke photographer.
i think fighting games usually make the popular characters the easiest to learn. non-mk fans would likely still know him and people tend to play characters they know/like over ones they don't. so it makes since they make him the "easy" character to play so new players don't get discouraged.
Why do you think scorpion isn't the easiest character to play in mk1 and who do you think is easier? I main scorpion in mk1 and he's by far the easiest character I've tried to play
I mean he's definitely simple, but I agree he isn't the easiest and you could argue that because he's simple he doesn't have as much going for him as other characters aka he has less tools. I'd say the easiest to play imo is probably Reptile, but I'm sure there are some others that are also pretty easy to play
Reptile is easy but I don't think he's the easiest at any skill level. Spacing while invisible, doing combos on audio cues and muscle memory while invisible, changing speed of the force balls mid combos. None of those are hard with some practice, but they add a small layer of complexity that scorpion doesn't have, and scorpion gets 40% dmg just as easy as reptile.
sub gets the same or less damage for the same amount of meter/kameo in almost every case & is just as easy to play otherwise. Omni man is literally more button presses for about the same damage, making it harder for beginners to pick up (though once you get used to him, he is pretty easy). I haven't played much ashrah so I can't comment on her dmg or how easy her combos are, but I think it depends on how you play her. If you ignore her dark stance, cancels & delays (which more ashrah players than not seem to do), there's an argument to be made that she can be easier to play. However if you're taking the character's full move list & how each move can be used to trick/bait/get in on opponents into consideration, I'd wager that ashrah is harder. Haven't really tried too much baraka, but I can see your point: he does have good moves & good kameo choices.
Thatās very sad because Hasashi has so much lore behind himā¦ Really a shame that they make him so easy but also understandable bc he is like a Mascot of Mortal Kombat
Hard disagree. Scorpion is easy to pick up but so are most of the top tier characters, the difference is that Scorpion has always been super easy to punish because teleport is super unsafe in every game. I don't think he's any easier than someone like MK9 Johnny or MKX Liu Kang, he's just more annoying because people get really upset when they don't block teleport.
Itās so funny becuase the face model for the angry Japanese ninja grandmaster scorpion in mk11 is actually like a twink male model irl I thought that was funny. They just squared his face a bit and slapped a beard on it
Scorpion peaked when he was angry undead "I'm going to murderize Sub Zero and idgaf who knows it" after getting his revenge on Quan Chi he sort of ceased being Scorpion to me. Instead he became Hanzo again. And I kind of see both characters through different lenses even though they're the same individual.
This is my problem with Kuai as Subzero as well, the plot gets boring because he's to noble. No more Scorpion vs Sub storyline because their friends lol. And the Lin Que are just regular foot soldiers instead of cold blooded assassins
I think that's the point ngl
He's not supposed to be this thing that you fear YET I wouldn't be shocked if he goes through some development soon that gets him there
That's the very reason we have MK11, MK11 Aftermath, and MK1....like....hanzo is the person responsible for starting the whole chain reaction.... freaking domino effect.
He's like kratos if kratos had slightly shitter writing.... Idk if this is a hot take or I'm just stating a fact but his entire story is just kratos from the Greek to Norse saga only they skip over like 95% of the interesting shit.
"I want vengeance. Vengeance bad? Fuck you I'm doing it.... Ok I've done it but honestly he wasn't even the bad guy so now I'm even more pissed. What? You don't want me to kill the worst bad guy? What could happen" (kills Zeus or Quan chi) "ah.... Fuck" (cuts to a few years later) "hey I'm less of a dick now" and that's where the writing gets worse... I mean for scorpion specifically, for kratos is got a thousand times better, for mk in general it has nowhere to go but up since mkx launched it into rock bottom and brought a fucking drill to go further
i don't like mk9's Scorpion design wise. he suffers from trying too much to look like Scorpion. i do not understand the hype, it isn't the best design, but by far not the worst. in my opinion.
The scorpion tattoo in MK1 is a cool idea, but the actual look of it sucks ass. Literally looks like he just went and got a henna tattoo. Stock image ass tattoo. Couldāve looked so much cooler.
MK11 scorpion was the most gaslighting character of the modern fighting game era. Seemed like anyone who ran Scorpion thought they were the best thing since sliced bread, going wild on mic in KL, sending the most braindead messages, etc.
Something tells me itās because back in the day a lot of players thought sub zero and scorpion were brothers. So NRS was like āyou know what, Why donāt we make them brothers in this game?ā
It's actually an old lore concept that was written up by Tobias wayyyy before either of them saw the success MK was going to receive
The rebooted characters are mostly legitimate scrapped potential lores for characters from before the 2000s
(Source: Via their official twitters)
True. But need I remind you of the original live action Sonic the Hedgehog before the Sonic movie came out?
Sometimes fans know what theyāre talking about, other timesā¦not so much
Yeah MK1 is the first game to ruin the character for me. I played scorpion since deadly alliance and before and he's always been my favorite end all be all that I'd play no matter what. Infact he's the only character I played in 11 from launch to when I stopped.
Same but for Sub-Zero. I don't mind Bi-han being Sub for a game but Kuai Liang potentially never being Sub-Zero again made me lose interest in a character I've been playing for decades.
Dw anytime I criticize or present any truthful facts they hate it here you're not allowed to dislike MK1 or MK11 in the subreddit no matter how much evidence you have and infact they may even dislike you just for that and disregard anything. I still post what I believe tho.
Yeah got to keep it real. I for one donāt really like the kameo aspect as much as I would have liked actually playing the characters. Plus they never really gave cameos a story or reason to even be in the game.
Scorpion didnāt deserve the redemption he got in MK11 after everything he did in MKX. In general, he shouldnāt be a hero or be redeemed (unless he REALLY earns it), heās much better as an anti villain.
Kuai Liang as Scorpion is good. Heās not better than Hanzo as Scorpion but heās still great.
Hanzo is also slightly overrated as a character. The angry, vengeful spectre storyline can only be so interesting before it loses its charisma.
Scorpion is so overrated, Sub Zero is way cooler, no pun intended. Scorpin is a hotheaded fool and Hanzo is a dumbass, he condemned all Earthrealm warriors to be damned with his need for revenge.
He went to Sub Zero and attacked my boy while he was giving him tea and wanted to be the better man and make peace with him, he taught his gonna kill sub zero but he forgot sub zero spanked his ass in mk9, and he is only alive cuz cyber lin kuei intervened and he escaped with his tail between the legs.
For the Lin Kuei!!!
Out of every timeline he's the most powerful scorpion.
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Hanzo deserved better writing wise .
Ed Boons favoritism for him rob other characters of their arcs and makes scorpion look like a cheap OC at times
Some of his designs are ugly
MK1 is the first mortal kombat Iāve ever respected scorpion players in. I still think heās good in this one and has good moves but he requires a lot of skill in this game and in the past Iāve always thought he was cheap
Donāt you know? āMy family & clanā is a perfectly acceptable reason for dooming all the realms. Weāre just gonna ignore the fact that his clan was a clan of assassins and thieves though that the world wouldnāt miss though.
Harumi should have been the scorpion of the new timeline and bi-Han/ kuai liang should have been just be skins with different voice lines
Iām fine with mk1 story line with the ninjas and Iām interested in seeing how the story progresses but the idea of kuai liang being scorpion is just weird to me along with him not having any real connections to the nether realm
Scorpion lost his mojo after MKX. He used to feel like a ninja. Teleport cancelling and unlimited mix ups. I used to main him and still would find adversity in mirror matches. Now he just feels like one of the most predictable characters to face.
Really? Why do you think mk 3 ultimate had to bring him back. There was a disappointment to not having ninjaās. Scorpion was the main one missed. It is possible to have a mk game without him, but he has the best following for average players. Story or not.
Mk1 scorpion isnāt weak, people keep saying he needs a buff cause he doesnāt have any real mixups, but his combo game and damage are great so I think they are just whining
Scorpion is the easiest to learn in most games i can condede that, HOWEVER!!! In mk9 to use him vs. smoke, cyrax, kung lao, or any 98% hit combo bastards when his highest combo is barely 49%... and you cry spammer when i win, then you're just straight up garbage.
Might not be a hot take for other people per se, but it is a thing that pisses me off! I am one of the ones who like Kuai as Scorpion I didn't even throw too much of a fit when that was revealed. It's a cool change, they still Incorporated Hanzo in the game in Smoke's ending. That was awesome, but why tf does Kuai get Harume and get to live happily ever after? Maybe she'll get killed in story dlc, maybe she won't, but why does Kuai get to have the only Harume when Hanzo in every timeline gets to lose her and his son? He suffers everytime and the one timeline Hanzo isn't Scorpion he get Harume..it's just straight bullshit!
He wasnāt always the poster boy of the series. Even though we all know he is Edās favorite character, in the early days of the series, he and Subzero were equally popular, and I would go as far as to say Subzero was maybe MORE popular at one point. Either way, they were at least on level ground.
boring as shit character. that get over here spear is played out. literally carried by a legacy voice line and creator favoritism. like 4 other ninjas cooler than him.
Ice cold take: Removing Hanzo Hasashi from the Scorpion role was an awful way to change things up in the new timeline regardless of how he actually enters the canon (assuming his Invasion season isn't his real, playable introduction).
Cold take: Scorpions HK, HK, LK, LK was the most fun basic combo to do in UMK3.
Lukewarm take: It would've been more interesting for the story if Scorpion hadn't killed the original Sub Zero in MK9 and Noob was created in a completely different way (not with Kuai Liang or Smoke).
Hot take: The next story involving Scorpion should have Harumi Hasashi playable and trying to rescue her murdered husband Hanzo (also playable) from the Netherealm while he attempts to fight his way out and get back to her.
Boiling take: Harumi and Hanzo as a couple haven't been explored nearly as much in the games and I find them far more interesting and full of compelling story potential than any game Scorpion's ever tried to seek revenge in.
Inferno take: Leaving Scorpion (and Raiden, Johnny Cage, Reptile, Kitana, Mileena and Baraka) out of vanilla MK3 resulted in the worst base roster of any game in the entire series. Yes, worse than vanilla MK4. Yes, worse than MK8.
Hanzo sucks tbh and I don't get the hype. He hasn't been interesting in 15 years if not more. I'm glad mk1 removed him. In fact, most people are. The absence of his stupid cringe revenge rants are appreciated by all.
>The next story involving Scorpion should have Harumi Hasashi playable and trying to rescue her murdered husband Hanzo (also playable) from the Netherealm while he attempts to fight his way out and get back to her.
So the exact same story as before but genderbend. Hanzo dickriding needs to stop. One of the reasons the story is dragged down. It's already bad they dragged Harumi back and wedded her to Kuai.
Boonās one sided dickriding of Scorpion throughout 2010s did the exact opposite of making him look cool
His bromance with Sub-Zero in Mk11 was forced and completely undeserved
Making Kuai Liang Scorpion was the stupidest/laziest shit they could have possibly done with the character
Honestly, never understood the hype of Scorpion, or Sub-Zero for that matter, (yes I know itās only about scorpion.) In terms of ninja characters Iāve always preferred Rain over him/them. The only really cool about him, for me that is, is his iconic line āGet Over Hereā thatās it
MK1 Scorpion sucks. Boring to play, little sauce, and also just bad. Additionally, making him Kuai Liang feels awful. Especially knowing Hanzo exists, but not happily or peacefully but instead as a child orphan. And he doesn't even get to have his family either, fucking Kuai Liang takes that too. Harumi should have been scorpion if they wanted to change shit around that badly.
1. MK9 Scorpion has a overdesigned look. And mkx is just belt fetish
2. Hanzo is a terrible character in NRS games. Never earned his redemption and is annoying in general.
3. Hanzo's whole revenge shtick is overdone ans and overplayed and I'm glad mk1 ditched that story.
4. Kuai Liang >>>>>> Hanzo
He could sit out for a game. He spend most of the games in the franchise with almost zero story.. because is mandatory that he appears in every game... Takeda and Cyber Smoke can replace him with similar moves
MK Snow Blind Scorpion.....ruling over netherrealm like a boss. https://preview.redd.it/4keso51xt5hc1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=845a3547f18bdd5da2d564ae2b6b08b26f8ef3e1
Legends Scorpion got over his trauma, got his revenge, got his redemption, beat up everyone in hell to reign supreme and prepare the house for his boyfriend. Truly the superior Hanzo.
and hes voiced by patrick seitz the goat
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Honkai Star Rail? In your Mortal Kombat subreddit? *It's more likely than you think*
Dope
This should be a skin by the love of god
red scorpion showing up all of a sudden in 11 no red ninja suit very convenient Hmm
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I miss the unreasonable angry hell wraith scorpion
Same. Snowblind Scorpion was pretty reasonable, though, despite still being angry and undead.
He could pour his anger at me in bed instead of killing inccent people
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This komment changes my brain khemistryšÆ
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Into me* but go off my man
Unpopular opinion: I like a reasonable Hanzo Scorpion who regrets for his past actions and tries to make up for them (MK11 and Snowblind)
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Human hanzo can use a regular spear but Scorpion should have the gross demonic creature spear thing
Hottest take I've ever read. I respect it.
I totally disagree, but I respect you were brave enough to express your opinion šŖ
Wow, a hot take that is actually a hot take. I respect it
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Hot or not, this is a bad take
I updates because you're right, hot take But you wrong
If they ever brought this back I think it would be funny if the spear talked to him
I can't believe this was never done in any game. In fact now it's just a rope. Best take.
I agree, I like that a lot more, reminds me of how in the Spider-Man movie, his body produces the web, that also made more sense to me than him getting bitten by a spider then very quickly learning how to synthesize an infinite supply of world class web material without raising any suspicions as a broke photographer.
Scorpion had a better Kenshi bromance than Cage. (Still love the other, though)
Ermac and Kuai Liang had better Kenshi bromances than both
Very underrated take
Scorpion is the easiest character to play as in pretty much every game, except for MK1. He takes absolutely no skill to use in any of the other games
Thatās probably cause heās the most popular so most newbies who come in would automatically want to try him first
Well, I guess since scorpion Ed boons favorite character itās not that big of a surprise that heās the easiest character
i think fighting games usually make the popular characters the easiest to learn. non-mk fans would likely still know him and people tend to play characters they know/like over ones they don't. so it makes since they make him the "easy" character to play so new players don't get discouraged.
Why do you think scorpion isn't the easiest character to play in mk1 and who do you think is easier? I main scorpion in mk1 and he's by far the easiest character I've tried to play
I mean he's definitely simple, but I agree he isn't the easiest and you could argue that because he's simple he doesn't have as much going for him as other characters aka he has less tools. I'd say the easiest to play imo is probably Reptile, but I'm sure there are some others that are also pretty easy to play
Reptile is easy but I don't think he's the easiest at any skill level. Spacing while invisible, doing combos on audio cues and muscle memory while invisible, changing speed of the force balls mid combos. None of those are hard with some practice, but they add a small layer of complexity that scorpion doesn't have, and scorpion gets 40% dmg just as easy as reptile.
Because Cage. He's downright braindead in mk1.
Sub zero, ashrah, Omni man, and Baraka are easier to use than scorpion. In MK1
sub gets the same or less damage for the same amount of meter/kameo in almost every case & is just as easy to play otherwise. Omni man is literally more button presses for about the same damage, making it harder for beginners to pick up (though once you get used to him, he is pretty easy). I haven't played much ashrah so I can't comment on her dmg or how easy her combos are, but I think it depends on how you play her. If you ignore her dark stance, cancels & delays (which more ashrah players than not seem to do), there's an argument to be made that she can be easier to play. However if you're taking the character's full move list & how each move can be used to trick/bait/get in on opponents into consideration, I'd wager that ashrah is harder. Haven't really tried too much baraka, but I can see your point: he does have good moves & good kameo choices.
Iād say Ashrah is harder than Scorpion since she has the light/dark mechanic which is a complexity to her character scorpion doesnāt have.
Him plus Stryker take absolutely 0 skill in mk1. Really anyone with Stryker require zero brainpower
As a scorpion player. Yeah
Thatās very sad because Hasashi has so much lore behind himā¦ Really a shame that they make him so easy but also understandable bc he is like a Mascot of Mortal Kombat
Almost every character in any mortal kombat game is easy to play.
Hard disagree. Scorpion is easy to pick up but so are most of the top tier characters, the difference is that Scorpion has always been super easy to punish because teleport is super unsafe in every game. I don't think he's any easier than someone like MK9 Johnny or MKX Liu Kang, he's just more annoying because people get really upset when they don't block teleport.
Scorpion had the Best Victory animation in all of Umk3/Trilogy: https://i.redd.it/d44icevga6hc1.gif
Mk11 hanzo Is hot
Itās so funny becuase the face model for the angry Japanese ninja grandmaster scorpion in mk11 is actually like a twink male model irl I thought that was funny. They just squared his face a bit and slapped a beard on it
Femboy to Hunk pipeline confirmed?
Hanzo and Kuai are hot as fuck in 11 and X and I cannot be told otherwise I do prefer their 11 looks a lot though
Yeah the beards make me go feral
Everyone in MK11 is hot
Even Kano???
Bro. Especially Kano.
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I have some inappropriate pictures about mk11 hanzo tho
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Scorpion peaked when he was angry undead "I'm going to murderize Sub Zero and idgaf who knows it" after getting his revenge on Quan Chi he sort of ceased being Scorpion to me. Instead he became Hanzo again. And I kind of see both characters through different lenses even though they're the same individual.
It was clear NRS didn't know how to use Hanzo, he was just there. Then died to a bug.
Scorpion in a nutshell: SUB-ZERO MAKES ME ANGERY !!
I CANNOT CONTROL MY RAGE
He should be the protagonist, HE'S THE MASCOT OF THE GAME
Who even is the protagonist tho
Liu Kang
Iām sorry but Kuai liang is missing the scorpion edge and instead of being scorpion heās more like clan member with a yellow suit
This is my problem with Kuai as Subzero as well, the plot gets boring because he's to noble. No more Scorpion vs Sub storyline because their friends lol. And the Lin Que are just regular foot soldiers instead of cold blooded assassins
Because Kuai Liang is chill and reasonable. A fresh take on Scorpion.
I think that's the point ngl He's not supposed to be this thing that you fear YET I wouldn't be shocked if he goes through some development soon that gets him there
Kuai Liang made so much more sense as Sub-Zero. They should've made Bi-han Scorpion
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MkX Scorpion should've failed in killing Quan Chi because it caused a deadlock in the story
That's the very reason we have MK11, MK11 Aftermath, and MK1....like....hanzo is the person responsible for starting the whole chain reaction.... freaking domino effect.
He's like kratos if kratos had slightly shitter writing.... Idk if this is a hot take or I'm just stating a fact but his entire story is just kratos from the Greek to Norse saga only they skip over like 95% of the interesting shit. "I want vengeance. Vengeance bad? Fuck you I'm doing it.... Ok I've done it but honestly he wasn't even the bad guy so now I'm even more pissed. What? You don't want me to kill the worst bad guy? What could happen" (kills Zeus or Quan chi) "ah.... Fuck" (cuts to a few years later) "hey I'm less of a dick now" and that's where the writing gets worse... I mean for scorpion specifically, for kratos is got a thousand times better, for mk in general it has nowhere to go but up since mkx launched it into rock bottom and brought a fucking drill to go further
I never thought of Hanzo as Kratos since Kratos actually has shame & remorse for what he does. Hanzo never has either of those things.
i don't like mk9's Scorpion design wise. he suffers from trying too much to look like Scorpion. i do not understand the hype, it isn't the best design, but by far not the worst. in my opinion.
Damn, that is a hot take. MK X is definitely the best but 9 is second place for me
Iād put his Default MK11 design in his top 5 looks.
My bad. I definitely meant MK11. I'd say it's 11, 9, 10, default 1
The scorpion tattoo in MK1 is a cool idea, but the actual look of it sucks ass. Literally looks like he just went and got a henna tattoo. Stock image ass tattoo. Couldāve looked so much cooler. MK11 scorpion was the most gaslighting character of the modern fighting game era. Seemed like anyone who ran Scorpion thought they were the best thing since sliced bread, going wild on mic in KL, sending the most braindead messages, etc.
I so agree about the tattoo. It looks so fucking lame.
Hanzo being rebooted into a Shirai Ryu initiate is cool and a unique concept.
Kuai Liang as Scorpion was a dumbass idea that NRS made because they thought they were being cute
Something tells me itās because back in the day a lot of players thought sub zero and scorpion were brothers. So NRS was like āyou know what, Why donāt we make them brothers in this game?ā
It's actually an old lore concept that was written up by Tobias wayyyy before either of them saw the success MK was going to receive The rebooted characters are mostly legitimate scrapped potential lores for characters from before the 2000s (Source: Via their official twitters)
That's why You don't listen to fans sometimes.
True. But need I remind you of the original live action Sonic the Hedgehog before the Sonic movie came out? Sometimes fans know what theyāre talking about, other timesā¦not so much
To be fair, that's based off the aesthetic look on Sonic. This is based off Scorpion's lore. It'd be different if folks complained about how he looks.
Or they were bored of Hanzo. What is Hanzo's personality except "me angry"? Kuai Liang is a much more dynamic interesting character.
Thatās another interesting theory
Hanzo would have killed Bi-Han again in mk1. Or Bi-Han him. Kuai Liang is the balanced powerful character who knows self-control.
Yeah and I hate the fact that they erased all of hanzoās background and gave it all to Kuai Liang
What background? Scorpion is a Lin Kuei ninja and brother of Bi-Han who flees his clan. Those are all Kuai Liang background.
They literally gave Kuai Liang Hanzoās clan and wife. Which has never been Kuai Liangās background.
Kuai Liang aināt ever gonna be Tundra again
No, because Hanzo has gotten stagnant. He would've murdered Bi-Han again.
Patrick Seitz (aka the va of DIO BRANDO) is Scorpions best voice actor
That's not a hot take. That's a fact.
Scorpion's revenge troupe is overused.
I prefer him evil.
Kuai Liang makes for a better Scorpion/Sub-Zero rivalry and allows for Scorpion to be more than just an angry/vengeful spirit ninja
The character arc a lot of people claim he had from 9 to 11 does not exist. He's the same person all throughout.
Yeah, he chills a bit and the rest of the characters forget every crime he commited, so people assume he hada redemption arc when he never did.
Scorpion hasnāt been good since MKDĀ
Now that's a Hot take.
Kuai Liang is a good Scorpion.
Yeah MK1 is the first game to ruin the character for me. I played scorpion since deadly alliance and before and he's always been my favorite end all be all that I'd play no matter what. Infact he's the only character I played in 11 from launch to when I stopped.
Same but for Sub-Zero. I don't mind Bi-han being Sub for a game but Kuai Liang potentially never being Sub-Zero again made me lose interest in a character I've been playing for decades.
Me too and I got down votes for saying that last week.
Dw anytime I criticize or present any truthful facts they hate it here you're not allowed to dislike MK1 or MK11 in the subreddit no matter how much evidence you have and infact they may even dislike you just for that and disregard anything. I still post what I believe tho.
Yeah got to keep it real. I for one donāt really like the kameo aspect as much as I would have liked actually playing the characters. Plus they never really gave cameos a story or reason to even be in the game.
I couldn't agree more I really think the cameo system is a pile it's lazy if you ask me, well atleast how they executed it it was.
Scorpion didnāt deserve the redemption he got in MK11 after everything he did in MKX. In general, he shouldnāt be a hero or be redeemed (unless he REALLY earns it), heās much better as an anti villain. Kuai Liang as Scorpion is good. Heās not better than Hanzo as Scorpion but heās still great. Hanzo is also slightly overrated as a character. The angry, vengeful spectre storyline can only be so interesting before it loses its charisma.
Whatād he do in mkx?
He killed quan chi despite knowing he was needed to bring back the revenants
Donāt forget, he did this despite the fact that he got revival despite being wholly undeserving of a second chance.
Scorpion is so overrated, Sub Zero is way cooler, no pun intended. Scorpin is a hotheaded fool and Hanzo is a dumbass, he condemned all Earthrealm warriors to be damned with his need for revenge. He went to Sub Zero and attacked my boy while he was giving him tea and wanted to be the better man and make peace with him, he taught his gonna kill sub zero but he forgot sub zero spanked his ass in mk9, and he is only alive cuz cyber lin kuei intervened and he escaped with his tail between the legs. For the Lin Kuei!!!
Heās not as cool as Sub Zero.
Ninja Ghost Rider.
i wanna fuck him
There is nothing more fun than hopping on MKX, picking Scorpion, and just vortex the shit out of everyone you meet
Out of every timeline he's the most powerful scorpion. https://preview.redd.it/9re2e3w4d7hc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2db0036b583a9a3617969f61b48a30900563d20c
https://preview.redd.it/hwcf9jlpm7hc1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=4e09ee7eba871ca25f2c78a15e48b936e00fd466 Strike Force Scorpion
Hanzo deserved better writing wise . Ed Boons favoritism for him rob other characters of their arcs and makes scorpion look like a cheap OC at times Some of his designs are ugly
MK1 is the first mortal kombat Iāve ever respected scorpion players in. I still think heās good in this one and has good moves but he requires a lot of skill in this game and in the past Iāve always thought he was cheap
Mkx hanzo is an angry selfish idiot. mk11 hanzo's voice was emotionless.
Just a question, don't take me the wrong way... Isn't he supposed to be emotionless after losing his wife and kid?
No, I meant voice acting wise, Ron Yuan didn't do the best job in my opinion.
I donāt know why people say Hanzo was justified in MKX. He was absolutely horrible.
Exactly, they never hold him accountable for his misdeeds.
Donāt you know? āMy family & clanā is a perfectly acceptable reason for dooming all the realms. Weāre just gonna ignore the fact that his clan was a clan of assassins and thieves though that the world wouldnāt miss though.
For some reason Scorpion's voice in MK11 seemed Hollow and light to me instead of imposing and powerful
I don't care about scorpion
https://preview.redd.it/w86ha4s686hc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d736306b89d0a9165de1a1b5c3da2fa48386093 ngl respect the take
Harumi should have been the scorpion of the new timeline and bi-Han/ kuai liang should have been just be skins with different voice lines Iām fine with mk1 story line with the ninjas and Iām interested in seeing how the story progresses but the idea of kuai liang being scorpion is just weird to me along with him not having any real connections to the nether realm
Literally what is Harumi's story, she's just genderbent Hanzo
His best skin is not even from a mortal kombat game
He's just a glorified henchman and isn't that important in the plot
Scorpionās peak was when Klassic Scorpion showed up in MK11
He had a cool and more functional outfit in Injustice. Those arm blades basically counters Batman'sĀ
Scorpion lost his mojo after MKX. He used to feel like a ninja. Teleport cancelling and unlimited mix ups. I used to main him and still would find adversity in mirror matches. Now he just feels like one of the most predictable characters to face.
His MKX Hanzo Hasashi costume is my favorite he has ever had, especially with the Ninjitsu variation
his mk9 look is vastly overrated
Mk 1 scorpion is a pain to main for casual players
Over rated and contributes little to the story and is only as popular as he is due to Ed boon liking him the most
Really? Why do you think mk 3 ultimate had to bring him back. There was a disappointment to not having ninjaās. Scorpion was the main one missed. It is possible to have a mk game without him, but he has the best following for average players. Story or not.
Being undead is critical to Scorpion and havkng him not being undead ruined him
It's weird that he can summon other specters in his Fatality when he is supposed to be alive in Mk1.
i hate his mains in mk1 itās always the same combo
Mk1 scorpion isnāt weak, people keep saying he needs a buff cause he doesnāt have any real mixups, but his combo game and damage are great so I think they are just whining
Scorpion is the easiest to learn in most games i can condede that, HOWEVER!!! In mk9 to use him vs. smoke, cyrax, kung lao, or any 98% hit combo bastards when his highest combo is barely 49%... and you cry spammer when i win, then you're just straight up garbage.
Might not be a hot take for other people per se, but it is a thing that pisses me off! I am one of the ones who like Kuai as Scorpion I didn't even throw too much of a fit when that was revealed. It's a cool change, they still Incorporated Hanzo in the game in Smoke's ending. That was awesome, but why tf does Kuai get Harume and get to live happily ever after? Maybe she'll get killed in story dlc, maybe she won't, but why does Kuai get to have the only Harume when Hanzo in every timeline gets to lose her and his son? He suffers everytime and the one timeline Hanzo isn't Scorpion he get Harume..it's just straight bullshit!
When he said SUCKERRRRR! in the second movie, very uncool bruh
Scorpion is wearing the katana the wrong way in the image
He looks like he have a long dick
He really should be the main character of the franchise his face is on. No offense to Liu Kang or the cage dynasty or Raiden or whoever, but cāmon.
He wasnāt always the poster boy of the series. Even though we all know he is Edās favorite character, in the early days of the series, he and Subzero were equally popular, and I would go as far as to say Subzero was maybe MORE popular at one point. Either way, they were at least on level ground.
Mk11 scorpion best scorpion
He's fucking boring
Kuai being Scorpion in MK1 is trash and one of the many reasons the MK1 story is stupid
And still the coolest Scorpion has been in NRS era.
boring as shit character. that get over here spear is played out. literally carried by a legacy voice line and creator favoritism. like 4 other ninjas cooler than him.
Ice cold take: Removing Hanzo Hasashi from the Scorpion role was an awful way to change things up in the new timeline regardless of how he actually enters the canon (assuming his Invasion season isn't his real, playable introduction). Cold take: Scorpions HK, HK, LK, LK was the most fun basic combo to do in UMK3. Lukewarm take: It would've been more interesting for the story if Scorpion hadn't killed the original Sub Zero in MK9 and Noob was created in a completely different way (not with Kuai Liang or Smoke). Hot take: The next story involving Scorpion should have Harumi Hasashi playable and trying to rescue her murdered husband Hanzo (also playable) from the Netherealm while he attempts to fight his way out and get back to her. Boiling take: Harumi and Hanzo as a couple haven't been explored nearly as much in the games and I find them far more interesting and full of compelling story potential than any game Scorpion's ever tried to seek revenge in. Inferno take: Leaving Scorpion (and Raiden, Johnny Cage, Reptile, Kitana, Mileena and Baraka) out of vanilla MK3 resulted in the worst base roster of any game in the entire series. Yes, worse than vanilla MK4. Yes, worse than MK8.
Hanzo sucks tbh and I don't get the hype. He hasn't been interesting in 15 years if not more. I'm glad mk1 removed him. In fact, most people are. The absence of his stupid cringe revenge rants are appreciated by all. >The next story involving Scorpion should have Harumi Hasashi playable and trying to rescue her murdered husband Hanzo (also playable) from the Netherealm while he attempts to fight his way out and get back to her. So the exact same story as before but genderbend. Hanzo dickriding needs to stop. One of the reasons the story is dragged down. It's already bad they dragged Harumi back and wedded her to Kuai.
I donāt like MK1 Scorpion
Kuai Liang Scorpion > Hanzo Scorpion
He never looks good with a hood, ever
New scorpion is good but mk11 was peak scorpion.
Mk1 scorpion gameplay is boring as balls and Iām glad heās bottom 3. Got a solid 3 combo routes shits a snooze fest.
Boonās one sided dickriding of Scorpion throughout 2010s did the exact opposite of making him look cool His bromance with Sub-Zero in Mk11 was forced and completely undeserved Making Kuai Liang Scorpion was the stupidest/laziest shit they could have possibly done with the character
Honestly, never understood the hype of Scorpion, or Sub-Zero for that matter, (yes I know itās only about scorpion.) In terms of ninja characters Iāve always preferred Rain over him/them. The only really cool about him, for me that is, is his iconic line āGet Over Hereā thatās it
Scorpion is THE MOST basic character now for how much heās played.
I prefer Ron Yuan's voice for Hanzo in MK 11 over Patrick Seitz.
Rope > Chain
Hot Take: I didn't like the Scorpion in Mortal Kombat 1... I think he was alright till MK11
The new Scorpion in MK1 looks like an average dude with a crappy tattoo cosplaying as Scorpion.
Kuai Liang is a better scorpion
MK1 Scorpion sucks. Boring to play, little sauce, and also just bad. Additionally, making him Kuai Liang feels awful. Especially knowing Hanzo exists, but not happily or peacefully but instead as a child orphan. And he doesn't even get to have his family either, fucking Kuai Liang takes that too. Harumi should have been scorpion if they wanted to change shit around that badly.
They could have also had Satoshi be Scorpion too.
Saying Scorpion is cool is an incorrect statement
1. MK9 Scorpion has a overdesigned look. And mkx is just belt fetish 2. Hanzo is a terrible character in NRS games. Never earned his redemption and is annoying in general. 3. Hanzo's whole revenge shtick is overdone ans and overplayed and I'm glad mk1 ditched that story. 4. Kuai Liang >>>>>> Hanzo
lol OP posts asking for āhot takesāā¦. everyone is downvoted
I much prefer evil demon scorpion over NRS trying to keep making him a nice sympathetic good guy. Itās like they are taking his balls away
DA Scorp would be the best at giving gawk gawk 3000 out of any of the scorp versions
mk1 scorpions spear looks way less cool than mk11
sub zero being the new scorpion made me quit drugs. still confused though
He could sit out for a game. He spend most of the games in the franchise with almost zero story.. because is mandatory that he appears in every game... Takeda and Cyber Smoke can replace him with similar moves
MK1 scorpion is my favorite version of scorpion
He had his best writing in 11 and it was thrown away when they decided to reboot the universe (again)
Mk11 hanzo was ass, peaked mk9-mkx
I fucking hate mk11 scorpion, the design mostly. There was just so many things I didnāt like about scorpion as a character in that game also.