Oh. I used it on my brother I was 5 I lost terribly then my cousin wouldn’t stop spamming with Erin black then I went on to use tremor of course I was 5. I couldn’t read and understand what to do. I play on Xbox now heck I really didn’t know although I played mw3 when I was only 3 but I was garbage at mk now I’m playing mk 11 we used to play on PS4
For the record, infrared scorpion is a reference to the scene in the first film where the Predator literally picks up and looks at a scorpion with infrared. I appreciate the nod and it seems like something Boon would do, but my god that skin makes the game painful to look at.
Damn i just wrote the exact same thing now but you beat me to to it good sir.Should have read the comments before i wrote mine.But good to know that someone clearly got the same chain of thought as me after i saw infrared scorpion skin.Also i never played mkx so did not knew there was an infrared scorpion skin before seeing it in this video.
In 2018, a bug was found in the Gens version of UMK3. P1 pressing the "mode" button would input Up for P2 during special moves. You could essentially prevent your opponent from doing special moves by mashing it during combos. Several top Russian Gens players admitted to knowing about this and using it in matches after it was discovered.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMANThe fact their top players cheesed victories, all while using a brutally-inferior version of the game… and never said anything until 2018… It’s like the most bootleg and jank thing ever, and it’s gold. :)
That infinite on Flash is disgusting. It reaches the point where everything but the launcher was doing 0% damage. Im so glad I only played local versus MKvsDC with my cousin. It would be so demoralizing to get hit by that.
Infrared scorpion was actually pretty cool. I never knew it hurting peoples eyes or making it hard to look at was a thing. Now I feel bad using it all the time back in the day 😅
Depends on TV model and if your TV is on a less bright setting then the skin doesn't really hurt the eye. But if it's bright screen and certain model of TV it will hurt alot.
I heavily played MKD online back in 2004-2005 and it was a tough ride with so many players using Infinites, free throws, OTG's, etc. Players complain now of broken characters in later MK versions, yet they don't know the half of it or what it actually means that something is broken and not just referring to just some overpowered special or plus frames.
@@PNDKM Dairou..Jeez that was annoying and Bo Rai Cho's F4 Stick into throw (rinse & repeat). The Gamecube version removed it and added a longer cooldown on the Tombstone drop, which made it slightly better to play
Remember the kreate a kharacter in mk armageddon? I remember creating an unblockable combo with the chicken leg. The fact that you can choose the throw that launches and then combo into the chicken leg was awesome.
Fun fact: It was not the last time you could attack your opponent before the match started. Back in MK Mobile (then named MKX Mobile), pausing the game before the match started allowed you to attack. If my memory is correct, they tried to correct this by removing the pause button during the start but using the back button on the task bar did the trick. Eventually, they patched it.
There was a Fujin infinite in MK11. You have to use that floaty move (I forget what it's called) Press F3, then DDU and stance switch (L2 or LT). The stance switch would cancel the float and allow you to do another F3 that's unblockable thus leading into an infinite. It was REALLY hard to do but it definitely worked.
Honestly i still can't fucking Believe Infrared Scorpion happened. People got paid for that. They had to go through so many layers of testing and review to make it happen and it never got scrapped.
Am I just... The only person immune to Infared Scorpion? It doesn't look unpleasant or hard on the eyes, it just looks like it doesn't fit, but that makes me like it. Like are my eyes so fucked up that I can just handle it or something?
I remember back on the 360 when I was accused of cheating because I kept my opponent at the maximum length of my longest reaching attack. You know, spacing, in a fighting game.
Man, I gotta say, playing against infrared Scorpion as my very first tower fight, the very first time EVER using Predator, was a fucking trip. A genuine mindfuck. I was simultaneously saying "omfg, wow, this attention to detail they paid is sooo neat!" and also "omfg, this is actually gonna be kind of annoying seeing every character like this, how tf do I turn it off?" The very next round had me even more perplexed but then answered my questions shortly after when my logic kicked in. XD
Infrared Scorpion is genuienly one of the most eye-searing things I've ever seen in a game. Cool concept, admittedly, but man, was it not a good idea in practice.
NGL...the infrared costume...I was like...okay, dark stage, the contrast is a bit much, but I can "deal" with it...I would not have thought that the lightning flash would make it that much worse. xD
i played mk decption online on ps2. if you do the disconnect trick and hit the opponent before the timer starts you do 0 damage to them. really the most broken thing about it is that you can insta kill on trap stages with it
I love how the dumb-dumbs who played MKvDC and go “It was good!” have never actually played it against a real, human being. Having came from Armageddon and Deception’s online, back in the day, switching to 8’s online was truly horrific. It didn’t matter how many hours you sank into learning combos, because 99% of people played either Flash, Superman, or Green Lantern, and looped you to death in BS infinites and unblockables. It genuinely wasn’t fun, at all, and the latency made it so hard to correct and counter, that online was basically a guessing game. I recall I played it for a solid few months, and just gave up, because if it wasn’t getting infinites shoved down your mouth, it was bad net-code. I truly have no idea how ANYONE can like that game, because it was horrendous, both in control and presentation. I can’t confirm seeing the unplug trick in Deception’s online, so it must have been fairly niche, since it wasn’t like now, where you have a game hub complete with a forum; we used to have to organize forums on external, fan sites, or things like Gamespot’s forums. I think I recall the unplug trick happened in DA, when me and a few friends were playing, and one of them pulled the controller out when adjusting before a match. I don’t think we ever abused the bug, because it was so quick that we didn’t consider it as anything other than a glitch, and we never tried to recreate it. One of the filthiest tactics though was Sub-Zero’s deep freeze before his fatality, in MK2. When the servers were up for MK Kollection, if you lost to a Sub-Zero player, you prayed they didn’t know how to loop the freeze, because it was just a waste of time; I’m sure it was like that in the real arcade, but it just drives me nuts.
For mk4 it appears that the player being able to attack first is able to do so because their health bar fills up slightly before which means thst the match probably starts furst for whoever has first player and it probably isn't matchup specific but frame specific for the moves. Try using moves at the beginning which have low start-up frames
The dirtiest tactic was mk1 scorpion, who could never be cornered & could get a life lead only to run away for the rest of the round; both feats accomplished by abuse of his teleport. That & his ultra-high damage combo (t.o.d.) is why he's #3 on the tier list.
I don’t know, I think the scorpion skin makes him easier to keep up with honestly. It’s so dark on that temple stage that it keeps him lit up for me to see. But that’s probably just me lol.
I agree on infrared scorp being hard on the eyea but any stage it hurt. The sky temple was awesome the regular version. The clsssic Cyrax MK9 trick to get the lame tactics allowed I remember well. Definitely a scummy, try hard thing to do. Ive encountered the deception disconnecting and replugging in trick. Lame Bo players did this to me to try to hit me with the busted Bo OTG bs lol 😅
Great video...I had heard about the cyrax mk3 skin bug, but never in detail psdt: one day we could talk about the error that Smoke's Mk2 skin had in mk9, perhaps in a second part
9:09 Lol in MK vs DC to beat The Flash all you have to do is use Scorpion and do “Inner Flames” special move and hold it infinitely and render the flash powerless. Because the flash can’t touch you without getting burnt.
Other cheap tatics: Mk deception and armageddon:tombstone drop spam is meta in deception and in Armageddon TBD is nerfed but some characters can't deal with this move. Mk deception: unblockable throw after knockdown Mk Armageddon:Kira 44u3 string and ground infinites Mk armageddon:sub zero impale glitch is unblockable if you are frozen and he is a great turtle character in this mk, millena can also use impale and i heard kitana also have access to this glitch and other characters have access to mkD movements using the jumpover glitch, the most notable being kenshi Mk Armageddon: sareena dagger throw gameplan basically you are safe as long you can keep distance from your opponent.
I can think of a few things from mk9 that should be on this list lol my favorite is when people would continuously jump on the other side of you and hit you before landing then jump to the other side and repeat.. if done correctly you would be unable to preform any attacks due to the input switching sides and regular hits being to slow to react.. alot of the higher ranked players in tag matches would do this. Or who could forget Sheeva and her kick jump combo lol but that was easy to counter atleast
It's saddening to hear of the passing of Carl Weathers.
Rest in peace to a legend.
@AyoBodee don’t be disrespectful. Use google and look it up yourself
@AyoBodeeapollo creed from rocky
@AyoBodeeApollo creed, and Dillon from predator. And he also voiced jax for the predator dlc in MKX
Oh. I used it on my brother I was 5 I lost terribly then my cousin wouldn’t stop spamming with Erin black then I went on to use tremor of course I was 5. I couldn’t read and understand what to do. I play on Xbox now heck I really didn’t know although I played mw3 when I was only 3 but I was garbage at mk now I’m playing mk 11 we used to play on PS4
Rip
The fact Infrared Scorpion is the most colorful part of MKX is funny to me
LOL yeah nice one dude
Lol
I would take a dark mk all day
Such an ugly game to me.
That game has some amazing design and stages but visually, it has not aged well. Thank Goodness for 11 and 1
For the record, infrared scorpion is a reference to the scene in the first film where the Predator literally picks up and looks at a scorpion with infrared. I appreciate the nod and it seems like something Boon would do, but my god that skin makes the game painful to look at.
Damn i just wrote the exact same thing now but you beat me to to it good sir.Should have read the comments before i wrote mine.But good to know that someone clearly got the same chain of thought as me after i saw infrared scorpion skin.Also i never played mkx so did not knew there was an infrared scorpion skin before seeing it in this video.
Lool
@@EdE6688
Infrared Scorpion (Bonus points if P2 colour) + Infected Sky Temple. A classic.
“Taste the rainbow” - Scorpion
This was said right before punching a hole in the victims face.
She was a seven year old who stole a bag of Skittles
😭
"I finally found it.... now who's gonna stop me?!?!"
- super star scorpion
i dont think scorpin would say that haha
Pretending you're afk until they wait for you, then running in and doing a full corner carry combo
The lesson is don't wait for AFKers. No mercy, ever.
Sweep the leg!
That's just foul
Who waits for people who go AFK?
Nevermind I just realized I did as well while writing this lmao
The yummiest strategy. :)
I remember fighting an Infrared Scoprion on Corrupted Sky Temple in 200ms before they had the netcode patch. Good times :)
Wasn’t that patch released before the skin came out? I thought it was before KP1 and that skin was part of the Predator skin pack
@@blazaybla22 I could've swore the netcode fix came out along with KP2 when it became MKXL instead of MKX, but I could be remembering wrong
@@mBountyHunterNo you’re right. The net roll code came when XL was released. I definitely remember the beta for it when NRS was doing tests.
@@mBountyHunter You’re probably right tbh I must have my timeline jumbled up
Ggs that was me
I showed you Infared scorpion so you don't have to experience it
I did experience it
What an intro, starting with spamming Ketchup.
Kan y'all please make a Kompetitive History of Scorpion 🦂? BUFF SCORPION!!! Let's Go K and M!!!!!!! 👊🏻🎮🐉🦂🦂🦂✌🏻
I troll players with him🤣🤣🤣🤣
🫡
In 2018, a bug was found in the Gens version of UMK3. P1 pressing the "mode" button would input Up for P2 during special moves. You could essentially prevent your opponent from doing special moves by mashing it during combos. Several top Russian Gens players admitted to knowing about this and using it in matches after it was discovered.
Knowing there's a scene in Russia for specifically the Mega Drive version of UMK3 is kinda funny.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMANThe fact their top players cheesed victories, all while using a brutally-inferior version of the game… and never said anything until 2018… It’s like the most bootleg and jank thing ever, and it’s gold. :)
That infinite on Flash is disgusting. It reaches the point where everything but the launcher was doing 0% damage. Im so glad I only played local versus MKvsDC with my cousin. It would be so demoralizing to get hit by that.
Crazy how some of us be living the same life. I literally only played MK v DC with my cousin on local play lol
It was everywhere online. Same goes for Superman's ground pound inf. If you were skilled enough, you could bypass it but that was character specific.
Infrared Scorpion jumpscare 😫
Infrared scorpion was actually pretty cool. I never knew it hurting peoples eyes or making it hard to look at was a thing. Now I feel bad using it all the time back in the day 😅
You monster!!
it does not do anything to my eyes, looks normal
Depends on TV model and if your TV is on a less bright setting then the skin doesn't really hurt the eye. But if it's bright screen and certain model of TV it will hurt alot.
@@secretman796 i own a sony bravia x80k, would it hurt my eyes in gameplay?
I heavily played MKD online back in 2004-2005 and it was a tough ride with so many players using Infinites, free throws, OTG's, etc. Players complain now of broken characters in later MK versions, yet they don't know the half of it or what it actually means that something is broken and not just referring to just some overpowered special or plus frames.
At least a bunch of characters had the broke stuff in mkd. Tombstone drop be damned
@@PNDKM Dairou..Jeez that was annoying and Bo Rai Cho's F4 Stick into throw (rinse & repeat). The Gamecube version removed it and added a longer cooldown on the Tombstone drop, which made it slightly better to play
Remember the kreate a kharacter in mk armageddon? I remember creating an unblockable combo with the chicken leg. The fact that you can choose the throw that launches and then combo into the chicken leg was awesome.
Fun fact: It was not the last time you could attack your opponent before the match started. Back in MK Mobile (then named MKX Mobile), pausing the game before the match started allowed you to attack. If my memory is correct, they tried to correct this by removing the pause button during the start but using the back button on the task bar did the trick. Eventually, they patched it.
Wait there was a mobile phone mortal Kombat? How am I only now hearing about it?
@@romajimamulodon’t worry it wasn’t great
also if i remember correctly, this thing allowed you to dodge dark emperor liu kang's stun when playing against him
@@Thesoutherndandee and got worse over time.
Releasing a game that is half finished with no crossplay and patching that in at a later date
is definitely a dirty tactic
5:25 Damn that Reiko move still looks so goofy 🤣
Well, MK4 overall is damn goofy :D
Li Mei had the same move back in 3D era
I KNEW there was something of about MK4s blocking at the start of a round! Over 20 years later you've solved the mystery for me. Thanks
Damn, Carl Weathers part hits different after today 😢
I was wondering if anybody would comment about that.
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@@davidjamesqc He died 10 days ago (when the comment was made).
Fr though can we appreciate how we used to get skins related to the dlc guests?
Bro i thought i was the only one who couldnt stand looking at infrared scorpion. Literally hurts the back of my eyes lmao
"When you make every character broken, no character is not broken.
This channel has shown me that MK will ALWAYS be my favorite Kusoge.
I was expecting that weird MK11 Scorpion untechable grab brutality he had for a bit.
I think worse than that was Noob's forward throw brutality that did close to 20% damage for some reason.
There was a Fujin infinite in MK11. You have to use that floaty move (I forget what it's called)
Press F3, then DDU and stance switch (L2 or LT). The stance switch would cancel the float and allow you to do another F3 that's unblockable thus leading into an infinite. It was REALLY hard to do but it definitely worked.
Hope y’all having a good day 🙏🏾
The infrared scorp would probably make him easier for me to track with the exception of a full red backdrop.
New PNDKM dropped? Splendid.
Number 6: Disconnect my opponent's controller
4:32 When you add Infrared Scorpion to the mix, your chances of seeing drastically go down!
I can't even watch on my phone!😂
I use selfmade Macros via Steam Input for my Alien in Mortal Kombat X💀 Now I can do combos with only one button
RIP 🪦 to carl weathers
Losing too many stars these days, it's sad...
MK9 Shang Tsung soul steal to end the round made him keep his buff in the next round
When i saw the title of this video i instantly got "flash"backs to MKDC. my god.
Always love seeing a post from you, keep up the interesting MK Kontent!
When my buddies do another classic fighting game night I'm going to absolutely run up and pull that glitch in DA.
Honestly i still can't fucking Believe Infrared Scorpion happened. People got paid for that. They had to go through so many layers of testing and review to make it happen and it never got scrapped.
wasn't expecting sagat's theme from EX 3, it goes surprisingly hard
Ex2 plus is where i first heard it as a kid
Rest in peace Carl weathers!!!
Am I just... The only person immune to Infared Scorpion? It doesn't look unpleasant or hard on the eyes, it just looks like it doesn't fit, but that makes me like it. Like are my eyes so fucked up that I can just handle it or something?
Infrared Scorpion hurt my eyes. I'm not saying it looked ugly (it looked kind of cool) but it physically hurt my eyes if I played it too much
Infrared Scorpion was pain incarnate 😬
RIP Carl Weathers
MK vs DC: Crisis on Infinite Combos
RIP Carl weather
Bo Rhai Cho (however you spell it) would spam his stick and it’s a high hit into low hit on Deception and it’s rage inducing to play against!
Rest in peace Carl weathers
Yeah...watching this footage of two IR Scorpions was making my eyes melt xD
My favorite one is a reference to J.CV.D. wonder if in the MK universe Johnny Cage if he played in a knockoff Street Fighter movie
The movement trick apparently returned in MK1. The oroblem persists 😂
In MK vs DC I used to play with my friends as batman and do the axe kick repeatedly. They could not stop it.
Very hilarious! This is the first time I ever heard about these cheap tactics
R.I.P Carl Weathers 🕊️🕊️🕊️
rip carl weathers
I remember back on the 360 when I was accused of cheating because I kept my opponent at the maximum length of my longest reaching attack. You know, spacing, in a fighting game.
Man, I gotta say, playing against infrared Scorpion as my very first tower fight, the very first time EVER using Predator, was a fucking trip. A genuine mindfuck.
I was simultaneously saying "omfg, wow, this attention to detail they paid is sooo neat!" and also "omfg, this is actually gonna be kind of annoying seeing every character like this, how tf do I turn it off?"
The very next round had me even more perplexed but then answered my questions shortly after when my logic kicked in. XD
We need more videos on dirty tactics
I hope to see competitive history of Shang Tsung some day
I second that
I third that
Infrared Scorpion is genuienly one of the most eye-searing things I've ever seen in a game. Cool concept, admittedly, but man, was it not a good idea in practice.
Some games let you attack before the round starts. I think Toy Fighter calls them Dirty Attacks
I fucking love sky temple 😢😅
RIP Carl Weathers! 🕊️
Infared Scorpion on Corrupted Sky Temple. 😈
infrared scorpion + corrupted sky temple was the prettiest thing you could possibly do😂
NGL...the infrared costume...I was like...okay, dark stage, the contrast is a bit much, but I can "deal" with it...I would not have thought that the lightning flash would make it that much worse. xD
They teach you how to cheap poke in mk1 tutorial lolol i think NRS might be eating some karma right now.
The jump kick that Scorpion used in MK 1 the original was definitely the easiest way to get flawless victory
I love watching videos with sfex2p ost, omg this dirty move for my heart
i played mk decption online on ps2. if you do the disconnect trick and hit the opponent before the timer starts you do 0 damage to them. really the most broken thing about it is that you can insta kill on trap stages with it
Scorpion was already an unpleasant character to fight against in MKX (mostly because of the Ninjitsu spam), but man infrared added salt to the wound
Glad I am not the only one who loves the Street Fighter EX2 Plus A soundtrack. Haha nice video nonetheless!
7:45 Nothing beats a Ground Pound
I love how the dumb-dumbs who played MKvDC and go “It was good!” have never actually played it against a real, human being.
Having came from Armageddon and Deception’s online, back in the day, switching to 8’s online was truly horrific. It didn’t matter how many hours you sank into learning combos, because 99% of people played either Flash, Superman, or Green Lantern, and looped you to death in BS infinites and unblockables. It genuinely wasn’t fun, at all, and the latency made it so hard to correct and counter, that online was basically a guessing game.
I recall I played it for a solid few months, and just gave up, because if it wasn’t getting infinites shoved down your mouth, it was bad net-code. I truly have no idea how ANYONE can like that game, because it was horrendous, both in control and presentation.
I can’t confirm seeing the unplug trick in Deception’s online, so it must have been fairly niche, since it wasn’t like now, where you have a game hub complete with a forum; we used to have to organize forums on external, fan sites, or things like Gamespot’s forums.
I think I recall the unplug trick happened in DA, when me and a few friends were playing, and one of them pulled the controller out when adjusting before a match. I don’t think we ever abused the bug, because it was so quick that we didn’t consider it as anything other than a glitch, and we never tried to recreate it.
One of the filthiest tactics though was Sub-Zero’s deep freeze before his fatality, in MK2. When the servers were up for MK Kollection, if you lost to a Sub-Zero player, you prayed they didn’t know how to loop the freeze, because it was just a waste of time; I’m sure it was like that in the real arcade, but it just drives me nuts.
For mk4 it appears that the player being able to attack first is able to do so because their health bar fills up slightly before which means thst the match probably starts furst for whoever has first player and it probably isn't matchup specific but frame specific for the moves. Try using moves at the beginning which have low start-up frames
Ya know I never had any issues with Infrared Scorpion. I quite liked how he looked.
Rip Carl Weathers 🕊️🕊️
RIP Carl
The dirtiest tactic was mk1 scorpion, who could never be cornered & could get a life lead only to run away for the rest of the round; both feats accomplished by abuse of his teleport. That & his ultra-high damage combo (t.o.d.) is why he's #3 on the tier list.
I don’t know, I think the scorpion skin makes him easier to keep up with honestly. It’s so dark on that temple stage that it keeps him lit up for me to see. But that’s probably just me lol.
Smoke can chain grab you forever in Deception.
As they say, "If it aint broke dont choose that character or youll get destroyed."
0:05 Street Fighter EX2 Plus ost enjoyer, I see...
RIP Carl weathers
Rip to Carl weathers 🙏🏾
Infrared scorpion doesn't even seem that annoying. Hard to keep track of? How? I can't not see where he is at all times personally
I agree on infrared scorp being hard on the eyea but any stage it hurt. The sky temple was awesome the regular version.
The clsssic Cyrax MK9 trick to get the lame tactics allowed I remember well. Definitely a scummy, try hard thing to do. Ive encountered the deception disconnecting and replugging in trick. Lame Bo players did this to me to try to hit me with the busted Bo OTG bs lol 😅
No way #1 isn’t running away and throwing projectiles 😂😂😂
Great video...I had heard about the cyrax mk3 skin bug, but never in detail psdt: one day we could talk about the error that Smoke's Mk2 skin had in mk9, perhaps in a second part
Carl Weathers RIP
Tanya Mkx marketplace air teleport on the sky background made her impossible for me to see even with monitor adjustments lol
9:09 Lol in MK vs DC to beat The Flash all you have to do is use Scorpion and do “Inner Flames” special move and hold it infinitely and render the flash powerless. Because the flash can’t touch you without getting burnt.
Other cheap tatics:
Mk deception and armageddon:tombstone drop spam is meta in deception and in Armageddon TBD is nerfed but some characters can't deal with this move.
Mk deception: unblockable
throw after knockdown
Mk Armageddon:Kira 44u3 string and ground infinites
Mk armageddon:sub zero impale glitch is unblockable if you are frozen and he is a great turtle character in this mk, millena can also use impale and i heard kitana also have access to this glitch and other characters have access to mkD movements using the jumpover glitch, the most notable being kenshi
Mk Armageddon: sareena dagger throw gameplan basically you are safe as long you can keep distance from your opponent.
MK vs. DCU infinites online still give me Nam flashbacks
just looking at infrared scorpion is giving me a bit of a headache....like when ive been using a torch for too long lol
Surprised to not see injustice doomsday on this list
In *Mortal Kombat* history.
@@StrategicLemon did they change it? Could've sworn it said "In NRS History" when the video dropped
I can think of a few things from mk9 that should be on this list lol my favorite is when people would continuously jump on the other side of you and hit you before landing then jump to the other side and repeat.. if done correctly you would be unable to preform any attacks due to the input switching sides and regular hits being to slow to react.. alot of the higher ranked players in tag matches would do this. Or who could forget Sheeva and her kick jump combo lol but that was easy to counter atleast
The sweep spam
I remember getting hit with the Superman and flash infinite you just reopened so terrible memories
Got my sub
Mk 11 ground ice glitch with sub zero is awful to vs