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As much as I like this series, i have to admit this episode in particular felt a bit rushed. No listing the individual special moves on screen along with an explanation of the move, not a lot of lab footage, and the relativley brief explanations left me feeling a bit dissapointed. I reccomend in the future that you value taking your time with an episode over getting it out as soon as you can. The little things matter, and you should simply take your time with all of the competitive histories. Trust me, we are willing to wait. Have a good day.
Legit. Imagine how beautiful and badass he'd look, like a ninja alucard. He and cyrax have always been my mains and I really need them to be in 12 so i can style on mfs once more.
I want them split up into different characters kinda like how Frost kinda took on the Cyber Sub role. Human Smoke can be, as he calls himself in the MKX story cutscenes, “Enenra,” and cyborg Smoke carries on the Smoke name.
It feels good being a Smoke fan and knowing he's always been a consistently great character to play. MK9 is peak Smoke for me. They absolutely nailed his moveset in that game. Funnest character I've ever played in any MK.
@emilianocarnaya1602 To be honest, I personally don't find Smoke in MK1 nearly as fun to play as he was in MK9 or even MKX with Triborg's Smoke variation. His Smoke Toward/Away and his Smoke Bombs from MK9 & MKX are gone, and that's a HUGE bummer for me because that's what I loved about him. He's not a bad character in MK1 at all. He's just not as fun as to play, IMO.
I have NEVER clicked onto a video so quickly. Smoke has been one of my all-time favorite characters. His design, appearance-wise, is awesome sauce. His offense? Ridiculously high. I loved him in MK3/UMK3 & MK9. Smoke & Reptile were my top five favorite characters in MK9 in particular. The others being Nightwolf, Stryker & Sektor. I'm wondering if he will ever return in the series. Smoke, I mean.
I would love to see a video on Sonya. I find it very interesting how she went from top 1 to bottom tier in Mk11 without major nerfs, just a shift in the meta.
I never played 11 much but I thought she did get hit by major nerfs. 50 health removed, the ex up punch not launching nerfed her damage loads, and increased damage scaling when cancelling amplified energy ring. She was hit pretty hard I think.
Yeah, the health nerf for sure. I just don’t think the damage nerf was a big deal at all, she’s still doing 36% 1 bar midscreen. And her zoning is very good. I ultimately think people realized that it’s almost always worth it to mash on her, because her mids do no damage. And it makes her kinda frustrating to play.
Alongside those changes everyone mentioned when customs were opened up do many characters got boosted by it. Shang Tsung already got good variations but with custom variations his options expanded immensely. Meanwhile Sonya was pigeonholed into her standard one but unlike others it was because it was all she had versus say others where their base meta build was just very competent at covering their needs.
Another character that I've always liked, especially in his Cyborg version. Smoke is truly a cool character and his competitive history fits his coolness factor.
MK9 was really peak for alot of fan favorites. I wish I could get the nostalgia of playing it all over again like if it was my first time. Smoke, the Krypt oni jump scare, the phenomenal story... :)
I’d love to see Jax covered. He’s an iconic character that’s had an impressive history you wouldn’t quite expect from the guy who started off as just a normal dude fighting wizards warlords and ninjas.
I once learned a fake slap for stage fighting that looked just like MK9 Smoke's launcher combo. When I realized it, I showed my instructor how the deadly stage slap won tournaments. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! lol
I really like when these histories include vanilla MK3. It’s obvious that Ultimate is a better, more complete version of the game, but as someone who was there in 1995, it’s difficult to overstate just how mind blowing MK3 was when it was brand new in arcades.
I can remember being at our state fair around 1996 or 1997. I was 13 and was watching these older kids play. Seeing Smoke get unlocked was mind blowing.
Smoke is pretty much my MK9 main. I'm still learning juggling, but he's the easiest character to do it with. His combos are so satisfying to pull off and he is the first character I beat Expert Mode with.
whenever MK9 came out, it took me like a solid year of casual play to master Smoke, The cheer violations I my friends suffered at my hands caused me to have to use randomizer because they thought it was too unfair lol. Core memory right there. (we were like 10-11).
Smoke has always been one my personal favorites both human and cyber ninja the dude was broken from the beginning his sheer character physiology was made just that he’s smoke easily evadable strong Grabs and his fatalities are always standout love this dude
MK9 Smoke is one of the funnest characters ever in an MK game. The resets, the counter-zoning, the fact you could change your gameplan on the fly by being evasive and slippery, he was one of the best redesigns by far.
Robot Smoke was my GUY back in the MK3 days.. One of the best entry characters for a video game of all time.. He had some of the easiest combos.. I remember one of his fatalities being harder to pull off than his combos and launchers.. I ALWAYS introduce Robot Smoke for new players trying to learn the game
I feel lucky to have lived the golden era where me and my friends argue for what game is the best, street fighter or mk? Always prefer mk, playin mk 1 2 3 with arcade machine and love the saga,fall in love with smoke since he was peekin behind the tree in the forest, first time i used the cyborg i immediatly know thet he is my favorite one, still playin mk trilogy with friends and still use him, i have his picture from the ending photo of mk 3 tattooed on my arm. Truly my favorite one, to this day i struggle to compare another characther. Great video💀
MK9 made me absolutely ADORE Smoke. By far my all-time favorite character from the series. I would play Expert Arcade Ladder with him often. Also human Smoke is way cooler than Cyber Smoke.
In my personal play group we considered mk9 smoke to be 2nd best behind kung lao. Kung Lao just seemed to just make things happen through button mashing and we found smoke's kit hard to deal with
oh man another episode of this awesome series! I really hope to see the history of scorpion one day, one of the most iconic characters of video games in general
I would like to see a history of Raiden video. I know he's never been top tier like, ever, but he's vital to the lore and I love playing him for bobbabobbalay!
After watching this video I really want to play as Smoke in MK Armageddon, him being a grappler is kinda cool Unpopular opinion. I do like Smoke's cyber demon appearance in MK Deception/Armageddon. I like the idea of his body being made of actual smoke. In fact, his unused ending in MKD explains why he got that appearance.
Here’s hoping that Storm Collectibles will finally make some awesome action figures in the future based on both Human Smoke (MK Shaolin Monks) and his 3D era version of Cyber Smoke (MK Deception/Armageddon).
MK3 was my first mk and first fighting game when I was like 4 or 5. I played it endlessly trying to unlock smoke and unlocked a fight with him once mashing random buttons on the Kombat code screen. I thought I had to win a certain number or matches or beat the ladder on hard to fully unlock him
It's cool that Shang Tsung can use Ermac's, Smoke's, Reptile's, and Rain's abilities but what was lame is that he couldn't stay in their form like he could with his soul steal move on his opponent, except for Rain now
very nice video! subzero next, please. i always thought subzero is mid or high-mid tier, but not the best in EVERY game. but you said he was high tier in mk3 vanilla and now im interested
@@necefovismayil story wise no since Kuai Liang (younger Sub-Zero) was not in MK1 but his older brother Bi-Han utilizing the title until his death then getting resurrected as a shadow wraith.
Fun Fact. Human Smoke in MK2 had a unique special move unlike any of the other AI only human fighters which was his dash n throw move. It wasn't just the AI running up and throwing you it was an actual secret move coded in the game. If you use hacks to play as him the dash throw breaks the game its so good.
Tri-borg Smoke was my favorite version. I just love the all black and smoke coming off him. Human Smoke is cool, too, but nothing he has will ever top the chest harpoons that allow combo resets to me.
8:30 - 8:34 I just noticed Ketchup is using the GameCube version for footage here; note the training mode control notations. While it lacked online play, the GameCube had bonus characters for its version of Deception. It was the first time you could play as Shao Kahn in a 3d MK.
I played MK9 extremely casually with my friend, I playedd smoke alot and always felt he was on the strong side even in the handds of my dumbass that had no idea what I was doing
Smoke has more identity crisis than Reptile. He has been a ninja, a cyborg and a cyber demon. Edit: Credits for putting music from the OST of Street Fighter EX2 Plus in this video
You should've done MK Trilogy. (N64 in particular) he was a hack because the A I doesn't know that they can't duck under robot smokes spear. They try to duck under it instead of blocking it and it makes beating the ladder easy.
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Great now they're on your videos too -_-
Can you do a vid on Scorpion next please?
We got smoke! I think it's time for Johnny Cage
Can you do liu kang
As much as I like this series, i have to admit this episode in particular felt a bit rushed. No listing the individual special moves on screen along with an explanation of the move, not a lot of lab footage, and the relativley brief explanations left me feeling a bit dissapointed. I reccomend in the future that you value taking your time with an episode over getting it out as soon as you can. The little things matter, and you should simply take your time with all of the competitive histories. Trust me, we are willing to wait. Have a good day.
I still DEMAND Smoke return in MK12. I need that Sub-Zero/Smoke bromance in my ultraviolent fighting game.
Legit. Imagine how beautiful and badass he'd look, like a ninja alucard. He and cyrax have always been my mains and I really need them to be in 12 so i can style on mfs once more.
Nuff said
@@voidkirb5477 agreed
he was my favorite character from mk9
Smoke, Goro, Stryker, Ermac, and Tanya were the only characters that never came back. Not even as revenants.
I really wanna see Human Smoke come back,
Cyber Smoke is cool, but he doesn’t hit the same for me
Cyberization was a cool idea, I hope they let some of the ninjas remain human in the next one
*Thomas Bravada*
@@caiusmadison2996 Tomas Vrbada*
I think I am the only one here who likes Cyber Demon Smoke from MK Deception/Armageddon.
Especially of how he is kinda of a grappler in MKA
I want them split up into different characters kinda like how Frost kinda took on the Cyber Sub role. Human Smoke can be, as he calls himself in the MKX story cutscenes, “Enenra,” and cyborg Smoke carries on the Smoke name.
It feels good being a Smoke fan and knowing he's always been a consistently great character to play. MK9 is peak Smoke for me. They absolutely nailed his moveset in that game. Funnest character I've ever played in any MK.
Is that the game where you could chain smoke bomb drops to an insane degree with meter?
@@nevermorebouquet3681 That's the one!
It makes me like weirdly proud lol good to see my boy smoke crushing humbly.
What do you think about Smoke in Mk1? As a newcomer I'm curious to know your opinion
@emilianocarnaya1602 To be honest, I personally don't find Smoke in MK1 nearly as fun to play as he was in MK9 or even MKX with Triborg's Smoke variation. His Smoke Toward/Away and his Smoke Bombs from MK9 & MKX are gone, and that's a HUGE bummer for me because that's what I loved about him. He's not a bad character in MK1 at all. He's just not as fun as to play, IMO.
I have NEVER clicked onto a video so quickly.
Smoke has been one of my all-time favorite characters. His design, appearance-wise, is awesome sauce. His offense? Ridiculously high. I loved him in MK3/UMK3 & MK9. Smoke & Reptile were my top five favorite characters in MK9 in particular. The others being Nightwolf, Stryker & Sektor.
I'm wondering if he will ever return in the series. Smoke, I mean.
Smoke was definitely a competitive history I was waiting for!
Same here. He is awesome.
@@MrGunmaster64 nice pfp lol
Or make humen skins for the robots
Still wondering 😊
I would love to see a video on Sonya. I find it very interesting how she went from top 1 to bottom tier in Mk11 without major nerfs, just a shift in the meta.
I never played 11 much but I thought she did get hit by major nerfs. 50 health removed, the ex up punch not launching nerfed her damage loads, and increased damage scaling when cancelling amplified energy ring. She was hit pretty hard I think.
Those two little nerfs plus buffs to the rest of the cast totally killed her utility.
Yeah, the health nerf for sure. I just don’t think the damage nerf was a big deal at all, she’s still doing 36% 1 bar midscreen.
And her zoning is very good.
I ultimately think people realized that it’s almost always worth it to mash on her, because her mids do no damage. And it makes her kinda frustrating to play.
Alongside those changes everyone mentioned when customs were opened up do many characters got boosted by it. Shang Tsung already got good variations but with custom variations his options expanded immensely. Meanwhile Sonya was pigeonholed into her standard one but unlike others it was because it was all she had versus say others where their base meta build was just very competent at covering their needs.
@@macht242 Yeah, her customs are so boring. They really should have given her some of her classic moves like military stance and dive kick…
And now he's Top Tier in MK1 😄
Ah, my first serious main in MK9, back when I used to hop between characters like a frog.
"Where there is Smoke, there is fire."
"It would be years until smoke would return after umk3."
Trilogy: am I a joke to you?
Everyone: yes.
Ironic because its one of the best games in the series
Only a casual would say this
@@basedschizophrenic6203 name matches up
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Mk trilogy pc version is rather good
I LOVED MK9 SMOKE cause they gave him his own kit and I love him. I NEED HIM BACK IN 12.
Just wanted to say I love the videos. They always help me unwind.
Shame this video came out before MK1. It's good to see Smoke back in action since MKX
He is garbage in mk1
Another character that I've always liked, especially in his Cyborg version. Smoke is truly a cool character and his competitive history fits his coolness factor.
As a smoke main, this... does put a smile on my face.
Where There Is Smoke,There Is FIIIIRRREEEE!!!!
MK9 was really peak for alot of fan favorites. I wish I could get the nostalgia of playing it all over again like if it was my first time. Smoke, the Krypt oni jump scare, the phenomenal story... :)
The one i wish i could play again is armageddon
Smoke watching NRS switch him from cyborg to human over and over: I'm tired boss.
Still love him regardless though
Not a competitive player, but I really enjoy these series! Hope Liu Kang gets some attention soon!
Smoke certainly had the most identity in MK9.
I'm putting in my vote for Sub-Zero and Kitana to be featured in Competitive History.
I hope to see competitive history of Shang Tsung some day.
I’d love to see Jax covered. He’s an iconic character that’s had an impressive history you wouldn’t quite expect from the guy who started off as just a normal dude fighting wizards warlords and ninjas.
I once learned a fake slap for stage fighting that looked just like MK9 Smoke's launcher combo. When I realized it, I showed my instructor how the deadly stage slap won tournaments. Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! lol
I really like when these histories include vanilla MK3. It’s obvious that Ultimate is a better, more complete version of the game, but as someone who was there in 1995, it’s difficult to overstate just how mind blowing MK3 was when it was brand new in arcades.
I actually liked the 'RUN' button.
I can remember being at our state fair around 1996 or 1997. I was 13 and was watching these older kids play. Seeing Smoke get unlocked was mind blowing.
Smoke is pretty much my MK9 main. I'm still learning juggling, but he's the easiest character to do it with. His combos are so satisfying to pull off and he is the first character I beat Expert Mode with.
whenever MK9 came out, it took me like a solid year of casual play to master Smoke, The cheer violations I my friends suffered at my hands caused me to have to use randomizer because they thought it was too unfair lol. Core memory right there. (we were like 10-11).
I love Smoke's human design in MK9. 🥰
It’ll be interesting to see how he goes in MK1. Either way, I’ll be maining him. My favorite character.
Robot Smoke's Mk3 fatality was his blows up the freaking earth is my favorite.
Smoke has always been one my personal favorites both human and cyber ninja the dude was broken from the beginning his sheer character physiology was made just that he’s smoke easily evadable strong Grabs and his fatalities are always standout love this dude
MK9 Smoke is one of the funnest characters ever in an MK game. The resets, the counter-zoning, the fact you could change your gameplan on the fly by being evasive and slippery, he was one of the best redesigns by far.
Robot Smoke was my GUY back in the MK3 days.. One of the best entry characters for a video game of all time.. He had some of the easiest combos.. I remember one of his fatalities being harder to pull off than his combos and launchers.. I ALWAYS introduce Robot Smoke for new players trying to learn the game
The presentation of Smoke was amazing, a Noble warrior who sacrificed himself for his friend Subzero.
I feel lucky to have lived the golden era where me and my friends argue for what game is the best, street fighter or mk? Always prefer mk, playin mk 1 2 3 with arcade machine and love the saga,fall in love with smoke since he was peekin behind the tree in the forest, first time i used the cyborg i immediatly know thet he is my favorite one, still playin mk trilogy with friends and still use him, i have his picture from the ending photo of mk 3 tattooed on my arm. Truly my favorite one, to this day i struggle to compare another characther. Great video💀
I am excited to see Sindel (and Twindel, I guess...) to get discussed. But for now, I'll take my Czech spider monkey of a ninja.
Welcome back! Hope you had fun at the tournaments. ^^
MK9 made me absolutely ADORE Smoke. By far my all-time favorite character from the series. I would play Expert Arcade Ladder with him often. Also human Smoke is way cooler than Cyber Smoke.
First off, men don't use the word "adore" dude that's literally a female only word...unless.....you have lady parts? 🤔
@@Xander_Park what
@@Xander_Parkget therapy
Smoke and Ermac is all I want in mk12
Been waiting for a Smoke video for ages and you didn't disappoint
I had so much fun playing with Smoke in MK9. Hope to see him again, soon
Thanks for making this! I'm very new to the channel and am loving it. I'd love to see this video with Scorpion!
In my personal play group we considered mk9 smoke to be 2nd best behind kung lao. Kung Lao just seemed to just make things happen through button mashing and we found smoke's kit hard to deal with
Thank you sooo much for this video. I was really looking forward for Smoke’s history on competitive.
oh man another episode of this awesome series! I really hope to see the history of scorpion one day, one of the most iconic characters of video games in general
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Man, MKX is well designed game. Imagine mkx with mk11 graphics...
Mkx still looks great but yeah, mk11 should have built even further on the mk9/X engine instead of making everything slower
The graphics aren't even close to bad. It's made on the same systems for gods sake.
That's literally all I want for the next game
This is the one I've been waiting for 🙌
I would like to see a history of Raiden video. I know he's never been top tier like, ever, but he's vital to the lore and I love playing him for bobbabobbalay!
Love this series please keep em' coming in the future!
After watching this video I really want to play as Smoke in MK Armageddon, him being a grappler is kinda cool
Unpopular opinion.
I do like Smoke's cyber demon appearance in MK Deception/Armageddon.
I like the idea of his body being made of actual smoke.
In fact, his unused ending in MKD explains why he got that appearance.
Here’s hoping that Storm Collectibles will finally make some awesome action figures in the future based on both Human Smoke (MK Shaolin Monks) and his 3D era version of Cyber Smoke (MK Deception/Armageddon).
Oh snap a new competitive history! Christmas came early!
Damn one of the best and most favorite ninjas out there. Thanks for this.
my favorite piece of trivia about Smoke is how JPEGMAFIA sampled his announcer call in Thug Tears
Smoke been my main since I was like 6 years old playing Deception
Been waiting so long for Smoke, he is my favorite 🤍💨💨💨
Human Smoke should come back
If smoke comes back in MK12 I may consider purchasing it.
Great video and very informative. Thank you.
MK3 was my first mk and first fighting game when I was like 4 or 5. I played it endlessly trying to unlock smoke and unlocked a fight with him once mashing random buttons on the Kombat code screen. I thought I had to win a certain number or matches or beat the ladder on hard to fully unlock him
It's cool that Shang Tsung can use Ermac's, Smoke's, Reptile's, and Rain's abilities but what was lame is that he couldn't stay in their form like he could with his soul steal move on his opponent, except for Rain now
15:18 how fitting that the legendary BGC stoner was a Smoke player
very nice video! subzero next, please. i always thought subzero is mid or high-mid tier, but not the best in EVERY game. but you said he was high tier in mk3 vanilla and now im interested
Problem with Subzero is that he is in literally every Mortal Kombat game so the video would take ages to make
Yes finally!!! Smoke is my favourite mk character of all time. He's always been good and fun
I haven't played a MK game in a while but your videos always make me want to play then again
Been waiting for this since the start of the series🔥
I didn’t even buy mk11 on launch because it didn’t have smoke/cyrax. Such a sick character design
Underrated cracked beast always been my favourite character so relieved im not the only one who feels smoke deserves more time in the spotlight
This is a nice suprise!
I use to be a reptile and baraka and smoke main in mk9. It was super fun.
Yesssss! Been waiting for this
I know Kabal will be fun to cover.
ANOTHER COMPETITIVE HISTORY LET'S GO!
Glad you posted another video, I love this history of character series
I knew that the Evo 2022 commentator sounded familiar I didn't think it was really you
You did good at commentating you are fun to listen to
Fun fact: Sub-Zero is the only character who makes an appearance in every mk game
Even Special Forces?
@@tafua_a that is a spinoff
@Charles Hastings I think the only reason why is, he hadn't found a replacement for Daniel Pesina yet and he couldn't unmask Scorpion like he did Sub
@@necefovismayil story wise no since Kuai Liang (younger Sub-Zero) was not in MK1 but his older brother Bi-Han utilizing the title until his death then getting resurrected as a shadow wraith.
@Charles Hastings and that spin off wasn’t exactly praised and had the worst acting ever seen in MK history 😆
Fun Fact. Human Smoke in MK2 had a unique special move unlike any of the other AI only human fighters which was his dash n throw move. It wasn't just the AI running up and throwing you it was an actual secret move coded in the game. If you use hacks to play as him the dash throw breaks the game its so good.
Bonus Smoke Entry: The Cyber Facility in MK11 has 3 Bombs representing a ninja, including Smoke with his bomb from MK9.
Glad to see Smoke has so many fans!
I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE MORE OF US THAT WANTED HUMAN SMOKE, I THOUGHT I WAS A MINORITY
I love this videos. You are the only one who analyze the gameplay and move sets and compare ones to anothers. Please do a Sindel competitive history ♡
I really enjoy this series. Thanks for the great videos.
Tri-borg Smoke was my favorite version. I just love the all black and smoke coming off him. Human Smoke is cool, too, but nothing he has will ever top the chest harpoons that allow combo resets to me.
I always loved smoke, design wise and as a character. I wish he would come back😊
Congratulations 👏
8:30 - 8:34 I just noticed Ketchup is using the GameCube version for footage here; note the training mode control notations.
While it lacked online play, the GameCube had bonus characters for its version of Deception. It was the first time you could play as Shao Kahn in a 3d MK.
I think we're about due to learn the wacky world of Kompetitive Kabal.
I’m not the biggest fan of MK, but you sure make great videos.
Congrats
I hope you do a competitive history of raiden and shang tsung soon.
I want all the ninjas in the next game. My guys and gals deserve it 😪
Smoke was my pick in mk3, mostly because of the spear and teleport upper cut
Smoke is Raiden (mgr) from mortal kombat universe
I was literally waiting for one of these I just check you guys page for new videos
Respect the hair
Would love to see the History of an OGs from Mk1 anyone from the cast tbh
tnx Ketchup for the good stuff! and good job! cheers mate!
I played MK9 extremely casually with my friend, I playedd smoke alot and always felt he was on the strong side even in the handds of my dumbass that had no idea what I was doing
Smoke has more identity crisis than Reptile.
He has been a ninja, a cyborg and a cyber demon.
Edit: Credits for putting music from the OST of Street Fighter EX2 Plus in this video
although ironically he is one of the more consistent character gameplay wise in each game.
He's also my uncle. Lmao jk but that would be funny. Hey uncle smoke 😂
Sounds like he has issues xD
He should've been in the current MK11 Roster in my opinion, I hope he will be in MK12 as a playable Character again..☯️👌
Forgot about Smokes infinite in vanilla MK3 tho
Smoke is fun to play. And that is why he is very popular.
id love to see the history of baraka, love the series
You should've done MK Trilogy. (N64 in particular) he was a hack because the A I doesn't know that they can't duck under robot smokes spear. They try to duck under it instead of blocking it and it makes beating the ladder easy.