#1164

Gameplay of the boss Boss Johnny Cage in Midway/Netherrealm’s Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks.
Boss Johnny Cage’s moves:
• Square: Jeet Kune Do smash
• Triangle: Axe Kick [Infinite]
• Circle: Projectile
• R1+Square: [Same as Square]
• R1+Triangle: [Same as Triangle]
• R1+Circle: [Same as Circle]
• Square+Triangle: Rising Shadow Uppercut
• Triangle+Circle: Shadow Kick
• Circle+Square: Push and Uppercut [Instant Kill!]
• R2: Turn invisible
Johnny here is a weird one. For a start, he has an R2 attack where he turns invisible. Very few of the bosses have R2 moves from what I’ve seen, but I’ll note down any that do. Secondly, his R1 attacks are the exact same as his regular ones. These include a relatively useless Jeet Kune Do esque smash attack, a brilliant axe kick attack which can be used to infinite, and his trademark projectile attack which is pretty difficult to use. He also has access to his shadow uppercut and shadow kick attacks, which both look awesome and come out incredibly quickly, and the uppercut variant can even be comboed into from the axe kick.
I have to address the elephant in the room however and acknowledge that Johnny, like Boss Sub-Zero, also has an instant-kill attack. It has much worse range, but the animation is much quicker, and so Johnny can easily decimate a group of opponents within mere seconds. Stunning opponents with a projectile can be a good means of set up to pull off this move, so Johnny’s other attacks are certainly useful.
On the whole, despite being more limited than the other bosses Johnny is still brilliant, and I’d be intrigued to see if a playthrough is possible with him as well.
Up next, another video on the original hidden character.

[@kaihedgie1747]

He turns invisible because it's part of Shang Tsung's scripting as he's suppose to morph into Johnny Cage and back again.
And...mebbe a bit off topic but what do you think of the Movie Skins for MK11 that dropped this week

[@AdmiralMcFish]

Ah, now that makes sense, thanks. Couldn't quite figure it out, out of context for whatever reason.
And the movie skins look awesome, it's great to see them playing tribute to (possibly) the only good video game movie adaptation. Wouldn't mind if they did a few more, certainly.

[@kiek1310]

So is Boss Johnny Cage a cut boss variant?
Or does Young Shang Tsung actually has Johnny in the file but the AI scripts sets the chance of morphing into him to 0?

[@AdmiralMcFish]

I think it's the former, but I can't quite recall.

[@XyzChipher1234]

How can I play with Johnny

[@AdmiralMcFish]

Are you playing on console or on an emulator?

[@Lynx38284]

@@AdmiralMcFish Dude help me I can't transform it into liu kang to pass some things when I press down +L2 or up +L2 it doesn't work help me please I already put the player 1 and player 2 code but it doesn't work there's no way I can reset with the bosses if you don't turn me into liu kang :(

[@Patrickduffy7676]

Does the instant kill move work against bosses?

[@AdmiralMcFish]

I actually don't know; might do a livestream around Christmas where I actually try to test it out.