I've never thought Jax is in top 10http://www.themortalkombat.com/leaderboards?inputLinkPlatform=ps3&inputLeaderboardType=overall_favorite_character&inputPageNumber=1
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It's Scorpion by a landslide, the Raiden and Liu Kang numbers are spiked cause of the many ppl that take 99,999 tries to beat Shao Kahn in story mode.
Yeah, it definitely seems to come and go in waves, especially after patches. I fight significantly fewer Kung Laos and Cyraxes post patch. I also rarely fight Scorpion, but I tend to only look for players with good records, so it could be that only the new players use him. Honestly, this game seems to have a pretty good mix of characters that get used, with probably only a handful of exceptions (Sheeva, Stryker, Sonya, etc).there have been different phases of popular characters... first it was all scorpion and smoke, then TONS of ermacs, then a bunch of raidens, then kung laos, then kanos... reptiles...
i still see a lot of smoke and ermacs... but other than that i get a pretty good mix (besides the skarlet and kenshi weeks)
Same thing for meIn my experience online :
1) Scorpion
2) Smoke
3) Ermac
4) Sub Zero
5) Noob
6) Kung Lao
Funnily enough, the Jax players I've come across and had good games with have very good win/loss ratios just because there are so few noobs playing Jax. Raiden's can be a mixed bag. Even the ones with good win/loss ratios can really suck against ssomebody who knows how to handle the matchup, to be honest, because so many online Raiden's have one way of playing and that's it. Online Raiden's and Scorpion's leave the game when they're getting beat far more than most others, in my experience.The tragedy here is everyone says Scorpion, but everyone also says they all suck.
For players with very high win ratios, it's Raiden by a long shot.
Smoke would be the middle ground between those two.
I know Stryker is the least popular , as I've only run into 2 my whole life.