It wasn't 25 years though. Mileena ruled as Kahn for approximately 17 years. At the time of Mortal Kombat X's main story, Kotal has only been in power for about 4 years.
It's the game itself that presents him as an overconfident rookie who fucks up in training exercises and then have him beat a rival to Shao Kahn which has supposedly many battles and experiences under his belt - as also beating and dismembering former MK champions.
The game shows him as an overconfident rookie who screws up a training exercise in which teamwork is needed where he did not function as part of a team.
You're not though. You're skewing the lore to what you want instead of looking at the lore objectively.
While not my first choice, I actually wouldn't be opposed to this.
Nightmarish scenario, pls no
Kotal was ultimately not on the same level. Kotal disappointed Shao so much that Shao gave him to Shang to experiment on in his Flesh Pits.
This is the only fight in the entire modern trilogy, with how it was presented, that I find unbelievable.
Why Kung Lao beats Shao Kahn but Kitana's win is the worst?
Curious: when does Lao fight, and defeat, Shao in the modern trilogy? Am I completely forgetting that battle?
You are right. I thought Lao beaten him first before the neck snap.
Ah. No, that was Kintaro he defeated.
Your points are valid, I think there are more to add.
Good points as well.Your points are valid, I think there are more to add.
Aside from skill, being 10k years old adds a lotnof experience, plus the edenians come from the gods and have magic powers etc etc.
Of course Shao has all of these privileges too, i just want to point that she is downplayed a lot for this win while she is one of the most powerful of the whole cast. (At least in the non - god category)
As you said she stepped confident into the fight, while Shao isn't clearly at his golden era. He just got the throne after a time soup in an already unstable Era for outworld. You get what I mean. He had a bad day.
Oh, I'm not skewing anything, trust me, the game skews its own lore just fine by itself. The truth of the matter is that power levels at NRS story modes are, quite literally, bullshit. There is literally no logic in the victories other than 'the character you play as simply beats any opponent we throw at you'.
Swallow writing at its finest.They clearly didnt know what character they wanted Kotal to be.
Yes. The marvelification and the need of relatable characters in story modes, are probably responsible for that i think.
Are we so bored we're going to be power scaling like 12 year olds reading One Piece now
Because Kung Lao DOESN'T beat SK. Where did you get this from?
You are though. You claim to go by the lore one post, and then dump on it the next. It's hard to trust you when you've demonstrated you're not keen on keeping your own reasoning straight.
He didn't defeat Sindel or Liu Kang, he defeated Revenant Sindel and Liu Kang. That's a huge difference as the Revenant's have been shown time and time again to not be on par with their living selves. This is further demonstrated in Mortal Kombat 11 with their past living selves constantly defeating their revenant counterparts.
Yes, that's the formula.
The fights they arrange actually do, you simply don't like them. What happens and what you like/want to happen are two different things.
In this fight she's completely frazzled, betrayed, and desperate. That's very different than when she confidently walked into the Kolloseum to take him on. Setting and situation do make a difference.
You don't though, you take it for what you want.
It means Jin is capable of beating Kotal, whether you want to acknowledge this or not.
I doubt we'd see that fight. If they ever had Jin fight Onaga and win, they'd power up Jin some what like they did with Jax/Jacui against Cetrion.
This is his character though, and why he's so "human." Kotal is a mess, and he causes most of his own problems or finds himself in situations beyond him and makes things worse.
He mis-remembered Lao's fight against Kintaro, as he mentions in a post above.
Yeah i was mistaken. its a decade+ from mk9
