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The Final MK9 Tier List (No Order)

LEGEND

YES!
Big disagree on Sektor. Maybe hangs around Rain at the end of A tier.

Stryker's safe Armored Roll alone makes him better than Jade and below.
 

haketh

Warrior
Iirc it was mainly that he had a very small hurtbox which for example let him counterpick Kabal and Johnny but he also had big damage and buttons
It was the Fleece being a theoretical counter pick tool because it was such a strong counter to rush down pressure plus size yeah
 

Felipe_Gewehr

Twinktile
he does well against Cage and Kabal lolol

and heres my 5 min tier list with lots of research and no input from others, its all my opinion and my opinion is right
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Id maybe move freddy up a tier, kratos down a tier. If this is ordered, no WAY Reptile is better than Rain and Sektor. Put sektor either at the end of A or first on B tier. Sindel is also better than Quan Chi IMO. Everything else seems perfect.
 

Mikemetroid

Who hired this guy, WTF?
Lead Moderator
Id maybe move freddy up a tier, kratos down a tier. If this is ordered, no WAY Reptile is better than Rain and Sektor. Put sektor either at the end of A or first on B tier. Sindel is also better than Quan Chi IMO. Everything else seems perfect.
Freddy Def goes up, only Kabal / S is ordered
 

Laos_boy

Meow Hoes
I don’t think Sindel was fully represented to her potential. I really wish mk9 was picked back up in the modern day. Most of us were babies to the FGC back in 2011/2013. Players are wiser, have better execution and more fundamentally.

Now that I’m looking more at it, I think all the mid tiers are actually all under explored aside from mileena and Liu. But low tiers are definitely low tier and top tiers are definitely top tier.
 

NHDR

Dojo Trainee
Apart from how broken a few characters are, MK9 is such a solid fighter. I never played it competitively at the time it was active, so its fun to see tier discussions now.
 
I really wish I knew how to work on/navigate PCs or Id be playing MK9 with supe and whoever else that plays. Seeing MK9 tier lists makes me wanna play with others besides my brother when we are both at home
 

x90

Noob
Credit's where due: At least Stryker has armor on his roll for 1 bar and it dodges most projectiles. Kano spends a bar to make his certain special move become 100% unsafe without any armor.
 

Mikemetroid

Who hired this guy, WTF?
Lead Moderator
Credit's where due: At least Stryker has armor on his roll for 1 bar and it dodges most projectiles. Kano spends a bar to make his certain special move become 100% unsafe without any armor.
kano 212 up ball dominated online in 2011 so hard they just had to kill him for it
 

Mikemetroid

Who hired this guy, WTF?
Lead Moderator
I'll have you know that Kano players have improved dramatically. Now instead of 212 upball we do b1b1b1b1b1b1b11choke, followed by d3+exknives. Cage pressure on steroids!
@BlackBryan was a gawd at the b1 stagger lol i 'memba

As a MK9 low tier warrior it warms my heart to see Stryker and Kano discussion in 2024
thats why web forums are fukn badass