l SuGaR l said:
Actually since Raiden didn't do MK2 damage he was pretty balanced and would probably be somewhere in upper tier ranks. Baraka however did MK2 damage which I don't even have to explain, but I will. More or less one combo could kill you.
And even if you dont know a good Baraka combo, you can always do blade spin, blade spin, HK or something which is super easy, very easy to get with the tiny startup time of the blade spin, can be done anywhere on screen, and does damage in the 60%s (dont remember an exact amount, its been a long time).
Baraka would be a mess.
But, if they were simply balanced correctly they'd be fine. Unfortunately, as we can see from Trilogy, whatever knowledge they had of balancing a game went out the door after UMK3.