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Is it fair to say that the Female Ninjas >> Male Ninjas in MK9?

rev0lver

rev0lver

Come On Die Young
I don't think so. Of the top ones Smoke and Kitana are pretty equal, but Smoke is probably a little better than her. Then Mileena and Reptile are pretty equal, but I'd personally put Reptile above her. Skarlet fits between all of those, but Jade is worse than the rest of the male ninjas.
 
DragonPick

DragonPick

I don't play Runescape
If you wanna average the scores given from BillStickers tier list.

Female Ninjas (Kunoichi): 159.75
Male Ninjas: 150.71

However there are 4 girl ninjas and 7 guy ninjas (not counting Human Cy and Sek) so yeah...
 
L

lebanese boy

Kombatant
its hard 2 answer that question
when female have a top character like kitana
and male have smoke
its kinda even but for me i'd say smoke is better so male ninja win
 
Lumpymoomilk

Lumpymoomilk

Online Punching Bag
DragonPick said:
Funny enough, they are regarded as the best and worst ninjas respectively...
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Well they all take quite a bit of skill to be really good with any of them. Just you can't randomly button mash and fake your way to wins with Jade or Skarlet like you can with Reptile, Scorp, Sub, Smoke, Noob, Ermac. With the guys you can mostly get away with spamming specials and knowing basic combos to get some wins at low level play.
 
DragonPick

DragonPick

I don't play Runescape
Lumpymoomilk said:
Well they all take quite a bit of skill to be really good with any of them. Just you can't randomly button mash and fake your way to wins with Jade or Skarlet like you can with Reptile, Scorp, Sub, Smoke, Noob, Ermac. With the guys you can mostly get away with spamming specials and knowing basic combos to get some wins at low level play.
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Oh I know, I was just mentioning it.
 
Clayman

Clayman

you don't get it, do you?
Female ninjas r better for sure. Male ninjas r all pretty weak. If we don't count cyblax and human sektor, then reptile is the best of them and he's like 10th in the game. Girl ninjas have kitana and skarlet. Jade is weak so what, sub and scorpion r trash characters too.
 
Goldi

Goldi

Warrior
Reptile is a ninja? Noob? Hmm... I always thought of them as monsters lol.

If the only requirement is covering your face, then Kabal is a ninja too. :p
 
CYracks

CYracks

Command Grabber
STB Goldfish said:
Reptile is a ninja? Noob? Hmm... I always thought of them as monsters lol.

If the only requirement is covering your face, then Kabal is a ninja too. :p
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Reptile is a ninja and I think it's pretty safe to say that because he can go invisible. Noob is a ninja because he can meld into the shadows and was formerly know as Bi-Han of the Lin Kuei. Kabal needs a respirator that's why he's wearing a mask. NRS really sucks at drawing female faces that why most of them are probably "ninjas". What really gives the male ninjas an edge over the female ninjas is that they have the Cyber Ninjas: Cyrax, Sektor and Cyber Sub Zero. People are always forgetting Cyber ninjas for some reason.
 
Error

Error

DF2+R2
CYracks said:
Reptile is a ninja and I think it's pretty safe to say that because he can go invisible. Noob is a ninja because he can meld into the shadows and was formerly know as Bi-Han of the Lin Kuei. Kabal needs a respirator that's why he's wearing a mask. NRS really sucks at drawing female faces that why most of them are probably "ninjas". What really gives the male ninjas an edge over the female ninjas is that they have the Cyber Ninjas: Cyrax, Sektor and Cyber Sub Zero. People are always forgetting Cyber ninjas for some reason.
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No, they are ninjas because of MK1-MKT Pallete swap costumes. In MK9 as DragonPick said, only Scorpion is really a ninja, but everyone else is still lumped in as one because of their past look.

 
CYracks

CYracks

Command Grabber
Error said:
No, they are ninjas because of MK1-MKT Pallete swap costumes. In MK9 as DragonPick said, only Scorpion is really a ninja, but everyone else is still lumped in as one because of their past look.

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Scorpion is the only "TRUE" ninja that's correct, but assassins and ninjas are pretty much the same thing in the Mortal Kombat universe. Even Shao Kahn calls the cyborg members of the Lin Que clan "Ninjas" in the MK9 story line.

http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Ninja
 
DragonPick

DragonPick

I don't play Runescape
CYracks said:
Scorpion is the only "TRUE" ninja that's correct, but assassins and ninjas are pretty much the same thing in the Mortal Kombat universe. Even Shao Kahn calls the cyborg members of the Lin Que clan "Ninjas" in the MK9 story line.

http://mortalkombat.wikia.com/wiki/Ninja
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Because Shao Khan doesn't give a fuck about what they really want to call themselves, he's an ass like that. :/

Bi Han (Older Sub-zero and Noob Saibot) has stated many times before how much he hates being grouped in with "Ninjas" like Scorpion. This would go with the rest of the Lin Kuei as well (Smoke, Cyrax, Sektor, Kuai Liang). They are all specialized assassins. They are hired, similarly to Scorpion's ninja clan, to do certain missions, but aren't actually ninjas. More on that in a sec, I want to go over the other characters really quick.

Reptile and Ermac are not assassins, they are high ranked soldiers for Shao Khan's army. Pretty much extremely strong henchmen. His stealth doesn't instantly make him a ninja. Noob Saibot is nothing more than a slave to Quan Chi, in his past life he was Lin Kuei. Now he is a wraith. Rain is... well more difficult.

Rain betrays anyone he can for who ever is stronger at the moment, he really doesn't have a faction outside of his own. He is definitely not an assassin, though. His exact definition is hard to describe, but he isn't a ninja.

The females are a bit more interesting though. Mileena was created for the sole purpose of killing (pretty much) but she also isn't a paid assassin. Same with Skarlet, they are both just very high ranking soldiers for Shao Khan. However, they both come closest in terms of an ninja for the females, yet aren't really there.
Kitana and Jade are pretty much enforcers. All the other high ranking soldiers? They rank higher. Assassins, yes, but not paid assassins, which is important in the definition of a ninja.


Next, that link you gave states that the term is loosely used in the Mortal Kombat universe to group all the ninja garb wearing characters, who dress somewhat similar together because that is a mouthful.


Finally, I want to mention the fact that by all means and definition, the Lin Kuei (early in the history) are pretty similar to a ninja clan. Paid assassins trained to carry out special missions and so on. The biggest difference between them? Heritage. Ninjas are Japanese. They were originally a group created to stop the oppressive Samurai centuries ago. The Lin Kuei has basis in China and Chinese culture, but are worldwide. They're like the Planeteers had sex with the Power Rangers or something (hawt).
Just as it's disrespectful to say a Japanese man is just the same as a Chinese man, it's wrong and disrespectful (yes, to a fictional faction, I know) to compare the Lin Kuei to simple shinobi.



tl;dr
Mileena and Skarlet are the closest things to female ninjas, most other ninjas are soldiers and not actual shinobi, heritage and culture separates the Lin Kuei from being just a ninja faction.

Do I look too far into this stuff? Yes. But it killed some time, so yay.



EDIT: I... just realized I just spit that all up for nothing >_>
 
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