 Always great to see you. You bring so much passion to your competitions. How excited are you to be here girl? Very excited. I'm happy to see everybody see all these new characters, new game They're super stoked to be here very happy moment. I'm gonna make the most of it. All right Go and have a seat and get ready. Let's introduce your competitor from Texas currently a free agent SCAR One question SCAR Sonya or Scarlet That's what I want to hear go ahead and take a seat folks We're gonna see this fan favorite from Mortal Kombat 9 make a return with one of the best Players on the planet will give these players a second to double check their button checks see what they need to do in order to Maximize the potential in this game and remember they've only had a couple hours playing this game, but it shows how long They have spent playing previous nether around titles to pick up the intricate Differences we see in the gameplay compared to Mortal Kombat X We'll give them a couple more minutes here as they flip through the menu and set themselves up for success. Gure you ready? Gure is ready scar you ready? Let's do it gentlemen match number two about to begin This one's exciting for me. Well, I'm looking forward to scarlet. I mean she's back But she's very different she might as well be a brand-new care and I am all in on MK 11 scarlet I think she looks amazing Let's talk about this dude right here So you immediately gravitated toward this character You should probably tell everyone why because he's very unique. There's no doubt about it. Yeah, so obviously he's the grappler By the way, some other characters have that too. It's not just him, but Baraka also does have a command grab does have a command grab so so gears has a Really strong command grab that goes really far at corner carries excellent He has some good buttons and man some of his there is the command grab and you see how long he holds you It has a unique property where if he's near a wall, he then makes a sand wall throws you into it It does a lot more damage what happens as well He has a little kind of atrocity sort of semi zoning as you saw right there He also has some crazy stuff in the variations and I'm not sure which ones he ended up with here But he's got some real nutty tools. Let me tell you he has a rewind time move He has a move where he can actually remove time from the clock He is a very unique. It's very he's like a hybrid character of a weird kind of trap character and then with the command grab Yes. Yeah, very very funky design, but these buttons right now at a scarlet the range is incredible Scarlet is the footsies queen the mid-range queen in my opinion She has she uses blood to conjure weapons and they all have excellent range Hold on here Multiple project and there's So when you're down below a certain percentage of light you get access to the fatal blow Yes, and it is a huge amount of damage as you can see around winning damage It is big damage and they have armor and armor is not as prevalent as it has been in previous games You really have to use your bin range to just avoid stuff So the fatal blow is going to be one of the best ways to have armor It is not tied to your stamina bar at all, right? Which means you don't have to use your resources in previous games You'd have to give up all your resources to do an x-ray attack now with fatal blow You're free to use it if you have 30% which just inherently makes them so much more powerful. Sure Yeah, you'll get it in every game every round the catches once it hits you can't use it again So one of the meta the game is going to be decide do you want to make a comeback at round one? Like we just saw girl will never have his fatal blow again now these use oh in the whole game Oh, I thought it was rounds Wow That is really so they are absolute game changers that are extremely strong But you only get the one cash in that was his command grab same one It just and at the wall like bit was saying it's a little bit different He can hold the the button to throw them even further like carry them even further. Oh now the fatal blows there for scar And that's the crushing blow that So the way that one works is the last hits and overhead of the string if you duck block you get the crushing blow He also Has a low where he does sand trap So it's a 50-50 if they think you're gonna do the low sand move they duck And if they get by that overhead they lose 40% of the life because of the crushing blow You're telling me his mix-up his mix-up has a crushing blow But he only can use that once per game, right? So that's one of the fun things about crushing blows. Do you do you want to go for that mix-up now or later? I see okay, and we'll see a Girl basically made a crushing blow and a fatal blow come back right there out of nowhere They did they do massive damage. Yeah, you can really see that I guess is the opponent You really got to pay attention combos in general in this game are Significantly shorter than they've been in the past and they do less damage and They kind of that damage you would get by doing the cinematic moves. Do you see that combo this guy already has? What do we say two hours of gameplay so far? So one of the big things would be to use your crushing blow your fatal blow to get damage instead of doing combos That's that's not to say combos are not still a big part of the game. Yeah, but They're gonna be somewhat less prevalent like there's less moves that combo without using an amplified move But there's less strings that pop you up It's gonna be more about doing big damage and big big chunks. Okay. Here we go Can you get another time now? Yeah, Scarlett she has like four different projectiles, so yeah I know Scarlett's not the reason to do anything else just holding on to the space right here But gotta pay attention to that fatal. Oh, okay Fatal blow was available didn't end up coming up Scarlett is a good example of how the offense works in this game Her back to is that sight move that's an overhead But it does not pop you up and it is unsafe and blocked Okay, but then her back three four that one that can pop you up in the corner So she has a low that can pop you up, but she does not have an overhead Oh, he's really found a good tool. Oh Good job, probably looking for command grab didn't come and scar right back to the zoning You can see like the the frustration is still here One of the things I really love about MK 11 so far is that these characters that you've shown on this character select screen are very different So you have the credible zoning coming out of scarlet from garrus. You have really cool command grab mix ups He's got some other funky stuff as well if we were talking about really good very issues Fatal blow it's there Yes, and then we'll also have characters like sub zero who has great off some of the best offense in this version Which is unique so you typically you think of him as a very slow defensive character I really don't think he is in this one. He's quite different. Yeah, and Sonya's also has really really good mix ups You know girl, he's had a lot of heart as a player Looking pretty confident up there and I'm really glad that girl went with the big body You know he in injustice too as the game progressed He moved away from Bane and the command grab characters he traditionally used so I'm happy to see him back Yeah, I was very happy when I wanted but back there that he immediately had picked gears It really seems good for mm-hmm, and I'm very very hyped to see scar play scarlet One of the fun things about the development of his game since we didn't reveal it You know earlier was sitting there waiting I can't wait to see some of these you know which pro players gonna play which this character And I knew scar was gonna lose his mind because in him came on he came in late And he was the best scarlet in the world at one point, but Injustice came out and he never really got the chance to like get evo top-8 or MLG top-8 even though he was very talented even back So at the beginning of this round, we saw that it said first hit What does that do for you now without meter in the same way there is no more like first hit bonus? Okay, you do not get anything because meter recharges on its own and you always unlike typically you do not You actually start with all four of your bars. Oh ding the combo out of the wake up All right. All right, that's what I'm talking about. Okay, that could have been cool You'll get there. You're does have his fatal blow We'll see though that now at this point though The round is gonna be very hard to win So it might be wise to best save it unless he gets a few hits and then it would kill. Mm-hmm. Wow Just goes for the sweep to seal it. Yeah I really like the mind game of that having to think even as the person using the tool if you should use it Now or you should save it for the next round or what? It's definitely one of my favorite things that we've added to the game Oh, wow, what's the condition on that the condition on that I believe is to counter hits with that move in a row Okay, I was gonna ask what counter hits do but I guess do they they help with that Counter hits are typically used in crushing blows Otherwise they just it just lets you know that you hit a counter hit for a lot of them are tied to that Okay, yeah, and that's the same when you see punish come up that it was a guaranteed punish and a lot of those are crushing blows Like for example that right there if that it hit as a counter it would have got the crushing blow got it Look how long he holds it It's holding them like they're a small child. Yeah, they are compared to that big boy And right back to a range where he can control things he's got good buttons. Maybe not in this match it But typically it seems like that's true. Okay. Okay here. That's the use of the fatal blow. He was about to lose it Not right and that's definitely gonna kill Now again, that means Gerd did steal that round, but you will not have it in the final and scar still has it So that means in the end of game scenario like right there scar will have a huge advantage heading into the spot around I'm hoping to see some forward movement in there. Now those those I'm not sure what to call it It's not puddle that thing you have to aim that right that is not tracking It is not tracking he has close medium and very far and you can see when he amplifies it It's when he gets an hourglass and it's letting you know the other one's gonna come out So you can see what he's girls kind of doing you put it out there then Do other moves walk in walk back and then it's gonna go and scar knows you can't get in Well, we were talking about whether guard girl could make another comeback doesn't seem like he needs it right now It's all on scar now scar does have access to the fatal blow up now It is on a cool down you did not lose it since it was blocked, but it's a significant cool down still available And it just came back. Unfortunately. It's too late So then you do have access to it More than once if it's blocked or with okay once it actually connects. It's used okay Now we've only seen it come up a couple of times, but talk to me about how Rose and throw techs work. Are they the same as in previous Mortal Kombat throws are very reminiscent of MKX You use the opposite button to break them. They have a forward and a back one a lot of crushing blows are actually tied to throw And the requirement will be if they opponent text the wrong way you get the crushing blow and they do Bigly damage like scarlet has one so her throat can do like 30% if you check wrong sick, okay? It's pretty awesome. So as the defender almost riskier to try to attack in some situations. Well That's exactly it and you could actually if you think they're gonna throw do an uppercut because that would trigger the Counter-hitting high attack for the uppercut crushing blow. Wow. All right So it kind of works both ways actually of how risky throws can be interesting. Oh, he had gone for the interactable You can still amplify interactables to get armor. It's one of the few ways that has armor in the game Okay, however normally an interactable takes 50% of your defense if you amplify it to get armor It takes 50% of offense and defense Armor across the board is significantly Lessened than it was in previous games. A lot of characters only have armor on their fatal blow Or a handful of moves So they're both finding pretty good strings right now and making the opponent block a lot Is there anything that they could be doing about that? Yes, one of the new mechanics is flawless block It's if you block an attack the last second within just a couple of frames Chip damage significantly reduced and you actually break out earlier and it allows you to punish things or recover faster than you normally would Okay, it's a very hard mechanic It's it's meant to be kind of you really have mastered the timing and you really know your opponent well But it can save your life like If you're about to die by chip damage, you can save you You also if you reversal a movement false block you have access to your wake-up attacks So the up two or the upgrade it uses your wake-up attacks you can do is a reversal So I'll give you an example Oh after blocking right like if you do some of your slide and I block it if I flawless block I can then reversal up to and get the pop-up attack. Oh Wow Like a great example would be scorpions and hands teleport is safe on block However, if I have the timing if I've mastered if I have sonic fox like reflexes I can flawless block the teleport and I can actually get a punishment normally I cannot okay This is like basically a dead even match. They're both playing their characters Pretty impressive for how little time they've had. Yeah, I feel like they are developing even as we're watching them right now We're seeing some cooler pressure out of both Yeah, they're both mixing up their zoning well and you put it out early like they're they understand their block strings up close Okay, so that was the up three one where she she doesn't really get significant damage or a knockdown It's just more of a get-off me tool and is that safe? It depends on the character. Okay. Yeah Oh And there he went for his temporal advantage move, which is interesting because while it combos he freezes time He cannot two-in-one into it. Hmm. It also takes one of his stamina. That's right There are certain moves or cancels that'll take stamina So it's not like you need to enhance it. It just does that it just does that which is that's why That was an anti-air cheese and the way that move works is the opponent is frozen and doesn't do a reaction So obviously typically an uppercut would knock you away that won't and they are both within fatal blow So this is the scramble. I'm so excited for in tournaments Oh, we saw scar try it, but it was blocked and now he's at match point They're patient right there. I like the anti-air. Why we text it Scar's getting a big combo Now there is a wall run interactable here that Gerr could use and Gerr has never done a wall I've seen a wall run that he hasn't used there. Yeah Gerr is definitely probably the interactable master in the scene. Yeah known to to be one of those. There you go Okay. Yeah armor The tongue not connecting And that tongue is a really really good move. It has really good recovery. It's that's my favorite of rezoning tools Looking good for scar we got fatal blow now for Gerr though. Oh He tried he tried the armor does not activate for a few frames. Okay So while it's very good armor and it's a good tool to have it's not full proof That might be about it. Yeah, it's gonna be it scar takes it Well, that's a really good back-and-forth and I like seeing the display of footsies from both I like seeing the different offense the different timings Very cool. I'm really excited to find out more about you know, how you trigger crushing blows. I think that's a super cool mechanic That is something along with the blocking option that you were talking about that really requires knowing the game in depth Yes crushing blows are definitely a lot of fun to learn the requirements and I've now seen them probably eight million times. I'm still high like every time So some of my pretty sick. I saw some back there. Yeah, like that Baraka aren't one where you just bite your arm And a chunk of flesh comes out man. I was getting hype watch