Mortal Kombat 1

Mortal Kombat 1

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Buddy System

Buddy System

Komplete Mastery With 1 Kameo Character

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7.23%

How to unlock the Buddy System achievement in Mortal Kombat 1 - Definitive Guide

*Updated to include the fantastic solution by dante2236 and Kaiologyy*

There are couple of ways to speed this up but this and the 5 masteries achievement remain a significant grind and what you will spend your majority of time with the game doing.

Before working on this achievement, complete Invasion mode. This will get you a bunch of achievements, as well as most of the XP needed for at least one Kameo mastery, depending on how much you explore every map versus running straight for the boss. Your invasion level should also be at or above level 20.

Active Method
This is quicker but requires more active attention.

Step 1: Travel to the shop in Feijing village and go right once to find the match Triple Threat (You can use any Endurance match but I like this one because of how close it is).

Step 2: Fight the match and finish with a Brutality. If you trigger"Finish Them," finish with a fatality.

If you're at Invasion level 20 or above, each of your opponents should die in one uppercut, but this could vary depending on your character's element. You can respec and put all your points into Attack if you want to ensure it's one uppercut only.

If you can get a flawless victory, this doubles your victory XP for the match. This is reasonably easy to achieve on the characters weakest against you at this level but can sometimes be messed up depending on what the AI decides to do.

If you're struggling, you can make it easier by using a magic armour consumable or an amulet that gives you magic armour. (This isn't guaranteed as they can attack you while you're activating the amulet, and consumables need to purchased and aren't always for sale).

Step 3: Repeat until your Kameo character hits level 15, which will unlock the achievement.

Passive Method
This is a lot slower but requires little input from you, allowing you to just tap the A button from time to time while you're doing something else. If you have a turbo controller this method can be fully idled.

Step 1: Find a Survival match on an invasion board. There's usually at least 1-2 of these on each invasion board, and require you to dodge obstacles for a period of time.

Step 2: Start the match. You can leave your character alone, at this level even if you're hit by every single projectile you'll likely still be nearly full health. The match will end and you will receive a small amount of XP.

Step 3: Repeat. On a turbo controller, leave A on, otherwise just keep tapping A for the match and XP to repeat themselves.

The above methods will also work for the 5 character mastery.
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18 Sep 2023 04:13

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How long would the survival method take? I assume hours and hours and hours, no?
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By jordbrett84 on 18 Sep 2023 17:51
Does anyone know how many hours it takes to max out mastery for a kameo using the triple threat method? Just looking to work out how big the grind is. Thanks.
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By Warlord Ethan on 18 Sep 2023 21:34
I did one kameo character in about 2-3 hours last night using the triple threat method.
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By FishInBlack on 18 Sep 2023 21:45
That's decent then! Thanks for getting back to me so quick mate! :)
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By Warlord Ethan on 18 Sep 2023 21:49
The game crashes too often for the turbo controller atm. I woke up half way through the story.
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By Fuzzmeister J on 21 Sep 2023 11:55
Turbo controller method is pathetic.
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By Shik on 23 Sep 2023 17:07
Did anyone else not get this achievement? Just got Shujinko to level 15 and nothing.

Edit: restarted my game twice and got it to pop after Idling for a while.
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By SettlingCrib503 on 24 Sep 2023 01:43
The turbo method would fail as soon as a secret fight appeared.
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By Five0hTree on 25 Sep 2023 09:10
You need 60000 XP to max out one kameo character. Earning 315 XP per match means you need to repeat the grind around 191 times assuming you never miss a flawless match win.

I made this thread on Reddit which has the table with the XP breakdown for a main and a kameo... https://www.reddit.com/r/MortalKombat/comments/16vznlu/chara...
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By C1utch A5h on 03 Oct 2023 12:08
I can hardly do brutality with Liu Kang on last guy. It just goes straight to finish him wtf
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By Konquerer Don on 29 Oct 2023 13:02
Any word on s2
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By Vegovas on 09 Nov 2023 02:31
Took me about 55 hours of random play for me to unlock this legit or farming a hot spot.

I’ll take the last achievement slow maybe do a new kameo each season unless a fatty spot opens up in Season 3 to farm.
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By Shik on 08 Dec 2023 21:29
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I pumped it up as follows: I pumped up the level of invasions to the maximum (level 30) and invested all the pumping points into damage. Further, during all the same invasions, he went to the very first world and simply repeated the same battle, doing brutality. (enemies died with 1 hit).

Thus, leveling up the last level of Cameo took me 30 minutes
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17 Sep 2023 16:24