Mortal Kombat 1

The ultimate guide to leveling up character skills in MK1. By far the fastest way to level up your character of all.
The method is suitable both for those who have not entered the Invasion since the beginning of the season, and for those who have already completed it. The second one will be a little easier.

Preparations: To start, you will need level 30. To quickly rise from level 1 to level 30, the Battle with Titan event will quickly help you with this. We go to the Pyramid, take the Reptile, no matter what level, and then kill the Titan Baraka with uppercuts. We repeat this battle 5-6 times, at the same time you will get skins and a very powerful talisman, which we will still need. His loss is questionable; it fell out for me, but not for my friend.
Once you've finished beating Baraka, go to the Wu Shi Academy. The merchant there sells Horns for 3,000 coins, which, when used, give you somewhere between 5-8 levels. You can buy it once every 1 hour. There is a glitch in the game that allows you to reset the timer - go to the system settings on your console and change the time, for example, to 16:59. We go to the Wu Shi Academy, buy an item, wait a minute for the cooldown, buy it again. Then repeat the procedure again, rewind the time BACK (if you rewind the time, the game does not crash), and buy again.

Then the talisman comes into effect. Baraka should drop a talisman called “Battle Horn” at level 30, which you can use just when your character reaches this level 30. If it didn’t fall to you, or you simply didn’t have time for the event, then you will need to kill the main boss of the invasion - Nitara. A key drops from it, which opens previously closed places with level 30 enemies. In such places, and specifically in chests, you will find a more powerful version of this talisman, or other, more powerful ones. For example, in Shang Tsung’s Laboratory you can find the “Wind Protection” talisman with 9 charges, which demolishes any enemy in the Invasion in a matter of seconds. I highly recommend it, even more than the Battle Horn. You can do without a talisman, but in some places it will be very difficult.

The preparations are complete. Once everything is done, you go to the place with the Portals and look for the “Seasonal Tower” there. The trick of this tower is that with each clearing of it, its level increases by 1. With each new level of the tower, each victory over opponents gives more and more experience. Starting from level 34, the amount of experience for victory, flavles and brutality will begin to increase enormously. Closer to tower levels 50-60, you can fully upgrade your character and cameo in a few clearings. The difficulty also increases with each level, so keep that in mind.
Using the previously described glitch, you can go back to the time of the first season and buy as many as 5 artifacts from the collector for the Infinite Talisman. It will greatly help you clear problematic tower levels. To do this, set the date, for example, November 1, go to the Shang Tsung Laboratory, to the top floor and look for the Store there. There are 5 pieces of Divine Talismans in the store. We buy everything for 32k coins, exit the game, set the usual date and go through the seasonal tower. I advise you to stop either at level 58, or 68, or 72, because otherwise it will be very difficult.

Starting from 34 levels of the tower, the amount of experience will increase in huge quantities.

This method in the tower where the level increases when you win no longer works, tested

The current method of farming in Season 3 is now the same as in the first. In the Tarkatan colony, behind the ice barrier, go to the bridge, there is a battle consisting of 3 opponents. Take a relic that consumes a meter instead of a HP bar, make a clear victory and a brutal one at the end. There are no other ways at the moment.

According to method 2 described above: it is not necessary to take Baraka and pump everything into damage. It is much more important to pay attention to the element that the character represents and choose a battle based on this. In this case, enemies will die with 1 hit even without pumping all the points into damage.

For example, I pumped up my cameo blood at the expense of Reptile with absolutely identical characteristics in the battle against Geras, because... the acid element of Reptile counters the physical element of Geras.

Still, I found the fastest way on Reptile in the first world, we still pump level 30 and pump all the points into the attack and kill him with one blow of brutality, on Reptile it is easiest to achieve a perfect victory, which gives more experience, 20-30 minutes per Level 1 cameo goes away.
Video guide (en).

In my opinion, a simpler option with Endurance: in the Tarkatan Colony location, find the Squad Up battle: Endurance with Ashra, Baraka and Sindel. It is simpler in predictable behavior: Ashra either walks straight forward or backwards and waves a sword, which is easy to dodge. Baraka either immediately forwards or throws his blades. Sindel can throw his nasty stuff. In the Triple Threat variant, the blood is greatly spoiled by Geras, who can block an uppercut with stone skin.

There are no problems with Geras, just sit down and wait for him to come and throw an uppercut. Almost the same with the first two, if the enemy comes at you, sit and then wait for the uppercut, if you throw a hat/fan, you need to crouch or jump over. The tip is relevant for Triple Threat.

Hints for leveling up through an invasion no longer work.
New season, the battles are the same, only they are located differently, and now if you repeat a previously completed battle, they give you little experience.
Now you can earn the most experience in “Gates with Portals” - Invasion - Central Map, win with brutals and, if possible, a clean round.

I found the only quick way to level up cameos. Let's go to the campaign>>invasion>>gate with a portal>>seasonal tower. The point is that it consists of dozens of battles, but after each passage its level increases. At the beginning, they will give little experience, but after the 30th, it increases noticeably.



Next, set the talisman to % damage and duration (poisonous puddle or cloud) and press R3 right at the beginning of the battle. At the end we do a fatality or if brutality succeeds, we also try for a clean victory. If you are completely unlucky, you get 1200 experience, if you do brutality + pure victory, then 2000 exp. In fact, I spent two hours leveling up 4 cameos out of 5; the longest was completing the seasonal tower 30 times to reach this level.

Video guide (ru).

Against Geras on Reptile, it is best to use the improved "death spin" ( + ). In this case, his counterattack is successfully ignored and you can safely press through

There are 2 ways to level up
Method 1 is long but easy, we go into the invasion and level up the character to level 20 and look for survival, then we take a cameo and launch it and just stand for 18 seconds and you win, they give you 65 experience, this method takes about 10 hours for one cameo
Method 2 - it is 2 times faster but more difficult, we go into the invasion and upgrade the barracks to level 30, buy a reset of all skills and all skill points and upgrade them to damage, then we go to the village of Fengjian and there we take an enemy of level 2, with the help of opercott the opponents they die in one hit, each time we do the easiest brutality using the down button and triangle, they give 65 for a victory and 55 for brutality and so we Farm, it takes about 5 hours for one cameo

The fastest way as of September 19, 2023 is to get 315 XP in 41 seconds, taking into account the restart of the battle.
Step 1. After receiving invasion level 30, teleport to the “Wu Shi Academy”, go to the store and buy “White Essence of Enenra” and reset the stat points. We select a fighter and invest all the pumping points into “Attack”.
Step 2. Teleport to the “Fengjian Village”, select the 4th battle from the “Triple Threat” portal (battle against three opponents). We kill everyone with an uppercut + . The advantage of this battle is the absence of “Cameo” from the enemy.
HR statistics:
Pobeda 65
Finishing off 55 (Brutality due to an uppercut) or 25 (Fatality, if something went wrong)
Other 195 (Clear victory against three opponents)
Total 315 XP in 41 seconds. The longest thing about this is the restart of the battle (animation).
Video guide (ru).

The problem in the “Triple Threat” with Geras, who can disrupt brutality with armor, is solved if you take a Reptile of the maximum level, put pumping points into a special move (so that there are at least 150 in a special move), and attack with a “deadly rotation” ( ). Then all three fighters will one-shot from a safe distance, + this technique has brutality (immediately after the special move, press ).

The first thing you need to do is find a talisman with armor. We put this armor on, and as a second perk we put an increase in XP. Next, we go to the first world and find that same battle with three characters without cameos. The first character will always be Kung Lao, so as soon as we hear the word FIGHT!, we jump forward, and already in the jump we begin to twist the right stick so that upon landing the armor is immediately activated. You must definitely jump forward, as he either comes at you and performs a combo, or moves back and charges an attack with his hat. In any case, jump, twist the stick, activate the talisman. This is how we ensure ourselves guaranteed Flawless. All three characters are killed with an uppercut. When Geras comes out, you need to wait until he makes a series of blows, or until he makes a move with armor, and only then finish off. In this way, I made 5 cameos in a couple of nights and pumped each Persian to lvl 15, thereby opening up the second fatalities and a bunch of brutals for everyone.