Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection

Unfortunately the three completion achievements have the possibility of not unlocking. There's no rhyme or reason to it.

So, UMK3. I started with Sektor (who I used to get the animality achv) but used Scorpion for the regular fighters. I was on 'Very Easy' in the settings and picked the Novice tower.

Method: Jump in and spam the HP button for a quick and easy combo. Use your spear/uppercut/jump in/spam HP for more success. It worked for me most of the time but isn't a sure thing.

Motaro seems very vulnerable to jumping kicks. I managed to beat him first go with those and I can't emphasise enough that I'm pretty average at this game.

Shao Kahn is a prick. My tactic, which works eventually, is to jump back to the left side of the screen asap and then crouch WITHOUT blocking. He'll do one of four things.

Hammer: if it hits you, get ready to lose.
Projectile: should go straight over your head. It'll hit blocks tho. So don't do them.
Flying knee: UPPERCUT THAT BASTARD
Shoulder charge: eat a chunk of damage and then uppercut that bastard.

If he mainly does knees, you're lucky. Congrats on the win.

If he mainly does shoulder charges, he'll do more damage than you so you might need to jump in and attack. He's susceptible to the occasional flying kick.


QUICK NOTE: I beat Shao Kahn as Kano (who I believe does more damage than other characters) and the achv still popped.

Alot of people have different tactics to figuring this game out but i use the same one every time. All you need to do is win, then lose, then win, then lose, then win. The game scales its difficulty depending on how many characters you beat. For example, if you win 5 straight rounds, it will be impossible to beat the endurance round, but if you win round one, then lose, then win, then lose, then win, you should have no problem getting to Kahn.

Kahn is simple if you use unmasked sub zero and keep freezing, then uppercutting. If you miss or he blocks immediately jump backwards and freeze again. Timing takes practice, but i can beat him my first try this way and i just beat the whole ladder in under 20 mins.

To make things easier on yourself, set the difficulty to "Very Easy" and play the Novice ladder.
The easiest way to make it through Mortal Kombat 3 is to use a character that immobilizes enemies and sets them up for a larger hit. I suggest working through the lower ranks with Sub-Zero or Scorpion.
With Sub-Zero, you basically just freeze everyone then try to get in close and do either an uppercut or a combo.
With Scorpion, you should use his grappling spear and uppercut combination.
If you find yourself dying a lot on an enemy, just keep trying as they randomly become super easy.
For Motaro constantly jump over him and punch him a few times with the X, then repeat. If he starts to block that, make him chase after you and hit him with jump kicks, but concentrate most of the fight on jumping over him and punching, as that will stop most of his moves. Motaro is impervious to projectile attacks.
For Shao Kahn, use Scorpion. Block or duck under his first attack, then use the spear and uppercut combo. Once you've hit him with that, run (LB) and hit him twice with the A punch. Then spear and uppercut him.
Continue to run, double punch, spear, and uppercut for the rest of the match. You should beat him within a few tries like this.
As of this writing, the game is glitched, and the achievement may not pop on the first playthrough. I did three playthroughs before mine popped. The achievement will pop as soon as you do the winning hit on Shao Kahn.

Before starting you should turn the difficulty down to very easy. I personally haven’t noticed any difference in any of the difficulties, but it allows you yo play the novice ladder which has the least combatants.

It is also worth noting that this achievement is glitched and may not always unlock. I beat the entire ladder and the achievement failed to unlock. There is a patch on the way though.


Kitana – For this fight I chose Scorpion. As soon as the fight begun I used his spear attack (Away, Away, A) and then used the uppercut attack (Down + X) while she was stunned. Keep spamming this attack and you will kill them in no time at all. If you want to you can also jump kick her while she is getting up to do some more damage, but sometimes it can go wrong.
If you time this perfectly then you can catch them with the spear as soon as they get back onto their feet, so they will not be able to do any damage to you.


Smoke - For this I used exactly the same method I used to defeat Kitana.
One thing to look out for though is Smoke’s teleport attack. Both of the times I fought him he spammed this attack. This is why you should try to time your spear attack perfectly, so he won’t be able to get a chance to attack you. If he does this attack though, jump away and try to hit him quickly with the spear attack.

Liu Kang – Use the same method I used for the other two, but I recommend jump-kicking him after you use the uppercut. You want to try and kill him quickly because the AI will use a low fireball every time you use a spear attack if you use the spear too much.


Jade – For this fight I had to use Sub-Zero. As soon as the round starts use the freeze attack (Down, Forwards + A) and then used the uppercut attack. After that I jumped as for back away from her as I could get and then repeated.
It’s worth noting that trying to get in a jump kick as she is getting back up is a bad idea. If she does start attacking you then jump away from her has far as possible and resume with the freeze, uppercut combo.


Sheeva – This one was a little trickier. I was able to do this with Sub-Zero, but I couldn’t rely on the same method that I used for Jade. Most fo the time I tried to use a projectile attack from various characters she used the stop attack (I don’t know the real name of the attack.), so found a technique that works most of the time, but only just.
II started by jumping back and getting a good distance from her. When she was standing still I kept using a jump-kick and when she blocked the kick I used a sweep and then jumped backwards again. I was sometimes able to get in a freeze attack so I could uppercut and jump kick her, but I only did it once each round before she started using the stop attack on me.


Endurance (Liu Kang & Smoke)
Liu Kang – Simple enough, I just used the same method I used to beat him last time.
Smoke – This one can be little more difficult. Sometimes Smoke would keep using the teleport attack every time I used my spear, but other times the spear would hit him every time.
If he keeps teleporting just let him kill you and restart the fight until you can keep landing successful spear attacks.


Motaro – This one will require practice because Motaro is immune to Scorpion’s spear attack and Sub-Zero’s freeze attack.
Anyway, the character that I chose for this fight was Shang Tsung. I just kept using jump kicks and uppercuts when I could. Don’t try to get in too many attacks too quick, because if he blocks your attack he will take a good 1/3 of your health away. As I said before though, the key to beating this is practice and patience.


Shao Kahn – This one was so annoying I had to use the internet for help. The video below perfectly explains how I did it.

I just beat the other umk3 like twenty minutes ago and this is how I beat motoro and shao Khan .

For shao Khan pick any character I prefer kitana ( I think she's faster ) at the beginning of the fight walk backwards if he slides you upper cut him if he throws a fire duck put keep going back . If you can get him with an upper cut you can get him stuck in a loop of you uppercuting him and sprinting at him and uppercuting him again keep doing this I beat him in less than five trys like this.

For motaro I followed this guide I didn't film it .
How ever what I did was jump him throw a high punch combo jump him and kept doing that I beat him second try with Sonya I meant to use reptile but my stick jumped .

I tried pretty much every tactic listed against Shao Khan but just could not do it, then I found the following tactic posted by MurdaMessiah666 over at x360a and it works perfectly.

- Use Liu Kang.
- Throw low fireballs (F,F,A) until he jumps at you (which he will almost always do with the first fireball but be ready to toss another one in case he doesn't).
- Immediately uppercut and hope he doesn't block it.
- Toss another fireball right away, even if he hasn't even properly landed yet. The cheating bastard will still dodge it by jumping over it, even if he's supposed to be down for a bit.

Repeat this over and over until he goes down. It'll take a few tries because of all the variables, but I feel like this is the most low-effort and least frustrating way to do it.

After waisting 3 hours trying every other strategys, i found Another way to béat shao khan.
Use smoke, try to go the left corner (i dont know why but he seems a bit less agressive when you're in the left corner) and use his kunai/spear move (back, back, lp) and uppercut him right after (down, HP) then repeat thé sequence.
If he blocks you in the corner, uppercut him.
With some luck, you'll counter him like that 1or 2 times in the match.
And again with some luck, he won't spam you with fireballs, the kunai move gives a good counter against shao khan's ground charging move but not against fireballs.
And if he does the air charging move, block it then uppercut him.
This strategy worked for but that dont means it's the easiest, if you négative vote, explain why.
Hope this helps, good luck everyone and when you'll sée shao khan, uppercut his ass for me ;)