Mortal Kombat X
73 Achievements
1,500
61-82h
Tower Warrior
Complete a Tower with every character
25
0.36%
How to unlock the Tower Warrior achievement in Mortal Kombat X - Definitive Guide
Alternatively you could pair it with the 50 living towers achievement and just use a different character each time you do a living tower. Takes longer but you essentially kill two birds with one stone.
Complete a Tower with every character
Hello all, and welcome to my first guide for MKX!
My guide is to highlight the most efficient way to earn this achievement. Not the easiest, not the fastest - but the way that will result in you earning not only this achievement, but many many others as well. So, let's get started:
Do not even begin working on this achievement until you have unlocked:
To unlock the Tower Warrior achievement, you MUST complete a tower with EVERY character. This includes Shinnok, who can only be unlocked via completing story mode. So, if you have already beaten this with all of the other characters and have not gotten your achievement, this is likely why. Having completed story mode is a pre-requisite for this achievement so you might as well take care of it before getting started at all. (DLC characters - Goro and any others to come - are not required for this achievement)
Which towers should I play for this?
There is only one answer to this question from an efficiency standpoint: Living Towers. There are multiple Living Towers up at any given time, and each tower has different rules and modifiers that will impact your gameplay. For me, whatever variation of the Daily Tower is currently up is the one that I play on because it only has 5 opponents, while the other towers have 6+. But, the reason you choose Living Towers is to work towards:
If you are trying to 100% this game, and I assume everyone is, do not waste time completing any other type of tower when these two achievements REQUIRE you to complete 50 of the Living Towers. There are 24 characters required to complete this achievement, so you will be nearly halfway to the Tower God achievement just by working on this one. TL;DR - PLAY LIVING TOWERS!
FINISH HIM!
What is the best part of Mortal Kombat? Fatalities, Brutalities, and X-Rays of course! And for that reason, there are Fatality, Brutality, and X-Ray achievements!
The Finish Him, Bloody Good Time, Brutal End and Need a Doctor achievements should easily be attainable. For the Straight Power and Dark Future achievements, you should be able to complete one or the other OR gain significant progression on both. There are 24 characters, the Daily Living Tower has 5 matches - resulting in 120 match victories - SO you could do 100 Fatalities and 20 Brutalities, or 50 Brutalities and 70 Fatalities, or any other combination you desire. Just make sure you either win with a Brutality or successfully execute a Fatality in every match.
Other achievements you SHOULD earn while working on this one, if you do not already have
Other achievements you COULD earn while working on this one, if you make a conscious effort to do them
Other achievements you WILL NOT necessarily earn while working on this one, but will gain significant progression on
The one achievement you can earn ONLY by playing the Premier Living Tower
SOOO that is it. I am not discussing speed here. I am not discussing ease of completion. We are talking efficiency. By playing Living Towers to work towards this achievement, you are going to walk away with SO MUCH MORE than if you were to just do a two-hour grind in some other Tower mode. This IS the best way to earn this achievement, because in so doing you are going to earn 10+ other achievements.
If I messed anything up, misstated anything, or am just plain wrong, let me know in the comments BEFORE you downvote so I can try to correct any glaring errors.
Good luck and happy hunting!
Kung Lao - Variation Wins (Hat Trick, Tempest, Buzz Saw) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Jax - Variation Wins (Wrestler, Heavy Weapons, Pumped Up) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Sonya Blade - Variation Wins (Special Forces, Covert Ops, Demolition) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Kenshi - Variation Wins (Kenjutsu, Balanced, Possessed) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Kitana - Variation Wins (Mournful, Royal Storm, Assassin) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Scorpion - Variation Wins (Inferno, Ninjutsu, Hellfire) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Sub-Zero - Variation Wins (Grandmaster, Cryomancer, Unbreakable) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Mileena - Variation Wins (Ravenous, Piercing, Ethereal) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Takeda - Variation Wins (Ronin, Shirai Ryu, Lasher) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Cassie Cage - Variation Wins (Spec Ops, Hollywood, Brawler) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Jacqui Briggs - Variation Wins (High Tech, Shotgun, Full Auto) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Kung Jin - Variation Wins (Shaolin, Ancestral, Bojutsu) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Shinnok - Variation Wins (Necromancer, Impostor, Bone Shaper) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Kano - Variation Wins (Commando, Cutthroat, Cybernetic) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Johnny Cage - Variation Wins (A-List, Fisticuffs, Stunt Double) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Erron Black - Variation Wins (Marksman, Gunslinger, Outlaw) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Liu Kang - Variation Wins (Dualist, Flame Fist, Dragon’s Fire) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Ermac - Variation Wins (Spectral, Mystic, Master of Souls) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Kotal Kahn - Variation Wins (Sun God, Blood God, War God) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Reptile - Variation Wins (Noxious, Deceptive, Nimble) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Ferra/Torr - Variation Wins (Lackey, Ruthless, Vicious) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
D’Vorah - Variation Wins (Venomous, Brood Mother, Swarm Queen) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Raiden - Variation Wins (Master of Storms, Thunder God, Displacer) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
Quan Chi - Variation Wins (Summoner, Sorcerer, Warlock) / X-Ray / Fatality / 10-hit Combo / Tower
The fastest way to get though this is to play Endless tower, win a match, then walk away while the CPU defeats you. This technically counts as completing a tower.
BONUS! 10 Living towers gets you Dark Empress Kitana
BONUS! Winning 15 matches in a single Endless Tower run on endless tower wins you Kahnum Mileena
Offline:
- Traditional Towers (5)
- Tower Challenges
- Living Towers (3)
- Tower Battles
- Invasion Towers
- War Towers
The shortest Tower to complete is War Tower with only 2 opponents and 1 Test Your Might level, but that mode needs to be unlocked first to gain access to it. Another option is Test your Might Tower (Offline), but you need a strong arm to keep smashing buttons for a few hours.
If you love your arm and you are looking for another option, you should focus on the Hourly Tower located in the Living Towers which has only 5 opponents and you can work with Tower God trophy at the same time.
Keep track off all your characters so you don’t repeat a tower with the same player by mistake.
You can download the Full PDF Checklist Here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JxE1i-G2A
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If you are after all the trophies however the most efficient method would be to use each character as you play through 50 Living Towers, netting your yourself:
NOTE: DLC characters are not required, though make sure you have Shinnok unlocked.
There are five varieties of towers. These are:
- Traditional Towers
- Tower Challenges
- Living Towers
- Tower Battles
- Invasion Towers
You will need to complete any of these tower's with every available fighter, including Shinnok. I recommend unlocking this achievement using the hourly Living Towers. These Living Towers only have five opponents each and using them will have the added benefit of working towards your "Tower God" and "The Kollector" achievements.
As you play through each tower you should also work towards the "Need a Doctor", "Bloody Good Time", "Well Rounded" and "Master" achievements by performing each fighters x-ray move, at least one Fatality and winning a fight with each character variation. To change your character variation you need to hit and select Switch Character, this will take you back to the fighter select screen but will keep your tower progress. After the first fight using variation 1, switch to variation 2 for the second fight then switch to variation 3 for the third fight and complete the tower.
Remember to keep track of your progress using the checklist (PDF, Numbers, Excel).
Alternatively, if you just want to get this out of the way, you an load up the Survival Tower then purposely lose the first fight. This will count as a tower completed so just load up the next fighter, rinse and repeat until the achievement is unlocked.