Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat

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Arcade Champion

Arcade Champion

Complete Arcade Ladder with All Fighters

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How to unlock the Arcade Champion achievement in Mortal Kombat - Definitive Guide

Fastest way to this achievement:

- First of all, like noted below, you have to complete the Story Mode so you can unlock both Cyber Sub-Zero (chapter 13) and Quan Chi (after completing chapter 16).
- Set the difficulty to Beginner and rounds to ONE.
- Choose TAG LADDER and
- Pick two fighters

BOTH fighters count for this achievement, and thus you cut your time in half for this achievement. It takes roughly 5-6 minutes to get through the ladder on Beginner, and by getting TWO fighters through the ladder at a time, it really makes this less of a grind.

After finishing the ladder with your tag team, it will then show the cut scene of the FIRST fighter you chose but don't worry. They will both register as having beat the arcade ladder (you can even check the Nekropolis to verify)

You can also combine this achievement with:
- "The Grappler" (Perform every fighter's forward and backwards throws)
- "Robots Rule!" (Win Arcade Tag Ladder with robot Sektor and Cyrax)
- "e-X-cellent!" (Successfully land every playable fighter's X-Ray attack)
- "Tag, You're It!" (Perform and land a Tag Combo)
- "Where's The Arcade?" (Complete Arcade Ladder with Any Fighter)
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20 Apr 2011 22:09

17 Comments
You can add that doing this, you can combine with forward/backward throw, fatality and X-rays. Also this can be tracked in Nekropolis (besides throws)
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By on 21 Apr 2011 13:35
Also, you can shorten the time needed by adjusting rounds to win required to be 1 and round time to 30 seconds in the game options. Depending on skill and the final two fights, overall time can be below 4 minutes. But overall, good strategy as stated by ATCS.
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By Shepard of Rot on 21 Apr 2011 15:52
And dont forget that you have to unlock the 2 hidden characters from the story mode :)
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By LMEPHISTO on 22 Apr 2011 03:55
Nice! I was just wondering if both tag team members received the win. Great news!
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By The AuD Doc on 22 Apr 2011 13:18
crap.. i thought of all this already and forgot about the damn throws....... i get to go and use every character for a whole ladder all over again.
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By prokop on 22 Apr 2011 16:00
btw, you unlock Cyber Sub-Zero in chapter 13 with Kabal, not in chapter 12
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By Dancsi27 on 24 Apr 2011 18:39
Thanks everyone for your help!
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By ATCS on 24 Apr 2011 20:31
This method is saving me a lot of time! Thanks, man.
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By LP Tato BR on 10 May 2011 00:18
Comment on "You could add at the bottom that two more achievements can be combined with this, for getting all fatalities, and all babalities" babalities don't work unless the difficulty is set to medium
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By KratosGodslayer on 11 May 2011 19:37
i managed to do babalities on beginner, just make sure you dont block
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By EDB313 on 16 May 2011 23:54
I wasn't sure if my tag ladder matches counted towards the achievement. Good to know that I haven't been wasting time. Thanks!
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By Wyldephang on 06 Jun 2011 08:29
Got a code for the online pass here. Free to a good home. I live in Australia so it doesn't work for me since its technically unavailable.

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By Gnemlock on 13 Jun 2011 12:31
You can create an American, Canadian, whatever account to redeem your code, but looking at the time of your post, it's probably too late.
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By xX jb0x Xx on 09 Jan 2012 20:40
Yes the online pass code is linked to your console not your gamertag, also you should add to the solution description that if you cant finish the game with a character you suck as, put that character as the 2nd one in tag and select 1 that you've already done it with as the first to help you finish it.
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By Stoogiemeister on 06 Feb 2012 08:08
You should do singles as it unlocks the costumes saving you money, though you have excess of that so if there are characters you struggle as they should be done in tag. It doesn't cut the time in half by any stretch as it's still 8 rounds before Shang Tsung and he along with the others have health adjusted for 2 fighters. Though it may feel less grindy progressing through the ladder fewer times it's the same number of fights except the ones I mentioned.
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By Sanada on 10 Aug 2012 05:14
well. i tried singles first but tag is faster. with 30 second rounds it does not matter if shang tsung has more health. it took me 5-7 minutes in tag. thats nearly the same time for single...and why do you wanna save money? i have about 210 challenges left but got already my krypt achievement. and i am still at about 100k gold.

the loading screens take too long so i prefer this method here.
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By DriZzT1987 on 10 Sep 2012 18:53
You're better off doing single ladders, as you can do fatalities, babalities, and stage fatalities while progressing through the ladder. Also it'll help towards My Kung Fu is Stronger.
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By Negative ZZ on 10 Jun 2011 23:08
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Play Tag Ladder so that you unlock the endings for both fighters you use, setting it to beginner difficulty will also make completing these runs a lot easier to complete.

If you're having trouble with Goro/Kintaro and Shao Kahn, maintain distance and spam projectiles at them.

Make a point of it to do forward and backward throws, X-Rays, babalities and fatalities to work on other related trophies.
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05 Apr 2015 15:17

Work your way up Arcade Ladder with all 27 characters including hidden fighters Quan Chi and Cyber Sub-Zero. Set Rounds to 1 in the Options menu and select Beginner after choosing your fighter(s) to make it easier.

If you are struggling to beat the Ladder with a specific character, select Tag Team Ladder and choose the fighter you want the ending for plus your main/favourite character, as this counts as having completed the mode with both characters. You can take advantage of this to speed the achievement up and cut your playthroughs in half.

You can see who you have completed the game with in Nekropolis. If it says "View Ending" then you have completed it with that character.

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You need to keep track of your fighters and finish the ladder with EVERYONE, including the 2 unlockable characters in the story mode. You can set up 1 round and 30 seconds to do it faster AND by playing Tag Ladders; completing 2 arcades ladder in one single road. You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.

Thanks to StOrMtRoOpErMx19 for the video:
YouTube - Mortal Kombat / Arcade Champion Trophy

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This is not that difficult but will take you some time. Just play on Beginner difficulty and set the options to one round and 60 seconds.  Playing Tag Ladders will speed things up, as you can unlock two endings in one run. Beat it 16 times to unlock the endings for all 32 characters. Once you've finished the ladder with the final pair, the trophy will unlock.
 
Note: When playing as Kratos, ensure that he is chosen first on the tag team in order to unlock his alternate costume as it cannot be unlocked through the Krypt.

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To get this trophy faster, we play TAG LADDER. As a result, in the end you will be shown endings for 2 characters (but only one will be shown when you kill Shao Kahn) for whom you played. By completing this trophy you can get the following: FINISH WHAT YOU START!, eX-cellent!, The Grappler.

Tips: in the menu set 1 round to win , and the round time is 30 seconds so that the battle goes faster.

Tactics for fighting Shao Kahn:

As the battle begins, immediately jump BACK from Shao-Khan and do this until he starts laughing or pointing at you, as soon as he starts doing this, approach him and hit him, but only 3-4 blow, because he will hit you further. If you have accumulated X-Ray, then use it at the same moment when he laughs or points at you. So don’t go for the breach, wait for it to become vulnerable.

Or you can spam him with ranged attacks.
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13 May 2012 16:10

With Shao Kahn everything is easier and faster. You go at him, jump over him, he almost always at that moment hits with some kind of long blow, or with a hammer or something like that, and immediately uppercuts him. Again you go at him, jump, uppercut. If Shao Kahn jumps instead of hitting, then you immediately go at him and jump over him and uppercut again. The only glitch happens when he himself does an uppercut with a hammer, then you get hit, but the tactics do not change.
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11 Oct 2012 19:10