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Pit Master

Pit Master

Discover and fight Hidden Kombatant 3 in Arcade Ladder

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How to unlock the Pit Master achievement in Mortal Kombat - Definitive Guide

This achievement is "Pit Master" - "Discover and fight Hidden Kombatant 3 in Arcade Ladder" for facing Klassic Reptile in the Ladder mode. What you have to do is play on The Pit (The night-time version, with the moon) and get a double flawless and finish the match with a stage fatality. Aaand you have to see Santa or the Witch fly across the screen in front of the moon.

To make things easier I'd suggest playing on Beginner and constantly quit to main menu and start a new ladder until the first fight is on The Pit. Then, wait a few seconds, up to ten I'd say, to see if either shadow flies across, they don't appear immediately. If they don't, hit start and go to player select and pick your character again. It will load the same fight on the same level. This should also work if you mess up getting flawless. Make sure to keep the rounds set to 2, if you change it to 1 it will not work! (credit to swordfischer for confirming this)

You don't need to beat him, the achievement unlocks at the beginning of the fight. Which is good because this version of Reptile has Sub-Zero's freeze powers and Scorpion's spear in addition to his regular acidy move-set. But it is worth it to try, I lost the first round and got 1000 koins, then got 5000 for each of the next two I won, for a total of 11,000!

Good luck!

Edit: If you're going to thumbs down please comment saying why so I can improve the solution.
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21 Apr 2011 12:39

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Good solution, got mine fast.

Took forever to get the correct stage though.
Also 1 flawless (if max rounds is 1) does NOT count.
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By on 21 Apr 2011 19:27
I have restarted this 130+ times and have gotten every level except the pit. I get the bottom of the pit, the pit during the day, but never the pit. This serious makes me angry.
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By Corvus Q7 on 23 Apr 2011 00:33
i got this level the first time i shot for it, but i forgot to do a stage fatality. so when i started over to try again, i got it again first try, took about 5 restarts for the shadows this time though
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By DiabolicHeel on 23 Apr 2011 16:30
the scorpion X spam worked great
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By Iceberg082006 on 27 Apr 2011 18:33
this is stupidly easy to do with NighWolf
keep spamming Forward Forward B-button for his shoulder barge.
when you get the chance use the enhanced version of this attack by adding RT
his stage fatality is D,D,D,RT at close range
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By BrumtownMangler on 01 May 2011 17:52
Just want to add that it took me ~7 tries, once I got the night pit to show up, to get the shadow in front of the moon. I kept thinking I was missing it, but the santa and reindeer fly all the way across the map and it's VERY obvious when it happens. Also, Sheeva's fireball (D,T,Y) is easy to do this with too.
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By ThePootermobile on 16 May 2011 00:47
do you get anything special for beating him besides the extra koins?
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By Quicker Feet on 11 Jul 2011 09:11
Got this the other day, bit strange tho, Reptile started off in green, then after i won a round, he turned blue with green blood splatters, and looked like retro Sub Zero. I was playing as Retro subzero
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By BHHCDavros on 11 Sep 2011 20:58
For those out there with this crap game on their backlogs like me... The Quan-Chi method proposed by Osmosis Royal below made all the difference to me with the 2xflawless portion of it.
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By AcaelusT on 28 Dec 2021 13:24
What a pain in the ass this was. I found that using scorpion worked best just tap x to knock their health down as you move them towards the end and at the start of rd 2 just start it up again quickly tapping x but once you are in range of hitting them dont keep moving in (ex. I faced noob nd hed teleport out) then for the stage fatality the combo is forward, up, up, x at touching distance. Hope this helped
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By a real cucumber on 22 Apr 2011 06:33
My luck has to be the worst when it comes to this. I tried for about half an hour to get the stage on the first level and I kept getting random stages: flesh pits, Shang Tsung’s tournament level, and when I did get the pit it was during the day. I ended up just playing through the tower until I eventually got the stage, took me 2 tower resets. Now that I got the stage and have a feel of what’s going on I want to point out what I’ve noticed so far:

In 24 times of resetting the stage I’ve seen Santa once and the witch 3 times. I also timed the witch and she appears from the left side and goes across the moon at exactly 5 second into the match to about the 8th second when she flies off screen.
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By SettlingCrib503 on 08 Oct 2023 17:52
I have had it with this fucking game. 50 restarts of this goddamn map and every time that little bastard Santa or the bitch witch shows up, whichever little twink I'm against gets some nothing little hit. Like tonight, I was against Sektor. Every time the witch or santa showed, and I was doing the stomp with Sheeva, he'd manage to tag me a single time with his teleport uppercut. He NEVER managed to tag me with that whenever the witch/santa weren't present. The one stinking time I managed the double flawless, the goddamn stage fatality didn't work.

I'm starting to hate this game as much as I hate DOA4 and Soulcalibur 4. Which is a lot. This one is more aggravating than the Classic Jade fight, simply because of having to get the map and then having to hope the witch flies across.
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By Rhyolitic on 19 Feb 2012 07:55
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Very easy to do but be prepared for a frustrating few minutes!

You need to find the Hidden Battle with Klassic Reptile.

Firstly make sure your round counter is set to 2 in the options menu. Now start an Arcade Ladder, i choose Sheeva for 2 reasons.
1. Her (Down, Up) stomp move & 2. Her easy to do Stage Fatality (Down, Down, Down, Down, X, close distance)

UPDATE - l've had a question on if changing round time counter affects this achievement, answer is I don't know. I would suggest ensuring all options are set to their defaults to be safe and not waste anyones time. If anyone does have an answer to this question please post within the comments thread!


You can choose whoever you like but i recommend someone you are familiar with and can perform their Stage Fatality.

Then select Beginner on the Difficulty Select

Now allow the Arcade Ladder to start and drop down to the first fight. Next to your opponent will be a pitcture of the first stage. This needs to be The Pitt at Night (Look for the large moon). If not let the match start then pause the game and select return to Main Menu. Then rinse the solution from the top. (THIS IS THE FRUSTRATING PART AS GETTING THE RIGHT STAGE CAN TAKE SOME TIME AS IT'S COMPLETELY RANDOM)

Once you get the right stage and the match starts the are 3 factors you need to achieve to fight Klassic Reptile.

1. Get a Double Flawless Victory
2. Perform the Stage Fatality
3. See a shadow of either Santa Claus' Sled or A Witch on her Broomstick fly across the Moon (another throwback to the orignal MK)

Use Sheeva's Stomp Move (Down, Up) to get 2 Flawless Victories, but keep an eye out at the moon at the rear for either shadow (Usually quite early on). If you get to FINISH HIM/HER and have not seen the shadow DO NOT PERFORM THE FATALITY!!!

Pause and select return to Player Select. Re-Select Sheeva (Your Character) and the match will repeat at the same stage and opponent. Repeat until you see a shadow and the Perform the Stage Fatality. (Also do this if you get hit during the fight & can not then get a flawless win)

After the Victory voice over you will get a loading screen and fight Klassic Reptile in the Pitt Bottom like in the Original MK, Achievement unlocked.

Beat Him however and recieve 5000 Koins per Round

Please vote, ask questions and comment on this solution
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27 Apr 2011 17:25

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Thanks bro when i get to my place ill try it out thanks keep it up.
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By CrazyNades94 on 07 Dec 2011 20:53
i did this however couldnt do the stage fatality, do u have to do D D D D X standing next to or at jump distance? please add that info
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By Stoogiemeister on 05 Feb 2012 10:27
Sheeves stage fatality is D D D D X while ur touching them and facing there front. on the pit level
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By Stoogiemeister on 05 Feb 2012 10:56
correction not all the stage fatalities involve doing an uppercut, street for example. however all are close distance that i can recall, but i haven't played the game for several months!
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By HyperZoanoid81 on 05 Feb 2012 11:14
I need to set the timer at 99 seconds?
Because i am at the right stage, but i have 60 second timer and actually after 10 times i resterted the fight at finish him, but santa and witch never appeared
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By KawaSimo81 on 09 Dec 2012 00:41
I'm not aware of any issues with the clock time, but I have never tried it out. If anyone has done this on by changing the timer options please post! For clarity however I would suggest have all the settings set to their default settings as the achievement is a throw back to the original MK and changing then may affect the achievement, as it does with the rounds.
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By HyperZoanoid81 on 09 Dec 2012 08:51
Just wanted to let others know that you can set the timer to 30 seconds. I kept it on 2 rounds and I got this achievement only minutes ago before writing this.

I used Quan Chi because I kept getting tagged with Sheeva which was extremely annoying so I used Quan Chi's Trance move (Back, Forward, A) and let them go for a little walk before doing it again. When I got tagged I used Quan Chi's health regen move (Down, Back, B). As long as you use the enhanced version (pressing RT when doing down, back, B) you will get the health regen guaranteed.
His stage fatality is: Back, Forward, Down, Y. Make sure you're close and do it fast enough! I stuffed it up once but managed to press start quick enough to go back to player select thank god!

It took me quite a few retries but finally got this frustrating achievement!
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By BoGcHiKa on 04 Aug 2014 06:32
Yes the time clock effects this achievement I had it set to off did the 2 flawless victories and stage fatality didn't work tryed to pause it but couldn't so quit to the menu and kept trying til the stage appeared. The timer it should be default which is "90" seconds and 2 Rounds.

Also I used Johnny Cage and spammed the his triple punch attack: ( X ) ( X ) ( X)
The Announcer has to say "FLAWLESS VICTORY" for each Round in case you get hit once and think your in the clear. You can't get hit.

If the opponent goes down just use the d-pad and forward then spam the X button for them not to have a chance to fight back.

Johnny Cage Stage Fatality: Down, Back, Forward, RT at close range
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By A Batwoman on 30 Jun 2013 18:25
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Something that will make this a little less frustrating is choosing Quan Chi for your character, and I'll tell you why. Even if you get hit you can restore your health and still have it count as flawless.

His move 'Skeletal Boost' will either give you a damage or health boost. The boost last for like 3 seconds or so and then can be repeated. If you want to restore your health just do this move (Down, Back, B) and keep doing it until you get health boost, then try not to get hit while its boosting. Also if you enhance the move by holding RT when you press B in the combo it will give you a health boost and a damage boost at the same time.

This is the important part. As long as you finish the round with 100% health it is counted as a flawless! As far as I know Quan Chi is the only character that can regen health and I am also pretty sure I am one of the first people to figure this out.

I used this move to get a flawless on Shao Khan!
Thanks,

Os
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02 May 2011 07:15

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Didn't work for me. I was on tag ladder if that matters. I was hit both rounds, used the Skeletal Boost, and it said flawless victories for both, also did stage fatality, no achievement. I ended up doing single ladder with Sheeva and it worked properly. Not sure if I did something wrong just a heads up.
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By wvu76 on 14 May 2011 13:34
they don't show up on tag ladders.
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By Lurch9944 on 08 Aug 2011 19:44
Very good guide, but put his Stage Fatality - Left, Right, Down, Y too.
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By Dark Starscrem on 25 Apr 2014 18:48
The Quan-Chi idea made all the difference to me. Was able to get this cheevo in 15 minutes
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By AcaelusT on 28 Dec 2021 13:21
worked perfect, first round healed up and got flawless, second round I just spammed projectiles and they just took it so i got an easy flawless, and the stage fatality i was touching them when i did back forward down y
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By xCENAxMOD on 30 Nov 2023 04:30
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This one here is the help provided by PowerPyx:

- Set the amount of rounds to 2 in options
- Start a new ladder in Beginner (pick Scorpion)
- This can only be done on "The Pit" map in Ladder mode
- Once you reach "The Pit" (see video) do you see Santa Claus flying? (see video) If so you are on the right map. Instead of Santa Claus you will see a black shadow of a witch on her broom.
- You have to perform TWO flawless victories in a row
- Difficulty and fighter doesn't matter
- Pause the game and go back to player select if you fail
- You need to perform a Stage Fatality.
- After a loading screen Reptile will appear and also the trophy.

Thanks to PowerPyx for the video:
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19 Nov 2013 17:25

For this one, here is the help provided by PowerPyx:

- Make sure to set the amount of rounds to 2 in options
- Start a new ladder in Beginner (pick Scorpion)
- This can only be done on "The Pit" map in Ladder mode
- Once you reach "The Pit" (see video) do you see Santa Claus flying? (see video) If so you are on the right map. Instead of Santa Claus you will see a black shadow of a witch on her broom.
- You have to perform TWO flawless victories in a row
- Difficulty and fighter doesn't matter
- Pause the game and go back to player select if you fail
- You need to perform a Stage Fatality. ALL MOVES here.
- After a loading screen Reptile will appear and also the trophy.

Thanks to PowerPyx for the video:
YouTube - Mortal Kombat - Hidden Kombatant 3 (Pit Master Trophy / Achievement Guide)

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