looks like everyone is done with Hotaru. next up is........(its selecting........)......Jade!!!!

I love Jade, she is my main char in MkD. She is so awesome, her combos do the most damage in the game. She also has a hot look, both of her costumes r great. I love doing her fatalities too, i think they r both cool.

Midway did a good job on her. I dont like her very much, becouse she has still the "third female ninja" smell, and she's not very unique to the series. Jades part was simple in the past games: decide between Khan or Kita-na-sure she chose Kitana and got her ass kicked by Reptile. Other than that, I dunno...

Her fighting styles are indeed powerfull, but shes not the most powerful-lest character. The martial art styles fit her, her weapon is kinda weird: how can one slice somebody into two pieces with a staff-spear? I mean, it hasn't got any edge. (maybe only on the staff section)

Fatalities: good enough for my sensitive taste. However punching a spearhead that thick like on hers is something -unrealistic. But good nevertheless.

She cpould be left out of the series easily, if more original (!) newcomers should be her to stay. But with a lesser-but-important role as she plays now?

Good fighter despite what others say. She's not the powerfullest, but still awesome.

Agreed! Jade is my no.1 fighter on MKD! Her Fatalities own. I love her costumes, though the second one isn't all that great. I love her power and her staff owns!

Surprisingly, I like Jade, which is very much not like me since I'm such a Scorpion type freak. But Jade's got some killer combos and her fatalities are pretty sweet. I've never been a huge fan of anyone with a staff/rod type weapon except for Raiden and even though she looks kinda restricted when she uses it, she kicks some serious bootay with it. Her special moves are impresive to say the least. That Johnny Cage style shadow kick, a teleport AND a projectile, SWEET! Although that projectile shield glow thing she does I've found to be POINTLESS!

Anywho, Jade, I give you a stellar 8 out of 10.

The Projectile Invincibility in effect allows her to own Sub-Zero in almost every way. she can walk through the Ice clone with it and is not affected by the Freeze Blast. She becomes immune to other projectiles too. It's not useless at all.

Jade is my favorite female character in MK: Deception and probably my new favorite MK female. I'm glad they brought her back. Both of her costumes are great. Her fighting styles do fit her (especially Bojutsu) though I would've chosen other unarmed styles for her like Panther or something like that. Nonetheless, she's a great fighter with great speed and power. The two drawbacks I noticed when it comes to Jade are her recovery times (especially in Bojutsu) and that she's hard to master. The level 5 difficulty rating for her is accurate to me and to be honest, I'm glad that's her difficulty level.

I wished she had the High and Low Boomerang attacks like in MKT. Her Razor Rang is not that fast until she throws it....She has some pretty cool special moves though and I read that move where she glows is good against moves like Smoke's Stinky Cloud..

I've only seen one of her fatalities and I thought it was pretty cool. Her storyline wasn't really one of the more significant ones, but it does have some significance to it. I really hope her ending will happen

Overall, I'm glad they brought her back and I hope to see her in MK7.

For me Jade will remain as one of the best females ever. I'm so glad they removed her she-ninja concept (and made the assassin outfit the second) and worked her out as an invididual in MKD.

Jades storyline-overall: 2/5
Jades looks-overall: 3/5
Jades special moves: 4/5
Jades fighting styles: 3/5
Jades finishers-overall: 3/5

Whole character overall: 3/5

Jade is very powerful in Deception. The drawbacks are she is very slow and lacks 50/50 mix up. The only 50/50 she has is in Khou shu stance, back +1 and 3. Once you master her Juggles, she is a beast. If you want to find out play me online.
Jade-Own

Jade is one of my favorite characters.She is my 2nd favorite next to Tanya.She is SO amped up in this game.She has super-strong combos and really long combos.She is so damn powerful!She has really good specials.She is one of the characters that you actually use all of her specails regularly.She does have a kind of crappy story but I still think she rocks.Her fatalities are awesome but I do agree with Chrome on the fact that the staff doesn't have an edge.Maybe she swung it so hard it went right through them.Its still a great fatality.Her 1st costume reminds me of the Amazon huntresses.Its got a very primal feel to it.Her 2nd one gives me a little twinge of nostalgia for MK3.I do think they should have given her her multi-level boomerangs though.Either way,she is still extremely hot and will always be in my heart.Heeheehee.

Jade is one of my favourite characters...altough I dont agree with midway that they put jade in deception and not kitana, i like Jade very much...Jades storyline isnt very interesting, but that doesnt matter...she looks cool, always did...

The only reason characters like baraka and nightwolf and sindel and jade and all those other mk3-4 chracters are back for deception is cuz they already did the other fan faves in Alliance. Jade- in my opinion too powerful. 2 hits 24% what the fuck is that! looks great good finishers way too beefed up.

Looks like everyone is done with Jade lets select another..........................Scorpion!!!!!!

All poverfull, all violent, allmighty and all-favored

Scorpion is the very reason for MK became so popular. The chinese ninja (in MK1-2 he was considered as a renegade Lin Kuei from a sub-clan) concept and wardrobe kicked me like a horse when I saw both of Sub-Zero and him. I said: man, theese guys rule all.

Scorpions storyline was great. Out for revenge from beyond death. not original, but ot took me instantly, why?-becouse of his looks. No one ever had such a visage like him (skullface) after death. A freak that may never know his family and mortal world again. And of course, Scorpion wouln't be Scorpion without his spear, now thats a brutal move, not to mention the yell: Come here and Get over here (I like come here better)!

As MK had more sequels and my disaspointment over MK3, Scorpion
grew old. In trilogy he was what he was, but he has lost his charm for me. Same applies for him in MK4 (however the concept in trilogy-fighting at Khans side but turning on him, defending Sub-Zero, and the Quan Chi lied to me that Sub killed my family were quite good. At least it gave another chance for a Sub vs. Scorp match).

The absolute was MKDA. And i mean the ABSOLUTE. They just given him the best costume I've ever seen in a fighting game. It looked familiar to the all time favourite of MK1, but at the same time, unique. Too bad the Decoy move was missing in MKDA.

No one had more potential in him/her in any MK game except maybe Sub-Zero, Liu Kang in MK1 and MK2, Bo' Rai Cho and Hotaru. But even theese characters cannot compare to him when it comes to gameplay.
(in MKDA a 67% combo and 89% combo)

Scorpion rules hard.

Scorpions storyline-overall: 3/5
Scorpions looks-overall: 5/5
Scorpions special moves: 3/5
Scorpions fighting styles: 3/5
Scorpions finishers-overall: 4/5

Whole character overall: 4/5

Scorpion has always intrested me very much...More than sub zero..I cant explain why, maybe because scorpion is dead or something like that...Id like to know how scorpion looked like before he died and what exactly happened with him...and whats going to happen with him...I like his outfit...although I liked him more without a sword..

I think Scorpion is a good character in MKD, I like his moves and his attacks too. I like his Alt. I think his alt is better than his other costume. I like the way he gets up too, and his story is becoming more interesting too.

Scorpion... This guy is the reason there is still a Mortal Kombat. It's ideas and fighters like him that have kept this series alive and strong for so long. He's always been my fave and my first choice. It's really hard to think of MK without him which is interesting since he's a neutral kharacter.

Fave Scorpion Look: Deadley Alliance Alt Costume w/Flaming Skull head.
Fave Scorpion Combo: Deception -
Slide-Kick, Spear, 2,2,SC,1,3,3,SC, Hell-Fire, Teleport-Kick
Fave Scorpion Special Move: Slide-Kick and of course The "Get Over Here" Spear

But I must confess,Chrome, some extreme confusion that you would even consider putting Hotaru into the same tier of fighters as Scorpion... I mean... Hotaru? The guy juggles, thats it. He doesn't do anything else. He's a juggler. He's friggin' strong, I'll give you that but he's got nothing in his arsenal. I guess I just like guys who have some killer combo excecutions and special moves to die for. Hotaru just doesn't cut it in any catagory for me. Mind you thats just my opinion.

Well... to tell the truth, I use Hotaru as a patience fighter. Short combos when someone gets close, and punch the hell out of him/her. If hes down or incapable, out with the Naginata.

there is some weird thing with him. After doing is longest combo, sometimes I manage to aproach the opponent -style switch- and punch him a little further. Then always backward and wait. He's very defensive.

Managed to get a 89% out of him with multi-style combo, dunno how I managed it.

SCorpion is my 2nd fave character the only thing that drags is his storyline ireally the only thing that has changed about his story is quan chi coming in but it is better than some fighters i give scorp 5/5

Well, when you say Chinese Ninja, are you referring to Scorpion? If so, then , he's not Chinese. Scorpion is Japanese. The Shirai Ryu was created by a former member of the Lin Kuei known as Takeda who was a Japanese Lin Kuei warrior.

Anyway, to get to the topic....Scorpion.

Well, Scorpion has been and is still one of my favorite characters. In this game, I love both of his costumes though I prefer his primary look. To me, it's more ninja-like than his previous costumes.

Storywise, they did something different with him by having him as the Champion of the Elder Gods which is interesting to see though I feel they need to add more to it in the next MK game. And I'd also like to see more to Scorpion's storyline overall. But still, I like the change.

Fighting wise, I find him to not be as good as he was in MK: DA. The big thing that made him top tier in MK: DA was his Pi Gua style. In MK: D, Pi Gua is given to Hotaru and to me, they took out the fluidity Pi Gua had in MK: DA as well as the backdash cancel advantage.

Hapkido is the style I use the most when playing as Scorpion. Moi Fah is not that bad, but not that great and I only use it against Onaga. Mugai Ryu is ok, but it doesn't have many combos to it. I guess it's one of those styles in which the pop ups help give way to some customization with connecting to his other styles.....

I like his special moves though I don't really use them that much. His Spear still suffers from the lag time like it did in MK: DA. I wish his Spear was like in MK4. It would seem kind of cheap to do that, but then again, the Spear can always be blocked, ducked under, or sidestepped. I wish they would bring back his Air Throw, Fire Breath, Forward Leap Punch, and Scissor Kick takedown. That'd be great.

Overall, I did like Scorpion, but at the same time, I was a bit disappointed with him. I still use him often when playing MK: D.

Am I the only one who doesnt like Scorpion.

I really dont have time for the character, and in decption I only ever used him in the Konquest Training, when he was choose at random in Konquest battle, and I have used him for one fight against Onaga in Arcade mode to get his ending.

Personally I find him a bit boring. HIs sotryline needs a major rewors, and OK although his storyline in Deception is a step forward, it still doesnt interest me. I also hate the whole 'noones ally' thing that he has going on. It just seems a bit weird to me that he has NO allies, most fighters have at least one.

His moves haven't changed that much either. For me, his Deadly Alliance and Deception Fatalities are weak, and his alternate in Deadly Alliance looks very out of place.

I jsut generally find Scorpion very boring. I never ever use him unless its to get his ending, same in MK:DA. I say improve him drastically or get rid (even tho i know Ed Boon would never that)

Oh and BTW.....WTF is stealing the spine rip fatality all about. That pissed me off.

I think he's undoubtably the most original MK character ever. Like Ed Boon said in that video on MKD, they've never been able to top Scorpion's spear move because it was so original, and back when Scorpion made his debut into the fighting game world, the spear had to go up against fighting moves like the "Shoryuken!!!" (or whatever Ryu says).

His costume change in MK:DA was a massive step, and I think it really highlighted both the warrior and ninja parts of him. And the flaming skull alt. costume was IMO one of the greatest costumes of all time in the MK games.
I do wish they had let him keep Pi Gua, but Hapkido is still pretty rockin'

Oh, and I had no idea he was the champion of the Eldar Gods, when was this revealed?

Ah Scorpion. Eveerybody's Favorite Fatality Poster Boy. Scorpion is the one thing i think that keeps fans coming back to the series. There is no Kombat Without him. His story however is getting really tired. the only reason he IS in deception is because he got his ass kicked in Deadly Alliance by Moloch and Drahmin. If They want to make him better i say have him either take out somebody importanat like Sub-Zero or Raiden. or have him sacrifice himself. that'd be epic. I just want Scorpion to play an intergal role in one of the games instead of him always on a KILL BILL type of vendetta quest. As a character i think he is top notch. one of the best. kinda gets old though when you see he is just one of the many colors in the ninja spectrum. It's Mortal Kombat Midway! Not Ninja Kombat!

Looks like Scopion is done. next is.........Havik!!!!