It's a good idea but players would loose health to quckly, unless its only a little bit.

Yea...just a little health, sorta to add some realism...I know if I bumped into someone with electricity flowin around, I would probably get shocked.

I think that would add a bit more realism. But, I think it would suck to have to stay away from your opponent all the time. Or keep your distance. Knowing that your opponent could end your flawless victory because he was right next to you doesn't sound right. Let's say your opponent is whooping your butt and he has an almost FULL health bar, you're only one hit away from being killed, he would prolly be a smart ass and not even try to hit you, he would just try to get close enough to kill you with his flaming body. I don't know. Maybe if there was an option to turn this off. Not a bad idea though.

I’ve been thinking about something similar but they way you put it, the extra damage penalizes the player who gets too close to the flames or what ever. My idea would be if someone who had flames or electricity attacked a lot and pulled off combos or had so many hits in a row a small amount of extra ‘element’ damage would also get passed on. One flaming punch might not do much but if you cop 20 of them you’re going to feel the burn. Perhaps 6 unanswered hits in a certain time frame would inflict a base level of damage and then the more unanswered hits (not necessarily a combo chain) you get within a time frame would increase the damage level.

I also thought the back grounds should affect things. For example, if you’re fighting at Subzeros ice temple his freeze attacks should last longer but if you’re fighting in a lava pit it should be shorter. Raidens electricity attacks would do more damage in a wet environment and so on. That way some characters might have an advantage in a certain arena and you’d need to know what everyones strengths were and it would involve a bit more thought and strategy.

i think it would be good.but it would just piss players of say your fighting smoke and your both on low health and your about to punch him and you just get killed by some god damn smoke.

Yea i also thought about the realism when i get uppercuted into the air and i land on my head and am still able to walk away. No that is realism dont you think?

i dont like a lot the idea. mk has always been a game where the fireballs and specials are just for a quickly attack but for doing more damage u must always be near the oponent so doing that of loosing enrgy for being close will make imposibble a flawless victory against that chars or make the throws almost impossible also it will just doesnt fit for the people that plays always near the oponent

I think that would just be too much of an unfair advantage. It would be like those characters have damage shields, so then they could end up cheaply cornering you and turtling, so while they're blocking your attacks, you're suffering damage from their damage. Its not a bad idea by any means, but it would just give too much of an advantage to those characters.