TL;DR
Learning from Top Players
One of the best ways to improve your Scorpion gameplay is by watching top players. MKJavier is highly recommended as one of the best Scorpion players, frequently showcasing his skills in tournaments like R1ps Arena [2:1]. Additionally, Mike Trollinski is another pro player whose gameplay can provide insights into effective strategies and techniques
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Practice Mode Utilization
Spending time in practice mode, often referred to as "the lab," is crucial for mastering Scorpion. This involves practicing his moves and combos repeatedly until they become second nature [4:1]. It's also beneficial to work on frame data to understand which moves are safe and which are punishable
[5:2]. Setting up scenarios where you practice against CPU opponents using moves you struggle to counter can help refine your defensive skills
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Exploring Combos and Mix-Ups
Scorpion's strength lies in his versatile move set, including teleport cancels and mix-ups. Practicing combos that incorporate these elements can make your gameplay more unpredictable and difficult for opponents to counter [5:5]. For example, using teleport cancel into a throw or down 3 into down back 2 can be effective against opponents who mash buttons
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Understanding Variations
Experimenting with different variations of Scorpion can also enhance your playstyle. The "Reborn" variation, although considered underrated, offers unique opportunities through hellport fake-outs, which can lead to significant damage if executed correctly [5:5]
[5:8]. Trying out various variations will allow you to find the one that best suits your playstyle and maximizes Scorpion's potential.
Community Feedback and Resources
Engaging with the community through forums and guides can provide additional tips and tricks. Watching video guides and reading detailed breakdowns can offer new perspectives on how to utilize Scorpion effectively in matches [5:2]. Community feedback can also highlight common pitfalls and areas for improvement, helping you become a more well-rounded player.
Any Scorpion mains on PS4 want to run Some practice games? I feel like I just cannot get a handle on playing against him. They will whiff combos and his recovery seems faster than my startup. I feel like I never “get a turn” when I’m against him. Thanks in advance or any tips!
Take advantage of f3 it is his best move and consider watching mike trollinski he’s a pro scorpion player
Back 3 into striker and down 3 into down back 2 will help against ppl who mash
Also play around with teleport cancel into throw or again down 3 in down back 2, use striker to keep urself safe
Have fun
Watch any footage you can find of MKJavier. He is arguably the best Scorpion player in the world right now. He plays regularly in R1ps Arena.
SCORPION
Tags: Assassin, Human, Mortal Kombat
Attacks | Ground | Air |
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Slide | Leg Takedown - Scorpion performs a scissors strike on the enemy. | N/A, cannot slide in air. |
Neutral | Hellfire Punch - Scorpion's basic flaming strike, which deals more damage to IGNITED enemies. Can be CHARGED. | Same as ground. |
Side | Demon Dash - Scorpion rushes forward as a flaming skeleton to damage any enemy he passes through. Damage is increased for IGNITED targets. This ability can be CHARGED to move faster and farther and deal more damage. | Same as ground, but this move cannot be CHARGED. |
Up | Shirai Ryu Strike - Scorpion delivers a fiery uppercut, which deals increased KNOCKBACK to IGNITED enemies, and has a chance to IGNITE enemies with no stacks of such debuff. | Dark Soul - Scorpion performs three punches, with the third one being a superman punch that also gives him a small air boost. |
Down | Death Spin - Scorpion spins his grappling spear, damaging all enemies around him with a chance to BREAK ARMOR. Can be CHARGED to deal more damage. | Demon Slam - Scorpion grabs an enemy at close quarters in mid-air and slams them straight downwards. |
Specials | Ground | Air |
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Neutral | Toasty! - Scorpion breathes fire in the direction he is facing, which IGNITES all enemies caught in the flames. On COOLDOWN, he throws a fireball PROJECTILE that deals less damage. | Fireball - Scorpion throws a fireball PROJECTILE slightly downwards. |
Side | Get Over Here! - Scorpion throws his grappling spear in the direction he is facing, snaring the closest enemy and dragging them towards him. On COOLDOWN, he taunts the nearest opponent, with a chance to cancel any ability they are using and force them to face him. | Same as ground, can be used to grapple onto platforms. |
Up | Flaming Backflip Kick - Scorpion performs a leaping backflip, which IGNITEs a target when the attack connects. | Same as ground, can be used to escape pits. |
Down | Flaming Aura - Scorpion lights himself on fire briefly, IGNITING all enemies nearby and any enemies who hit him with a melee attack for the next few seconds. COOLDOWN applies. | Scorching Slam - Scorpion smashes down on the ground, damaging and IGNITING all enemies at and nearby the impact site. |
PASSIVES:
Multiversus didn't fail, Zaslav decided to cancel it because there wasn't much profit. Like Gotham Knights & Suicide Squad.
Sure. But what do you think about this moveset? I did enough homework to understand all the debuffs and mechanics of MultiVersus to come up with a good way to implement Scorpion, if there was, like I said, another timeline where this game was successful, since you all talk about there being lots of timelines here.
I think his teleport is missing but as long as he has his spear I'm good.
Wow you wanna play as scorpion? How brave!
How so?
I’m sorry I was being a jerk tbh. Just frustrated after playing for an hour or two last night out of about 20 kasual matches I fought like 15 scorpions. And if it’s not scorpion it’s noob or frost. I don’t want the game to get stale bc everyone plays the same few characters.
The lab, spending hours in the lab practicing frame data for traps or trying new strings with specials, working on characters you don't do well against have the CPU copy certain moves you have a hard time punishing and find a way around it.
I feel like the next stage for me is learning frame traps and such. But how do I do this if you can’t set the AI to jab etc on block?
Any tips for practicing this?
You could try setting them to throw since that's 10 frames not as fast a jab but close
A lot of playing in training mode and repeat all of moveset, and check YouTube videos for characters, try to make same combos
I understand lol
Lab.
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Sit in practice mode and do his moves and kombos. You'll start seeing spots where you think "I bet this will connect" and just try it
How do I learn how best to fight and best him :( Actually, I'm gonna learn how to play Scorpion
Learning to play as him is possibly the best way to beat him! Let me know how the progress is
Hey man, really appreciate the vid and your breakdown and explanations. Didn't realize I'm actually already subbed to you and appreciate the MK kontent!
Definitely gonna dive into the vid after work and work on my Scorpion.
For the vid, my only feedback is that the music was a little too distracting from what you were saying and it's all a little fast paced (I'm also probably just slow lol). But, thanks!
For a general question, though, for all Kharacters, is anything below minus 6 considered safe? And anything more than -6 is unsafe?
Cheers.
We don’t need more scorpions.
You could also use this to understand the character more and be able to punish him for the use of unsafe moves :) no worries I think people will branch out to other characters soon. Shanghai Tsung is going to get a big guide from me soon!
Good point. Not trying to hate on you.
Great guide. In my opinion, Reborn is severely underrated. While you don't have the same damage potential, you can more than make up for it with opportunities from the hellport fake outs.
Reborn is actually better but i'm so used to other variation can't play reborn. I fck up everytime.
Haha it takes some getting used to switching up your playstyle and doing combos that aren't possible I know what you mean. I love how versatile he is as a character
I appreciate that! I'm glad you like it. Yes reborn has racked up some crazy damage off those very same fakeouts on me haha
It’s worth a go. You usually have to do it for a few days for the muscle memory to kick in. Start using your favorite combos. And try to string for large combos.
If you watch YouTube, a few people show off the largest possible combo strings for max damage. Even learning half of one can be fun.
Yeah... I'm realising now Cause I went into a game on very hard thinking that I'd dominate now that I know how to do combos. But ended panic spamming normal attacks and maybe only successfully landing a few of them. But this just made me like the game more, I've never played a fighting game that plays like this (I'm used to it usually being like one string in a single attack button with variation depending on the direction you hold) and this made me want to Pick up more characters and master them, definitely going to be a majority of my mk playtime
Hi im kind of new to mk kind of not but just got back into mk and im looking to get better at mk11 please help
I can just say to you too of characters that very good for new gamers
TOP 1 : Scorpion
TOP 2 : Sub Zero
TOP 3 : Lui Kang
TOP 4: Jax Briggs
TOP 5 : Cetrion
(Sorry if I said something incorrect because I am not from USA or something like that)
Yea i use liu kang but im trying to get better with others
Okay, if my second comment can’t help you can watch tutorials in YouTube
Woah I disagree with jax and cetrion
Do character tutorials!! (Learn > Tutorial > Select Character) I do them all the time and it helps learn other moves.
When you will choose your character go to workout zone in mk 11 I don’t know how is it called in English it’s going next to workout and behind workout fatalities you need to finish training in this department and choose your character there will be combos for your character and then you can choose in there option what do you want to workout, like: combos, block and other things
If you haven't completed the practice, I recommend finishing it, then try a character you like. You can watch YouTube videos of matches to see which one you'd like best or just try them; whatever you choose, for the most part tier lists don't really matter in normal online play. You can then go into towers of time and classic towers, test it, then go to practice and do some combos there. There are guides online that can help you. One last tip, don't let online play frustrate you if you lose at first, it's ok everyone loses, what matters most is just going into practice mode and learning how to punish/block things that beat you.
Since basically the entire community likes playing scorpion, which variations do you recommend for easy but flashy combos and decent 50/50?
Preciate it!
I don't understand why anyone is still using Searing Rage.
I'd personally recommend the teleport cancel and the fireball projectile. If you learn to cancel the teleport *before* Scorpion leaves the screen, you can attack by dialing in any string into teleport, and either amp on hit for a full combo, or cancel early on block to retreat to 3/4 screen (or occasionally leave the screen and cancel once beside the opponent for pressure).
This means that any string you do can be completely safe, thus fixing one of Scorpion's major weaknesses.
The fireballs then allow you to poke at opponents who are trying to neutral duck you, thus fixing Scorpion's other major weakness.
To be clear, in my opinion this is probably the strongest Scorpion loadout, but getting the cancels right is a bit tricky at first. If you're just getting started Searing Rage honestly isn't a bad option, but i might still switch out the combo strings or Death Spin for the fireballs.
I didn’t even know scorpion could shoot fireballs lmao, thanks!
As funny as some of these comments are, it is somewhat concerning that there isnt any help for someone legitimately asking.
OP. Do you know universal button notation? If not, what system are you playing on?
Do you have any prior fighting game experience? Do you play online? Do you just fight the AI?
For a beginner I would recommend the Searing Rage preset.
I’m playing on Xbox, and I don’t consider myself a beginner. I consider myself intermediate and I’ve played online plenty of times (though I tend to avoid it because I always get matched with either spammers or OP people and I can never tell how someone really plays because the win/loss ratio is misleading)
Also yea, like I personally hate scorpion and sub zero, yet I’ve played around with them and am looking to main them. And it’s not like I’d be adding to the KL scorpions because I don’t even play KL.
You didn't mention if you know universal notation so here goes.
Forward + A: Scorpions best button bar none. 13frame mid, -2 on block. Forward + A, B is safe on block and has a combo starting Krushing Blow if it kounter hits.
Forward + B, Y: Scorpions low starter. It's slow but goes low then overhead and can be cancelled into specials for a full combo.
Down Back + A: teleport. can be done in the air. amplify to launch for a full combo. better scaling than spear but juggles whereas spear restands.
Back Forward + X: spear. amplify for a restanding combo extender.
Basic (not optimal) 2 bar combo
Forward + A, Y xx Down Back + A amplify, Standing B xx Back Forward X amplify, Y, X, Y+B
you can also do Forward A, Y xx Back Forward X at the end to side switch.
For optimal damage youd do Forward + A, Forward + A, Y xx Back Forward X after the teleport but the timing is a little strict.
Scorpion is not in the game. Anything you've heard about him is a joke. He might get added as dlc tho. In the meantime you should learn someone else
I recommend Reptile. Very easy character to pick up in this game. Fun flashy combos, lots of easy KBs for massive damage.
Still find it weird that they gave him a sword though.
Third variation looks really cool and has a mix on his forward 4,2 and his back 1,4. Typical combo rules apply
Thank you for simply helping a guy out and not butting your personal feelings into it. What would the moves for this variation?
It would be his katana stance which costs two slots and I would recommend switching out the jumping katana move for his demon dash so you can punish anything that puts people at minus seven. I don't know the names of his katana moves so bear with me lol
Press either Up, Left or Right during the selection screen and you can cancel that into literally any other character select.
I like to do either 2 or 3 F32, then stand 4 into spear, and you can get some easy damage.
Do 2 F32 jump 12 ex DB2 3 as you are falling close to the ground into sprear then 33 db2. 1 bar for like 40 somithing percent
Where do you get that skin?
Skin is frim the seasonal store(I think it was 6k koins) and I got the mask from story mode
Best training routines for Scorpion in Mortal Kombat 1
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