Mortal Kombat X Tips and Cheats

1. The Basics to Dominating Kombat

The mobile version of Mortal Kombat X tasks you with smashing a team made up of three fighters. You’ll tap away and hold onto your screen while you bash the opponents that come in your way. You can pull of three hit combos at all times when you tap the screen. Even when characters are blocking, they still receive chip damage. So land all three of your attacks when given the chance. As for the 4th and last strike of a character combo, make sure you pay attention when it pops up on the screen. You’ll need to swipe in the direction noted on the screen to land that attack. As for special moves, the best times to use them are when your opponent is recovering from the ground or when you want to use it as a combo finisher. Don’t just randomly throw a special out there.

2. Put Together a Team of Warriors Belonging to a Particular Type

There’s a large variety of character types – Outworld, Martial Artist, Saurian, Spec Ops, and Oni. Putting together a very viable team is your 1st priority, so putting together a team with two or three character types is something you need to do. For example, the Shirai Ryu card gifts +5-percent attack power for fellow Martial Arts types. Plus, Troopers aid their fellow Spec Ops characters with the same boost. During the beginning portions of the game, this is a strategy you’ll need to adopt.

3. Replay Previous Stages to Grind for EXP

This mobile fighter gets hard pretty fast. Once you get to the 3rd tower, you’ll start running into Silver tier characters. They can mop the floor with your Bronze tier fighters pretty quickly. They can even tear down your Bronze team with special moves…EVEN WHILE YOU’RE BLOCKING! The best method towards getting your team stronger got the challenges ahead is backtracking. Replay previous stages every time before you start the new one. Don’t start a new tower and try that method. You’ll wipe away the progress of the tower you currently started. But if you do encounter a tough team that kills your team easily, then you may just want to play a previous tower and start over on the one that defeated you before.

4. Spend Your Koins Wisely on Support Cards

Support cards can be bought with Koins. These special boosters up the characters that those Support cards are attached to. Make sure you don’t just spending Koins on any Support card you see. Tap on the cards to see their info and pick up on what character type it will make stronger. So for example, if you have a team full of Saurian characters then you’ll need to cop an item like “Saurian Cunning.” Specific characters come with their own Support cards (such as Scorpion, as evidenced by the pic seen above). You can purchase a Support card while you’re looking at character in your team if you’d like. Don’t forget that you can fuse two of the same Support types together to make your main one stronger.

5. If You’re Gonna Spend Some Real Cash, Spend Them on Souls

You know what’s pretty hard to come by? Souls (that green currency at the top of the screen). Souls just happen to place Gold tier characters in your grasp. Plus you can spend some Souls on Kombat Packs, which awards you with one random Gold character plus two random cards. Souls awards you with the best unlocks in the game, if you ask us. If you’re going to reach into your digital wallet to spend some bucks on the game, put that money towards buying Souls.

6. Bronze Tier Characters are Only Good for the Starting Portions of the Game

Once you begin the game, you’ll be gifted with Bronze tier fighters. These nameless characters fit the general criteria for the fighter types we alluded to in our 2nd tip. For the 1st couple Towers or so, these characters get you by. Soon enough though, these characters can get demolished pretty easily by Silver tier characters. Keep a combination of your Bronze tier fighters together for the time being before you unlock a Silver tier character. Once you get a Silver tier fighter in your hands, place him or her next to your two bronze fighters. From that point forward, that’s the only team you should play with.

7. Silver Characters Come in the Form of Iconic Fighters

The Silver tier characters in the game make up the bulk of main characters seen in the console version. You’ll finally get the chance to control popular fighters such as Kano, Reptile, Sub-Zero and several others once you spend some major Koinage on them. The Koin cost for these Silver tier characters are pretty high, so you’re gonna have to grind in beaten towers or spend some real dollars to get more Koins. As soon as you get a Silver tier character, put him or her in one of your teams ASAP. Spend your Koins on upgrading their special special moves, offer them equipped items and make sure you purchase the appropriate support cards for them. There’s no need to spend your Koins on upgrading Bronze tier characters, in our opinion.

8. Gold Characters Come With Variations and the Best Stats

You may have noticed just how expensive those Gold tier characters can be. Souls are pretty hard to come by, which is why you may be forced to purchase a set of them with real world currency. Not only do Gold tier fighters come with the best stats, they come in different variations. For example, Johnny Cage comes in three character card forms – Stunt Double, A-List and Fisticuffs. Gold tier characters can also use X-Ray maneuvers, which deal a ton of damage. Before you spend all those valuable Souls on a Gold tier character, make sure you align them with a fitting team in mind. That means if you cop any type of D’Vorah character card, put her in a team with two Outworld characters. Maxime your team synergy with powerful Gold tier fighters. And hey, take on the Raiden Challenges. Beating them gifts you with Gold characters.

9. Log-In Every Day for Those Daily Event Rewards

You may just get addicted enough to play this fighter on a daily basis. That’s a very viable move, since you get awarded with a reward. On top of nabbing a free gift, you’ll also come across daily events. These daily events usually beating a single or numerous bronze, silver or gold tier teams. Since you’ll need to replay previous towers anyways, you might as well fulfill the conditions set by these daily events. You’ll walk away some much needed Koins.

10. Get Ready to Participate in Faction Wars and Get Gifted With Special Unlocks

One of the better features of this mobile version of MKX is its synergy with the console version. You may have noticed that Faction Wars is also available on mobile devices, which is a cool meta-game. Players choose a clan to align themselves with, contribute points through their efforts through offline/online play and then win weekly faction wars if their group reaches the contribution cap first. Special unlocks come from successfully participating in Faction Wars. We have a hunch that the two costumes posted above are just a few of those related unlocks. Farmer Jax and Ninja Mime Johnny Cage are two of the special outfits that can be unlocked on the mobile version for the console version. You can also unlock Klassic Kitana and Mileena.