Overview:
-Estimated trophy difficulty: 9/10 (From Platinum Difficulty-Rating Thread)
-Offline: 38 (27,10,1)
-Online: 13 (7,5,1)
-Approximate amount of time to : 350+ Hours. Without "My Kung Fu Is Stronger" will be around 30-40 hours
-Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1 story mode + multiples fights & ladders
-Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes, only the “Ladder Master” trophy which needs to be done in Expert Difficulty.
-Number of missable trophies: None.
-Glitched trophies: None.
-Do cheat codes disable trophies?: It has Kombat Kodes but they DO NOT disable any trophies. HERE are the Kodes found till now.
INTRODUCTION
Ok first of all this is my very first guide. Mortal Kombat is back and in its greatest form; in 2D with a bunch of new fatalities, X-Rays and babalities. 28 fighters will test your excellence to perform all their moves and will keep you playing for a very very long road for the platinum.
You can do the game modes and start with whatever you like and feel more comfortable with but the following is just my recommendation for mastering the game faster.
Also you can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
Special Thanks. I would like to give SPECIAL thanks to PowerPyx and thanks a lot to StOrMtRoOpErMx19 for providing their videos in this Guide. Thanks Power and StormTrooper, you are doing an amazing job there.
Step 1: Tutorial Mode/Fatality Trainer
Complete Tutorial Mode and Fatality Trainer for 3 easy bronzes “A For Effort”, “Tag, You're It!” and “License to Kill” trophies.
Step 2: Ladder Arcade with Sonya
Complete your first Ladder Arcade with Sonya on easy and trying to NOT use the block button , making a Fatality, X-Ray and you will gain in the road another 4 easy bronzes “Fatality!” “Block This!” “Where's The Arcade?” and “What Does This Button Do??.” Note that if you lose some fights you can select retry and you still will gain the trophies.
Step 3: Story Mode
Complete and enjoy the story mode on easy mode (you can change the difficulty in Options in the main menu), and you will gain 5 trophies “Halfway There!” “Back In Time...” “There Will Be Blood!” “Cold Fusion” and “Quan-Tease.” Finishing this will take you around 4-5 hrs but you will be able to unlock all the fighters available for some of the remaining trophies and off course you will be ready for a “sequel.” (I’m not going to spoil anything for you ).
Step 4: Tower Missions
Complete the Tower Missions. Will take you a while (there are 300 challenges) but it's necessary to do it because it will help you in the coins and you will gain a bunch of trophies like “Tower Apprentice” “Tower Master” “I 'Might' Be the Strongest” “Dim Mak!” “These Aren't My Glasses!” “Best...Alternate...Ever!” and “Luck Be A Lady.” Remember there are some hard challenges but coins will unlock them as well just do it for the hardest ones if you are facing trouble.
Step 5: Unlocking the Krypt
Unlock the Krypt. By now you will have enough coins for purchasing all the unlockables in the krypt. It will take you a few minutes but you will gain 1 bronze and 2 silver trophies: “Undertaker” “The Krypt Keeper” and “You've Got Style!.”
Step 6: Online Trophies
Now is time to tackle the Online trophies. You can boost without trouble the following trophies: “Tough Guy!” “Cyber Challenger” “Humiliation” “You Will Learn Respect!” “Ultimate Respect!” (this one will take you a bunch of time even boosting it) “The Competitor” (this one can be done offline too but I recommend you do it online for gaining time for the 2,500 respect points) “Outstanding!” “Wavenet...” and “There Can Be Only One!.” The remaining online trophies are boostables now that the online are almost dead is more easy than years ago, Thanks to HiryuMK here is his method used:
"... it's easier to get them (the trophies) during the night because there almost no one playing and since you only get matched with players on your country or nearby, its even better.
... we did Ranked Tag since more people play 1v1. One of us counted 3,2,1, Go and search Ranked Tag at the same time."
Step 7: Mop-up and Milestone Trophies
By now you will be missing some easy trophies and the milestone ones before facing the “mortal kombat” trophies. The easy trophies remaining are: “Robots Rule!” and some time consuming like “The Grappler” “e-X-cellent!” “Finish What You Start!” “Ultimate Humiliation” (I recommend you try to do them while boosting the online trophies to gain time). The milestone trophies are boostable in versus offline, but only if player one does the moves. The game will ONLY count the moves done by player one, thanks to Fragpuss for the tip.
Also there are 4 hidden Kombatants to unlock: PowerPyx has provide a very detailed video to help and find them. Once you get them you will have 4 hidden trophies: "You Found Me!", "Hide and Seek", "Pit Master" and "Brotherhood of Shadow".
Step 8: Hard Trophies
Welcome to the most time consuming trophy in the game. If you played SSF4 you will remember the time-consumer C-Ranking trophy. If not well, let me tell you that trophy is “fast” compared with “My Kung Fu Is Stronger”, which will take you an insane amount of time. On the road you will gain “My Kung Fu Is Strong.” Also there is the last trophy remaining “Ladder Master” which may well cause you a little annoying time, but it's doable with some strategy and very, very much patience.
Once you finish this, you will be able to gain the Ultimate Platinum of fighting games EVER! Congratulations! You deserve it!
[PS3T Would Like to Thank leptonic for this Road Map]
Story Related & Cannot Be Missed.
There are 16 chapters in the story and trust me it's awesome. You need to finish the 9th chapter to unlock 50% of the Story and finish the 16th chapter to unlock this silver trophy. Here is a complete VideoGuide for the Storyline.
The chapters are listed below (spoiler)
Chapter 1: Johnny Cage
Johnny Cage vs Reptile, Baraka, Sonya, Kano
Chapter 2: Sonya
Sonya vs Sub-Zero, Raiden, Jade and Kitana, Kano
Chapter 3: Scorpion
Scorpion vs Kung Lao, Nightwolf, Sektor and Cyrax, Sub-Zero
Chapter 4: Cyrax
Cyrax vs Sheeva, Baraka, Johnny Cage, Sektor
Chapter 5: Liu Kang
Liu Kang vs Ermac, Kitana, Scorpion and Quan Chi, Goro, Shang Tsung
Chapter 6: Jax
Jax vs Baraka, Johnny Cage, Jade, Sheeva
Chapter 7: Smoke
Smoke vs Kitana, Kano, Sub-Zero and Reptile, Sektor
Chapter 8: Sub-Zero
Sub-Zero vs Cyrax, Ermac, Reptile, Scorpion
Chapter 9: Kitana
Kitana vs Smoke and Johnny Cage, Jade, Mileena, Shang Tsung
Chapter 10: Jade
Jade vs Baraka, Sheeva, Mileena, Smoke
Chapter 11: Kung Lao
Kung Lao vs Noob Saibot, Goro, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, Kintaro, Shao Kahn
Chapter 12: Stryker
Stryker vs Reptile, Mileena, Kintaro, Ermac
Chapter 13: Kabal
Kabal vs Kano, Mileena and Noob Saibot, Cyber Sub-Zero, Sheeva
Chapter 14: Cyber Sub-Zero
Cyber Sub-Zero vs Sektor, Kintaro and Goro, Ermac, Noob Saibot
Chapter 15: Nightwolf
Nightwolf vs Quan Chi, Cyrax, Sektor, Sindel
Chapter 16: Raiden
Raiden vs Scorpion, Jax, Stryker and Kabal, Kitana, Nightwolf, and Kung Lao, Liu Kang, Shao Kahn
Another very simple trophy, just perform ANY fatality and you will be done. You can pause the game and see the moves in the “Move List” options if you have trouble.
This one is simple; just pick Sonya in any game mode (training DOES count) and perform the X-Ray move. You need to completely fill the bar at the bottom of the screen and press + when the opponent is close and without guard.
For this one you need to keep track of every fighter and perform a throw forward and backward, by pressing and moving the left or right for the throws. There are 28 available fighters so you will need to finish the story mode to unlock the 2 remaining characters (Cyber Sub-Zero and Quan Chi). You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
You need to keep track of your fighters and finish the ladder with EVERYONE, including the 2 unlockable characters in the story mode. You can set up 1 round and 30 seconds to do it faster AND by playing Tag Ladders; completing 2 arcades ladder in one single road. You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
You need to keep track of your fighters and perform a single fatality with every 28 characters; training DOESN’T count. You can keep track of the fighters in the Nekropolis. Pause the game once you see the “Finish him” label in the screen and go to the move list to see how to perform them. You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
Boostable. You can get this trophy offline in versus modes with a second controller OR you can boost it in KOTH while you are boosting the respect points or time played.
This is one of the hardest trophies in the game BY FAR. You can set up the fight at 1 round, 30 seconds and use some strategies posted HERE. Scorpion is maybe the best option to tackle this hard one.
Thanks to StOrMtRoOpErMx19 for the video showing one of the easiest ways!
This is another hard trophy to get. You need to win an ENTIRE MATCH (both rounds) without pressing the jump button . You can try to boost it but make sure you are trying in Ranked Match; King of the Hill DOESN’T count for this one.
You CAN do some "teleports" and "jumping" special moves like Ermac and Scorpion does and it STILL works! Tested and confirmed by StOrMtRoOpErMx19.
Just be patient and concentrate on NOT JUMPING and be VERY careful when you see the "Finish him" label in the screen because if you JUMP to get close to your opponent to Finish him you will NOT get the trophy! Because it counts as a jump here too don't perform ANY jumping Fatality like Reptile does, just wait to the end without trying any fatality as it's more secure.
Follow the instructions provided by HiryuMK: "... play Ranked Tag since more people play 1v1. One of us counted 3,2,1, Go and search Ranked Tag at the same time".
Fairly simple one; just finish the ladder WITHOUT pressing the button. You can do the X-Rays (+) just make sure you have the bar completely full and you will have it straight away.
This bronze is very easy and simple; just begin a Tag Ladder with Sektor and Cyrax and finish the 10 levels. You can set up 1 round with 30 seconds and hit enough times for damage then use block and wait till the time expires. For the last fight you need to beat the crazy Shao Kahn even on easy. You can use continues.
Follow the instructions provided by HiryuMK: "... play Ranked Tag since more people play 1v1. One of us counted 3,2,1, Go and search Ranked Tag at the same time".
Another tough one because it's not easily boostable. I recommend trying to master one player! Playing matches online will train you. What I did was win 1-2 ranked in a row, then joined any room and won another 2-3 (not necessarily in a row here), then returned to ranked and won another 2-3 in a row and repeated the process until suddenly it popped. Remember it needs to be done in RANKED MATCHES; to be honest it took me like 1 hour and I did it with Kung Lao, but Scorpion, Milenna or Smoke will work too.
Also here is a tip from Ashwin10:
"I played TAG ranked matches because that's where all the beginners are at.. so I got up to 9 wins ok and then on the 10th round I almost got the win but that dude kept spamming Kitana's fan.. so just before he killed me or even the Finish him popped up.. I pulled out my MK disc without quitting. When I got back online and won my next game my trophy popped!! So this method works and doesn't count as a LOSS if you take the disk out before you lose"
You can press the button and go back to the XMB and it still works!
Boostable. Another trophy easily boostable in KOTH rooms. You will work on it while you gain respect points, so keep on that and you will gain some time killing 2 birds with the same stone. Also, you can do it the legit way playing Ranked matches just for fun and you will eventually unlock it but it will may take you more time doing this method.
See "Ultimate Respect!" for some tips about winning faster.
Boostable. Just make sure your partner doesn’t hit you and you will have it very simple. You need a flawless in a single round, NOT in the entire match. If you block some attacks it counts like a hit, so you will need to try it again.
Boostable. You can do it with a partner or in a boosting-group and always vote 10 after every fight. I personally recommend to just boost it with one partner because its EXACTLY the same and isn’t too boring waiting for your turn. You need to win 100 matches and receive 10 points after every match. It will take you around 2+ hours if you boost it because you will be switching wins.
See "Ultimate Respect!" for some tips about winning faster.
Easy one, but you will need around 160,000 coins to unlock the 50%. Finishing the story will net you like 150,000 and the rest you need to earn in the Challenges Tower or playing the ladder. Try to perform Fatalities (250 koins), Babalities (500 koins) and Flawless Victories (1,000 koins).
Look HERE for the location of the 4 hidden chests.
For this one you need around 300,000 coins and it will take you like an hour to unlock all the stuff in the krypt. You can see the progress of the 4 areas by pressing (map) and changing the area to see the % remaining in each section.
Also there are 4 hidden chests to find. They are NOT necessary to get the trophy but each one will net you 5,000 Koins and the locations are HERE.
One tip if you have the 4 hidden chests, thanks to MegaHentai for the tip:
"...technically, it is not necessary to unlock all the graves. You need a total of 299 graves for the trophy but the four secret chests count even though they have not been factored into the required total"
This will come by your natural progress. It will be one of your first trophies gained so don't worry about it; just keep playing ladders, story mode, challenges or online matches.
Boostable. Like the “You Will Learn Respect!” trophy you need to do it in KOTH rooms. You will need 250 wins to earn this bronze and you need to spend at less 5+ hours if you switch wins.
This is a TIP for winning KOTH matches faster; I mean with only 1 hit!:
Both players in the room sync to enable the code:
(0,4,4) (4,4,0) Sans Power Start on danger.
BEFORE every match and the winner will need just 1 hit to beat the opponent.
If you need help on how to perform the Kode look HERE.
Some people are reporting a huge lose of Respect Points when they leave the room so maybe you want to check HERE for some tips.
Boostable. The easy way to gain this silver one is do it with a partner in a KOTH room. Just switch 10 wins in a row with each other and both will have it. Note that if you lose the connection you will need to start all over again. You need 10 wins in the same stay.
See "Ultimate Respect!" for some tips about winning faster.
Boostable. Like the “You Will Learn Respect!” trophy you need to do it in KOTH rooms. You will need 250 wins to earn this bronze and you need to spend at less 5+ hours if you switch wins.
This is a TIP for winning KOTH matches faster; I mean with only 1 hit!:
Both players in the room sync to enable the code:
(0,4,4) (4,4,0) Sans Power Start on danger.
BEFORE every match and the winner will need just 1 hit to beat the opponent.
If you need help on how to perform the Kode look HERE.
Follow the instructions provided by HiryuMK:
"... play Ranked Tag since more people play 1v1. One of us counted 3,2,1, Go and search Ranked Tag at the same time".
This one is tough, I mean if you are not able to find a partner to boost it; you need to win BOTH rounds with the time at "0." This means you need to have more health than your opponent when the time expires.
Just try to block the opponents moves and hit him slowly, keep your distance ALWAYS and keep track of the clock and the health bars. Be careful with your opponent's X-Rays moves.
Some recommendations:
- Choose Tag-Teams because the quitters are less common here.
- Select your 2 best fighters.
- DO NOT rush, just wait for your opponents moves!
- DO NOT use your X-Ray.
- Use any kind of stunt move often, like the Sub-Zero frozen balls.
- You still can lose one round, of course you need to win the last one.
Boostable. Another tough one without a boost partner. You need to win a single round within 10% health or less, AND your opponent needs to have the FULL 100% of his bar. Try to master Scorpion or Milenna's teleportation move or even Smoke's double punch move and you will have a good chance to unlock this one. Also keep your X-Ray move to hit your opponent at the prefect time.
Just keep track of your fighters and perform EVERY X-Ray move for the 28 fighters (pressing + when the bar is full), Note that you need to complete the story to unlock the 2 remaining characters. You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
This is 100% luck based. This one has two probabilities.
1: you are a lucky one and you will get it really fast! or
2: this is the most annoying trophy to get in the game, here are the steps to follow:
Go to Kombat and select Test Your Luck Challenge.
- Select the fighter (really doesn't matter which one)
- Select Expert, (many people have more chances selecting Expert than any other difficulty)
- You can press or wait for the wheel to start.
- The first reel doesn't matter which fighter appears.
- The second reel MUST be a yellow dragon's coin, if NOT press pause and retry.
- The third and forth reels MUST be a dragon's coin too and you will have the trophy!.
Thanks to CooperFyfe for the tip:
"I don't know if it actually holds any merit, but I did press 7x after the 1st slot, 7x after second and 7 times after the 3rd"
This is an easy one. There are 26 costumes to buy in the Krypt PLUS Kratos' alternate costume which is unlocked by beating arcade ladder with Kratos (thanks Liad-88 for the tip), and you need exactly 28,980 koins to buy all of them (Cyber Sub-Zero is the only one without an alternate costume). Note that you DO NOT NEED Mileena's 3rd Alternate Costume to gain this trophy (Thanks to Wickedtheif1 for the tip). You need to unlock them in Nekropolis (note that it is NOT necessary to wear them). If you want them fast you need to find them exactly in the following locations: (Spoiler)
To master one character you need to complete the following objectives:
- 100 wins
- 100 -alities (fatalities and/or babalities)
- 150 X-Ray moves
- 10,000 liters of blood (each character)
- 24 net hours of play
You can keep track of the character’s progress in the Necropolis. You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
This is the most time consuming trophy in the game and by-the-way it is the ONLY gold trophy in the game. Like the “My Kung Fu Is Strong” trophy, you need to reach the mastery of ALL 28 fighters! This is the total objectives that you need to complete OVERALL MINIMUM:
- 2,800 wins
- 2,800 -alities (fatalities and/or babalities)
- 4,200 X-Rays moves
- 280,000 liters of blood
- 672 NET HOURS!! of play (like 28 days playing a full 24hrs a day)
There are two tips for making this trophy half way faster and doable in around 350 hours or less:
Tip 1:
- You need ONLY 1 control.
- Go to Training mode and select Tag Practice Mode (2vs2) and pick two desired fighters, both who need the 24 hours of time play.
- Once the "fight" starts just leave the controller plugged into the USB port and turn the TV off for a while (preferable at nights)
- When you check the "fight" just pause it and return to main menu (remember must be on training).
- After this go to Nekropolis and see the stats of both players and you will notice the increase of the time played.
Tip 2: thanks to darkrealm for the tip:
This trick takes two controllers:
Go to Tag versus
Enter versus code 466 ( four times 6 times 6 times) on both controllers
Have rounds set for 3
You will have unlimited super bar so you can constantly do your X-rays. You can get about 24 done per match this way while it also helps with pints of blood spilled. You can master two things at a time while also working on the time milestone this way. It's saving me a bunch of time on this.
Also you can keep track of the character’s progress in the Necropolis. You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
For these 3 trophies I will recommend you play the Tower missions because you need to unlock the mini-games challenges here. Just keep playing the challenges and you will unlock them eventually. Once you start to reach the highest levels the mini-games becomes harder but doable. I used an AA battery to push the buttons faster.
You need to finish ALL 300 challenges in the Tower and you will unlock this tough and time consuming silver trophy. It will take you a lot of time! Also, you can unlock the hardest challenges you are facing with Koins BUT sooner or later you MUST finish them if you want this trophy.
HERE is an amazing Video guide of ALL the challenges where you can see tips and how to clear the hardest ones.
This one is unlocked AFTER beating OR BUYING ALL the Tower missions (including the 300th challenge which costs 50,000 koins). Note that this one is NOT NEEDED for gaining the "You've Got Style!" trophy (Thanks to Wickedtheif1 for the tip). See "Tower Master" for more details.
This will unlock as you are trying for the “Complet-ality” trophy. Just perform ANY single Babality and you will have it. The following link shows ALL the fighter’s MOVES.
For this one you need to perform ONLY the 28 Babalities, (STAGE Fatalities and the Alternate Fatalities are NOT necessary to gain this trophy! (Thanks StOrMtRoOpErMx19 and MortalKombat9 for the tip). You can download this CHECKLIST to help keep track of the moves and fighters.
Ok, this is really HARD! 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)
- Do NOT lose any round until reaching Shang Tsung
- Note that it is NOT necessary to do a fatality to ALL fighters!
- You have to perform TWO flawless victories in a row vs Shang Tsung
- This can be done with ANY fighter
- When you beat him you have to perform a Fatality
- After a loading screen Jade will appear and also the trophy.
One Tip here: If Shang Tsung hits you, you DO NOT need to start the ladder all over again; just win the match and when the "Finish him" label appears don't perform it, pause the game and select retry OR change fighter. Doing that DOESN'T count as a loss and you will be able to try and get a double flawless again!
For this one here is the help provided by PowerPyx:
- This can only be done on "The Forest" map in ladder mode
- Start a new ladder in Beginner (you need to wait to fight on "The Forest" map)
- Watch the trees on the far right (see video)
- Once you see a figure (yellow circle in video) press +
- If you do not see any figure, pause and retry until you see it
- Smoke will appear and also the trophy
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.
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 Temple" map in Ladder mode
- Once you reach "The Temple" (see video) you need to win BOTH rounds without blocking (NOT
pressing button)
- Beat your opponent while Noob is standing upstairs (yellow circle in video)
- Noob will appear and also the trophy.
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, making a Fatality, X-Ray and you will gain in the road another 4 easy bronzes “Fatality!” “Block This!” “Where's The Arcade?” and “What Does This Button Do??.” Note that if you lose some fights you can select retry and you still will gain the trophies.
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