
Firstly, in MK3, the Mercy move only returned a tiny sliver of health to your opponent, not the significant chunk in MK11. However, there are a couple of differences between Mortal Kombat 3‘s and Mortal Kombat 11‘s version of the Mercy finisher. In that game it was actually performed in a very similar way: By holding the Run button, pressing Down a few times, and then releasing the Run button. Has the Mercy move been in previous Mortal Kombat games?Īs far as we’re aware, the Mercy finishing move has only appeared in one other Mortal Kombat game, and that’s Mortal Kombat 3 for the SNES and Genesis/Megadrive in 1995, as well as the Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 re-release on other platforms. It’s incredibly easy to pull off too, although honestly you only really want to be using it if you’ve got vastly more health than your opponent, since your character’s health does not reset. If only Fatalities were that straightforward. The Mercy finishing move is unique in that it’s pulled off in exactly the same way by all characters in Mortal Kombat 11, and it has the same affect when used on all those characters too. Better luck next time.ĭoes the Mercy finishing move work with all characters? If it doesn’t work the second time, oh well, they’ve probably just died. If you’ve done it correctly, the word “Mercy” should appear in massive golden letters on the screen, and your opponent’s life bar will fill up a small about (roughly a fifth of their life bar, which is pretty generous). With Stance Change held down, press Down three times, and then let the Stance Change button go. To perform a Mercy, stand about mid-distance from your staggered opponent (not too close, in other words), and hold the Stance Change button, which is LT on Xbox One and L2 on PS4.

You’ll first need to defeat your opponent and get to the “Finish Him/Her” text screen of course, then if you’re feeling generous, you can pull off Mercy and give that opponent another shot at defeating you. This move combination for the Mercy finisher works for all characters, and isn’t actually that difficult to pull off. While each character has multiple Fatalities with different move combinations to pull them all off, there is only one Mercy move, and only one way to pull it off.
#MERCY MK 11 HOW TO#
That’s it on performing mercy in MK11, In our next guide, we’ll show you how to breakaway MK11.Advertisement How to perform a Mortal Kombat 11 Mercy finishing move You may also use it to extend play even if not for much and just enjoy the fun. In some instances, if you’re set on brutalizing your opponent, the match shoots over and in the process of performing your kombos, your opponent is defeated or you didn’t meet brutality requirements, you can use mercy to awaken your opponent and nicely give it to them. Please confirm you’re pressing the correct inputs and you’ve distanced yourself from your opponent, not too far, mid-screen, remember? Then finally, you can only mercy once in a set game, not twice.

In most cases Mercy won’t work if you don’t input it correctly or is not on mid-screen or have given mercy once in a match. Another useful instance for mercies in MK11 is to perform brutalities.

One of them is to show them you truly deserve the win over them by beating them again after exhausting the initial bars.

There are many reasons why you would want to mercy your opponent in Mortal Kombat 11. That should resurrect your opponent with a little amount of health bar but be careful as it puts them in fatal blow territory and can easily deal a huge play by tapping L2+R2 at the same time (That’s if they’ve not already used it). So just to be clear, its mid-screen then L2+⬇️⬇️⬇️įor XBOX users, it’ll be the same mechanic but LT (left trigger + Down thrice) To do this, simply move your player/character mid-screen and hold L2 while you tap the down direction thrice, that should activate the mercy function and you can resume Kombat. It’s quite easy to mercy your opponents in MK11.Īfter beating them and hearing the Finish Her/Him voice-over, you can gift them about 15% of life bars, for an extra fighting chance. If you’ve been mercied by some players either while playing kombat league or KOTH, and you’d like to be able to do that too, we’ll show you how to do that here.
