That first stage Li Mei and Johnny Cage were fighting in looks amazing, I think it was called the Dragonfly. The 3d era did have some really cool stages
Deadly Alliance and Deception had really beautiful stages. Unfortunately Armageddon was bad and looked bad. The stages and characters models had less textures.
It's actually funny that MK1 Li Mei gets an air-exclusive flip kick, that was born from a bug in KaF. You could set certain specials that weren't meant to be aerial to work in the air and that was one of them.
Always saw Li Mei as the female face of the 3D era (counterpart to Kenshi as the male face) for being one of the newcomers of DA that stayed to Armageddon and gameplay at least to a pleb like me stayed consistent. Not so much for her design suprisingly, her SMDA still remains my favourite of hers.
Thank you. I honestly didn't expect you guy to do Li Mei until after MK1 was out but I am all for it. Li Mei is one of my favorites from the 3D Era and to see her playable once again is just wonderful
I have a soft spot for Li Mei, and most of the characters from Deadly Alliance. DA was an awesome MK game and I have fond memories of playing that game for hours in my mid-teens. I am very excited for Li Mei's revamped storyline in MK1 and I'm curious how it will go. She appears to have a large role in MK1's story and her role as a trainer for Kitana and Mileena is very interestig. A bit like the Bo Rai Cho for the sisters.
Gonna be awesome seeing her play a major role in a mk story after being a minor side character from DA to MKX. And even better she is voiced and modeled after one of the legendary martial arts actresses Kelly Hu
@@wl4316 Don't forget MKX. He was also playable in the Game Boy version of the original MK, but it probably wouldn't be worth mentioning due to how awful that version apparently is.
He is playable in mk trilogy, mk4 , Deception, Armageddon, and mkx, you could also hack the game and play with him in mk9 like they did with Shao Kahn.
I never went back and looked at the old Li Mei, since I did that for Tanya back when she came out in MKX and I thought she looked awful. Old Li Mei looks better then I expected though.
Hi Mustard, one of Li Mei's strongest Baji Quan combos goes this route: pop-up, pop-up, 4, FF2. The second pop-up in a row lauches the enemy high enough to allow you to end the combo with standing 4 followed by FF2 special. Hitting an enemy on punish with a pop-up doesn't happen often, but the damage from this combo alone is higher than any combo in her 2nd or 3rd style. This works on the PAL version of the game, so playing at 60 frames should make it even easier.
Love the love Li Mei is getting. Def one of my favs from the 3D era. And she came back with a vengeance for MK1. Can’t wait to see her skins. Can QUEEN KITANA be next now? She is long overdue.
Liu kang finally got to be the poster boy for mk1 so i think it might be time to see a competitive history of him. Gonna be a long one tho. Just an idea
Iv always liked her and her deception design is still her best design. I'm surprised you are covering her mk1 version since that was a beta and things can change.
Horrible until Deadly Alliance where he was really good, close to top 5. Horrible in Armageddon from what I've heard, really good in IX, and top 10 in XI.
Great video! I’m curious how you’re going to rank the strength of characters in MK1. Would you do it with or without cameos, better yet would you incorporate specific cameos into a future competitive history? Excited for MK1.
Amazing video, but will u maybe make a kitana competetive histroy, benn waiting a year for that, shes my main and Id like to see how she was across the older games 😀
I've always felt the "hate" that the 3D era gets is trying to rewrite history. No one hated those games and they are still fun to play. Also, maybe it's just me but I'm much more a fan of quick snappy combos as opposed to each button being mapped to a specific limb and not being able to sidestep on top of that. Also three fighting styles. I love the newer games but I miss the old combat.
@rudolphschmidt313 you're right about the story part in modern mk and the new mk1 campaign seems to look to retain the same quality of writing with the previous ones
Excellent video once again dude. The Li Mei was designed in MK1 is a true reimagination of her, with all the fan service that you would like to see from her 3D MK days to how MK games are now, truly amazing!
I'm hoping for some Science Of MK1, since MK11 and MK1 are just so different with their meter, and Kameo. Plus a remaster of those videos couldn't hurt. It's hard to find channels or forums that explain certain tech and the fundamentals.
with MK1's release and Baraka actually being top tier I would love to see a Baraka competitive history. I don't know much about pre NRS competitive as I didn't get into watching the competitive scene until MK9, but from what I know Baraka has never been good until now. He's been one of my favourite characters ever since the arcade era, and I would love to see how his gameplay changed over the years, but was unable to keep up with most other characters.
Love your guys content - I always make sure to save the video for dinner time for maximum enjoyment 😍 If I could say one thing though - do you guys have something against Kitana on this channel?😂 Not one video about her and it would give you more of a chance to explore games you’ve never covered before like Shaolin Monks! If I could ask for one thing it’d be to give Kitana the praise she deserves in one of these breakdown videos!!
Kitana is one of many characters yet to have an episode. Don't worry, her time will come. Shaolin monks wasn't a tournament game so it wouldn't be covered anyway.
Li Mei definitely got lost in the shuffle in deception. Everybody was so excited about the many returning legacy characters that she got a little ignored I think. I've always thought hat she was massively underrated in that game.
For april fools, you could do competitive history of the joker in mortal kombat, because he did appear in two games Competitive history of batman might be funnier though.
shes still rated "low to mid tier" in MKD tier lists though....but it kinda steams from Deception being broken and her being a relatively "fair and easy to pick up" character
I used to tear folks up with Li Mei in local tournaments I hosted back in 2006-2007 tournaments. My cousin would always play Frost and Sareena in Armageddon and I would play as Li Mei and Reiko. It was alwasy a toss up for who was going to win when we would face off.
0:17 1:13 Man the movement speed in MKDA was the absolute BEST out of all the 3D era games. It was poke heavy and felt more footsie based. You could strike with quick pokes and jump back out of the way. I know everyone sees Deception as the fan favorite because of puzzle/kart kombat etc. But mechanically, DA felt better to play. Everything felt so slow and stiff in Deception and even worse in Amrageddon. Why did they degrade the movement so much with each game??
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That first stage Li Mei and Johnny Cage were fighting in looks amazing, I think it was called the Dragonfly. The 3d era did have some really cool stages
You are correct it is Dragonfly, deadly alliance had some of the coolest stages in the series
Deadly Alliance and Deception had really beautiful stages. Unfortunately Armageddon was bad and looked bad. The stages and characters models had less textures.
Man the jiggle physics in this game were crazy, poor Li Mei is probably in so much pain with those things bouncing around
#BringBackBoobs
You’re too old to be commenting stuff like this bro
Like freaking water balloons flapping about, lol
@@TaIIeryou’re too young to be on the internet
It's actually funny that MK1 Li Mei gets an air-exclusive flip kick, that was born from a bug in KaF. You could set certain specials that weren't meant to be aerial to work in the air and that was one of them.
Always saw Li Mei as the female face of the 3D era (counterpart to Kenshi as the male face) for being one of the newcomers of DA that stayed to Armageddon and gameplay at least to a pleb like me stayed consistent.
Not so much for her design suprisingly, her SMDA still remains my favourite of hers.
I really hope to see Kompetitive History of Shang Tsung.
Same, such an interesting character
I was just about to type that. (Thank you daddy)
Thank you. I honestly didn't expect you guy to do Li Mei until after MK1 was out but I am all for it. Li Mei is one of my favorites from the 3D Era and to see her playable once again is just wonderful
One of my favorite things about the 3D characters returning is the competitive history coverage you guys will be doing 🔥🔥
I have a soft spot for Li Mei, and most of the characters from Deadly Alliance. DA was an awesome MK game and I have fond memories of playing that game for hours in my mid-teens. I am very excited for Li Mei's revamped storyline in MK1 and I'm curious how it will go. She appears to have a large role in MK1's story and her role as a trainer for Kitana and Mileena is very interestig. A bit like the Bo Rai Cho for the sisters.
Yes! Good to see you do Li Mei as you hinted in the livestream! 🔥
Gonna be awesome seeing her play a major role in a mk story after being a minor side character from DA to MKX.
And even better she is voiced and modeled after one of the legendary martial arts actresses Kelly Hu
She was a pivotal character in DA tho but I agree tho
She was the canonical winner of the Deadly Alliance tournament, and the first character to win a MK tournament in the series other than Liu Kang.
@@ToyotaKudoFan exactly. Her village was the catalyst for the Deadly Alliance's plan to resurrect The Dragon King's lost army
This was an awesome breakdown of Li Mei. Personally she was my favorite character to play in the beta.
Mk meta and competitive history are probably some of my favorite vids
ESSPECIALLY for 3d MK since they are such oddball games compared to the 2d
Could we see a competitive history on Goro next?
Besides Armageddon, in what other game is he playable?
@@KaoruMzkdeception and I guess its possible to cover him for MK9?
@@wl4316 Don't forget MKX. He was also playable in the Game Boy version of the original MK, but it probably wouldn't be worth mentioning due to how awful that version apparently is.
@@PsychoKaiju oh yeah I tend to forget about the characters that appear in MKX, never got to own the game :P
He is playable in mk trilogy, mk4 , Deception, Armageddon, and mkx, you could also hack the game and play with him in mk9 like they did with Shao Kahn.
I never went back and looked at the old Li Mei, since I did that for Tanya back when she came out in MKX and I thought she looked awful. Old Li Mei looks better then I expected though.
Weirdly enough, Li Mei's 4 hit kick, if timed right, you could cheese Moloch in Deadly Alliance. Though the timing is... well, a bit tricky.
Hi Mustard, one of Li Mei's strongest Baji Quan combos goes this route: pop-up, pop-up, 4, FF2. The second pop-up in a row lauches the enemy high enough to allow you to end the combo with standing 4 followed by FF2 special. Hitting an enemy on punish with a pop-up doesn't happen often, but the damage from this combo alone is higher than any combo in her 2nd or 3rd style. This works on the PAL version of the game, so playing at 60 frames should make it even easier.
This has been the best two months Li Mei fans have ever had. Thanks fam
bring back the jiggle physics
Li Mei in MK1 looks nuts, she looks like the kind of character I'd spend hours labbing. That dragon move she does reminds me of Giovanna from GG St.
Love the love Li Mei is getting. Def one of my favs from the 3D era. And she came back with a vengeance for MK1. Can’t wait to see her skins. Can QUEEN KITANA be next now? She is long overdue.
Liu kang finally got to be the poster boy for mk1 so i think it might be time to see a competitive history of him. Gonna be a long one tho. Just an idea
For me its Li Mei or Sindel as main, I really like Smokes gameplay but Li Mei is such a great looking character.
great video! always look forward to the competitive histories, great videos for a bath, relaxing and consistently interesting
was hoping to hear kompetitive history of scorpion, i'd like to hear you elaborate on his mk9 weaknesses
That'll be probably the hardest video to make for the series, but I've wanted it forever too.
Iv always liked her and her deception design is still her best design. I'm surprised you are covering her mk1 version since that was a beta and things can change.
Can't wait for story of Shang Tsung, I wonder how good was the agefluid sorcerer
Horrible until Deadly Alliance where he was really good, close to top 5. Horrible in Armageddon from what I've heard, really good in IX, and top 10 in XI.
I’m so excited to see Li Mei In a 2D fighter.
I'd love to see a competitive history of more of the returning characters in MK1 like Nitara, ashrah, and even Sareena
This channel is simply phenomenal. I always look forward to these!
Great video! I’m curious how you’re going to rank the strength of characters in MK1. Would you do it with or without cameos, better yet would you incorporate specific cameos into a future competitive history? Excited for MK1.
I really wanna see the Competitive History of Baraka & Havik! :)
Great overview. I hope you'll do one with Jax soon.
I’d love to see a competitive history of skarlet or kitana! Good video as always
Mortal Kombat 1 turns every female characters into auntie lol
Let’s go! Li Mei is my favorite female character in MK!
Amazing video, but will u maybe make a kitana competetive histroy, benn waiting a year for that, shes my main and Id like to see how she was across the older games 😀
I've always felt the "hate" that the 3D era gets is trying to rewrite history. No one hated those games and they are still fun to play. Also, maybe it's just me but I'm much more a fan of quick snappy combos as opposed to each button being mapped to a specific limb and not being able to sidestep on top of that. Also three fighting styles. I love the newer games but I miss the old combat.
The 3d era is 1000x better than the modern mk games way make kontent and a story that doesn't seem to be written by a 4 year old
@@rudolphschmidt313major major cap lmfao
Historical revisionism. They sold very well on release and were popular online. They aren't GOOD fighting games in retrospect but they did very well.
@rudolphschmidt313 you're right about the story part in modern mk and the new mk1 campaign seems to look to retain the same quality of writing with the previous ones
@@dimentioo Story wise? Yes, 3d is a magnitude better. But gameplay? Nah. It's got it's charm factor though
Excellent video once again dude. The Li Mei was designed in MK1 is a true reimagination of her, with all the fan service that you would like to see from her 3D MK days to how MK games are now, truly amazing!
I’ve been waiting for another one of these for SO LONG!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really like how unique she looked in DA compared to the other games, I hope they bring that costume back.
Damn the old Li mei jiggle physic is crazyyyy😮
I'm hoping for some Science Of MK1, since MK11 and MK1 are just so different with their meter, and Kameo.
Plus a remaster of those videos couldn't hurt. It's hard to find channels or forums that explain certain tech and the fundamentals.
with MK1's release and Baraka actually being top tier I would love to see a Baraka competitive history. I don't know much about pre NRS competitive as I didn't get into watching the competitive scene until MK9, but from what I know Baraka has never been good until now. He's been one of my favourite characters ever since the arcade era, and I would love to see how his gameplay changed over the years, but was unable to keep up with most other characters.
Will you do competitive history of Johnny Cage one day?
I love these videos also would you please do a competitive history of liu kang
CAN’T BELIEVE SHE’S FINALLY BACK WOOOOO
I love Lei Mei from all the previous timelines 😍🥰💜
I recently got into these vids with the release of MK1 and have wondered why they’re not called “Kompetitive History”
Right when I got my dinner ready, thanks guys ✨
Love your guys content - I always make sure to save the video for dinner time for maximum enjoyment 😍
If I could say one thing though - do you guys have something against Kitana on this channel?😂 Not one video about her and it would give you more of a chance to explore games you’ve never covered before like Shaolin Monks! If I could ask for one thing it’d be to give Kitana the praise she deserves in one of these breakdown videos!!
Kitana is one of many characters yet to have an episode. Don't worry, her time will come.
Shaolin monks wasn't a tournament game so it wouldn't be covered anyway.
@@PNDKM thanks b
Li Mei definitely got lost in the shuffle in deception. Everybody was so excited about the many returning legacy characters that she got a little ignored I think. I've always thought hat she was massively underrated in that game.
Some of those deadly alliance are certainly something
Any chance we'll ever see an MK2 meta? It was the one I grew up with as I was too young for MK (was also too young for MK2 but it was the 90s)
History of scorpion would be cool
Patiently waiting for Raiden’s history lol
3D MK is my favorite Tekken.
Any plans for Liu Kang competitive history?
new Competitive History video, pog 🍿
What song starts playing at the start of the MK1 section?
The video uses the street fighter ex2 plus soundtrack. You can find it on RUclips easy. It's damn good
i'd love to see shang tsung in one of these!!
would there be enough for a competitive history of nightwolf?
I still want a competitive history video for johnny cage and baraka
What's the name of the song in the Mortal Kombat Armageddon portion of this video?
Can you do one about kenshi please
Great video as always
3D era characters boutta be the future of MK
Better idea than Kombat kids
I wouldn't be surprised if Blaze gets retconned as a titan of sorts
If you do a competitive history on a character that is a kameo in mk1 will you cover there kameo appearance?
Sad that they nerfed her juggs😢
Competitive history of Baraka!
Think you can do a Kitana competitive evolution?
Your next competitive history should be bo rai cho whenever that is. Also wanted to know more about his competitive history.
You'll like it when bo has his time. His 3d days were wild to day the least
@@PNDKM I can't wait
We need mrgstar321 to make a cameo in that video lol
For april fools, you could do competitive history of the joker in mortal kombat, because he did appear in two games
Competitive history of batman might be funnier though.
Will future competitive histories cover kameos?
Absolutely. They're a big part of the new game, so it would make sense to feature them
I hope gearas is next mainly because of how many of his moves are banned in competitive in mk11
What's the song on the MKDA chapter?
Fun fact: only 5 characters are playable in all 3 main 3D era games: Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Raiden, Bo Rai Cho, and Li MFn Mei
I'm so excited this series is back. Hopefully we get a Goro or Havik one next. Love your channel dude!
I thought you where going to mention her Kameo in mkx story mode:)
He did.
We're so back
please do history of shang tsung. pls.
could we see a raiden competitive history?
She seemed like a very decent character after deadly alliance
shes still rated "low to mid tier" in MKD tier lists though....but it kinda steams from Deception being broken and her being a relatively "fair and easy to pick up" character
I used to tear folks up with Li Mei in local tournaments I hosted back in 2006-2007 tournaments. My cousin would always play Frost and Sareena in Armageddon and I would play as Li Mei and Reiko. It was alwasy a toss up for who was going to win when we would face off.
I DEMAND you change “Combo Queen” to “Kombo Queen”
Do kitana next! I love these and she's my main.
Make a Sindel one 💜✨️
Yes
18:39 Baji Quan reference
I hope we get 3d era skins
I'm genuinely surprised sub zero is not done yet
Oh we eating good today!
What stops you to make a video on scorpion?
She was my main during the beta
I just wanna support Ketchup 🤷🏾♂️
She felt like a Female Liu Kang with a Mix of Sonya and Jax in a Great Way, it’s good to see one of the original 3 from the 3D Era Returns.
Chinese auntie has been REVIVED lets go bby 🎉🎉
I'd be intrested to see a competitive history for Kitana or Sindel. Anyone else?
Can we see a competitive history of injustice?
Ketchup vs mustard in Kombat chess? (Deception)
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1:13
Man the movement speed in MKDA was the absolute BEST out of all the 3D era games. It was poke heavy and felt more footsie based. You could strike with quick pokes and jump back out of the way. I know everyone sees Deception as the fan favorite because of puzzle/kart kombat etc. But mechanically, DA felt better to play. Everything felt so slow and stiff in Deception and even worse in Amrageddon. Why did they degrade the movement so much with each game??
Make one for Nightwolf!!!