Mortal Kombat 2 FAQ
Retaliation
Retaliation is one of the key elements to winning. If you know how to
respond to your opponent's mistakes and take off the most damage, you
have them. The following are just some examples of what you can do in a
certain situation. For the sake of space, not all combos are listed.
Check out the combo section for info on what to do after an Air Jab.
If your opponent jumps directly in front of or on top of you:
- General: Uppercut
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Roundhouse
- General: Crouch Kick
- General: Straight Up Hop Kick
- General: Straight Up Hop Punch
- General: Crouch Punch - Uppercut
- General: Air Jab - Hop Kick
- General: Air Jab - Missile
- General: Air Jab - Combo
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Raiden: Teleport
If your opponent jumps in front of you:
- General: Missile Weapon
- General: Hop Kick
- General: Hop Punch
- Liu Kang: Flying Kick
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Reptile: Forceball - Combo
- Sub-Zero: Ground Freeze - Uppercut
- Mileena: Jump - Sai Throw
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Scorpion: Teleport Punch - Combo
- Raiden: Body Launch
If your opponent jumps directly behind you:
- General: Uppercut
- General: Air Jab - Combo
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Throw
- General: Missile Weapon
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Ball Breaker
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Scorpion: Leg Takedown
- Raiden: Body Launch
- Raiden: Electric Grab
If your opponent jumps away from you:
- General: Missile
- Liu Kang: Flying Kick
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Teleport Punch - Aerial Kick
- Reptile: Forecball - Combo
- Kitana: Flying Punch
- Jax: Ground Smash
- Mileena: Teleport Kick
- Scorpion: Teleport Punch - Combo
- Raiden: Body Launch
- Raiden: Teleport - Air Jab - Combo
If your opponent sweeps you, block then:
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Sweep
- General: Crouch Kick
- General: Throw
- General: Low Jabs
- General: Missile
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Reptile: Slide
- Sub-Zero: Slide
- Jax: Quadruple Slam
- Jax: Ground Smash
- Mileena: Ground Roll
- Baraka: Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Spear - Uppercut
- Raiden: Body Launch
If you block a missile, knee, kick, or other move at close range:
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Sweep
- General: Throw
- General: Roundhouse
- General: Low Jabs
- General: Uppercut
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Johnny Cage: Ballbreaker
- Reptile: Slide
- Sub-Zero: Slide
- Jax: Quadruple Slam
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Baraka: Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Leg Takedown
- Raiden: Body Launch
- Raiden: Electric Shocker - Combo
If Liu Kang does the Flying Kick, block then:
- General: Uppercut
- General: Roundhouse
- General: Low Jabs
- General: Missile
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Johnny Cage: Ball Breaker
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Mileena: Ground Roll
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Spear - Uppercut
- Raiden: Body Launch
If Liu Kang does the Bicycle Kick, block then:
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Hop Kick
- General: Missile
- General: walk forward - Uppercut
- General: walk forward - Roundhouse
- General: walk forward - Low Jabs
- General: walk forward - Air Jab - Combo
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Liu Kang: Flying Kick
- Kung Lao: Hop Kick - Aerial Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Sub-Zero: Ground Freeze - Uppercut
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Jax: Hop Kick - Back Breaker
- Mileena: Hop Kick - Ground Roll
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Spear - Uppercut
- Scorpion: Hop Kick - Teleport Punch - Combo
- Raiden: Body Launch
- Raiden: Hop Kick - Body Launch
If Kung Lao does the Ground Teleport, duck then:
- General: Uppercut
- General: Crouch Punch - Uppercut
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Liu Kang: Low Fireball
- Johnny Cage: Ball Breaker - Combo
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Scorpion: Leg Takedown
If Kung Lao does the Aerial Kick, or Mileena does the Ground Roll, or
Scorpion does the Teleport Punch, block then:
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Missile
- General: Walk Forward - Uppercut
- General: Walk Forward - Air Jab - Combo
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Sub-Zero: Ground Freeze - Combo
- Kitana: Hop Kick - Fan Throw
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Jax: Hop Kick - Back Breaker
- Mileena: Hop Kick - Sai Throw
- Mileena: Hop Kick - Ground Roll - Combo
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Air Throw
- Raiden: Hop Kick - Body Launch
If Johnny Cage does the Shadow Kick, duck then:
- General: Uppercut
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Johnny Cage: Ball Breaker
- Reptile: Slide
- Sub-Zero: Slide
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Scorpion: Leg Takedown
- Raiden: Electric Grab - Combo
If Reptile turns invisible:
- General: Use early jump kicks/punches until you hit them.
- General: Use your missile weapon until it hits.
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Teleport Punch
- Reptile: Slide
- Sub-Zero: Slide
- Jax: Ground Smash
- Mileena: Ground Roll
- Mileena: Teleport Kick
- Scorpion: Teleport Punch
- Raiden: Body Launch
If Reptile or Sub-Zero does the slide, block then:
- General: Uppercut
- General: Roundhouse
- General: Standing Kick
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Liu Kang: Ground Fireball
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Johnny Cage: Ball Breaker
- Reptile: Slide
- Sub-Zero: Slide
- Sub-Zero: Ground Freeze
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Leg Takedown
- Raiden: Body Launch
- Raiden: Electric Grab - Combo
If Kitana does the Aerial Punch, duck then:
- General: Uppercut
- General: Roundhouse
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Missile
- General: Air Jab - Combo
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Whirlwind Spin - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Sub-Zero: Ground Freeze - Combo
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: Gotcha Grab
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Mileena: Teleport Kick
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Baraka: Blade Fury
- Scorpion: Air Throw
- Raiden: Body Launch
If Mileena does the teleport kick, block then:
- General: Standing Kick
- General: Missile
- General: Hop Kick
- Liu Kang: Flying Kick
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Hop Kick - Aerial Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Sub-Zero: Ground Freeze - Combo
- Kitana: Aerial Punch
- Kitana: Hop Kick - Fan Throw
- Kitana: Fan Lift - Combo
- Jax: walk forward - Gotcha Grab
- Jax: Hop Kick - Back Breaker
- Mileena: Hop Kick - Sai Throw
- Mileena: Ground Roll - Combo
- Baraka: Blade Swipe
- Scorpion: Hop Kick - Teleport Punch
- Raiden: Hop Kick - Body Launch
If Raiden does the Body Launch, block then:
- General: Missile
- Liu Kang: Flying Kick
- Liu Kang: Bicycle Kick
- Kung Lao: Teleport Kick - Combo
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Kick
- Johnny Cage: Shadow Uppercut
- Kitana: Aerial Punch
- Mileena: Teleport Kick
- Scorpion: Teleport Punch
- Raiden: Body Launch
- Raiden: Teleport - Air Jab - Combo
Original text form written by Paul McElroy.
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