Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-70.169.224.88-20150427184942/@comment-72.197.211.140-20150519093624

But even if that IS the true explanation it's still a mockery of Quan Chi's powers. It's not like he tied ALL of his powers to the amulet itself. I consider that extremely stupid.

One of the fundamental rules of combat is that you're not supposed to gamble everything on one card. Quan Chi had to have known all along that there's a chance the amulet could be taken away from him and everything.

As for Raiden's ability to know what was supposed to have happened in the original timeline, this is hard to say. If you remember during that part in the story mode, when Liu Kang (now revenant) confronted him, Raiden DID say that those visions had stopped. For the visions we saw back in MK9, that was mostly regarding the events of the first 3 MK games. Back then, Raiden was too focused on trying to prevent Shao Kahn from achieving armageddon, he wouldn have paid very little attention to what was happening with Shinnok.

After all, Shinnok did not win during the Battle of Armageddon, and therefore Raiden would have interpreted that to mean the elder god's efforts did not have as much effect.