Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-26273923-20150430120420/@comment-25561256-20150504092231

The difficulty with Shao Kahn came in the form of him having 150% health and having armor on most of his attacks and getting random armor when you attacked him. But yes, for the most part, he was easy to defeat, even on expert. What you have to look at though, is how would a human player control him. A human would never use his taunts, because they are pointless. Also, his Upward Shoulder special gives him infinite pop-ups.

As far as Corrupted Shinnok is concerned, he was a cakewalk to defeat. The major annoyance with him, of course, was his Lava Chest Blast bullshit that he could use over and over on you randomly. It's a full-screen attack and can hit you even if you jump it or duck it when you land or stand back up respectively. A human player using him would need to use nothing else. He did, however, have a normal amount of health and wasn't armored hardly at all and you were able to perform a throw on him.

Overall I'd say Shao was easily the more difficult of the two to defeat, but at the end of the day, they're both boss characters, with abilities and tendencies that are meant to be unfair. They aren't supposed to be playable by a human and therefore shouldn't be.