Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-78.17.37.148-20150412172606/@comment-1084762-20151230183249

PrinceZarbon wrote: Aside from the fact that he's my favorite MK character, Reptile wins due to several reasons. Firstly, he has superior skills in numerous areas and the powers of invisibility, acid spit, lashing tongue, and climb/pounce/slide/maneuvers/reflexes. This is not limited to the game variation. Even in the movie verse, Reptile takes strong precedence as Scorpion and Sub-Zero are slaves whilst Reptile is a number one General directly under Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn. Additionally, Reptile's fighting skills are top tier. The only reason he loses in the Mortal Kombat 9 and X story mode is because he's an actual full villain character whereas Scorpion and Sub-Zero are heroes or anti-heroes on some occasions and the writers can't make villains win because that would detriment the actual story-line of the games. Reptile is potentially much stronger than Scorpion and Sub-Zero. The only time opponents see him is directly before his devastating blow. This is pretty biased and doesn't really detail how or why Reptile would win, just "he would win because he's Reptile bro".

I love Reptile but it's no competition. He's not near as skilled as Scorpion and not even close to being as varied in abilities. Furthermore, he's more than shown he's not that good of a fighter while Scorpion has lived a life of training and fighting, as a man and as a wraith under Quan Chi.

I'm telling you, there is no fucking way in any universe ever that Reptile would ever actually beat Scorpion in a standard 1v1.