Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20150120191859

@Apollyon Not exactly. The Elder Gods have specific rules about that which, like you said, everyone should already know, but I'll remind now.

First, why did they create Mortal Kombat? To give Earthrealm a chance to defend itself by Outworld. As everyone knows, Outworld is much more powerful than Earthrealm and could invade and take it without an effort. But MK 9's story mode proves they can only do that after winning 10 Mortal Kombat tournaments in a row, otherwise the Elder Gods intervene to stop Outworld, which they did when Shao Kahn was about to kill Raiden.

What do we learn from that? That the Elder Gods don't let a superpowerful being(s) kill a weak one(s) like that. They do their best to make the fight fair, at least when the weak side is too important to die. If Raiden tried to do such to Scorpion, the Gods would retaliate, and most likely save and enhance Scorpion's powers in the final moment, just like they did to Raiden at the end of MK 9. Although we all know that Scorpion isn't a weak fly that Raiden can fry at anytime he wants.

So, like I said before, it would most likely be a typical MK battle, without the "superpowerful" Raiden killing Scorpion with a single blow.