{"id":280,"date":"2011-05-05T18:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/blog\/?p=280"},"modified":"2012-02-25T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T02:21:10","slug":"how-to-beat-shao-kahn-with-raiden-in-mortal-kombat-ps3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/how-to-beat-shao-kahn-with-raiden-in-mortal-kombat-ps3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Beat Shao Kahn with Raiden in Mortal Kombat (PS3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The final boss in Mortal Kombat 9 is Shao Kahn and you have to use Raiden to beat him.  After way too many attempts, I found the <u>key to beating Shao Kahn is understanding his attack recovery times<\/u>.  When Shao Kahn attacks with his hammer (throws\/slams the ground) or kicks, his attack recovery time is slower than some of his other attacks and he also can&#8217;t counter your attack.  I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve tried teleporting after he throws his spear but the problem with that is, sometimes he can counter your uppercut and once countered, he generally combos you for a large chunk of your health bar.  The best way to beat Shao Kahn is to <strong>use Raiden&#8217;s teleportation ability to your advantage when Shao Kahn is recovering from an attack<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILt9PhOs8FY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few notes about Shao Kahn and how to beat him:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Shao Kahn&#8217;s recovery time from a spear attack is faster than his hammer throw, therefore he can counter your teleport\/uppercut combo<\/li>\n<li>When he taunts you, I&#8217;d teleport and use Raiden&#8217;s Special L2+R2 move here<\/li>\n<li>You can avoid Shao Kahn&#8217;s special attack and save 52% of your health bar by simply teleporting out of the way<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final boss in Mortal Kombat 9 is Shao Kahn and you have to use Raiden to beat him. After way too many attempts, I found the key to beating Shao Kahn is understanding his attack recovery times. When Shao Kahn attacks with his hammer (throws\/slams the ground) or kicks, his attack recovery time is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/how-to-beat-shao-kahn-with-raiden-in-mortal-kombat-ps3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Beat Shao Kahn with Raiden in Mortal Kombat (PS3)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}