Avirk's Mortal Kombat 1 Raiden Character Guide

Earthrealm Champion, Raiden. With the timeline reset, it's great to see Mortal Kombat 1 has given Raiden players plenty to dig into for this new installment in the series. With the help of top NRS competition AVirk13, this DashFight character guide will walk you through his best buttons, specials, and his bread and butter combos.

Raiden's Gameplay Basics

Specials

• DF1: Projectile which you can charge, good for chip damage
• DU: You can teleport, though be careful not to telegraph it too much.
• BF3: You fly toward your opponent dealing damage; you can also use it in the air, and when amplified, it gives armor. However, it is unsafe.
• DB2: side switch, but not much else.
• DF2: Your most used special by far. Good anti-air, part of combos, can hold it down to extend.
• DB3: Unsafe but good for chip damage.
• BF2: Great fast overhead that conditions opponents to stand block.

Strings

• S1,2: Good as is, ends in +1F on block.
• S2,4,2: A lot of staggers and good enders. If you are using the enders on block, you can call a Kameo to make them safe.
• F2,2: You can end it with 4 or as is, all three can be canceled into specials. 
• F4,3,4: You can choose to end the string at any point and stagger, back dash, cancel, etc. Very versatile.
• F3,4: only use it for combos; otherwise is too easy to punish.
• S3,4: only for combos and maybe sometimes anti-air.

Best Kameos For Raiden

Raiden's Bread & Butter Combos

Midscreen

• 41% - S2,4,2,1, DF2, F-KAMEO, F2,2, DF2(AMP), S3, DF2
• 50 % - S2,4,2,1, DF2, F-KAMEO, F3,4, F2,2, DF2, F-KAMEO, F2, DF2(AMP), S3, DF2

Corner

• 51% - S2,4,2,1, DF2, F-KAMEO, F3,4, S2,4,2, DF2, F-KAMEO, S3, DF2(AMP), S3, DF2
• 52% - F3,4, F3,4, S2,4,2, DF2, F-KAMEO, S3, DF2(AMP), S3, DF2, F-KAMEO, S3, DF2

Fatal Blow

• 56% - S2,4,2,1, DF2, F-KAMEO, F3,4, S2,4, DF2, F-KAMEO, S3, DF2(AMP), FB