Mortal Kombat Challenge Tower guide

Challenge 151 - Don't Hit A Girl

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Player - Noob

              Smoke is faster and hits harder when he turns red.

              Beat him to break the brainwashing.

Challenge 153 - I'll Hit A Lady

Player - Noob

              Your opponent is continually charging up.

              Trap her in a Black Hole to reset the buff.

Player - Noob

              Quan Chi has the advantage in the Netherrealm.

              Watch out for the exploding floor.

Player - Noob

              Not connecting with all your Special Attacks will

              forfeit the match!

              Super Meters are disabled.

Player - Noob

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              Shang Tsung's soul drain has been super-charged.

              time runs out.

              Attacks do no damage to either fighter.

              Only Liu Kang's bicycle kick can penetrate your

              opponent's armor and spill blood.

              In 30 seconds, Shao Kahn will enrage.

Description - Only Cyrax's Buzz Saw can hurt the opponent.

Just keep spamming Cyrax's Buzz Saw

              You will slowly lose health if you do not swap out

              characters!

              Do not let your opponent's Super Meter reach 100%

              Use your Net to drain off Super

              System malfunction causes Cyrax to randomly freeze.

              Cyber Sub-Zero takes increased damage from Bombs, Net

              and Buzzsaw attacks but only 25% damage from all others!

              Other opponents take normal damage.

              Keep might in range until meter is charged.

              Press RT or LT when meter is charged.

              Not connecting with all your Special Attacks will

              forfeit the match!

              Super Meters are disabled.

              Finish you opponent with a fatality to take care of them

              once and for all.

              Everything is in fast motion!

              Defeat your Opponent.

              Neither foe can block.

              Stay on the offensive to win.

              Floor will randomly erupt in flames.

              Flames will leave players burning for 5 seconds.

              The Super Charger switches back and forth between players

              Your abilites are disabled but will come back over time.

              the arena.

              The uphill fighter will have increased speed and damage.

              Try and stay on top.

              X Rays are disabled

              Finish Shang Tsung.

              Shang Tsung's health will continuousely recover.

              Your partner's health will slowly recover while he is

              tagged out.

If you are able to beat Shang Tsung and put a fatality on him, you 

don't have to beat Goro.  You only have to fight Goro if Shang Tsung

tags him in.  Try to stay on Shang as much as possible because he

Liu Kang's Fatality - Forward, Back, Down, Down, A (Sweep)

Kung Lao's Fatality - Back, Forward, Forward, Back, Y

              runs out.

Just keep spamming Baraka's Chop Chop attack.

General.  He has the same moves as Baraka so in

reality you are just fighting Baraka.  The only

              The leader of the revolt is so powerful that his attacks

              cannot be blocked.

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              You may only use skull attacks.

Challenge 189 - No Seriously, I'm Popular

              Beware the Lin Kuei!

              Everything is in fast motion!

Challenge 193 - I'm Not Dead Yet

              Finish your opponent with a fatality to take care of

              them once and for all.

              Every 10 seconds health will be swapped between players.

              You will slowly lose health if you do not swap out

              characters!

              Not connecting with all your Special Attacks will

              forfeit the match!

              Super Meters are disabled.

              Sub-Zero's ice moves will slow you down for 75

              seconds.

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              Your life will gradually decrease while your opponent's

              will increase.

              You are only able to attack by throwing your limbs at

              your opponent.

              You super meter is regenerating.

              Your attack damage is doubled.

Challenge 201 - You've Already Won Me Over

              You cannot use special attacks.

              You have the Lin Kuei on your side!

              Every hit tilts the world to the left or right while no

              hits recenter it.

              Everything is in fast motion!

              X-Rays are disabled - Sindel can't block.

              Shao Kahn will heal or increase Kintaro's attack every

              five seconds.

              Defeat your Opponent.

              Specials award you big money!

              Alternate Summon Flames and Iceball attacks.

              Watch out, he has help from above!

              Every hit tilts the world to the left or right while

              no hits recenter it.

              X-Rays are disabled.

              When Shao Kahn is blue only Sub-Zero's attack will do

              damage.

              When Shao Kahn is orange only Scorpion's attack will do

              damage.

              Finish Shao Kahn.

Description - Use Liu Kang's Fireball or Kung Lao's Hattoss to kill 30

              zombies.

              Tag to reload after 3 shots.

              Normal Zombies are immune to Liu Kang's Fireball.

              Headless Zombies are immune to Kung Lao's Hattoss.

              Floor will randomly magnetize.

              Iceballs will randomly fall from the sky.

              Health and Super recovery items will randomly drop.

              Floor will randomly erupt in flames.

              You can only use special moves.

              You will only build Super Meter at half the normal rate.

              Kombos above 3 hits landed on Kung Lao will remove his

              hat for 10 seconds, disabling Hat based attacks!

              Landing any attack that has already been used in the

              fight will be performed at 75% of its normal damage.

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              Both you and your opponent are only able to attack by

              throwing your limbs at each other.

              Getting hit by a kiss attack will reduce your damage for

              a time.

              When your opponent is red, damage will be reflected

              back to you.

              All swapped out partners slowly heal!

              Red glowing enemies explode and cause major damage.

Challenge 223 - An Offer You Can't Refuse

              Watch out for ground fireballs!

Description - Use Reptile's invisibility move to absorb 5 of your

              opponents slimballs.

              Opponent must be killed with a stage fatality.

              Beware the Lin Kuei!

              Only acid based attacks do damage.

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              You only have 120 seconds!

              Earn bonus Koins the faster you win.

              Earn bonus Koins for performing a fatality.

Description - Avoid or block all of Jax's attacks for 25 seconds.

              runs out.

              Attacks do no damage to either fighter.

              Only Kano's knife can penetrate your opponent's armor

              and spill blood.

Challenge 232 - I'm Baaaccckkkk..

              Scorpion's rage has increased the power of some of his

              attacks.

              Defeat your Opponent.

Challenge 235 - We're All Vampires

              Everyone gains health by landing attacks on enemies.

              Every opponent defeated increases your power.

              Sindel can only use her scream attack.

              Screaming does extra damage and cannot be blocked.

Challenge 238 - I'm So Special

              Special moves are superpowered

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              Damage done is added to your reward!

              Watch for falling rocks!

              Your opponent is enraged!

              Cannot block opponent's attacks.

              Opponent has infinite Super Meter.

              Must defeat opponent with Fatality.

              You will slowly lose health if you do not swap out

              characters!

              When your foe is on the ground, she is invulnerable.

              Use popup hits to get your enemy in the air.

              The too sorcerers may only do damage with magic.

              Each fightrer has a robot buddy that will periodically

              help them.

              The Super Drain switches back and forth between players.

Challenge 250 - It's Not My Baby

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              You may only use your lightning bolt.

Challenge 254 - I'm A Vampire

              Your enemy gains health by landing attacks.

              Every opponent defeated increases your power.

              You opponent receives many power ups to start the match.

has a bunch of power ups to make him stronger.  I just spammed 

Raiden's Air Charge attack and grabbed him over and over.  With a bit

              Defeat your Opponent.

Challenge 259 - Who's There?

Player - Noob

              Your opponent is invisible.

Player - Noob

              Defeat Your Opponent!

              All swapped out partners slowly heal!

Player - Noob

              Watch out for falling ice.

Player - Noob

Player - Noob

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              seconds.

              You are awarded koins for every bomb that lands in the

              bucket.

              Only your special moves are available.

              Every 5 seconds health will be swapped between players.

This one is based a bit on luck.  What you want to do

and spam your gun attack.  If Shao Kahn goes to throw a

              Nobody can block.

              Your attacks do less damage.

              Every successful attack awards an attack bonus.

              Your abilities are removed over time.

              Not connecting with all your Special Attacks will

              forfeit the match!

              Super Meters are disabled.

You must fight 3 Goros with one life bar.  This isn't

too hard but can be if you aren't that good with Ermac.

sure you jump over Goro's head before attempting this or

you will probably hit a shielded move.  Use Ermac's combo

Y, Y, Down, Back, X.  This does a bit of damage and will

make Goro have to come to you because you will push him 

away with the force push.  You can also spam force moves.

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

              You and your opponent can be healed inside the cone of

              light.

              You will take damage when on in the cone of light.

Challenge 279 - But I'm A Vampire!

Description - Spill 20 pints of blood on the battlefield

              before time runs out.

              Attacks do no damage to either fighter.

              Only Mileena's pounce can penetrate your

              opponents armor and spill blood

You can't damage Smoke or even stun him with any kind of

attack.  Just keep spamming Mileena's pounce attack.

              Everything is in fast motion!

              Both players have infinite super meters.

              Every hit tilts the world to the left

              or right while no hits recenters it.

              X Rays are disabled.

The world will tilt depending on who gets hit.  You

You get in control by beating on your opponent.  Your

favor but drain if you are the one getting beat.  You

              Defeat your Opponent.

You have 7 reels this time.  Just test your

              Smoke will become more difficult

              as time continues

You just have to survive for 60 seconds.  You 

can attack so just stay on the offensive. 

For this, you must defeat Reptile but Shang Tsung 

hurt the last person that is hit.  So try to avoid

              You have no arms but your opponent does.

              Your arm based attacks are disabled.

              Your X Rays are disabled.

              a weakened state.

              Use your mind control ablility to send

              your enemy to their death.

Mind Control move.  Back, Forward, A

              Your controls have been mirrored

reversed.  Up is Down, Left is Right etc.  You have

is not giving you a chance.  Quan Chi is really on

the offensive on this.  This one will more than likely

              Press RT or LT when might meter is

20 seconds.  You cycle through Raiden, Noob and 

Kitana.  Just defeat Sindel and this mission is complete.

10 seconds.  You cycle through Sheeva, Sindel and 

Ninja Sub-Zero.  Just defeat Sindel and this mission is 

every 5 seconds.  You cycle through Reptile, Jax and 

Cyrax.  Just defeat Cyrax and this mission is complete.

              Not connecting with all your Special

              Attacks will forfeit the match!

              Super Moves are disabled.

listed before taking all of Sektor's health or you

Challenge 293 - Knock'em Clock'em Ninja Bot

              to the head.

This one is really annoying.  Once reason is because

Sektor is a pain and blocks everything.  Jump kicks

work and so does spamming (X,X,X). That is what I 

found to work the best. 

              Press LT or RT when might meter is above the marker.

Description - Use only Sheeva's special attacks to

              defeat Raiden

Honestly I just spammed Sheeva's (Down, Up) teleport

stomp attack.  Just be on guard for Raiden's air

Description - Spill 50 pints of blood on the battlefield

              before time runs out.

              Attacks do no damage to either fighter.

              Sheeva's thirst for blood causes her to take

              damage over time

              Spill your opponent's blood to gain health back.

50 pints of blood spilled.  Not too hard but Sindel is on

the aggressive bad.  Everything you do spills blood.  Just

keep attacking so you don't run out of health.  Your X-Ray

              Watch for random missiles!

              You will slowly lose health if you do

              not swap out characters!

This one is kinda tough, mainly cause I don't like

lose health if you don't tag out your players.  I mostly

spammed Sheeva's (Down, Up) teleport move and grabbed as

much as I could.  May take a few tries.

Description - Defeat Your Opponent

              Your Opponent is strong enough to defeat

              you with a single hit.

Sheeva's (Down, Up) teleport move and try to dodge all

of Goro's moves.

Description - Defeat Your Opponents

block and make you do half damage to your enemies.  To make

this a bit easier for you. Continue losing and when the 

Mission Failed screen comes up, click Retry.  After about 

health after each opponent.  Since you get to choose your

character, pick someone that you can pick up on Goro and 

Kintaro's slowness.  For Mileena, she will spam the hell out

of her teleport kicks.  So be on your guard.  Shao Kahn, you

will need to keep distance.  Getting close to him will just

make him spam his shower charges and uppercuts which you can't

him and throw a spear in the middle of the combo.  Getting

a nice piece of his energy off of him.  When you do Scorpion's

combo X, X, X.  Just hit X twice.  You don't want him to do the

flame punch that finishes the combo.  Before doing the flame

punch, hit (Back, Back, X) to do his spear.  That is how you

get a spear in the middle of the combo.  This works with the

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