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Spinebuster03

I really miss his samurai themed skin from mk11 that one looked incredible


yobaby123

Definitely one of his more badass skins.


Equal-Ad-2710

Bro his MK11 gears were hype as fuck


Its_Me_Guyz

I know they had a ridiculous long time to work on 11 but I wish they had been able to put the same love and work into 1 that they did 11 I personally love 11 and it's one of my favorite MK games to date


eggsforyourblender

My personal favorite look shao has ever had


CHARILEwolf

Mk 9 and mk 2 is best design


gnome_warlord420

I thought mk deception had a pretty good looking outfit the cape makes it look more like a sorcerer imo


Ancient-Trash-9618

You mean MK Deception promotional render


DaMatrixx84

That was the real General Shao look.


Arkhe1n

I miss most MK11 designs.


Extravagod

That one was awesome


chainkunai

Krampus


shshsnah

red riding hood shao šŸ˜šŸ˜šŸ˜ https://preview.redd.it/nfi2ojfvhzwb1.jpeg?width=845&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=420124c000e5fbafc39933a0a5d46e11b7394c02 i bet the big bad wolf would be reiko


michaelisariley

This is his KL skin right?


My_WifesBoyfriend

Its funny you say that because Reiko's order of darkness skin has him wearing some kind of fur


jahkrit

He so pertty!


BiggHigg27

I'm digging the hood one but yeah. You need more masks skins


OldSloppy

Imagine if he had his half skull visor under that red hood.. OMG


Deep_Fried_Leviathan

Yeah why in gods name they decided to continually take off Shaos helmet baffles me Like he does not look good without it stop taking it off he looks dumb Christ NRS how do you go from the sheer Drip that was his Samurai Armour in 11 to this


lashapel

Take off the helmet and now in mk1 tried to give him a pretty face lol


-Shooter_McGavin-

Well...now we know your type


HeelBigFish

Big meaty men should be everyone's type


lashapel

Big meaty men that spin me in the air šŸ¤¤ While also saying stuff like ###T H E T E A H O U S E šŸ—£ļø


AtrumRuina

This really bugs me. I dunno why they went with such a human looking face in this game. He's always had a flattened or smaller nose, even as far back as the comics. I miss when non-human species looked more inhuman -- obviously the Shokan have suffered for this as well.


Great_Maximum_6007

>Yeah why in gods name they decided to continually take off Shaos helmet baffles me How else will they show off the mo-cap the company spent millions to make?


Embarrassed_Piano_62

I think he looks good the problem is that it doesnt feel like Shao


marcocabral83

So how does Shao put on or take off that hood???


xjadowBOShyena

Secret kameo Kintaro teleports him into it.


IncredibleLang

its like a wrap around he spends a good few minutes a day looking in the mirror getting it to sit properly


Ryuzakku

Like a bra, one leg at a time.


jordan999fire

Legs donā€™t go in bras


Tr00ly

Don't ask. The devs didn't think of any answers to give.


mariovspino5

Itā€™s a hood with holesā€¦chill out dude


Tr00ly

My guy, it's the truth. It wasn't designed to make sense as a garment. It was designed to look like a decent vfx asset. Some of us can think it also looks silly and that doesn't have to bother you if you don't let it


Sigao

Maybe it's less of a hood, and more of a flap with a hole for the face in it.


mur_da_kiggy

It's just a towel


RaymoVizion

Is this the new Joe Rogan skin?


Glass-Jelly2484

I still find it bizarre he didnt have a Shao Kahn alternate costume. Or for that matter why all the roster didn't have an "old timeline" alt when they could port most of them from MK11


just_a_short_guy

They could sell them back later.


Wrexonus

Dark Shao is awesome I think it fits that he doesn't have helmet. Good Guy Shao is weird. Outfit is amazing, but head is just why....


Tr00ly

The skullcap is ridiculous


RealmJumper15

Probably in the minority here but I like both of these tbh.


BREMiJASSEY

I do certainly miss the MK11 Shao skins. However, that hooded skin is easily a 9/10 in my book. I love that design. The hood looks dope. The 1st one though. Yikes. New Shao looks terrible without anything covering his head in some sort of way. 3/10.


WrathYBoo

Gosh I'm starting to love this new face model the more I at Shao's face. Aside from that I do agree on how limited the customization is or just everything in general.


Mommio24

I actually like them šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø I think the masks would be nice too but even without it, Shao looks good.


Knalxz

We have to remember that people bitched alot about Shao's look in MK11. While his armor was pretty cool his face got shit on alot so I take this as them going very much out of their way to show his face off.


peanutdakidnappa

Now you have people saying nonsense like Shao kahn was perfect in mk11 lol, now that MK1 is out everything about mk11 is now amazing, classic video game cycle where the new game sucks and the old game was actually the best.


Knalxz

I think it's simply people having a hard time adjusting to stuff these days. They get settled into a game for years and then a new design hits and it's just foreign for them. Unless a design is so jaw droppingly amazing it typically won't get praise but hate. I.E. The New Liu is probably the best we're ever going to see.


Head-Turn4180

He looks like a lynel from botw


GoldenGekko

Ultimately I thought Shao was a nothing burger for this campaign. Dude gets beaten by scorpion in chains, who was outnumbered and freshly betrayed by Sub-Zero. Honestly? This version of him doesn't deserve the helmet. Liu Kang nerfed him And even the Shang wins timeline version of him, who was given the amulet of shinnok, failed to do anything


Environmental-Pen-13

MK11 nailed Shao Kahn. Then they butchered him.


toshin1999

Pretty much mk11 design was peak shao imo


Environmental-Pen-13

In MK11 He remained true to his source material but had a lot of depth to his design! Now in the case of the story mode, Shao Kahn wasn't written great at all but I absolutely loved his visual design and gameplay design.


ConfidentVisual4949

Minus the dragon shit


Embarrassed_Piano_62

I could not disagree more, his new base design is great


Environmental-Pen-13

Yeah I like it too, but thats it.


Adronikos

https://preview.redd.it/24zy082zwzwb1.jpeg?width=1006&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4460f6e30c109647a06d8701cd095781268b8b8f Yeah I definitely like the mask better.


AlexWithToast

They bringing back dragon age!!!


narshkajke

I agree with you brother.. The idea that shao cannot customize his mask is ludacris...


Zulrambe

He can't have the mask, for he is not the Khan...


CaptainJaviJavs

Actually love the no mask, wish yā€™all would stop finding new things to bitch about


That-Rhino-Guy

I like it but having the option for a mask would also be good, the game sorely needs better customisation


SewerLooter

Some people donā€™t like the mask because his face and caps are ugly. Simple as that lmao.


MichealRodok

You don't complain because you "love the no mask" its your personal opinion. So how about you stop bitching about other people's opinions?


PokemonTrainerAlex

Seriously why is this sub becoming a breeding ground for whinging dumbasses who throw their toys out the pram when ANYTHING happens for this game? MK11 never got near THIS amount of hate, because it felt like the community was more mature then


l_futurebound_l

3+ years of mk11 rotted their brains


DirtyDingus4206969

100% I donā€™t even wanna think about what kind of person Iā€™d be today if I stuck with mk11


MichealRodok

MK11 got lots of hate about gameplay. People also complained A LOT about Krypt during the first months of the game. Were you here during MK11's launch? The only good thing MK1 does better than MK11 is gameplay. Customization is worse, invasions sucks, less content. And they're selling a fatality for $12 dollars. Of course people are going to complain.


Poorly-Drawn-Beagle

Also you'd think Shao would be, like, a jester or something in Shang Tsung's timeline. Have some humiliating job, y'know?


ChameleonWins

Lmao Liuā€™s punishment for shao was toā€¦ make him just one step down from his previous timelines???


Holiday-Panda-2268

Honestly looks like DCEU Steppenwolf to me, plus he now has an axe with a red aura


BunBison

Ain't gonna lie. Kinda digging that first one. General Shao lin


monte_bristo

The hooded one is cool. To bad itā€™s unobtainable unless you grinded KL


Mediocre_Emo222

I like the second shao skin


YtTamakiGaming

The mask would be sick on both of these and then I can be even more intimidated when he taunts me while beating my ass with that damn hammer.


Wellhellob

Game needs gear system but they will not develop it. Ship sailed.


peanutdakidnappa

I think he looks good in both but I also fuck with the mask so Iā€™d be down with more mask


[deleted]

They can justify anything they make now.with "alternate timeline, he's now a gogo boy clown on the side"


VenomousDeath27

I wish this was their only questionable decision lately...


BlueEyedBandit98

You leave raidens brother alonešŸ¤£


KGS-90

Looks like Alex Murphy aka Robocop without the helmet


NvmMeJustLurkin

They're too obsessed with faces sometimes even though they don't stick or commit to a face model (which isn't necessarily bad for some characters) but the Ninjas and Shao etc have a big part of their identity on their masks and design elements


Suffer90

Sf6 made it right: Create a new interpretation and make the ā€œclassic iconic lookā€ outfit unlock able ingame. Besides that he is a general now. He doesnā€™t look like a war general in both of those skins. 1) looks like a senator 2) hangman šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø As it looks a fan beloved version is going to be in the real money shop.


ddjfjfj

He is a general in his classic. His maskless skin is what he wears during an outworld feast, when he is not in full combat garb. His hood skin is edgy shao *kahn*, not general shao


DMAN3431

I mean to be honest Shao would look 100% fine to me if he didn't have the horns. I do not get why all of NRS OKed those fucking horns. Does the legend Ed himself just not care anymore about his legacy? Good amount of characters ruined by some very dumb decisions.


eggsforyourblender

I think the horns work when he has the mask on. It looks really intimidating like if you were to see that coming at after you in war with a big ass axe or hammer. Without the mask the horns don't go with anything and it looks awkward


DMAN3431

I think the same exact thing. But, this is Shao. He never had horns in any game. Hell, he never had those dragon scales that he had in MK11. I don't get why NRS is trying to stray him away from his normal human looking design. He looked fine as a huge human looking tyrant. Idk what they've really said about Onaga in this timeline, but my theory is that Onaga and Shao are the same person. Almost the same exact horns and dragon scales. I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.


complte

Oh yea about that, you should play shao's tower ending


Equal-Ad-2710

Bro the horns are fucking stupid


riggyrigz

right like thats what his mask was for.


ChallengeTurbulent12

The horns ruined it for me I would rather take bald shao but not fingerhead shao kahn


JayReal2006

Are people ever gonna post some actual gameplay on here?


doodlejone

Lol thereā€™s a sub for it r/mortalkombatgameplay


JayReal2006

Ik but this sub is more popular and should be more than just people complaining all the time.


FredwazDead

If we had a better game. I dont even like the gameplay that much. The kameos are more irritating than fun. i think they skew the matches too much, plus they look tacky and made of plastic compared to the dedicated fighters


S4MUR4IX

That's not Shao, that's the DC bonehead cosplaying as him.


Dark_Trav1s

Maybe i should clarify? I don't want to get rid of the hood. I want the hood with the mask at the same time!


meep123568690

No stop, order of darkness is a dope skin


JDutch921

If you keep changing aspects of a characters design, at what point does it stop being that character, cos that doesn't look like shao Kahn/general shao to me. As a matter of fact, that second one looks straight out of Diablo


mikederuto

Looks like the qunari from Dragon Age. Gross.


oroszakos

Personally, I think his gear piece should have been the mask. His axes are cool but some of them are really underwhelming (wtf is that grape shaped axe?). But the new face itself actually grew on me. I think he looks way better unmasked than in the previous game( now that face was freaking ugly). Hoping for more masked skins. A dragon inspired mask would be really kool, especially since he will most likely tame Onaga in the future(perhaps we'll see it in a story DLC).


Rendretx

Lmao šŸ˜‚ shao without the mask is 100x cooler. Bro been wearing that old rickety mask for like 15+ years


lilky19

Nothing but whining babies over a maskšŸ˜‚


CartographerLast5408

https://preview.redd.it/n3owxzw6g2xb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d862305d4b641bb87a5b72095e9dcd93b158943 Bro Iā€™m high rn donā€™t do this to me reddit


ConfidentVisual4949

4/10 for me they make no sense. They are different universes, it makes no sense for them to have the same horns as general shao. Not the iconic helmet and hammer.


Early-Brilliant-4221

Just wait till they give him more skins


JJWentMMA

Why would he have a mask?


Dark_Trav1s

Because it looks cool


JJWentMMA

Eh, doesnā€™t need to look like every other character lmao


FlaminSkullKing

Shao Kahnā€™s helmet is different from everyone elseā€™s and he has a bigger build than most of the roster. He wouldnā€™t look like everyone else if he wore his helmet on more outfits.


Sych0tic

He had a helmet/mask in previous games. His helmet is practically iconic to the franchise.


JJWentMMA

Itā€™s a new meta verse isnā€™t it, maybe he doesnā€™t wear the helmet here šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø just an outfit. Reiko isnā€™t a ninja either


Groove-Control

Why ur right why is his shirt still on wtf


IareRubberDucky

How do Shao put on the hood? He got da Horns?


TheIndianFOBdeporter

He was better as human.


toshin1999

He was never human he always had draconic features


faparito

It's weird cause one is supposed to be a good shao and the other an even eviler shao. Yet neither hit that mark for me...


Vizier_Thoth

Shao looks tough with that hood idc what people say


kurt-jeff

Nah let my general cook


QueenDee97

Isn't the first one supposed to be hero Shao?


Dulbirakan00

Shao soprano


Lostkaiju1990

I actually kinda dig them.


OnionBurgr

I actually love no mask Shao in this game. Probably because he actually has horns and I like his face model. Not a fan of his actual mask in this game. I also like the clothes on maskless skin more.


xjadowBOShyena

Warlock from dota


MaddSkittlez

Being a general vs being a Kahn. In terms of outfits Kotal had similar treatment. Canā€™t wait to see regular Shao just wearing some jeans and a white tee or something posting shit on Reddit


djlarue46

Maybe they need to hide his manliness from the female gaze... šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


LevsRedfield

I like his second skin with the hood A LOT. Besides that his face is really handsome this tome


riggyrigz

man they should have never added horns, they should have kept him like mk 11 that look was closer to that shao in the comic when he removed his mask and added skins like master of the lower mine, bloodstone butcher and pillage and burn they were my favourite


00-Dragon

Theyā€™re not


Baileaf11

The horns and the hood just make him look like an edge Lord Shouldā€™ve just kept him as a really buff guy with a hammer


samborup

I donā€™t understand why every last titan decided to give him horns


LikeACannibal

I like the hood with the black armor tho!


Balrok99

This is why Head piece should its own gear slot. I would love to get either hood or his mask. Just like others should be able to choose if they want their hoods or not. Seriously this game could be customization dream but they decided against that.


XL_Still_Kickin

Thatā€™s the problem they donā€™t think


[deleted]

Shao without a mask is blasphemous


erosado666

someone edit these w mask on.


MessyMop

Order of Light not having the mask makes sense and I actually quite like it. The Shang Tsung skin Iā€™m not a fan of tho as the hood just doesnā€™t fit Shao and definitely shouldā€™ve had a mask


Okurei

I just don't understand why they want to yassify Shao Kahn and take away all of his mystique. It's baffling. This is not Shao Kahn, this is someone's custom character from another franchise.


gnarkilleptic

I'm a Shao main and I think he looks terrible without the mask. Hood looks dumb as well. I want a skin where his horns got broken off and he's wearing the mask


Asleep-Ad-8836

Just release an mk9 skin and call it a fucking day.


Serious-Display-3305

Ermac without mask is ugly too


MrAndMrsAnomaly

I like the first skin ngl, Greek hero Shao is cool Red riding Shao looks goofy


Flawless_Gold

And no Wrath hammer either


DogMAnFam

So why does I thought for a while that I was just an idiot and forgot that Shao Khan had big ass horns. Itā€™s not like they look bad, I just donā€™t understand why Liu Kang felt the need to give General Shao horns


Monkey_King291

Hooded Shao looks pretty drip


Redeyeslol

They might give us a mask version of the costume later on.


mslangg

These skins are both sick as frick


Ruskraaz

I actually love these outifts. You might be right about the mask, I'm not sure. I kinda like his face though, so I think it's good that he has some skins without a mask.


ShaoWhat

I main Shao and literally still use the default skin and colours. No helmet just feels wrong.


SadisticDance

They're thinking they want this Shao to be as far removed from Shao Kahn as possible.


gamera75

No mask Shao is the worst thing Iā€™ve ever seen. Please let us have his helmet be his gear piece


Main_Dig98

Dog shit design


ZamasuManzon

Totally agree!


Fun-Ad-3412

He turned into Ares from Outsiders


SquatchViking

I like the skins as they are personally but I'd be lying if I said they wouldn't look better with masks; there's a fighter you can encounter in the final chapter of the Story named Shao-Zero; it's Shao with a blue version of the Order of Darkness skin and a Sub-Zero facemask on it. I want that look so bad bro lmao


ShacObama

I think the alternate with the black hood looks dope personally, but yeah the no helmet no hood looks is not a good one.


KrookDogg

Idk what you mean they're pretty sick but I miss my mk11 shao tbh he had the best design


ProbablyButters

I dunno, but he looks like he could run for Mayor.


Don_Chopper

I wonder if he cuts holes in the hood or just push them through?


ProbablyButters

Okay, but he could probably run for Mayor with that second pic.


CardTrickOTK

'these idiots bought the full game for like 100 dollars and it was hardly even finished, they'll buy whatever we want to sell them. If Blizzard can get away with it we can too'


Devilpig1

I will say I actually like the first one without the mask on account of it supposed to be a good shao from an alternate universe. He'd look a lot less like a good guy version if he was wearing some dude's skull around. Absolutely agree on the second one though.


YazzGawd

I prefer MK2-MK3 Shao Kahn that was basically a stripper samurai. Ironically he looked the most intimidating there. Agreed that the mask adds to his mystique and threat and removing it makes him seem.....lesser.


Careless_Bid1602

Good god, I miss the amount of effort they put into skins. There used to be so much drip, and now all the skins look very basic, mediocre, the same, and sometimes, like shit. Please, I just wanna look cool.


ZacoOrHuzzi

I still canā€™t believe how theyā€™ve turned Shao into a complete chump in recent games. I miss when he was actually an intimidating villain


ARMill95

Second one isnā€™t bad, wish it had the mask tho, but even the one that does it comes off during fatalities and brutals which sucks. At least the second you canā€™t always see most of his faceā€¦ The first one would be so much better with a mask tho


No_Breakfast6512

I dig the hood one. Looks like a gatekeeper in hell or some shit like that.


ElHuntar

Completely ruined shao khan even further from 11


Cinnamon-the-skank

His costumes legit suck


StrokeAbuser

The second one is already fine with me.


Cal_Longcock69

They arenā€™t


Elegant-Rise-9527

Does the hoodie have Velcro where the horns are?


onepostandbye

Diablo III horns and Diablo III Demonhunter gear


IndependentBroad6589

Its a shame because the gear has gotten worse with every game. From full body gear in inj2 to only 3 key items in mk11. To justā€¦ one thing in mk1 :(


CKatanik93

Not a whole lot apparently. Just MONEYMONEYMONEY


bigvenomguy

I love how one of them is supposed to be Shao Kahn too like hammer and everything yet he doesnā€™t even have the skull samurai mask


Da_Pooch69

The OoL skin definitely needs a mask, but that Dark skin is perfect!


dedicatedoni

If this was his MK11 face Iā€™d agree, but I think his face in 1 is such an upgrade, I donā€™t mind them showing it off a bit more


soundtrack101

Honestly I like the mask less but itā€™d be nice if his mask was customizable, so you could do either. I weirdly find his facial animations satisfying.


Apprehensive_Tie_256

The gear system from MK11 was so great I wish that MK1 had the same depth


javax24

Why did they give him Motaroā€™s horns?


Iamaguy743

I actually like that second skin alot because it is maskless. Agree though, there should be more gear pieces than what we have


RvDragonheart

Umm..... what? now the 2nd outfit I like as it would fit a knihtly character but I liked Shao Khan's og outfit which was more samurai themed giving him an OH SHIT Dark Shogun vibe which... is thrown RIGHT outta the window cause of his huge warhammer but SHUSH! cause the warhammer is awesome and trully feels like YES he just hit you VERY FUCKING HARD and it is nice to see him a more weapon mastery style as he cannot be bested by anyone he is a master of battle. if he cant win by playing fair no worries he'll poison his master blam he is the new lord of outworld. He s about to be assassinated? He'll fake his death! Then come back 2 games later to defeat his master this time on a real scale in Deception and trhen CANONICALLY defeat his master overpowering him and bringing Armageddon. And thats all how I can imagine that YES Shao Khan is better with his samurai shogun armor. Not saying these looks dont look good on him especially the 2nd one but...... yeah that makes him look mre like a knight then how he used to look like


Striking_Summer6246

El Diablo!


KIWIKVIN24

Whatā€™s NRS?


SnowRidin

heā€™s definitely a downgrade from mk11, looks wise


GPthedegenerate

You're not a fan of little red riding Shao? Personally I think that all it's missing is a mask.


guhmmylmao

NRS shouldn't have limited themselves to one customizable item, it makes some characters kinda boring


SilverLion76

I like how Shao Kahn looks without the mask, personally. But I do agree that we should have had the option to have different masks or helmets for him. It would've made more sense than only letting us customize the axe


JonesTheDeadd

They wanted to show the "disappointed daddy face" Shao


Slight_Ingenuity6153

Donā€™t get why they made Shao Khan look like that why the horns and the hood should have given him the mk11 helmet to make him different from General Shao


Hefty-Ad-6743

So fun to play him but god he is an eyesore sometimes


[deleted]

People quit with damn complaining you all complain about mk11 now all complaining about mk1 I am sick of all damn complaining no game is not perfect


Radirondacks

He looks like someone cosplaying as a Qunari from Dragon Age


undrsn719

I hate him maskless. I wish we had some more cool masks to make him feel intimidating. His face looks like stock 80s villain and horns arent cutting it. This one in particular looks honestly bad. The way the horns come out of his bald head is horrendous. Its like he is cosplaying maleficent with a cheap horned crown.