Mortal Kombat 1 (Farming Method for MK1 Invasion Season 2 / Seasonal Kredits / Koins / Krowns / EXP)

New Season 2 farming method for levels, exp, koins & coins! Check the video description for the full tutorial. This is the PS5 version of Mortal Kombat 1 (MK1) running on a launch PlayStation 5 with gameplay recorded at 4K 60fps (no commentary). The game is also available on PC, Xbox Series and Nintendo Switch. I hope you enjoy and if you're a fan of my videos please hit the like button and/or subscribe! Your support helps me continue to make videos just like this.
Additional Notes
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First off, I'm not the one who came up with this new method. I'm giving credit to "hermanphi" on the Mortal Kombat subreddit for sharing this on Nov. 12th 2023, who might've learned it from someone else, but so far it looks like they discovered it first. If it turns out this method was discovered even earlier by someone else, they also share credit for this.
Second, the reason this method works so well is because NetherRealm updated the game this season so that experience scales based on your invasion level compared to the enemy's. So for the first 30 Seasonal Tower levels, you're barely going to gain anything (assuming you're at invasion level 30), but as soon as you get to level 40-50 and above in the Seasonal Tower, the experience scales heavily in your favor. That's what we're going to take advantage of.
Now, to get this all to work, I'd suggest beating the new invasion season first and unlocking the chest that's locked behind the blood wall on the Sun Do map. This gives you the level 30 Windbreaker talisman that I'm using in the video, which is vital to getting this done as quickly as possible. You can still do this grind without it, but it could potentially take much longer.
From there, you need to level up the new Seasonal Tower to level 56. It starts at level 10, and every time you beat the tower it gains one level. That means that yes, you need to grind out 460 fights (10 fights per tower) to get to level 56, which is the longest and hardest part of this trick. The reason we're choosing tower level 56 specifically is because the modifiers aren't that bad and there's no boss characters. For reference, it took me about five hours to level the Seasonal Tower from level 10 to level 56, roughly 10 levels an hour. Once you're done though, you'll be able to fully master a fighter and multiple kameos in less than an hour, so it does even out.
After you've leveled the Seasonal Tower to level 56, set your character's attack to the absolute maximum. I'd suggest buying the White Enenra Core from the vendor in the Wu Shi Academy map to refund all your stat points if you need to and put them into attack. The reason for this is because the Windbreaker talisman's kombo damage scales to your attack stat, melting the enemy's health bar faster the more you have.
The relic you use doesn't matter. As you can see in the video, I'm not even wearing one. You can put one on if you feel it'll help, but I don't feel like it's needed.
Now you can start the tower, and for the first fight, push Nitara into the corner and use the talisman twice so that she's stuck in the clouds. Keep hitting her so that it counts as a kombo, which is what triggers the massive damage. If you don't hit her, the health won't deplete nearly as quickly. I'm giving these instructions for Nitara specifically because she has the highest health/defense stat of the bunch and is a pain to kill if you don't corner her and kill her quickly.
For every other fight, just start with the talisman, push the enemy into the cloud if you need to (it does more damage the closer they are to the center) and keep hitting them. Usually you can use a fatality afterwards, but sometimes the cloud gets a hit in first and they'll die before you can get the input in. It happens, don't worry about it, but if you can get a flawless round and a fatality/brutality, you'll get the maximum EXP and koin payout per fight. You can see that I messed up a few rounds in this video, so I didn't get the maximum payouts in every fight. If I had, I would've gained at least two or three more levels before the end of the video.
Finally, and most importantly, make sure not to beat the final fight of the tower. This is so that you can repeat the tower over and over and have it stay the same. Either die, or return to the map like I did in the video once you get to the last fight. If you run out of talisman charges, either use the map's forge to recharge or do an hourly tower once or twice without using the talisman, which should recharge it enough for a few more Seasonal Tower runs.
Anyway, I hope this helps everyone who's working to max out their characters and kameos! Remember, this only works for this new invasion season (Season 2 / Season of Blood) and will likely be nerfed in a future update. Thanks for watching!
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[@Dude-X-Perfect]

I appreciate your content and effort you put in your video’s description and while replies to comments you keep the consistency. For you having such a low subscribers I think you are way too underrated for what you do to the Mortal Kombat community

[@8-bitbasement]

Wow, thank you so much! That really means a lot.

[@PeceKeepr]

​@@8-bitbasementthank you for this I'm at level 51 now and the grind sucked until about level 30 as I had leveled my self to level 30 in invasions, but now I'm smoking these scrubs in the tower and it's actually fun. I'm sure my family gets tired of hearing the same animations over and over LMAO thx again and I subscribed

[@8-bitbasement]

@@PeceKeepr I'm so glad it helped! I can totally relate too, the sound of farting talismans and Scorpion's fatality over and over became white noise to me, but now I'm sitting on a maxed out roster and over 5000 dragon krystals that I didn't have to pay for so I'm happy 😂

[@RazuX5]

I appreciate the explanation in the description since it helps us understand this better on how the XP works in this mode.

[@8-bitbasement]

I'm glad it helped!

[@RazuX5]

@@8-bitbasementapparently I don’t see this type of tower during my search, it’s gone.

[@The_Demon_Beelzebub]

Yeah it looks like a very good trick but I don’t have the patience for 460 fights that will reset once the next season comes, although I thank you for putting it in the description for easier explanation

[@8-bitbasement]

No problem! And yeah I totally get it, the thought of 460 fights was daunting for me too, but honestly once you get past level 30 in the Seasonal Tower you do start getting more and more experience and currency until you reach what I was getting in the video, so the grind itself does give something back. I took advantage of this because it seems like NetherRealm is trying to crack down on anything that helps players do things somewhat quickly, but I do hope that next season has an easier method that works just as well.

[@The_Demon_Beelzebub]

@@8-bitbasement oh yeah I mean idk why they’re trying to nerf xp when it was so Grindy to begin with but yes I agree they should make it easier with sub zeros season

[@kujo4388]

Doesn’t matter if it resets, get everyone 35 while it’s high

[@The_Demon_Beelzebub]

@@kujo4388 yeah but the point you’re also missing is the 460 fights I need to clear first. Now I respect this guy for his hard work but it’s not for me

[@kujo4388]

@@The_Demon_Beelzebub I ended up doing it right after that comment. It took insanely long but was worth it

[@EagIe6]

The windbreaker has been updated. The cloud now appears in the air it's still effective somewhat but flawless attempts are little tougher to pull off. I should of waited to purchase that Sub Zero skin because before the cloud was still on the ground.

[@EagIe6]

Also the character leveling feels like it's been updated too.

[@8-bitbasement]

I just booted up my game, fully updated and the cloud height and rewards are exactly the same as they were before. If the cloud height is higher, you're probably using Kung Lao. I touched on this in another comment; for some reason, Kung Lao is the only character that shoots the cloud higher into the air, which does make it a little harder to finish the enemies quickly. Since this is probably causing you to get less flawless rounds, that's probably why you're seeing a difference in the rewards that you're getting too.

[@EagIe6]

@@8-bitbasement Thank you for letting me know I was starting to panic❤

[@8-bitbasement]

@@EagIe6 Hahah no problem!

[@bartguyton6595]

My tower is still level 30 like last season, with survival every other level. Im on the Nintendo switch, it’s always behind on everything in this game

[@8-bitbasement]

Fingers crossed that when the Season of Blood starts for Switch owners you can still use this trick!

[@bordenvincent]

⁠​⁠@@8-bitbasementSeason of blood started the same day on switch as the other consoles When i go to the seasonal tower it starts level 30 with a survive match every second match Also on Switch

[@8-bitbasement]

@@bordenvincent Oh gosh, in that case yeah that's pretty annoying. Hopefully they update it soon.

[@Atttalie]

would you say this method is faster or better than last invasion seasons farm in tarkatan colony ?

[@8-bitbasement]

I haven't looked into the tarkatan method from last season, but it's infinitely faster than the endurance method that I used. In three days using this method, maybe about 3 or 4 hours a day, I mastered every character and kameo. You can see how much EXP and currency I gained from a flawless fatality in the third fight in the video. I don't think anything else even comes close to that amount of experience and currency gain in one match, at least not yet.

[@drewhutchison3115]

What is a component that increases damage dealt by a talisman?

[@8-bitbasement]

I just checked and it looks like the Dragon Medallion komponent is exactly what you're looking for. Check the vendor at the end of the Sun Do map or the vendor at the end of the Rampart map, both of which sell komponents. The Sun Do vendor was selling this komponent for 1500 krowns, but keep in mind that their inventory refreshes every hour.

[@lefishe129]

Hey, how did you made the talisman last all the tower? And if i have to recharge it, does it cost that much coins? Because I think it's over 10k and I don't know if you get that much in the tower

[@8-bitbasement]

The talisman recharges one charge per fight, so if you only use it once per fight, it pretty much lasts forever. The only time I use two charges is Nitara to beat her more quickly, so I usually only end up having to go out of my way to recharge the talisman once every five or six runs. At that point if I have the krowns then I use the forge, and if not then I just do a quick hourly tower and beat it without using the talisman, which gives me enough charges for a few more seasonal tower runs.

[@lefishe129]

@@8-bitbasement thx a lot bro

[@bust2007]

You got your self a sub lol 😅 by the way had to be a fart joke

[@dylanposadas6415]

@@8-bitbasementthat or use the collectible “get lucky” or something like that, and it basically recharges your talisman every fight

[@8-bitbasement]

@@bust2007 Thank you so much! I'll keep working hard to be deserving of the sub 😄

[@quentinolvera5335]

How do you get high tower mine stays and 31 I want more xp

[@8-bitbasement]

Are you playing on Nintendo Switch by any chance? I've heard that Switch owners don't have this seasonal tower, which prevents them from taking advantage of this trick.

[@Atttalie]

any alternate talisman to use? completed sun do like you said to get stronger one at blood gate from beating last boss, that didnt give a windbreaker. i think i had to of sold the original by mistake and the only way to get Windbreaker now is a much weaker grey one from Kollector shop. (need talisman cause once it gets around lvl 30 and such a anti air move doesnt do much damage especially for ones like Kenshi, then the added effects of the tower make it too hard to just beat normally)

[@8-bitbasement]

I think there's actually two chests in the area behind the blood gate in Sun Do. One requires you to solve the klue (use one of Frost's brutalities) and the other you can open without any extra steps. If I remember correctly, the one that doesn't need the klue is the one that holds the level 30 Windbreaker talisman. Unfortunately I can't check now that I've already unlocked it, so if I'm wrong and you find it somewhere else, please let me know. As for an alternate talisman, I've seen people having luck making their own talismans by buying one from the vendor and upgrading it. I haven't personally done that myself, but a good start would be any talisman with a wide area of attack, then add damage and charges to it to make it more viable for the tower.

[@The_Warrior_24]

How long did it take you to raise the MASTERY RANK of one fighter from 1 to 35?

[@0terb]

It takes hours lol

[@8-bitbasement]

I was able to master a fighter from 1 to 35 in less than an hour using this method, usually mastering a couple of kameos in the same amount of time. Once I got the rhythm down, a single tower run took less than 10 minutes, and I'd have a fighter completely mastered in about five runs (usually less).

[@ohumbreon2354]

Yeah, okay but the hours and playtime to get the tower to this point would be ridiculous.

[@8-bitbasement]

@@ohumbreon2354 You're not wrong, but you need to compare it to how ridiculously long it would take to master one character without this method. NetherRealm's made it very obvious that they want people grinding this game for years, which is why the EXP gain is so atrocious without these farming methods. You can either spend five hours getting the Seasonal Tower to level 56, then master a fighter and several kameos in less than an hour, or you can spend five months of regular play at regular EXP rates and master one fighter that way. It still takes longer than it should for sure, but compared to the alternative it's like light speed.

[@The_Warrior_24]

@@8-bitbasement Thank you for telling me about it!

[@YoungTrece]

Hey! question how do I do use the talisman to go mid instead of high?

[@8-bitbasement]

If the talisman is shooting high, I'm assuming that you're using Kung Lao? I wanted to mention this in the video description but I hit the character limit. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, Kung Lao likes to fart 10 feet in the air, but thankfully he's the only character that does this. The trick still works with him, you just need to get luckier with cloud size and character placement. As of right now there's no way to change how high or low a character uses the talisman.

[@YoungTrece]

@@8-bitbasement thanks

[@EagIe6]

How did you get past level 51 with the ice meteor + smoke screen modifer without the game keep crashing?

[@8-bitbasement]

I'm playing on PS5 and the only time that the game has fully crashed on me was when I was using Shang Tsung to grind out endurance matches last season. See if using a different character helps, otherwise I'm not sure what to suggest other than restarting your system to see if that fixes it.

[@EagIe6]

@@8-bitbasement I had figured it out I appreciate you replying. Hopefully this issue gets fixed soon & thank you for the guide by the way I maxed out a couple characters so far☺

[@8-bitbasement]

@@EagIe6 No problem! I'm really glad that the guide helped 😄

[@Dude-X-Perfect]

I first time I had crashes was while I was doing this tower. At some point somewhere from level 12-16 I don’t remember the exact level but it had ice walls you can’t walk past and whenever I used Sektor Kameo it crashed so it was an easy fix.

[@ijosephous]

My season tower starts off at lvk 30 with some survive, whats up with that. Sude note Im with switch which doesnt help 🙃

[@8-bitbasement]

Yeah unfortunately the Switch version hasn't been updated with this seasonal tower yet 😔

[@VZetaV]

my tower is 10 level i dont know why can you explain it?

[@8-bitbasement]

The seasonal tower starts at level 10 and gains one level every time you beat it, so you need to spend some time beating the tower over and over to get it to level 56. It took me about five hours, but in my opinion it's worth it. I was able to master every fighter and kameo in three days, playing roughly three to four hours a day.

[@VZetaV]

@@8-bitbasement thank you man

[@8-bitbasement]

@@VZetaV No problem! I'm happy to help 🙂

[@LR17-K]

Are there any other talismans that could work?

[@8-bitbasement]

I've seen a few people make their own talismans by buying one from the vendor and upgrading it until it becomes similarly broken, but I don't know what talismans or upgrades they chose that worked for them. If you don't want to beat invasion mode, definitely try experimenting with custom talismans that focus on damage and number of charges.

[@Dude-X-Perfect]

I myself has seen people using talismans like War Cry and Bloody Moonlight. But most of users use windbreaker cuz it’s popular

[@smd207]

war horn

[@JUGYYT]

Stuck on level 50 can someone tell me how to do it please

[@8-bitbasement]

I can't remember what the modifiers are for level 50, but continue abusing the Windbreaker talisman. If you've run out of charges and don't have enough krowns to recharge it at the forge, do a quick hourly tower and don't use the talisman so that it gains and retains a few charges from the fights. Using the talisman is the bread and butter of pretty much every tower run past level 30. Use the same method as in the video to win the fights.

[@JUGYYT]

It’s the one with the ball that takes a bunch health and gives to the opponent it’s so fucking annoying

[@8-bitbasement]

@@JUGYYT See if you can block the ball, because most of the stage hazards can be blocked to mitigate damage and prevent their effect from activating. If that doesn't work, try your best to dodge it while you use the talisman to get through the stage as quickly as possible.

[@JUGYYT]

You can’t block

[@8-bitbasement]

@@JUGYYT Is that part of the modifiers or because of a relic that you're using? I know there's one relic that disables blocking in exchange for some buffs and that got me a few times. If it's a modifier that's disabling blocking then yeah, just abuse the talisman like I did in the video to kill the enemies as quickly as possible.

[@biggaming463]

Doesn’t work for me

[@8-bitbasement]

Can you elaborate? Maybe I can help.

[@windy0y]

Bro where to get this talisman?

[@8-bitbasement]

If I remember correctly, this specific Windbreaker talisman is in a chest behind the blood wall on the Sun Do map. You need to beat the last boss of the last invasion map first to unlock the key item to break the wall. I'll double check later and see if I can upload a screenshot, which I'll link in the video description. It's important to note that there's actually two Windbreaker talismans that you can get in Season 2. One is level 30 and has 8 charges like you see in the video, the other is a lower level, has less charges and does less damage. Funny enough I think the weaker one is found on the Sun Do map too, by solving the OMHE NRU klue to destroy a different barricade (use Darrius's fatality).

[@windy0y]

@@8-bitbasement thx a lot!

[@invnp]

My windbreaker talisman is lvl 9 where do i get one thats lvl 30?

[@8-bitbasement]

If I remember correctly, this specific Windbreaker talisman is in a chest behind the blood wall on the Sun Do map. You need to beat the last boss of the last invasion map first to unlock the key item to break the wall.

[@invnp]

​@@8-bitbasementappreciete it a lot thanks 👍

[@joachimrohrbach9274]

But you Need to be on Level 50?? That means fighting That Tower 50 Times..

[@8-bitbasement]

Level 56 actually, and yeah, that's what turns a lot of people off about this method, which I completely understand. It took me five hours to level the tower up to level 56, but then I was able to master every fighter and kameo in three days, playing about three or four hours a day. Mastering every fighter and kameo without this method would've taken me months if not years otherwise, and now I'm sitting on over 5000 dragon krystals that I didn't need to pay for. You need to ask yourself if you want to spend a few hours in the short run, or a few months in the long run to max out your entire roster. There's no right answer, but this worked well for me.

[@Dude-X-Perfect]

@@8-bitbasement How did you earn 5,000 Dragon Crystals. Did you earn them from character mastery? To be honest I don’t know how people earn them for free without purchasing them I sometimes see look at notice that I somehow earned 100 extra dragon crystal in my profile but I don’t know where it came from.

[@ssplif5415]

How do u get to this tower

[@8-bitbasement]

So when you load into the Gateway Portal map, it's straight down from the forge and vendor, in the opposite direction from the hourly towers. I wish I could give better directions but for some reason NetherRealm thought it would be a good idea to have the camera swing around whenever you move 😅

[@itzqwiti]

TANYA LMAO😂

[@8-bitbasement]

Poor girl couldn't catch her breath 😵