Mortal Kombat 1 Kung Lao Guide {Combos, Strings & Tips}

[@Xombat]

Hey everyone, hope you enjoy the guide and thank you for all the support as always. Here are the time stamps for all the sections in the video. 1:50 Buttons 6:10 Armor/Armored Launcher 8:40 Strings 12:00 Special Moves 14:50 Kameos 17:40 Combos 19:50 Summary

[@Simsnwjne]

1st

[@howdydoodydoo3631]

Awesome bro

[@kingstonmichaelson3609]

Great tutorial❤. Defo useful knowledge to be ready for these kung lao players😂😂

[@Trilogy-]

You have the absolute BEST guides for this game. Other guides just go over basic inputs and combos and that's it, but you go over frame data, strategies, kameoes, etc. Love it

[@mikebenny99]

Bro your guides are 10/10. You talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the character in depth which I super appreciate. In a character crisis right now. Lao is definitely on my list

[@roosTak]

ty for all the great content xombat. It's nice to see the thought process behind such a high level player, and rare that folks at that level share so much appreciated. Watching you in tournament has leveled up my JC a ton.

[@benrowinsky1057]

I had a cool combo I found for mid screen whiff punishes. I do not know if it’s optimal but it seems like it. b24, dash, 4, dash, b24, dash, 121, bf2

[@Jochuk95]

I feel like anything that starts with b24 is pretty unfair

[@Jochuk95]

unsafe*

[@benrowinsky1057]

@@Jochuk95 true, but it’s a good whiff punish

[@tonyxtrotter]

For that last combo you can also burn an extra bar of meter and do the EX grab combo extender and then fatal blow after. Should give you 529 damage total🔥

[@FujiboHeavy]

Thanks for this! Lao has been my favorite in MK11, only been using him for online kasual since launch. Love seeing Crested's Lao in RIPS arena as well

[@howdydoodydoo3631]

These are very good guides. If I was to say anything to be added, it would just be time stamps. But I also like the organic flow of you talking about characters. These are soooo much better than 99.9% of characters guides. Keep it up!

[@Xombat]

Thank you and the time stamps are in the description, Let me make a comment showcasing them. Glad you enjoyed🙏

[@howdydoodydoo3631]

@@Xombat shit my bad I didn’t see, great work

[@howdydoodydoo3631]

@@Xombat also side note more I play liu more I think this guy is not S+ but right outside of it. You think people sleeping on him? I haven’t really found a way to make him work great with cyrax but he’s great with lao, Stryker, sareena, scorpion all for diff reasons

[@huhsnare]

Just started playing Kung. This is right on time!!!

[@bardji1995]

Again a nice guide! i was searching if i would main Kung Lao, Liu kang or Raiden, then find 3 guide of them on your channel, and know... I Still dont know because they are all great to play :'D But i have a preference for Kung lao and Raiden now i need to find who about both character i will main in first

[@SolidSantanero]

Xombat, we need that updated JC combo video.

[@deaditedude9201]

Hey really cool guide! Only thing i think that could be added is maybe talking about his anti airs? Besides that really good guide!

[@GojoDaSorcerer]

My boy with another vid aye!!!

[@Saintnmt]

This is my first mk and this video is great!

[@JOEZAAM]

Appreciate the guide Xombat!

[@m_king_prime9223]

Thanks for the great content .. this really helped learning the character.

[@Adam-nk3om]

FINALLY THANK YOU!! But also if you hit j2 instead of j3 for all the combos they do more damage!

[@drakestill]

I’ve been waiting for this one

[@Shreccz]

I've been playing kung lao since day 1 and I can't believe I somehow missed his back 1 being 6 frames. holy cow do i feel silly. Thanks so much, learned a few things :)

[@tt_ivi_99]

Amazing guide, I'm just starting to learn Kung Lao, he is really fun to play, didn't know about that low starter with Goro, that's really good

[@emirrahman6845]

We’ve been blessed by kombat

[@professoroaksparcel16]

Another banger of a guide.

[@eltxWTCH]

Thanks for blessing us dawg. You the GOAT 😤

[@Jumentim10]

Nice video!

[@edricjordan7093]

Excellent video!!

[@Atom1c_MK]

Nice vid again bro killing it lately and now I can go be a degenerate properly and whiff some dive kicks into 38 percent

[@DanielSmith-ll2iw]

Maybe we can get a Kung Lao skin where he has Jersey with the number 38 on it lol

[@itzcomedyss4086]

A Sweep that leads to a combo a armored launcher thats plus on block and great projectile and they talk about jhonny being broken :)))))))))))

[@frogaroach]

I dont really wanna play kung pao but i'll leave a comment and a like for the algorithm 🙏🙏🙏

[@MusioTheArc]

Hell yeah , huge thanks man👍🏻👊🏻

[@Bubbie69]

Love this!

[@AdamIsInTheGulag]

Yo Xombat any tips on the timing for special cancelling after 121. I’m doing the inputs and majority of the time it’s not coming out.

[@jessestewart3835]

Goto can extend uppercuts too. Can get 26% Didnt show that but good video

[@loulousaady266]

Nice work👍

[@LowlifeLeek1]

Had to get here early cause I needed some Combos for him

[@kushsmoke2188]

Nice vid! Funny though that the kameo has teleport but not main lao 😂

[@jackbower9977]

nice one :)

[@user-dr6sg7bo1p]

How do you dive kick so low to the ground

[@musicxxa6678]

My top10 right now: baraka, kenshi, cage, liu, kung lao, raiden, kitana, tanya, ashrah, rain, mileena Bottom3: sub zero, geras, scorpion

[@gnf_swampboi3305]

Just curious why scorpions

[@Totentanz1524]

armored launcher - like it

[@MacDibs]

What about sonya with the launcher?

[@kurikuri]

W guide

[@brandobeef7698]

Li Mei next???

[@a_wandering_traveler]

You're doing b1 into improved Dive Kick after punishing the -7 frame Subzero string, right? I can not for the life of me get this to work. Am I mistaken? Also, no joke: incredible guide

[@captainamerica3416]

It works, you've just got to get the timing right I guess. Try inputting the B1 halfway through the block stun on the last hit of Sub's 12, and you should get the punish. You also can't input the DB4 instantaneously after the B1 because input shortcuts will think you're trying to input DB1. That's what helped me, and now I'm able to punish the 12 string

[@rdr.erased]

For anti air you just up block or flawless block?

[@Xombat]

D2 is good as well as up-block for Kung Lao.

[@rdr.erased]

@@Xombat Thank you man best Lao guide fs

[@corey4107]

This is good but time stamps for the combos would be really helpful

[@howdydoodydoo3631]

Can someone tell me what makes a string fuzzyable in mk1? Like how many frames are required? You can fuzzy overhead / low strings with 2 frame difference? Do you block low first?

[@AuContraireMonFraire]

I think you can fuzzy all the way up to -8 providing your opponent does not have a fast enough normal/special to punish. And to fuzzy you need to back dash cancel. Back dash, crouch and then tap block. (Almost like “pianoing” in SF)

[@Forever.Remain.Nameless]

Fuzzy DOES NOT require back dashing or dash blocking😂. To fuzzy strings just look at the frame data of the strings to determine which to block first. If the hi comes out faster then block hi first then "fuzzy" to low block and vice-versa if the low comes out first then block low and "fuzzy" to Hi block....it's simple so don't listen to people who try to overly complicate it

[@eddychavez1013]

Did they nerf something? I keep getting 298.28 @18:18

[@angelsilva7207]

Yes. Kameos do less damage in your combos

[@MTR_Nara]

Lao gaming 🤓

[@malekk_99]

Does b4 into goro work midscreen?

[@DanielSmith-ll2iw]

I think you call Goro at the same time

[@BilliamTorpedo]

johnny pfp

[@HueyCarmichael]

I found this both racist and informational. Thank you.

[@bluemajiic1979]

Kung lao is more Bland than the previous game, but at least he is stronger

[@Kulikov_Alexander]

Why literally everyone calls Lao mix up character? He has no low starter for god sake, You literally cannot mix up on him. If the idea is that back 33 is low mixup then I am sorry, all characters in this game can mix

[@superbn0va]

KL aint that good. His armored wake up doesn't compensate his many disadvantages.

[@architype]

So many dashes in these combos , ugh

[@captainamerica3416]

You play any MKX? The combos in that game involved sprinting 😂

[@DestroyNxbody]

The best Johnny player idgaf