Mortal Kombat 11: How To Unlock Every Achievement / Trophy

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Anyone can unlock everything in Mortal Kombat 11. The achievements / trophies look tough, but players of any skill level can earn them all. You don’t have to be good at MK11 to 100% the game on PC, Xbox One, or PS4 — and you won’t even have to play it to get most of these challenges done.

The hardest part of MK11 is the grind. To get enough character intros, victories, fatalities, currencies, and more random stuff, you’ll need to play through the game’s Towers over-and-over-and-over. The Towers of Time reset daily, and two of the towers reset every few hours. If you want to grind 250 towers while earning lots of rewards / cash, that’s your best bet.

There are plenty of other strategies you might want to know about if you’re aiming for 100% completion. Check out the full guide below for all our pointers — and be prepared to spill a whole lot of blood.

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How To Unlock Every Achievement / Trophy | 100% Completion Guide

The Road To 100% Completion

To get 100% completion in MK11 you’ll have to grind Towers for a very, very long time. The hardest achievements / trophies are related to towers and the krypt. To get started, I recommend playing the game in this order:

Complete all Tutorials.
Complete the Story.
Explore the Krypt.
Play all Klassic Towers required. (Novice, Champion, etc)
Play online matches.

The hardest challenges are related to the Krypt and Towers. Getting the insane amount of koins / soul fragments and fatalities you need is much, much easier using AI Fighters. Whenever you select a character in the Tower, you’ll be able to toggle on / off ‘AI Fighter’ — with AI Fighter toggled on, the AI will take control and play through towers for you.

This makes even the hardest towers beatable. You can also semi-AFK farm, tapping ‘Kontinue’ as your AI fighter plays through each round.

I recommend using Noob Saibot (Default), with AI Set to 30 Combo / 20 Reversal. You can customize AI abilities in the Kustomization menu, after selecting a character and a loadout. There are more tricks you’ll need to learn, but using AI Fighters will help you complete some of the toughest challenges.

Secret Features & Puzzle Achievements / Trophies

Learn how to unlock achievements / trophies for strange, weird, or secret challenges. We’ll start with these — most likely, if you’re looking for help, you’ll want to get info on the following.

Not Dead Yet
Show MERCY 10 times

To show ‘MERCY’, reach the ‘FINISH HIM / HER’ screen at the end of a battle. Instead of performing a Fatality, input the following:

Mercy Finisher: Hold [L2], Press Down x 4

Input the command, and your opponent will get another chance to fight. They’ll regain a small amount of health. Defeat the enemy — to make this incredibly easy, just replay Endless (Klassic Tower) on Very Easy.

Blood In The Water
Spill 10,000 pints of blood

You’ll earn this achievement / trophy naturally just by playing the game. Kill enemies, perform fatalities, unleash Brutalities, and use Killing Blow — eventually, you’ll spill enough blood. If you’ve been grinding with AI Fighters, they’ll do the work for you.

Disco’s Not Dead
Flip Stance 50 times during a match

To flip stance, press [L2]. It’s just that easy — while standing still, you can do it endlessly. Enter a Klassic Tower and fight against a Very Easy opponent. They’ll barely fight you. Back away and spam [L2] until this achievement / trophy pops.

Enough Already
Hit the Gong in the Krypt

In the Krypt, you’ll quickly unlock Shao Kahn’s Hammer. Use it to smash your way into the Courtyard — from there, go left and break through the weak walls. In the room ahead, you’ll find a working gong. Ring it to unlock this achievement / trophy.

My Magic Shoes
Run 5 miles in the Krypt

To run in the Krypt, hold [R2] — you’ll eventually earn this just by exploring the Krypt. If you want to unlock it early, you can easily run circles in the large Courtyard area.

Total Disrespect
Defeat an opponent as Bug-Vorah

To defeat an opponent as Bug-Vorah, you’ll need to enter Kustomization. Enter D’vorah’s Kustomization screen and select ‘Bug Mother’ as a special skill in her loadout. Now, when D’Vorah is defeated in battle, Bug-Vorah will appear, giving you a small chance to defeat you opponent.

Play a ‘Very Easy’ Klassic Tower and this should be simple.

Oh My Days
Duck 100 times during a match

Simple. Just duck. It doesn’t have to be in a single match. You’ll eventually unlock this achievement / trophy accidentally. Once again, if you want to boost it, just load a ‘Very Easy’ Klassic Krypt match.

Get Over Here
Spear 50 hanging bodies in the Krypt

In Goro’s Lair, you’ll find Scorpion’s Spear in the Armory area, behind Goro’s Throne Room. There are bodies everywhere, but you’ll find lots of them in the Courtyard. These bodies will respawn, so you can just keep exiting / entering the Krypt and spearing the bodies that have spawned until this achievement / trophy unlocks.

Skull Kabob
Impale a head in the warrior shrine

To impale a head in the Krypt’s Warrior Shrine, you’ll need to earn 50 Fatalities on a single opponent. For example, performing 50 Fatalities on Scorpion will unlock Scorpion’s head — you’ll get items specific to Scorpion when you spear his head. Same goes for the rest of the characters.

The easiest way to boost is by loading / reloading the Klassic Towers. Look for a Survival match with your chosen character. There is only one road per fight, so you can Fatality your opponent twice as quickly. Exit the fight but don’t leave the Klassic Tower menu, and you can repeatedly fatality the same character.

Gimme Dat Money
Spend 50,000 koins in the Naknadan shrine

The Naknadan Shrine is located right outside the Warrior Shrine. Simply donate 50,000 koins in one go — if you’re farming with AI Fighters, you’ll quickly gain 500,000+ koins. You’ll need to donate all 50,000 in one single donation. As far as I’m aware, this is not cumulative.

Have We Met
Equip 5 different character intros

Character Intros are extremely rare. If you want to unlock them, you’ll need to open the most expensive Krypt chests — or, you can unlock Character Towers in the Tower of Time. Completing Character Towers will unlock intros.

Simply unlock and equip extra character intros. Each character has 4 intros, so you’ll need to unlock intros for multiple character.

Victorious
Equip 5 different character victories

Victories and Intros are exactly the same — they’re both rare, and you can unlock both in Character Towers.

Tutorial Achievements / Trophies

The Learn menu is where you’ll find tutorials. Basic Tutorials are incredibly easy, but Advanced / Strategy Tutorials are pretty complex. You might want to return to the Advanced Tutorials later, after you’ve played a bit of the game. You’ll learn a lot from these, so they’re worth doing!

Hit The Dojo
Komplete all Basics Tutorials
Ready To Kompete
Komplete all Advanced Tutorials
No Bad Match Ups
Komplete all Strategy Tutorials

Story Mode Achievements / Trophies

Very, very simple. Just play through the story mode. It isn’t too hard, and you can lower the difficulty if you’re having trouble at any point.

Half Way There
Komplete 50% of Story Mode
What’s Next?
Komplete Story Mode
Thank You For Being A Fan
Reach The Kredits

Milestone Achievements / Trophies

Extremely simple. Fatalities and Brutalities are unlocked for every character naturally, so check your Move List and give them a try. AI Fighters rarely perform Brutalities, but characters like Noob Saibot will consistently perform Fatalities. If you want to farm, it’s better to learn Brutalities and attempt to use them on every match — Endless Tower on Very Easy is a good way to boost.

Deadly Encounter
Perform 15 different FATALITIES
MURDER!!!
Perform 30 different FATALITIES
Brutal End
Perform 25 BRUTALITIES
Psychopath
Perform 100 BRUTALITIES

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Krypt & Tower Achievements / Trophies

More Power
Use 50 Konsumables
Konsumed
Use 100 konsumables

Konsumables are special items you’ll earn in Towers of by opening Krypt Chests. You can use them before each fight in a Tower. Using 100 is going to take a long time, but you earn lots of random konsumables for just about everything you do in the game. You can use konsumables that aren’t even helpful in Towers of Time — just use them to boost your stats.

Grave Robber
Open 200 Krypt chests

While farming and completing Towers for the achievements / trophies listed below, you’ll earn plenty of currency. Spend koins to unlock Krypt chests — you can reset chests with the Kronika symbol. Donate money to the clock-icon in the Courtyard to reset up to 50 chests at a time. You can do this multiple times, so you’ll quickly be able to open 200 chests.

Klassic
Komplete a Novice, Warrior, or Champion Klassic Tower once
I Want It All
Komplete the Novice, Warrior, or Champion Klassic Towers with 10 different kharacters

You can complete any of these three tower types with 10 different characters — essentially, you’ll need to unlock 10 different character endings for the arcade mode.

Tower Champion
Komplete 125 Towers
Master of Time
Komplete 250 Towers

This takes awhile, but I recommend taking it slow and just playing through the daily towers as they appear. You can also play Endless / Survival Klassic Towers. Quitting those towers counts as completion, so if you want to boost, just keep replaying the towers.

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Online Achievements / Trophies

Another very straight-forward set of achievements / trophies. You just need to play various online modes and matches. You don’t need to win.

Kompetitor
Play 50 Kasual Versus matches
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Pay 100 total respect points in King of the Hill
Teamwork
Play a Group Battle with 2 other players
My AI Can Do It
Play 10 AI Battle Simulator sets
Puppet Master
Play 25 AI Battle Simulator sets

Fatality Completion Achievements / Trophies

For Fatality completions, the easiest way is by using our complete list of secondary fatalities. Otherwise, you can easily unlock this achievement / trophy by playing each character as an AI Fighter. Even if you don’t have both Fatalities unlocked, AI Fighters will perform both Fatalities randomly. Just play as each character, with ‘AI Fighter’ toggled on, in Endless / Survival Towers until you get both Fatalities.