Legacy Kollection fatalities and finishing moves

The move types

Mortal Kombat’s finishing moves are not one move with variations. They are distinct categories that were introduced across the early games, and Legacy Kollection recognises each of them separately — which means the collection doubles as a checklist of every type.

The first-appearance column is ordered by the original release of each game rather than by the version in the collection, because a port can ship without a move type the arcade original had.

How they are tracked

Each type maps to its own achievement, so the completion percentages are a straightforward measure of how many players have pulled each one off in the collection.

The spread is informative. A plain Fatality is done by more than half of all players and is the easiest achievement in the whole collection, while an Animality — which only exists in the later games and needs specific conditions — is done by under a tenth. Babality and Friendship sit in the middle, which reflects how many players know they exist without having looked up the inputs.

Practising in training

The updates added a training mode that was built with finishing moves in mind, and it removes most of the friction from learning one.

• Finishing moves can be practised directly rather than only in a live match.
• The versus screen can be skipped, so a failed input does not cost you the setup time before every retry.
• The AI difficulty is configurable and sides can be swapped mid-session, which is useful for practising the exact position a move requires.
• Position can be reset with the rewind control, which is faster than walking back into place.

Because finishing moves depend on the opponent being in a particular state and often at a particular distance, being able to reset the situation instantly is the difference between learning a move in a few minutes and giving up on the input.

Controls and remapping

One control change in the collection is worth flagging because it contradicts muscle memory from the original arcade cabinets.

Controls can be reviewed and adjusted per game. Because the same finishing move can require a different input in different versions — and the collection holds both the arcade and home ports of several games — the input is best checked against the version you actually have loaded rather than from memory. The contents page lists which versions are included, and the achievement roadmap groups the finishing-move achievements with the rest of the list.