Well, there is no fool-prove tactic against him like Shao Kahn.
You need some reactions to beat him.

First, use footsweeper from the maximum distance, this means make the footsweepers from far away so that it just hit him, if you done it right he wont block it and its a pretty save attack, even if he blocks it he looses block damage.
The most important thing is that you know how to counter his stomp attack, easily jumpkick back and you will always hit him if you dont start to late.
After the jumpkick hit in the air you can use Kitana,s Fan or Liu,s Air fireball for more damage.
If you get still stomp by him it means a free hit, he well always perform his taunt animation after a sucessfull stomp, get to him and Uppercut, or Spear Uppercut or anything else that make damage.

You can use Jumpkicks against him but dont overuse it, because sometimes he simply throw you out of your kick.
Sometimes Kintaro makes his taunt Animation just random, then he will jump forward to you, uppercut him then, or spear uppercut.

If he isnt in footsweeper range than simply duck and wait, this will also protect you against his fireballs, but always get ready for a quick jumpkick backward to counter his stomp attack.

Use Scorpion, he seems to be the best to beat Kintaro for beginners.
Catch him with Spear if he makes a taunt, if you still get hit by the stomp attack, uppercut spear, use footweepers and keep ducking if he isnt in reach.

Hope this helps.

Well just to say... I'm no beginer. I'm a MK verteran. I just decided to play some MK2 today for fun since I haven't for a long time. Well I finally beat him after finding some thing I never knew about him while trying to beat him useing Jax. Found out if you trap Kintaro in a corner and if you can start getting punches on him you can just keep punching him in the corner till you win the round. So after finding this out I used Sub-Zero, would get him in the corner, try to freeze him, and start punching away lol.

Anyways took me seems like forever to beat him, but I did. Went on to Shao Kahn, lost useing Subby, tried Jax, lost, tried Liu Kang, lost, and then I tried to use Reptile, but the damn game froze on me when I picked Reptile.... Ain't that a bitch?

Anyways Shao Kahn is harder than I remember... I guess it must be becuz I play UMK3 the most of the 2D MK's, and in UMK3 Shao Kahn is actually really easy if you know what you're doing. In MK2 He would whoop me easily the three fights I had with him today. That damn charge... I thought you could duck it? Even ducked though it hits me.....

Anyways more suggestions on ways to beat Kintaro (specifically ways to beat him useing Jax, Liu Kang, Reptile, Johnny Cage, Baraka, and Mileena), also any suggestions on how to beat Shao Kahn I'd appreciate the help. (specifically wayt to beat him with those same characters plus Sub-Zero)

kahn and kintaro are cake. i usally go thru with scorpion.

kintaro: keep jumpkicking until he does his tele stop, then backflip out of the way, spear, uppercut..repete.

kahn: you dont even have to do anything. just stand there. do staning round houses and standing high kicks. spear+uppercut when he taunts. it works with any character, just replace the spear with a projectile.
heres the vid.. its for snes, but this strat will work for all versions of mk2.

i cant believe so much people ask for this, maybe a pinned thread how to beat kintaro and shao kahn in mk2 lol

Kintaro:
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kintjk.wmv - JK Strat
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kintkit.wmv - Vs Kitana
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kintscorp.wmv - Scorp Strat


Shao Kahn:
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnbar.wmv - VS Baraka
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnkit.wmv - VS Kitana
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnmil.wmv - VS Mileena
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnraid.wmv - VS Raiden
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnlk.wmv - LK Strat
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnlp.wmv - LP Strat
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahntak.wmv - TAK Strat
http://mk.ediko.net/archive/movies/mk2sg/kahnuper.wmv - Uppercut Strat



Also Scorpion can infinite with spear against Kintaro and Shao Kahn.

Liu_Kang187, did you played the SNES Version of MK II?
Because there was that corner Highpunch trick.
But as far as I know that doesnt worked on Arcade.

And I just wrote that "for beginners" its easy to use Scorpion to beat Kintaro, I dont mean you in person.

cool vids. dont need much of a strat to beat kahn tho. just stand there and kick, lol.

I believe I am playing the arcade version. I'm playing whatever version that is on the MKSM game. (I hate playing MK on my PC. So glad they have been bringing the old ones back as bonus stuff and such) But yeah I'm pretty positive that It is the arcade version.

And really when facing Kintaro... Atleast in the version I'm playing... He blocks a whole hell of a lot more grabbing me out of mid air at times when trying to jump kick him. But yeah he blocks on me a hell of a lot more, so jump kicking over and over hasn't worked for me in this version atleast.

oh, so then youre playing the mat2 version (which is the arcade). just jump kick man. time your kicks better. as soon as you jump, wait for kintaro to swing (uppercut) then tap kick. take a few staps back, and do it again.

well for kinatro
u jump kick
move back
jump kick
then wen he is in the corner let him walk up then continue



as for kahn
i did this on the psp
with kitana keep usin the fan lift he never blocks it for some reason

also with kung lao keep spinning he walks into it
or charges into it
beware!
on the psp if the spin hits kahn when he shadow charges it freezes

here is a vid of the version you are playing. i did the same thing i did on the snes version..i only used sub this time.

Since the Scorpion gig was covered with the spear as Psykosonic pointed out.

Here's another way to beat Kintaro easily lol.


Pick Sub-Zero, bait Kintaro into the corner take one stomp from him, then immediately freeze him and push him into the corner, stay at arms length then just tap HP the rest of the match, he won't block=round over.Do this for the easy win, all you have to do is bait him near the corner.Trust me, if you take the stomp in the corner he always taunts right after, freeze his ass then push him into the corner and HP him to death.Works every time.


Shao Kahn, pick Scorpion and spear his ass with the infinite already mentioned in here.Another way is pick Kitana, fan lift him the whole match.Kahn that is.

Another way to beat Kintaro is jump kicks.