Mortal Kombat 1 Trophy Guide & Roadmap

From Main Menu go to Learn > Tutorial > Basic. Complete all 5 sub-tutorials here:

1. Basic Movement and Attacks
2. Blocking and Throws
3. Special Moves and Kombo Attacks
4. Kameo Attacks
5. Super Meters and Fatal Blows

Before playing your first match the game will automatically prompt you to play the tutorial, but if you skip it or exit you can still do it from the Tutorial Menu at any time.

Go to Main Menu > Learn > Practice > select your characters and stay in this mode for 1 hour. It doesn’t have to be one hour in one sitting, it still counts if you leave Practice and then re-enter the mode later for the remaining time (e.g. spend 10 minutes and then another 50 minutes in a separate session will unlock the trophy).

You don’t need to press any buttons or anything. It’s fine to stay idle so you can do other things and keep the game running.

Automatic story-related trophy, unlocks in Story Mode, after Act III Chapter 9 “Firewater”.

Automatic story-related trophy, for finishing Story Mode. There are 4 Acts total and 15 Chapters. The story takes around 90-120 minutes total if you skip cutscenes.

After finishing the story for the first time, replay from the first Chapter 15 mission (Act IV) called “It Has Begun”. That’s the point in the story where you must select which fighter you want to use for the rest of Chapter 15. Now finish all Chapter 15 fights again and the trophy will unlock when reaching the final boss. Replaying just the endboss (“Horrible Bosses”) won’t unlock the trophy, you must replay Chapter 15 from the start. Luckily, this only takes 5 minutes if you skip cutscenes. Pick a different character than on the first run to make sure the game counts it correctly as a new run.

The trophy will actually unlock before the final boss fight, you don’t even need to finish it and can quit out at that point.

This will be one of your first trophies. It counts the total damage dealt cumulatively across all matches. Each opponent has 1,000 health so you will deal 10,000 total damage within 10 matches.

This will unlock automatically while going for other trophies, don’t even worry about this. As you attack enemies you will automatically spill their blood each fight.

You can keep track of it in your fighter card statistics. Go to Main Menu > press Touchpad > 2 x Kareer Stats > Blood Spilt (will show number of Pints).

Within the first few hours of gameplay you will spill to 5,000 pints of opponent’s blood naturally. It still takes a while but roughly after finishing the story and doing 5 Towers you should have it.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, cannot be missed.

Complete the tutorial section by finishing Johnny Cage’s Mansion in Invasion Mode. After Encounter “Ugly Me”, you can enter the final room of the mansion and a fire portal will spawn. Step through the portal to exit the Mansion Tutorial and enter the first Invasion World. The trophy will unlock shortly after that. It can be a bit delayed and may take 2 minutes to pop, so don’t quit the game until it does. Just start the next match in the first Invasion Level you arrive at and it should pop shortly thereafter.

This trophy description is slightly misleading. You don’t just need to PLAY Kombat League Matches, you must FINISH the whole Set (a “Set” is complete whenever the first player reaches 3 wins via Rematch function).

Go to Main Menu > Versus > Online > Ranked – Kombat League.

These are the ranked matches against random online player. You must finish 5 FULL Kombat League match sets until the first player has reached 3 wins. After each win (every 2 rounds) you must click REMATCH. After the first player reaches 3 wins it will show “Final Set Results” and the “Rematch” option changes to “Friendly Rematch”. At this point it will count as “1 Kombat League Set played” towards the trophy. So do this 5 times. In total that means you must play at least against 5 people, always until one player has reached 3 wins (5 opponents x 3 wins x 2 rounds per win = minimum 30 rounds). If the opponent quits out it won’t count towards the trophy and you must find someone else who rematches you until you or the opponent has 3 wins.

It DOESN’T count if you don’t keep rematching the opponent until someone has 3 wins. If you quit out after the first or second win it will not count towards the trophy. Only after the full 3-win set is complete it counts. It doesn’t matter if you win or lose the set. You can stand idle and just let the opponent beat you up 3 times in a row, 3 losses in a row will still count as having finished a Kombat League Set. This means the trophy is very easy because you don’t actually need to play, can just lose on purpose to give the opponent 3 wins, then search for a new opponent.

The easiest and fastest method is to do this in the “Fatalities” Learn Mode. Go to Main Menu > Learn > Fatalities. Do the Fatality of 20 different characters.

You have to perform 20 DIFFERENT Fatalities (meaning 20 Fatalities of different Characters), not the same one 20 times. There are 24 playable characters at launch, so do the fatality of any 20/24 characters. This will just a little under 20 minutes. The trophy is confirmed to unlock from the “Learn” Mode, it doesn’t need to be done in real matches.

The easiest option is to play with 10 different characters and use their brutality by HOLDING + on the final hit (don’t tap the buttons, hold them). This will perform an uppercut on the final hit that slices off the opponent’s head.

While there are more unlockable brutalities for each character that isn’t needed. The basic + uppercut (same for all characters) counts for the trophy. The important thing is that you must do it with 10 DIFFERENT characters. Doing 10 brutalities with the same character doesn’t count.

“Kameo Fatalities” are performed using your Kameo Character (the secondary character that helps you in combat). The button input and required distance to opponent can be viewed in the Move List under “Kameo” section.

After you deplete an opponent’s health you get the “Finish Him/Her” screen. Input the correct button sequence while standing at the correct distance from the opponent. In the Movelist the Kameo Fatality will show the distance in the name (Close / Mid / Long). For “Close” stand at the enemy and do one double-step back ( ). For “Mid” stand at the enemy and do one jump backwards (sometimes must do another step backwards depending on the fatality). For “Long” stand at the far edge of the screen.

Example: Kano’s Fatality is called “(Mid) Heart Ripper” . During the Finish Him/Her stand as close to the opponent as possible, then do one backjump and another small step back . Then input the fatality BEFORE the enemy drops dead. This will play a cutscene where Kano performs the finisher.

Repeat this for 10 different Kameo Characters. You have 10 different Kameo Characters unlocked from the start. The remaining 5 are unlocked by increasing your Player Profile Level, one unlocks every 5 levels with the last one at Level 25. Also see Mortal Kombat 1 – How to Unlock All Characters.

During character select you will get to pick a second character that joins you in combat. These are the “Kameo Characters”. There are 15 Kameo Characters total, simply finish matches with 10 of them. You can use the same main character, only the Kameo character must be different. The fastest option is to do it in Invasion Mode because matches only last one round, but it also counts across other modes.

You have 10 different Kameo Characters unlocked from the start. The remaining 5 are unlocked by increasing your Player Profile Level, one unlocks every 5 levels with the last one at Level 25. Also see Mortal Kombat 1 – How to Unlock All Characters.

Go to Main Menu > Kampaign > Towers. Play the first tower “Novice” that only has 6 opponents and set the difficulty to ‘Very Easy’. Finish this tower with 5 different main characters.

For  Happy Endings, you will need to finish the tower with 10 different characters ending.

The Shrine can be found in Main Menu > Extras > Shrine. Using the Shrine costs 1000 Koins each time and gives one random Kollection reward (Character Art, Environment Art, Music, and some Cosmetics). Simply use the Shrine 10 times total to spend 10,000 Koins total.

You get more than enough Koins on your way to Invasion Level 20. Koins can also be earned quickly from Tower Matches (250 per match) and from completing the tutorial (250 per tutorial). Don’t worry about it, just focus on other trophies and you’ll get more than enough Koins automatically along the way.

*Long Trophy Pop Delay*
After spending 10,000 Koins it can take another 2-4 minutes for the trophy to pop, there is a long delay. Just stay in-game and don’t close the game. Start some matches and play until it unlocks.

In Invasion Mode you will frequently find “Test Your Might” encounters. These appear as dots on the floor (just like regular combat encounters), and often during Tower Matches.

These are little challenges that require you to mash buttons and click when the “Might Meter” is in the goldilocks zone. Do 5 different ones of these. By different the game means where the goldilocks zone is in a different place (sometimes higher, sometimes lower) and where you have different destructible targets.

*Long Trophy Pop Delay*
This trophy is a little bit glitchy and/or has a very long delay to pop. It’s common that it doesn’t pop after the 5th Test Your Might and can take around 10 or more Test Your Might until it pops. It may also not pop immediately after a Test Your Might and instead pops randomly much later while doing other things. Just keep playing and it will unlock eventually.

See Adventure Time.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, cannot be missed.

“Encounters” are the glowing circles on the floor in Invasion Mode. Each of these is a Fight, or a Test Your Might, or Survival Challenge, or Ambush. For this trophy you must step on 25 of these floor markers and complete the fight. This will happen automatically while playing through Invasion Mode, you have to finish Encounters to advance. You will get this within the first 1-2 hours of gameplay in Invasion Mode.

For this you must defeat the “King” in a King of the Hill online match. Luckily, this can be done in a private match with a friend or second console. Only 2 players are needed when doing it in Private Match.

Go to Main Menu > Versus > Online > either Kasual – King of the Hill or Private – King of the Hill.

The easiest option is to play a Private King of the Hill with 2 players. The player who is hosting the match will automatically be the “King”. The player who joins must defeat the host to earn the trophy. This makes the joining player “King”. Now the host can defeat the joining player to dethrone him and unlock the trophy. It only takes a single match to do this so it’s very quick and easy when done in Private Match. If you have a second console you can simply join yourself from a different account.

See Rollin’ With My Krew.

There are 15 Kameo Characters. They are the secondary support characters you can summon in battle. You must reach Mastery with 5 of them. Mastery = Rank 15.

You can check the Rank by going to Main Menu > Touchpad > scroll over the Kameo character. Always use the same Kameo character until you’ve maxed one out, then switch to a new character. Each match you win gives 2 types of XP: Profile XP + Kameo XP (can be seen by pressing in Match Results). The Kameo XP increase your Kameo Character’s Rank.

You get more Kameo XP if you finish matches with a Brutality (Fatalities also give a small bonus but Brutalities give more). Easiest option is to hold + to make an Uppercut on the final hit (while enemy still has health left, BEFORE they enter the Finish Him/Her screen). If you hold the buttons it will do the brutality animation on the final hit. Then in the results screen you will see the bonus XP from having done a Brutality. So always do this if possible. Brutalities also have shorter animations than Fatalities which makes them even more time saving.

While working on all other trophies you will not even master a single character. They level much slower than main characters. Each level-up takes longer than the previous one. This means after you have all other trophies done this will be your long boring grind to platinum.

SEASON 1 – Active Playing Method (2 Hours per Mastery) – no longer works in Season 2:

Go to the lowest-level “Endurance” Encounter you can find, ideally in the first Mesa (in Season 1, one can be found in Fengjian Village, at the start of the world next to the shop). Endurance Encounters have 3 enemies in one fight, because of this they give more XP. Finish the encounter with a Flawless Victory + Brutality to get 315 Kameo XP, restart the encounter and repeat. This will get you to Rank 15 Mastery in 2 – 2.5 hours. You should be Invasion Level 30 (level cap), put all points into Strength to kill enemies in a single uppercut (can reset skills by buying the reset item from shop in Wu Shi Academy). This is the fastest method but it requires actively playing. Alternatively, regular 1-enemy encounters give 185 Kameo XP when doing them with Flawless Victory + Brutality (can repeat Level 1 Encounter in first Mesa, enemies will die in 1 hit). Endurance Encounters are the most efficient method because they give more per encounter and less time wasted on loading screens.

SEASON 1 – AFK Turbo Controller Method (10 Hours per Mastery) – no longer works in Season 2:

If you have a compatible Turbo Controller you can idle it by turboing the X-Button: In Invasion Mode go to a “Survive” Encounter in an early low-level world. Pick an easy one where you won’t die even if you get constantly hit. Start the Encounter, it will take 20 seconds to finish, just stand around. It will give you 65 Kameo XP each time. Turbo the  button to restart it and repeat it infinitely. With loading screens it takes 30 seconds per run. This gives 65 Kameo XP every 30 seconds with little to no work. You will reach mastery in 10 hours per character (50 hours total for 5), can simply keep it running overnight.

Season 2 Update:

With the Season 2 update the amount of XP gained in fights has been changed, and now seems to be tied relative to the level of a fight instead of being static, along with there being a massive reduction in XP earned from Survival matches (they give the same XP as a Level 1 fight). This means that the prior methods for idling XP or replaying low level Endurance matches is no longer viable, as you get 1/10th the XP for completing Survival matches as you did during Season 1 (5~ XP instead of 65~ XP), and Endurance XP is scaled to the level of the fight so replaying low level ones gives the same extremely low amount of XP. There are new active and idle methods, with one active method being much faster but requires much more effort.

SEASON 2 – Active Playing Method 1 (5 – 6 Hours per Mastery):

The first active method that doesn’t require setup or much extra effort is to replay the random fight node located to the left in Wu Shi Academy. This fight is scaled to your level, so when you’re Level 30 it’s Level 30 as well, but unlike other Level 30 fights you can find after defeating the Season Final Boss it is only one round and doesn’t have a bunch of extra effects added, making it much shorter. A win with a Brutality in this fight awards 150 XP, or 270 for a Flawless Brutality.

SEASON 2 – Active Playing Method 2 (8 – 10 Hours setup, then 30 Minutes to 2 Hour per Mastery):

The second active method is to continually replay the Seasonal Tower located in the center Gateway Portal mesa. The Seasonal Tower is 10 fights long and starts at Level 10, raising 1 Level each time you complete it with seemingly no cap. This means that if you play it enough you can raise the Level above 30, which increases the XP you can earn past anywhere else in the Invasion mode. If you get it up to the 40 – 50+ range then you can earn upwards of 1000 – 2000 XP per successful match, allowing you to complete a Mastery very quickly if you can reach that point. It requires replaying the Tower a lot of times to increase the level though, and each level has a pair of random effects and randomized opponents on it which seemingly can’t be reset, which is why this is much more effort and ends up being much more difficult along with the long setup time.

If you are wanting to perform this method pick a high damage character such as Baraka, and set their stats up with most points in Attack. Relics won’t be the same for everyone, so use what you have that gives increase damage with not too many negative tradeoffs (such as increased damage in exchange for not being able to block). You can check the shop in the center of the Mesa for new items every hour (it has 3 each of Forge Materials, Konsumables, Relics, and Talismans at a time). For a Talisman you specifically want the Windbreaker one, which causes you to send out a damaging gas cloud in front of yourself that damages the enemy when they stand inside it. You should be able to purchase a Level 30 one of these from the second last shop in the final mesa of the Season (the Second last shop in each areas seems to always sell Talismans).

Once you reach level 40 or higher on the Tower keep note of how hard of a time you are having with fights. The first 3 fights will be the worst as the enemies are “boss” types which typically have 2 phases and hyper armor, with the other 7 fights actually being easier as they typically don’t have the boss modifiers. If you start struggling to get past the first 3 fights then that’s when you likely want to stop increasing the tower level, and just back out of the tower on the final fight. This lets you keep all your earned XP and Kurrency to that point, but doesn’t increase the tower level and keeps it the same, allowing you to grind the same level of enemies as much as you like as long as you never finish the tower. Obviously the higher you can get the more XP you can earn, but once you reach the 40s you can earn 1000+ XP per match, allowing you to complete the Mastery very quickly relative to the other methods.

SEASON 2 – AFK Turbo Controller Method (12 Hours per Mastery):

The new method to turbo in Season 2 is to continually a Level 28 mission in the final mesa Rampart with Liu Kang. To find the location, go to the final boss, then go backward on the path until you reach the 4 way split with the fight “Getting Frosty”. Go left at the split 6 spaces to reach the fight “Axe-Cident”. While playing as Liu Kang you can then turbo the X-Button and hold the left stick/movement to the right (using a rubber band or some other method). Due to the positioning of the node you won’t move, but can still continually restart the fight. While fighting with Liu Kang holding right and hitting X repeatedly performs a 3-hit Kick combo, pushing him toward the opponent at all times. At level 7 Mastery you unlock the Brutality “Pop Goes The…” which triggers off that three hit kick combo, as long as one of the three hits deals the final blow and you are facing right, meaning you can continually turbo this to repeat the fight, performing a Brutality the majority of the time (if the opponent moves to the left of you then the Brutality won’t occur, but you’ll still win matches from the combo). This earns 65 XP for a win, or 105 XP with the Brutality. Set your Liu Kang up with 40 – 50 health, then the rest of the points in Attack and let the fight run this way. Equip whatever Relic you have that increases damage if possible to make it go a little quicker.

Outworld Shops can be found throughout Invasion Mode. For example, one can be found in Mesa: Sun Do Festival (at least in Season 1, might change in future Seasons). They look identical to Earthrealm Shops. The shopkeeper looks like a 4-armed blue guy. Simply buy one item from such a shop to unlock the trophy. Here’s an example showing him at Sun Do Festival (second world in Season 1):

Earthrealm Shops can be found throughout Invasion Mode. For example, one is always at the “Gateway Portal” (the flying island in the middle between all Mesas). They look identical to Outworld Shops. The shopkeeper looks like a 4-armed blue guy. Simply buy one item from such a shop to unlock the trophy. Here’s an example location showing him at the Gateway Portal:

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, unlocked after Encounter “Demon Lady”.

Talismans are unlockable and usable only in Invasion Mode. You will get the first Talisman automatically after the first few encounters in Invasion Mode, after the encounter called “Demon Lady”. Then on the next encounter you automatically get a tutorial on how to use it. Talismans allow you to shoot ranged projectiles by tilting the right stick / . You’ll automatically get it during the tutorial for it, which is one of the first Invasion Mode trophies.

See  Ultimate Power on how to get Talismans.

After obtaining a Talisman simply tilt the right stick to the right or left to shoot projectiles at enemies. Do this 10 times total to earn the trophy. If you run out of Talisman charges, you can recharge them at The Forge.

See  Ultimate Power on how to get Talismans.

After obtaining a Talisman simply tilt the right stick to the right or left to shoot projectiles at enemies. This can only be done a limited number of times. After you run out of uses, visit the Forge and click “Recharge Talisman”. This will cost some Invasion Mode currency to recharge it which unlocks the trophy. If your Talisman is fully charged it can’t be recharged, so you must use up the charges in combat first.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, unlocked during Forge Tutorial.

The Forge is automatically discovered early during the Invasion Mode while going through Johnny’s Mansion (can’t miss it). By the time you reach the Forge you will automatically have a Talisman and a crafting component from previous encounters. Talk to Forge NPC > Upgrade Talisman > select your Talisman > add a crafting Komponent for the upgrade > press the Options-Button  to forge the upgrade. This will unlock the trophy.

See  Juggernaut.

See  Juggernaut.

In Invasion Mode your character has an “Invasion Level”. This is different from your Profile Level (it’s a level exclusive to Invasion Mode).

You will reach Level 20 automatically on the way to the Season Boss for  Vanquished. Every encounter you win gives some XP. You can also buy items from some shops that give XP. Wearing the Relic “Not Junk” gives a +15% XP bonus (automatic unlock during Johnny Cage Mansion tutorial, first relic you get).

Don’t even worry about this, Level 20 will come naturally while you play. It takes around 6 hours of gameplay to reach Level 20. An easy strategy is to play Baraka, put all points in Attack attribute, and just spam uppercuts with +  . Barak’s uppercuts have good range and deal more damage than most other characters. His + stab is also good.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, cannot be missed. Throughout invasion mode, some of the Encounters will be “Mini Bosses”. They look just like regular opponents but have more buffs that make them stronger. You will automatically encounter them on your way to Invasion Level 20.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, cannot be missed.

Major bosses are found at the end of Mesas (Worlds) in Invasion Mode. They have multiple phases and have buffs that make them stronger than regular opponents. You will automatically encounter one at the end of the first Mesa, the world where you go after finishing Johnny Cage’s Mansion Tutorial. It will change every Invasion Season. On your way to defeating the Season Endboss you will automatically have to defeat Major Bosses along the way, so can’t miss it, they are on the mandatory main path.

*INVASION MODE*

For this you must play through all Mesas (worlds) during on Invasion Season. The last world will have the Season Endboss. It takes around 10 hours to finish all worlds in a Season.

The Seasons reset every 50 days, which deletes your Invasion progress and you must start over. The time until the reset is shown when you press in Invasion Mode, in the top right corner. Be sure to do it before a reset so you don’t have to start over.

An easy strategy is to play Baraka, put all points in Attack attribute, and just spam uppercuts with +  . Barak’s uppercuts have good range and deal more damage than most other characters. His + stab is also good.

Relics are automatically obtained in Invasion Mode as rewards for beating certain encounters. The first one unlocks early on after Encounter “Smoke Hazard”, while going through Johnny Cage’s Mansion (can’t miss it). Afterward while walking around the mansion press to open the Loadout Menu, click the “Relic” section in the bottom right, click on the Relic to equip it. The trophy will unlock right away as soon as you equipped it.

Throughout Invasion Mode you will frequently earn Relics as rewards from Encounters. They can also be found in Chests and bought from Shops.

For example, the Shop at Gateway Portal sells Relics (floating island in the middle between all Mesas). Note that some Relics have certain stat requirements, such as requiring a minimum of 10 Defense Attribute to equip them.

When you have collected 3 Relics and fulfill the stat requirements, they can be equipped by pressing (while walking around the map) > click the “Relics” Menu in bottom right corner > click to equip. The trophy pops has a delay, it can take 1-2 minutes for it to pop up. Just equip a different relic, close the menu, open the menu to equip the next relic and repeat until you cycled through 3 different ones and the trophy unlocks.

*INVASION MODE*

*HIGHLY MISSABLE – TIMED ONLINE EVENTS*

Titans only spawn for 4 days during each 50-day Season in Invasion Mode. For example, during Season 1 (ending November 05, 2023) the Titans appeared from October 27 – October 31. In Season 2 (ending December 15th, 2023) the Titan appeared from November 17 – November 21. You should check frequently if Titans are available through Invasion Mode. When they are available a new Mesa gets added to Invasion Mode on the bottom left that looks like this:

Select this extra Mesa, then in the node on the right side you can find the current Titan boss.They’re a stronger version of a regular opponent who has extra buffs and multiple phases, just like bosses. You must defeat the Titan over multiple rounds until they are fully defeated, then the trophy unlocks.

EXPLOIT: As of Season 2 (confirmed to work November 17, 2023) you can change the date on your system to move backwards to the prior Season/timeframe, which makes the Titan mesa reappear, allowing you to replay the boss. Go to PS5 Settings and change date to October 31, 2023/November 18, 2023. Then the Pyramid will spawn, allowing you to replay the Titan fight. After this close the game, change the date back to current date, open Invasions and play a random fight to get the trophy (this might get patched in the future, was confirmed to work on November 18, 2023 during Season 2).

Note that the Season 2 Titan fight (General Shao) is easier than the Baraka fight from Season 1, having only 4 phases instead of 5, and Shao not growing in size in the middle phases like Baraka.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, cannot be missed.

Start Invasions Mode and finish the first match to get a key. Then move forward to Johnny Cage’s Mansion and open the door with the key. It’s the first Invasion Mode trophy you will earn.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, unlocked after the Encounter “Survive” (while walking through Johnny Cage’s Mansion).

Survival Encounters are minigames where you must evade some projectiles, obstacles etc. The first story-related one has you duck and jump over some projectiles. You have to finish these encounters to advance further into Invasion Mode, so can’t miss this.

Automatic Invasion Mode trophy, unlocked after Encounter “Ugly Me”.

Obstructions are blockades throughout the Invasion Mode map that are blocking off certain paths or rooms. To clear these you must solve encounters nearby, one of the encounters will clear the blockade. You will automatically be doing this while advancing through Invasion Mode so don’t even worry about this, can’t miss it.

Secret Fights randomly appear after regular fights, having you fight a second opponent immediately. Starting the fight unlocks the trophy, you aren’t required to actually complete it.

Season 1:
There’s nothing special you need to do to trigger them, just play Invasion Mode and sometimes a regular encounter is followed by a second encounter titled “Secret Fight”. Where exactly you find these fights seems to be randomized. As of November 18, 2023 you can switch date back to Season 1 (October 31/2023) and play through Season 1 mesas and a Secret Fight will randomly occur.

Season 2:
Secret Fights seem to occur much differently in Season 2, and won’t occur randomly after normal fight nodes. The only currently known (but guaranteed) way to trigger one is to fight the Seasonal Final Boss using Sub Zero and finish the fight with a fatality.

While walking from one encounter to the next you will sometimes get a surprised enemy encounter called “Ambush”. Defeating this surprise attacker will unlock the trophy. This is completely random. Just run around the map and Ambushes will happen regularly, you will frequently get them while playing through Invasion mode, so don’t even worry about this.

Season 2 Update:
With the changes in Seasons 2 the frequency of ambush occurrences seems to have been decreased drastically (to the point the consumable for stopping ambushes for 20 nodes is entirely useless). If you are unlucky and finish everything else without an ambush occurring (or just want to grind them for the extra stat consumables) you can just continually run through the mesa maps until they occur. As of November 18, 2023 you can switch date back to Season 1 (October 31/2023) and play through Season 1 mesas to get Ambushes more often.

From the Main Menu (or in Invasion Mode) press Touchpad to open the Quests Menu. This will show all Daily & Weekly Quests and what you must do to finish them. These are quick and easy gameplay tasks like performing 15 special moves in a day or spending 2000 koins at the shrine. There are 5 Quests per Day so you can do 3 in a single day. Don’t even worry about this, you are guaranteed to do 3 daily quests automatically while going for other trophies, they are so simple that they will be completed without even knowing what they are. Progress for these can only be earned while being connected to the online servers but it counts what you do across all game modes.

From the Main Menu (or in Invasion Mode) press Touchpad to open the Quests Menu. This will show all Daily & Weekly Quests and what you must do to finish them. These are quick and easy gameplay tasks like dealing a total of 10,000 damage in one week. There are multiple weekly quests so you can work on whichever is easiest. Don’t even worry about this, you are guaranteed to do 1 weekly quests automatically while going for other trophies, they are so simple that they will be completed without even knowing what they are. Progress for these can only be earned while being connected to the online servers but it counts what you do across all game modes.

*INVASION MODE*

Gateway Towers can be played in Invasion Mode, from the Mesa in the center called “Gateway Portal” (available after finishing Johnny Cage’s Mansion tutorial).

You must get 5,000,000 Score from A SINGLE Hourly / Daily / Weekly tower (Seasonal Tower doesn’t count because it doesn’t give a score). It doesn’t add up your scores across multiple towers, has to be 5 million from one tower.

Season 2 Update:

With the Season 2 Invasion the scoring of the Gateway Towers has been changed, so you can get higher scores much easier. You can quite easily get over 5 million points on a daily tower with 5 fights, trying to finish the fights with minimal health loss and Brutality/Fatality on every round, Flawless Victories not required.
If you are grinding Kameo experience using the Seasonal Tower method you are also likely to get this easily, as you can earn 10 million+ points from an early run of the tower even missing a couple Brutality/Fatality finishes.

Old Season 1 Method (in case the Season 2 method gets changed this may become relevant again):

In Season 1 there are two methods: Finish a Tower with at least 7 floors with all Brutalities, or finish a tower with at least 5 floors with all Flawless Victories + Brutalities. The towers are random and always change so if you get a difficult tower with lots of environmental hazards you can wait until new towers appear and hope for an easier one. It’s somewhat luck-dependent, just check for the hourly & daily towers frequently until you find one that matches the criteria. The towers can be replayed as many times as you want until the time elapses and they are replaced by a new tower.

Season 1 Method 1: 7 Floor Towers – Beat Every Fight with a Brutality, doesn’t need Flawless Victories

For 7 floor towers you must win every floor with a BRUTALITY (not Fatality). Brutality is performed by HOLDING + for an uppercut on the final hit while the enemy still has health left (before the “Finish Him/Her” Screen). DON’T use Fatalities! Only Brutalities, no other finishers allowed. If you finish every floor with a Brutality you get the “All Brutality” multiplier at the end that gives a x4 overall score multiplier. If you use just one Fatality or no finisher at all you won’t get this bonus and will only get somewhere around 1-2 million score instead of 5 million+.

1. Check every hour / day for a tower with 7 Floors.
2. To make it easier you should be Invasion Level 30 (level cap). Put all points into “Attack” Attribute (you can reset your attributes by buying the reset item from shop in Mesa: Wu Shi Academy).
3. Stand in front of the tower. While standing in front of the tower, fast travel to the first Mesa (the lowest level one) and play the lowest level match you can find, this scales the towers to lower level.
4. Fast Travel back to Gateway Portal. The Tower will now be lower level! Example: if the tower was Level 30 before it will now be Level 4-8. The tower level scales to the Mesa you fast travel to. It only works if you stand in front of the tower. If you walk away the level changes again (then you must fast travel again to reset level). The lower the level, the easier it will be (it’s unclear if this is a feature or a bug, in case it gets patched you’ll just need to get lucky to find lower level towers or play high level ones)
5. Finish all 7 floors with a BRUTALITY (not Fatality).
6. The only annoying thing can be that most 7 floor towers have environmental hazards that can kill the enemies before you do (e.g. flaming skulls flying around that randomly kill enemies). If you are Level 30 with all points in Attack you can one-hit kill low-level enemies with a single uppercut brutality. I used Level 30 Baraka with 199 points in Attack and did a Level 4 Tower, enemies with 1300 health died in one hit. Baraka and Reptile do the most uppercut damage and are the best for killing enemies in one hit. This makes it super easy as fights only last 2 seconds. Scorpion is also good as he can pull enemies towards him and then follow up with an uppercut.
7. If a round ends without a brutality, quit out of the tower and redo it from the start. No point to continue playing, you cannot reach 5 Million Score if you missed one brutality.

Season 1 Method 2: 5 Floor Tower – Beat Every Fight with Brutality + Flawless Victory

For 5 Floor Towers you must finish all 5 floors with FLAWLESS VICTORY + BRUTALITY (not Fatality). You aren’t allowed to take any damage in any fight. Brutality is performed by HOLDING + for an uppercut on the final hit while the enemy still has health left (before the “Finish Him/Her” Screen). DON’T use Fatalities! Only Brutalities, no other finishers allowed. Every fight must be won without taking any damage.

1. Check every hour / day for a tower with 5 Floors and no environmental hazards (hazards are listed below the tower level). If it has environmental hazards you’ll get damaged and it will void flawless victories.
2. To make it easier you should be Invasion Level 30 (level cap). Put all points into “Attack” Attribute (you can reset your attributes by buying the reset item from shop in Mesa: Wu Shi Academy). Since you have to do all flawless victories and aren’t allowed to take damage, there’s no use putting any points into health/defense.
3. Stand in front of the tower. While standing in front of the tower, fast travel to the first Mesa (the lowest level one) and play the lowest level match you can find, this scales the towers to lower level.
4. Fast Travel back to Gateway Portal. The Tower will now be lower level! Example: if the tower was Level 30 before it will now be Level 4-8. The tower level scales to the Mesa you fast travel to. It only works if you stand in front of the tower. If you walk away the level changes again (then you must fast travel again to reset level). The lower the level, the easier it will be (it’s unclear if this is a feature or a bug, in case it gets patched you’ll just need to get lucky to find lower level towers or play high level ones)
5. Best main characters for this are Baraka or Reptile, they do the most uppercut damage. For Kameo use Frost!
6. Equip a Talisman that has the word “Armor” in its name (Electric Armor Talisman, Ice Armor Talisman, Fire Armor Talisman etc).
7. As soon as the round starts, press + for Frost’s “Ice Carpet” move. It will instantly freeze the opponent.
8. While the enemy is frozen press to activate your armor! The armor talisman renders you invincible from all damage even if you get hit. It recharges one use after each match so you can use this for every opponent throughout the tower.
9. While armor is active, spam uppercut repeatedly on the opponent ( + ) to win the round quickly. If you get a level 4 tower you can defeat enemies in a single uppercut as Level 30 Baraka with 199 strength. Make sure you finish each round with a BRUTALITY (not Fatality).
10. If you take damage or a round ends without a brutality, quit out of the tower and redo it from the start. No point to continue playing, you cannot reach 5 Million Score in a 5 Floor Tower if you took damage or missed one brutality.

In Invasion Mode, you will get tons of items that can be used once and then disappear from the inventory. While walking around the map press to select a Single Use item. The easiest way is to buy them repeatedly from shops. They can also be dropped from encounters or found in chests, but Shops are a guaranteed method to get these items. You can only carry 5 consumables at a time. Always activate one before an encounter, repeat until you run out of items, buy more from shop and do it again until the trophy pops.

Go to Main Menu > Kampaign > Towers. Play the first tower “Novice” that only has 6 opponents and set the difficulty to ‘Very Easy’. Finish this tower with 10 different main characters. At the end you always unlock a Tower Ending for the character you played.

You can keep track of which endings you have unlocked and which ones you still need under Main Menu > Extras > Kollection > Movies. The ones you completed will show the Character Ending movie there.

To spend Seasonal Kurrency go to Main Menu > press Options-Button to open the Store (it’s displayed in bottom right corner of the main menu). Click “Seasonal Items” on the left and spend a total of 10,000 Seasonal Kurrency (the silver money, different from the golden Koins you spend at the Shrine, and different from the currency you have in Invasion Mode).

You get Season Kurrency throughout the game for match rewards and doing Daily/Weekly Challenges. The fastest way is to play Towers.

Go to Versus > Online. Play any type of online match. To do a Taunt press the Down-Button 4 times in quick succession: . You must complete the full taunt animation without being hit by the opponent. This is best done after knocking the enemy on the floor which gives you a short moment to do this. If you have trouble, you can invite a friend to a Private Match and do it there.

The “Kredits” are unlocked after beating a Tower for the first time. If you skipped them, you can rewatch the Kredits any time from Main Menu > Extras > Kollection > Movies > Kredits.

For the trophy you have to watch the full credits without skipping them. Just sit idle and don’t press any buttons and the trophy will pop afterward. The kredits are 14 minutes long.

For this you must be online. From the Main Menu press Touchpad > to Edit your Card > change the Foreground or Background. You can quickly unlock a new Foreground by reaching Level 1 with a character, quickly done by playing through a Tower (the shortest tower with 6 opponents is enough to reach Character Level 1).