Ermac/Klassic

Rarity	Type	Base Stats	Price	Unlock
Gold	Outworld	Attack: 1250 Health: 1125 Toughness: 1050 Recovery: 1100 Power Gen: 110%	1600 Blood Rubies	Faction War Store, Klassic Ninja Pack

Strategy

When the match begins, all enemies will be affected by Ermac's Soul Siphon DOT, which will take away 10% of their max health and prevent recovery over the course of 30 seconds. Although underwhelming at first, it has since gained use since the introduction of event towers, where bosses take multiple attempts to take down due to their absurdly large health pool and immunity to DOTs, which Ermac's own DOT can bypass. His Soul Siphon DOT can persist even if he is not the first member in play or defeated. As such, he can be used even at low levels and can even be sacrificed as he inflicts damage upon death. Also, due to the nature of Ermac's self-destruction, he can render certain opponents' passives that trigger upon defeating an enemy (like Circle of Shadow Kitana) useless as his own passive nuke activates.

Interactions

Please note that battles are highly situational: this section only mentions cards that have mechanics that, for any reason, are particularly effective with/against, or particularly ineffective against Ermac. Having a card that "counters" Ermac does not mean it is always a good choice.

Good With

• D'Vorah/Venomous: His soul siphon helps strengthen her basic attacks.
• Kitana/Mournful & Rain/Klassic: Ermac can start battle with a bar of power from these characters.

Good Against

• Enemies with high health and recovery, especially bosses and Rain/MK11.
• Characters with passives revolve around tagging: His Snare on grapple SP2 disable tag.
• Kitana/Circle of Shadow: Ermac explodes on defeat instead of being enslaved by Kitana, although Kitana can enslave him with a brutality.
• Jade/MK11 and Liu Kang/Klassic: They aren't immune to his soul siphon.
• Event Tower Boss battles: Tower Bosses have a modifier of immunity to DOTs, but Ermac's Soul Siphon is not affected, which he has the only DOT that can drain health of the bosses.

Countered By

• Brutalities.
• Characters with Dispel such as Shinnok: Dispel will remove Soul Siphon.
• Ermac/Pharaoh and Shinnok/Bone Shaper: Their passives trigger on his death.
• Jade/Klassic: Jade and her Klassic teammates are immune to Snare.
• Raiden/Dark: He can heal against all types of DOT.
• Shao Kahn/Konqueror: His instant kill on SP2 nullify the explosion.
• Shang Tsung/MK11: Shang Tsung can gain health upon Ermac’s death after his explosion.
• Sonya Blade/Kombat Cup: Ermac won't explode if he is the last character alive on his team since her red card will prevent him from tagging.

Abilities

Here are Ermac's abilities.

Ability	Classification	Description	Usage
Error Macro	Passive	Opponents start the fight with Soul Siphon DOT, that takes 10% of their health and prevents recovery over 30 seconds (even if Ermac is tagged-out or defeated). Soul Siphon DOT is not affected by any modifiers or resistances. When Ermac is defeated (and is not the last one on his team) he explodes dealing massive damage to an active opponent.	Beginning of Match, Upon knockout
Force Lift	First Special	Medium Damage	Swipe
Certain Death	Second Special	Grapple: High Damage + Snare	Swipe
We Are Many	X-Ray	Extreme Damage + Shield	Tap

Support Cards/Equipment

Here are Ermac's support and equipment cards.

Card	Classification	Description	Picture
Telekinesis	Attack	3-33% Bonus Attack
Legion of Souls	Health	3-33% Bonus Health
Teleportation	Recovery	20-220% Bonus Recovery
Soul Medallion	Equipment	10-20% Power generation boost. [Ermac] 10-20% Self heal at the end of Special Attack 3 or X-Ray/Fatal Blow attack. [Fusion Level X] 50% Reduced Power cost on Special Attack 2.

Stats

These stats are the final damage, health, toughness and recovery at level 50, per Fusion rank, with ALL support cards, and without any equipment. With Update 1.18, Fusion 8, 9, and 10 have been added. The Fusion 10 stats are for level 60 characters.

Rank	Attack	Health	Toughness	Recovery
Normal	9,643	16,160	6,090	20,416
Fusion I	14,463	24,240	9,135	30,624
Fusion II	19,285	32,319	12,180	40,832
Fusion III	24,107	40,398	15,225	51,040
Fusion IV	28,928	48,479	18,270	61,248
Fusion V	33,750	56,559	21,315	71,456
Fusion VI	38,570	64,638	24,360	81,664
Fusion VII	43,392	72,717	27,405	91,872
Fusion VIII	48,213	80,798	30,450	102,080
Fusion IX	52,722	88,878	33,495	112,288
Fusion X	62,843	114,912	39,690	133,056

Gallery

Card Render

War Banner Backgrounds

War Banner Icons

Trivia

• Prior to Update 2.0, he was a challenge character and costed 478 Souls.