Resurrection happens when a character's health hits 0, then returns to battle with some percentage of health. There are various characters and equipments that can resurrect a character, as well as characters who can benefit from resurrecting opponents.
Resurrection can be prevented by Death Mark, brutalities and Konqueror Shao Kahn's passive.
Notable Characters[]
- Characters who can resurrect themselves
- Goro/Klassic: Can resurrect once per match after being knocked out with 25-50% health depending on his passive upgrade. There's a delay until he is resurrected, which makes him cannot resurrect if he's the last one to be defeated or his teammates are defeated quickly after his KO.
- Jason Voorhees/Slasher: Can resurrect twice per match. He gains a bar of power and damage increase on each resurrection.
- Jason Voorhees/Slasher: Can resurrect once per match. He gains a bar of power and damage increase on resurrection.
- Sub-Zero/Grandmaster: Can resurrect once per match by replacing him with an ice decoy on his death.
- Terminator/Dark Fate: Can resurrect once per match with full health by becoming Endoskeleton. He receives less damage from attacks and immune to DOTs while in this form, but can't tag-out and do special attacks.
- Characters who can resurrect others
- Noob Saibot/Lizard: Resurrects knocked out teammate of his choice when he defeats an opponent. The number of resurrection is based on the number of Lizard characters on his team. Resurrected character's health is 20%.
- Scorpion/Strike Force: Resurrects each teammate once by tagging-in on their death. He can do an additional resurrection when teamed up with other Strike Force characters. Resurrected character's health is 5-15% depending on Scorpion's passive upgrade.
- Sub-Zero/MK11: Resurrects MK11 teammates by replacing them with an ice clone on their death. Once per character. Resurrected character's health is around 15%.
- Quan Chi/Warlock: Resurrects one of his teammates during the match. Resurrected character's health is 25%.
Notable Equipments[]
- Frost Orb: Wearer resurrects once per match by being replaced with an Ice Clone. There's a chance of the Ice Clone exploding and applying Frostbite to the opponent.
- Living Dead: Wearer resurrects once per match with 1 HP. Along with resurrection, the wearer gains Invulnerability and 100% unblockable chance on basic attack for 2-7 seconds depending on the equipment fusion.
- Rockin' Token (FX): When maxed, wearer can resurrect once per match with 15% health.
- Trophy Collection (FX): When maxed, it can resurrect any Jason Voorhees character once per match if equipped. Along with resurrection, Jason gains a bar of power and damage increase.
- Wrestling Star's Last Puff: When equipped on any Jax Briggs character, Jax can resurrect once per match with 50% health. Along with resurrection, Jax gains 100-200% damage boost and 30% chance to steal power on basic attacks for 20 seconds.
Notable Talent[]
- Revenant: This talent has a chance to resurrect each character with 1 HP once per match, while also giving 5 seconds of Invulnerability.
Counters[]
- Characters who can prevent resurrection
- Any character with a Brutality (with full set equipped).
- Any character with a Friendship (with full set equipped).
- Any Noob Saibot character as he can apply Death Mark without any talent or equipments.
- Shao Kahn/Konqueror: His SP2 instant kill can prevent resurrection, once per match.
- Characters who can benefit from opponent's resurrection
- Johnny Cage/Strike Force: Johnny gains a bar of power on each enemy resurrection.
- Kitana/Day of the Dead: Enemy resurrection triggers her Regen passive.
- Shinnok/Bone Shaper: Shinnok gains damage boost on each enemy resurrection.
- Death Mark
- Bi-Han's Visage (FX): Can apply Death Mark before X-ray/Fatal Blow attack when maxed.
- Shintai of Malice: Can apply Death Mark on tag-in.
- The Soul Seeker Can apply Death Mark on Special Attack.
- Death Mark Technique talent: Can apply Death Mark on combo ender.
- Datusha, Bane of the Moroi: This equipment gives huge damage boost against resurrected characters.
Trivia[]
- Saves from "Jinsei Hat" and max fusion "Edenian Bracelets" equipments are not resurrection, as the wearer completely ignores the killing damage and tags-out, instead of getting killed and returns to fight with a bonus health.