Mileena’s return to the Mortal Kombat series is one that was celebrated by fans. The character’s personality, playstyle and design are phenomenal.
Netherealm Studios’s Mortal Kombat 11 provides a breadth of content for its player base, from the massive Krypt to daily changing Towers of Time, and its Online Kombat League. The 11th title in the legacy Fighting Game series provides one of the most visually impressive entries in the genre ever. And with deep and technical systems and mechanics Mortal Kombat 11 has garnered a massive casual and competitive scene. The release of, Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate introduces new fighters to the title, provides every player with new DLC characters, the ability to take a customized variation into Kombat League, and more. Mortal Kombat 11 is not only one of the best titles in the controversial series, but one of the best fighting games on the market.
One of the new characters added to Mortal Kombat 11’s roster, is the fan-favorite Mileena. One of Shao Kahn’s daughters, Mileena has a similar fighting style to her sister Kitana but with a much more ferocious quality. Her mangled face is attributed to her Tarkatan ancestry, which explains her more vicious and dangerous fighting techniques. With a masochistic personality, her evil qualities, and witty quips, it’s not a shock that Mileena has been the most asked for character in Mortal Kombat 11. This guide will detail how to utilize the character to her full ability, allowing new players to dominate online or local play against their opponents.
How To Play Mileena In Mortal Kombat 11
Throughout the history of Mortal Kombat, Mileena has always been an aggressive rush down style character, Having the tools to unleash massive damage through her extensive combos, powerful mix-ups, and solid neutral tools. While this iteration of Mileena differs from her Mortal Kombat X iteration, she still maintains this gameplay philosophy.
Before discussing her variation-specific moves, Mileena maintains a variety of her classic moves in her core moveset. The core moveset, in Mortal Kombat 11 refers to the moves that a character has without accounting for their Variation specific moves. In these core moves, she keeps her iconic sai blast, teleport dive-kick, and her low ball roll. Mileena’s sai blast incorporates two powerful sai shots, making it difficult to jump over, and when enhanced this sai blast will hit an opponent low. Her drop kick attack provides her a strong “anti-zoning” tool, to counter opponents who run away from Mileena and utilize projectiles. Finally, Mileena’s low ball, at the cost of one offensive bar, is one of her powerful combo starters.
Alongside her base moves, Mileena’s competitive variation special moves provide her a selection of powerful tools to add to her playstyle. Here are three variation special moves that are some of the most powerful at her disposal. Mileena’s first variation special move, Stabbyscotch, provides her a powerful command throw special. This move adds to Mileena’s powerful mix-up gameplan even further, while also being her armor break move. Sai Slide is an evasive safe on block special move, which allows her to have safe and slippery pressure. Playtime is one of the most crucial variation moves, as it provides her a variety of new strings to add to her neutral. These new strings provide Mileena a ton of new mix-ups, and combo enders.
While there are a ton of other variation special moves, these are some of the most powerful at her disposal. However, that is not to say that these are the only variation moves you should be utilizing. Experimentation is important for players to find which moves fit their playstyle. So go through her available variation moves and decide how you want your custom Mileena to play.
If you prefer a more combo heavy style, then look through her variation special moves and stack your character to meet these qualifications. If you like a more ranged style, Mileena provides the tools to do so. Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate’s introduction of custom variations into competitive play really has breathed new life into the game. Allowing players to customize their favorite characters and truly express themselves through this customization.
Mileena’s Fatalities In Mortal Kombat 11
One of the most important aspects of learning a new Mortal Kombat character is learning their fatalities. It is one of the most integral parts of Mortal Kombat as a franchise. These violent finishers are the epitome of disrespect and are a flashy way of concluding a hard-fought win. Mileena’s fatalities continue this tradition while providing some of the most disturbing, graphic, and awesome fatalities in the game.
In order to explain how to perform these fatalities, I will provide the professional, numerical annotation, instead of one console’s specific annotation. So the numerical annotation is as follows, Square on PlayStation or X on Xbox is 1, Triangle or Y is 2, X or A is 3, and Circle or B is 4.
Here are all of Mileena’s fatalities in Mortal Kombat 11 and how to do them:
- Spinning Out of Control (Mid)- Back, Down, Back, 2
- Violent Delights (Close)- Forward, Down, Down, 4
- Stage Fatality (Close)- Down, Down, Down, 1
