Gold Characters

Passive

Tidal Might: Tidal Might, Empowered Attacks, Extra Attack, Soaked, Assist - Edenian Blood Rain gains Tidal Might over time for every opponent affected by Soaked. Tidal Might empowers his Special Attacks and deals additional damage by lightning. Rain can use his extra attack Low Tide to apply Fear and Soaked for 20 seconds. He can also apply Soaked for 7 seconds on one of his Basic Combos. Low tide has an 8-second cooldown.

Synergy: Rain assists his Outworld teammates with a lightning strike on their combo enders.

For each Edenian Blood teammate, Low Tide's cooldown is reduced by 1 second.

Specials

1. Treacherous Cut - Grapple: Medium damage + Bleed
2. Argus Plunge - Attack: High damage + Power
3. Edenian Spikes - Fatal Blow Attack: Extreme damage + Bleed

Support

• Stormbringer - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Rain characters
• Beware the Clouds - Bonus Health for all Rain characters
• Water Realm Portal - Bonus Recovery for all Rain characters

Passive

Sweater Weather: Damage Reduction, Debuff Reflection, Stun,  Power Gen Boost - Edenian Blood Kitana can use her Power to create a defensive Whirlwind around herself. Edenian Blood Kitana spends 33% of Bar of Power per second to keep the Whirlwind active, reducing incoming damage by 70% and reflecting all debuffs to her opponent.

If she manages to maintain the Whirlwind for 3 seconds or more, instead of disappearing it will transfer to the opponent and explode after 3 seconds, dealing high damage and applying Stun to the opponent. The explosion can be avoided by tagging-out before the explosion countdown ends.

While the Whirlwind is active, Edenian Blood Kitana's tagged out Outworld teammates generate additional 2% of Max Power per second. For each Jade, Sindel and Rain character in Edenian Blood Kitana's team, the Whirlwind reduces incoming damage by an additional 5%.

Specials

1. Uplift - Attack: Medium damage + Power Drain
2. Heartbreaker - Grapple: High damage + Silence
3. Slice and Dice - X-Ray Attack: Extreme damage + Blind

Support

• Exotic Weapon Master - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Kitana characters
• Edenian Royalty - Bonus Health for all Kitana characters
• Kiss of Death - Bonus Recovery for all Kitana characters

Passive

Thrill Pill: Immunity - Team Damage, Power Gen Boost, Debuff Reflection - For every debuff that Lizard Jade or her teammates apply to the active opponent, her whole team gains the Team Thrill effect for 20 seconds (stack up to 5 times). Each of the Team Thrill effects buffs all of Lizard Jade's Basic and Special attacks to additionally deal 10% of its damage to all of the opponents. Lizard Jade's Combo Enders have 50% chance to apply Curse. With each Team Thrill effect, Lizard Jade's team intimidates the active opponent into their Power generation being reduced by 10%.

Synergy: Lizard teammates have a 30% chance to reflect any debuff.

Specials

1. Double Razor - Attack: Medium damage + Snare
2. Edenian Butterfly - Attack: High damage + Stun
3. Spinning Shadow - Fatal Blow Attack: Extreme damage + Luck

Support

• Razor Rang - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Jade characters
• Bojutsu Training - Bonus Health for all Jade characters
• Friend: Kitana - Bonus Recovery for all Jade characters

Passive

Shadow Juggler: Shadow Energy, Forced Tag-In, Snare, Resurrection - Lizard Noob Saibot gains Shadow Energy every time he spends or loses his power. When he gains a full bar of Shadow Energy, Shadow Attack becomes available. This attack allows him to choose any opponent as a target and inevitably apply Snare to them. If a tagged-out opponent has been chosen, Noob forces them to enter the fight through the portal. 

Upon defeating an opponent, Lizard Noob Saibot can summon a teammate of his choice back to life with 20% of max HP. The number of summons is limited to the number of Lizard characters on the team.

Specials

1. Tele-Slam - Attack: Medium damage + Death Mark
2. Infamous Portal Trick - Attack: High damage + Slow
3. Together Again - Fatal Blow Attack: Extreme damage + Death mark

Support

• Doppelganger - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Noob Saibot characters
• Original: Sub-Zero - Bonus Health for all Noob Saibot characters
• Reborn in Netherrealm - Bonus Recovery for all Noob Saibot characters

Passive

Face Dancer: Morphing, Stun, Soaked, Weaken, Cripple, Snare, Evasion, Power Drain, Assist, Healing - On Combo Enders Klassic Shang Tsung can randomly morph into one of Klassic Characters and perform their Combo Ender instead. On Special Attack 2 Klassic Shang Tsung can choose a Klassic Character to morph into and perform their Special Attack 2:

• Klassic Liu Kang - ‘Soul of the Dragon’ applies Stun;
• Klassic Rain - ‘Mind Control Orb’ applies Soaked;
• Klassic Raiden - ‘Power Discharge’ applies Weaken;
• Klassic Jax Briggs - ‘Backbreaker’ applies Cripple;
• Klassic Ermac - ‘Certain Death’ applies Snare.

Opponents have a 75% chance to miss Shang Tsung with Basic and Special attacks for 3 seconds after any of his morphing moves. Shang Tsung's own Special Attack 2 ‘Corpse Drop’ drains 50% of an opponent's current power.

Shang Tsung's scroll assists Klassic characters on Special Attack 1 with an energy beam that deals 20% of Shang Tsung's attack and heals an active teammate for the damage dealt.

Specials

1. Crashing Flames - Attack: Medium damage
2. Corpse Drop - Attack: High damage + Fear
3. Shapeshifter's Barrage - Fatal Blow Attack: Extreme damage

Support

• Tournament Grandmaster - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Shang Tsung characters
• Soul Devourer - Bonus Health for all Shang Tsung characters
• Devious Schemer - Bonus Recovery for all Shang Tsung characters

Passive

Anger Management: Regen - Lizard Baraka doesn't react to opponent's Basic Combo attacks for 15 seconds after tag-in. In a fight, he passively generates power over time and receives 2% Damage boost each time he hits the opponent with an additional 1% Damage boost if the hit was critical. On tag-out Lizard Baraka loses Damage boost and gains Regeneration for 10 seconds. Active opponent's healing is reduced by 25% for each Lizard character in a team. Outworld teammates have 25% Critical hit Chance Boost.

Specials

1. Blade Spark - Attack: Medium damage + Power Drain
2. Take-a-bite - Attack: High damage + Speed
3. Nail and Impale - X-Ray Attack: Extreme damage + Bleed

Support

• Tarkatan Blades - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Baraka characters
• Love of Battle - Bonus Health for all Baraka characters
• Ritual of Blood - Bonus Recovery for all Baraka characters

Passive

Devil's Dust: Devil's Dust, Fire, Blind, Fire Damage Boost - Surging Blast (Special Attack 2) and a unique Combo Ender that has 30% chance to be performed, powder the opponent with Devil's Dust that sticks for 20 sec. Characters affected by Devil's Dust are Blinded and take 50% more damage from Fire Attacks and Fire DOTs. Martial Artists and Outworld teammates' Combo Enders become Fire Attack and apply Fire DOT, stacking up to 2 times on opponents affected by Devil's Dust.

Specials

1. Cannon Drill - Attack: Medium damage + Fire
2. Surging Blast - Attack: High damage
3. Up and Over - X-Ray Attack: Extreme damage + Cripple

Support

• Pyromancer - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Tanya characters
• Ally: Mileena - Bonus Health for all Tanya characters
• Rival: Jade - Bonus Recovery for all Tanya characters

Passive

Captain: Unblockable, Tag-out Attack, Assist, Cripple Immunity - On tag-in Kombat Cup Cassie Cage brands an active opponent as an Outsider for 20 sec. Any attack against the Outsider is unblockable with a 50% chance. When an Outsider tries to tag out, Cassie’s drone deals 30% damage to their current health. The drone doesn’t deal damage to Bosses.

Synergy: All Kombat Cup Characters on the team are immune to Cripple.

Specials

1. Glow Kick - Attack: Medium damage
2. Throw-in - Attack: High damage
3. Testi-Kill - X-Ray Attack: Extreme damage + Power Drain

Support

• Father: Johnny Cage - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Cassie Cage characters
• Mother: Sonya Blade - Bonus Health for all Cassie Cage characters
• Special Warfare Unit - Bonus Recovery for all Cassie Cage characters

Passive

Mistress of Bojutsu: Immunity - Snare, Speed Boost, Blind - Klassic Jade has 80% chance to apply Blind on any Special Attack. Every time an opponent misses an attack, Klassic Jade gains 10% Speed increase for 15 seconds, stacking up to 50%. 

Synergy: Klassic teammates are immune to Snare.

Specials

1. Double Razor - Attack: Medium damage + Snare
2. Divine Forces - Attack: High damage + Cripple
3. Spinning Shadow - X-Ray Attack: Extreme damage + Luck

Support

• Razor Rang - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Jade characters
• Bojutsu Training - Bonus Health for all Jade characters
• Friend: Kitana - Bonus Recovery for all Jade characters

Since update 3.1.1 Klassic characters have become even better than before, because of the Klassic characters synergy.

Passive

Blessed by the Shadow: Block Breaker, Combo Extender - Noob Saibot's Ghost Ball (Special Attack 1) disables his opponent's block, making all incoming attacks considered Unblockable for 10 seconds.

When Special Attack 2 is performed at 80%+, it activates a continuous chain of Special Attacks, up to 6 times.

Synergy: Klassic characters including Noob Saibot receive a 30% damage boost to all unblockable attacks.

Specials

1. Ghostball - Attack: Medium damage
2. Tele-Slam - Attack: High damage + Power
3. Together Again - Fatal Blow Attack: Extreme damage + Death mark

Support

• Doppelganger - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Noob Saibot characters
• Original: Sub-Zero - Bonus Health for all Noob Saibot characters
• Reborn in Netherrealm - Bonus Recovery for all Noob Saibot characters

Klassic Smoke has been greatly improved after update 3.1.1, together with other Klassic characters, as they now have their own synergy. He would probably do great with Noob Saibot - Klassic and Scorpion - Klassic. Having resistance to all debuffs and equipment that boosts that ability, even more, makes him very valuable and possibly replace Raiden - Dark as he can deal with DOTs just as good as him.

Passive

Lost in the Smoke: Debuff Resistance, Blind, Debuff Reflection - Any opponent fighting Klassic Smoke for 10 seconds gets affected by Blind. Each time Klassic Smoke or his Klassic teammate resists a debuff, this debuff is instead applied to the opponent. Klassik teammates gain 20% resistance to all debuffs.

Specials

1. Brother's Weapon - Attack: Medium damage + Speed
2. There and Back - Attack: High damage + Snare
3. Ashes in your Mouth - X-Ray Attack: Extreme damage + Shield

Support

• Human Form - Bonus Attack in percentage for all Smoke characters
• Enenra - Bonus Health for all Smoke characters
• Toasty! - Bonus Recovery for all Smoke characters