Mortal Kombat 1: Nitara [Moveset, Combos & Fatalities]

After roughly 20 years since her last appearance in MK: Armageddon, Nitara returns in Mortal Kombat 1 with a refreshing moveset and abilities. Previously, she was only playable during Mortal Kombat’s 3D era, so it’s understandable that most players won’t recognize her. However, Nitara has quickly gained a high pick rate in MK1 thanks to her impressive air combos and decent range.

Who Is Nitara?

After the reboot following Mortal Kombat 11’s storyline, Nitara is a Vaeturnian, a species of natural-born vampires in MK1, and is now following Quan Chi.

Nitara’s been loyal to Quan Chi after his magic helped remove the sun’s poisoning spread over Vaeturnus, her home realm. As such, she’s primarily a part of the villain group in Mortal Kombat 1, helping other mainline villains like General Shao and Shang Tsung in destabilizing Earthrealm and Outworld.

• However, her main justification for these actions is that she plans to save her starving people by coming to Outworld and feasting on the locals.

Nitara’s Moveset 

Here’s a complete list of Nitara’s basic attacks while she’s facing right:

As seen, most of the one-button attacks, like the Bloodhouse and Hex Kick, are all High attacks. This makes Nitara noticeably effective at keeping pressure, but opponents can counter-attack these moves by dodging under them with Low attacks.

Following her basic moves, you can further extend your combos with Nitara’s aerial attacks, which you can perform after a launcher attack in MK1:

Special Moves

Compared to basic attacks, special moves in MK1 are much trickier to pull off since they offer greater damage but make you vulnerable when the opponent blocks one of these attacks. As such, you should only use special special moves during combo strings to maximize your damage output.

Here’s the complete list of Nitara’s Special Moves in Mortal Kombat 1:

Nitara Combos

Nitara primarily focuses on effective aerial combos and several High-attack starters. Furthermore, she doesn’t suffer as poorly from MK1’s extreme damage scaling mechanic as other characters like Raiden or Havik.

Overhead Starters

You’ll find some of the best overhead-starting combos for Nitara from the list below:

High/Mid Starters

Here’s a list of some optimal mid-starting and high-starting combos for Nitara that you can use to get used to with the character:

Nitara’s Fatalities 

Like most characters, Nitara has access to 2 fatality variations in Mortal Kombat 1. Additionally, she can also perform 6 different brutalities, which can be performed at a specific range and after certain inputs.

Here are all the details regarding Nitara’s fatalities, covering their names, inputs, and range to execute:

If you’re looking for a suitable Kameo Fighter for Nitara, consider checking out Darrius in MK1, covering his gameplay and concurrent lore. For accessing more gameplay-related mechanics, here’s how to unlock Scorpion’s Second Fatality. And consider reading up on Hanzo Hasashi in Mortal Kombat 1, discovering his revamped origin after being Scorpion since the beginning of the MK franchise.

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• MK1: Invasion Clues
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• Mortal Kombat 1: Ending
• Mortal Kombat 1: Flipping Out Klue