User blog comment:MickySR2112/Why Ryu VS Scorpion is wrong/@comment-25430354-20160415210835

Even if I agree Ryu should've won, there's a number of issues with this analysis:

"Scorpion has no strength feats that I know of" Scorpion's taken on beings that have been measured to take down large buildings to potentially city block level. He's defeated blood lusted Raiden and Sub Zero in the MKX comic, the latter of which froze an entire city. It's not quite on Ryu's level, but still close.

"Scorpion's never shown the ability to dodge bullets." Reptile dodged bullets while climbing a building in MK9, and he's one of the biggest jobbers of the franchise. Not far of a stretch to say Scorpion's faster than him. There were also a couple characters in MKX who casually dodged AK47 bullets, one of which was Kung Lao, who Scorpion beat (and is a bigger jobber in the Neatherrealm because plot).

"Scorpion was hurt by Stryker's bullets. This is not game mechanics. There is some truth to this." Probably the biggest mistake on this list. Scorpion's NEVER encountered Stryker in the Mortal Kombat canon. So aside from game mechanics how the hell do you know he got hurt by Stryker's bullets? The only time Stryker's fired a gun at someone in the story mode is when Reptile dodges them and uses his acid to tank them and against the Earthrealm soldiers in the Neatherrealm.

"Ryu isn't really gonna let him throw him into lava" He can try but there's no guarantee he will succeed given the number of ways Scorpion could throw him into the Neatherrealm. This is a bit of an iffy point. Best to leave that out.