Do Shang Tsung's and Quan Chi's damage buffs stack?

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Imagine the following scenario: you're playing as Shang Tsung versus Quan Chi. You use soul steal on the opponent, then use skeletal boost. Voila, two damage buffs. Then you perform Quan Chi's X-ray and insta-kill the other guy.

So is this possible? I'm thinking... no. But it might be worth checking out.
 
Well, instakill was me being rediculous, I just meant to say you'd do alot of damage. But fairly small? I had a feeling the damage buffs were pretty significant for both of them. Linking the skeletal boost damage buff into an X-ray as Quan Chi was key for me to defeat Shang Tsung in ladder mode. That's actually what made me think of this.
 
I tried that in practice mode it did a massive 58% damage (not including the damage from the soul steal)
 
Wraith said:
I tried that in practice mode it did a massive 58% damage (not including the damage from the soul steal)
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Damn lol, that'll do ya good. I take it you first did the X-Ray without Skeletal Boost to compare the results? That sounds like it'd be more, but I don't honestly know for sure.
 
3mag5num7 said:
Damn lol, that'll do ya good. I take it you first did the X-Ray without Skeletal Boost to compare the results? That sounds like it'd be more, but I don't honestly know for sure.
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Yea I did

Shang Tsung:

W/ boost: 58%
W/O boost: 43%

Quan Chi:

W/ boost: 43%
W/O boost: 32%
 
aedanwolfe said:
wow, lots more damage then i thought then. how practical is getting both of those buffs tho?
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It's not that hard to do just get the soul steal and hope u can land a trance to have time to use the boost only problem is that it could be a health boost and not a damage boost
 
shang tsung is one of my mains, and i managed to pull of an 88% x-ray combo (86% w/o xray) against quan chi. it was in training mode, so HIGHLY impractical, as they have to be a specific spot (near the wall, but not against it, and not too far away). i wish i had a capture card to show it, but it pretty much involves:

1. turn into quan chi
2. skeletal damage boost
(combo starts here)
3. Forward jump punch, B3, 1+2, forward dash, 2, 1, trance (turns back into shang here)
4. DB2, forward jump punch, 2,2,1, DB4, forward dash, F4,3,4, DU4, B1,2,1,4, Xray (or triple fireball/soul steal)

it looks complicated, but using just shang tsung i pull of the step 4 combo pretty consistently online for a 51% near-wall combo (pretty practical, the space between wall is forgiving)
 
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