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What do we know about Factions, and how can we use that information to guess at the final roster?
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1. We know with 99.999% certainty that there will be more than one member per faction in the game. Both because it makes sense, and because if one member per faction was enough, Shirai Ryu would have been the first faction in the game.
2. We know with 99.999% certainty where some characters go: Sub-Zero is Lin Kuei, Kung Lao and Raiden are White Lotus, Kano is Black Dragon, Quan Chi is Brotherhood of Shadow, and Cassie is Special Forces.
3. The evidence is piling up for Johnny Cage and Sonya being playable, and according to the comic, they are both in Special Forces during MKX timeline. That would put SF at a minimum of three characters. Jax and/or Jacqui could still bolster that number.
4. We can guess that they'll try to keep the number of characters per faction roughly equal, otherwise they're just begging for wacky population numbers.
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So let's say 3 is the bare minimum for members per faction. It's far enough away from 1 for Shirai Ryu/Scorpion not being a faction to make total sense. If the minimum was 2, either every faction has precisely 2 characters (unlikely), or I think they would have let Scorpion slide. So... without further ado... who are they?
Special Forces
-Cassie
-Johnny Cage
-Sonya
-Jax/Jacqui (I don't see both being playable.)
White Lotus
-Kung Lao
-Raiden
-Liu Kang
(This is where Kung Jin would go if he became a dude, but I'm not sold on him becoming a dude.)
Brotherhood of Shadow
-Quan Chi
-Scorpion
-Ermac (if not Ermac, then Smoke; Quan Chi needs a reliable lackey.)
-New Character (someone from Netherrealm)
Lin Kuei
-Sub-Zero
-Sub-Zero
-Cyrax
Black Dragon
-Kano
-Tremor
-Erron Black/another new character
Why is this not a faction?
-Kotal Kahn
-Ferra/Torr
-D'vorah
-Erron Black
The only confirmed characters this doesn't account for are Reptile, who could go to Brotherhood of Shadows or Black Dragon, but I doubt either, Kitana, who could go to White Lotus, but that's a stretch, and Goro, who is probably allied with Mileena (how is that also not a faction?). Shinnok is obviously with Quan Chi, the only question is whether he's playable, a boss, or just an NPC.
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1. We know with 99.999% certainty that there will be more than one member per faction in the game. Both because it makes sense, and because if one member per faction was enough, Shirai Ryu would have been the first faction in the game.
2. We know with 99.999% certainty where some characters go: Sub-Zero is Lin Kuei, Kung Lao and Raiden are White Lotus, Kano is Black Dragon, Quan Chi is Brotherhood of Shadow, and Cassie is Special Forces.
3. The evidence is piling up for Johnny Cage and Sonya being playable, and according to the comic, they are both in Special Forces during MKX timeline. That would put SF at a minimum of three characters. Jax and/or Jacqui could still bolster that number.
4. We can guess that they'll try to keep the number of characters per faction roughly equal, otherwise they're just begging for wacky population numbers.
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So let's say 3 is the bare minimum for members per faction. It's far enough away from 1 for Shirai Ryu/Scorpion not being a faction to make total sense. If the minimum was 2, either every faction has precisely 2 characters (unlikely), or I think they would have let Scorpion slide. So... without further ado... who are they?
Special Forces
-Cassie
-Johnny Cage
-Sonya
-Jax/Jacqui (I don't see both being playable.)
White Lotus
-Kung Lao
-Raiden
-Liu Kang
(This is where Kung Jin would go if he became a dude, but I'm not sold on him becoming a dude.)
Brotherhood of Shadow
-Quan Chi
-Scorpion
-Ermac (if not Ermac, then Smoke; Quan Chi needs a reliable lackey.)
-New Character (someone from Netherrealm)
Lin Kuei
-Sub-Zero
-Sub-Zero
-Cyrax
Black Dragon
-Kano
-Tremor
-Erron Black/another new character
Why is this not a faction?
-Kotal Kahn
-Ferra/Torr
-D'vorah
-Erron Black
The only confirmed characters this doesn't account for are Reptile, who could go to Brotherhood of Shadows or Black Dragon, but I doubt either, Kitana, who could go to White Lotus, but that's a stretch, and Goro, who is probably allied with Mileena (how is that also not a faction?). Shinnok is obviously with Quan Chi, the only question is whether he's playable, a boss, or just an NPC.