Is Liu Kang Stronger Than Goku? An In-Depth Power Level Analysis
As a gaming fanatic and martial arts enthusiast, few questions get me more fired up than comparing the combat abilities of two iconic fighting game characters: Mortal Kombat‘s chosen champion Liu Kang versus Dragon Ball‘s strongest hero, Goku. After extensively analyzing their fight records, power-ups, techniques, and official franchise lore, I have a definitive answer:
Liu Kang is awesome, but he‘s simply outclassed by Goku‘s god-tier, multiversal power.
Liu Kang: Champion of Mortal Kombat
As the main hero of the groundbreaking Mortal Kombat franchise, Liu Kang boasts an impressive array of supernatural martial arts abilities. Let‘s breakdown his powers and techniques:
Powers
- Immortality gained from defeating Kronika
- Controls fire, lightning, and ice energy
- Expert magic user
- Can revive from fatal injuries
Signature Moves
- Bicycle Kick: Iconic flying multi-kick attack
- Flying Dragon Kick: Devastating flying scissor kick
- Dragon‘s Fire: Projects fireballs from his hands
After decades of tournament victories, Kang attained the power of a Fire God by absorbing abilities from other fighters and successfully defending Earthrealm from conquest.
His crowning feat was defeating sorceress Kronika, an Elder God with power over all of time itself. This likely makes Liu Kang a universal-tier fighter in terms of raw power, capable of holding his own against galaxy-threatening foes.
Goku: The Legendary Super Saiyan
As the strongest Saiyan warrior from Planet Vegeta, Son Goku has broken his limits constantly to achieve staggering god-like power:
Transformations
| Transformation | Power Level | Strength Increase |
|---|---|---|
| Super Saiyan 1 | 150,000,000 | x50 base form |
| Super Saiyan God | Unknown, at least universe-level | Powers matched a God of Destruction who could destroy galaxies |
| Ultra Instinct Sign | Also unknown. At least universal+ to low multiversal based on feats/scaling | Stronger than Gods of Destruction |
Techniques
- Kamehameha – Goku‘s iconic energy beam attack
- Instant Transmission – Teleport long distances instantly
- Power Pole – Extendable magic pole for increased attack range
- Flight, energy manipulation, matter materialization via ki control
Goku has attained raw strength rivaling the Gods of Destruction, and in Ultra Instinct Sign form, he surpassed them to achieve power deemed low multiversal.
This theoretically means he can destroy space-time continua containing multiple connected universes. So Goku‘s maximum destructive capacity utterly eclipses Liu Kang‘s universal-tier feats.
Conclusion: Goku Takes the Win Easily
While Liu Kang is certainly awesome after achieving Fire God status, he unfortunately gets hilariously outmatched when facing someone of Goku‘s power scale.
In my opinion, Goku wouldn‘t even need to enter Ultra Instinct to defeat Kang quickly. A casual kamehameha in Super Saiyan God form would likely overwhelm Kang‘s defenses and obliterate him.
Goku simply operates on a completely different level due to his insane Saiyan physiology granting him godly transformations that increase his power exponentially.
So if we ever get a Mortal Kombat vs Dragon Ball crossover, expect Liu Kang to suffer a swift, crushing loss against everyone‘s favorite galaxy-busting Super Saiyan. The power gap is just too massive to overcome!
Let me know your thoughts on this match-up in the comments! Who do you think is stronger?
