Talk:Shao Kahn vs. Akuma/@comment-73.171.80.238-20150105003701/@comment-5035900-20150226061135

Actually had the same issue trying to figure out the outcome of this battle back in the day. Though as Ryu VS Scorpion pointed out, the Raging Demon uses the opponent's own sins to destroy them. So it's not simply attacking and destroying a soul, but rather their sins doing that instead.

So with that, even considering the 70 billion souls Shao Kahn has amassed over thousands of years, his sin tally's sky-high, so his chances of surviving it aren't good.

As for Ermac, I don't know. Either A: all those souls will help make him less susceptible to the Raging Demon; or B: all of the sins from each individual soul and/or committed by Ermac himself (or themselves) won't help him. But I couldn't make that call myself.