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[Lektronize]

Kensei has the slowest light attacks in the game, and his heavies don't do much damage outside of his overhead. His kit is pretty poor and he has to do a lot of work to get any damage out, none of which is safe. He is without a doubt one of the weakest classes in the game.

Kensei Main here, 41 Hours played, K/D 2.8
I dont know, at first i tought he was op, because i dont really struggle against any Character, except Peacemaker if shes good. But when i see how many People say hes weak, im glad that he proabably wont be nerfed. Also, its about the Stats. I sacrificed many Stats completely to strenghen the others, like Throwrange (still enough to throw someone if hes like 1-1.5 Mteres away from the Cliff), Debufftkme or how it was called, Blockdamae etc. This results in me being a high damage, middle defense Kensei, with strong stamina regeneration but high staminacost, middle blockdamage defense etc. I sacrificed getting revenge trough receiving damage for getting revenge trough blocks very fast, becaause its easy to stay out of Guardbreak reach and just block, then use revenge when the enemys attacks, trough my High Damage, i can kill most of the Time People with 2 strikes at full health, so its pretty easy to fight against multiple enemies, if there werent these revives. Opened a thread about that, read it if your interested: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1586945-Make-Revives-finite?p=12353494#post12353494
Glad that he maybe even gets a Buff haha

[Iskaroth]

Kensei Main here, 41 Hours played, K/D 2.8
I dont know, at first i tought he was op, because i dont really struggle against any Character, except Peacemaker if shes good. But when i see how many People say hes weak, im glad that he proabably wont be nerfed. Also, its about the Stats. I sacrificed many Stats completely to strenghen the others, like Throwrange (still enough to throw someone if hes like 1-1.5 Mteres away from the Cliff), Debufftkme or how it was called, Blockdamae etc. This results in me being a high damage, middle defense Kensei, with strong stamina regeneration but high staminacost, middle blockdamage defense etc. I sacrificed getting revenge trough receiving damage for getting revenge trough blocks very fast, becaause its easy to stay out of Guardbreak reach and just block, then use revenge when the enemys attacks, trough my High Damage, i can kill most of the Time People with 2 strikes at full health, so its pretty easy to fight against multiple enemies, if there werent these revives. Opened a thread about that, read it if your interested: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...4#post12353494
Glad that he maybe even gets a Buff haha

What? You must be talking about Dominion or some other silly mode cause in Duels stats from gear dont work.
I play mostly Kensei in Duels because i like his character design but hes definitely lower tier. Basically in order to win you have to outplay your opponent using basics(blocking, parrying, feints, movement etc.) as he doesnt really have any cheese, OP moves. Also Kensei lacks moves to break solid defense.

[STGxDante]

i'm a decent orochi, winning 3v1's and 4v1's, as a classification. A good kensai can beat me in a duel. now 1v1 against other characters idk, but ppl who main kensai beat me out right or give me a hard time in 1v1's.

[m0u-1337]

kensai is fine as he is at the current state. i sometimes even win against him, but for the most time he cuts my balls of.

[RayGDC]

I think iSkys mentioned he wants to play Kensai as pocket-main after he hits rep 10 with the warden.

[DrinkinMyStella]

I have mastered kensei and i find it easy to give assassins a run for their money. i think he is the most well rounded hero in the game, his weak attacks are so fast when chained together that it throws people of their game because they under estimate him, recently i have been seeing alot more people playing with him and are high rep.

[Iskaroth]

Stomping noobs over and over doesnt prove anything. I play mostly Kensei in Duels with over 80% win rate but i realize he might not be viable once i start to play against competent players.

[MonkeyMagic80]

I've played the Knight, the Warlord, Law Bringer and Kensei I would definitely have to say hands down that the Kensei is the best for what I want.

The Kensei is offensive and methodical. His attacks are not slow at all (it's actually his re-positioning after each attack that is slow). He has amazing combo's and range and once you start to mix that up with Feints he becomes an imppeccable swordsman.

What I really like is his blendable three tier attack system: i, helm slitter and dodge attacks ii, R1 attacks iii, the R2 combo's and overhead! there are so so many things that you can do with this! Dodge attacks whittle down and seek out weakness, these can be blened with the R2 combo's and feinted to change tempo and the standard R1 attacks are great for single hits that maintain dominence.

The Kensei is not limted and simple like the Warden and he's not as vulgar and uncouth as the Raider, he does take more time to learn but the returns are massive.

I'd say that I'm not even that good with him yet but in time I will be fantastic! Practice makes perfect. Range and precision are the order of the day with this guy.

[Felis_Menari]

The kensei's lights are some of the best in the game (great range, speed, *and* damage). Get your timing down and he's a force to be reckoned with.

[Sephriem]

Kensei is my worst foe, the speed and reach of his nodachi just obliterates my special attacks with my Karana, I have to fight hard to get close enough. Orochi vs Kensei base stats are somewhere in this zone

HP

O 100
K 135

Attk
OL 18
OH 24
MOD +4-7

KL 23
KH 28
MOD +4-7

(MOD being UP TO extra damage for situation so attacks like shield broken top heavies)

Defence is a hard stat to measure and so is Atk speed, but generally the Kensei is like a super saiyan 1 and orochi is either kai ken x20 or ssj2 lol.