https://youtu.be/Hkjgjzy2_pU

To do this, you need to unlock your camera. You can change the direction of the zone attack by moving your left stick or with WASD while unlocked from your opponent. This is quite hard to do on a regular basis or would be if my opponent was actually putting some pressure on me. The way I did it, I started from moving to the left and instantly switching my left stick to downward right position.

It's not as fast as for example wardens or peacekeepers but it has hyper armor and you can follow up with a light overhead immediately after the cancel.
I don't really play kensei myself but though somebody could find this useful.

EDIT: Id' really appreciate if you could upvote my reddit post as well for the sake of more visibility https://www.reddit.com/r/forhonor/co...ch_for_kensei/