Kensei got a little nerf? | Forums

[x_Senduko_x]

YEY Kensei nerf, they take the only fast move away from his moveset.

Now u can rly just use ur overhead after wallpushing and offensive gameplay is stopped ...

Time to Reroll warden gj ubi ...

[GiganticKORAK]

No no no I refuse to believe this.
you must be trollin!

*went to test*

-Sheds a manly tear-

[Iskaroth]

I give up on Kensei. Too much work especially once i started playing decent players his weaknesses became more and more apparent. I switched to PK and its so much easier, i can deal with aggressive players as well as turtles.

[Nlight91]

Why this nerf ?!!! But why ?!!!

I mean, really how was it OverPowered ?!! I was not ! Kensei already had few moves, but now he also have even less style... I don't get it... it was not a spam move, unlike many other characters who can just spam the same "infinite"(numerous times before running out of stamina) brainless effective chain of actions (Orochi in mind, Grab(countered or not) ->Top Light -> [repeat])

Recently I've played against many very good defensive players, especially wardens : they block only and they counter grab. What are the approaches as a kensei against such players with this characters :
- feinting nah, they only block and effectiveley countergrab
- waiting for them to make an other move than their right extremely fast (light or heavy attack, don't know) or top extremely fast attack, while protecting your left and top side, and don't hop to parry those...
This results in an awesomely long, boring and uniteresting fights where you can only use you Swift strike to punish any other move.

But I digress, the removed move was fun, visually impressive, quite satysfing when landed successfully, and an asset in visual trickery, which is near non-existent in Kensei arsenal. Even though it was not very effective as such, it was one of the very few fun factor he has.

Kensei was already hard enough to play well as he was, and easily blocked/parried/dodged.

So, what the f**k is the reason of this nerf ? why ? I really would appreciate to know it... as many of us would.

And I would apreciate even more that it is re-inserted in his moveset.

[DemonKENAN]

Why this nerf ?!!! But why ?!!!

I mean, really how was it OverPowered ?!! I was not ! Kensei already had few moves, but now he also have even less style... I don't get it... it was not a spam move, unlike many other characters who can just spam the same "infinite"(numerous times before running out of stamina) brainless effective chain of actions (Orochi in mind, Grab(countered or not) ->Top Light -> [repeat])

Recently I've played against many very good defensive players, especially wardens : they block only and they counter grab. What are the approaches as a kensei against such players with this characters :
- feinting nah, they only block and effectiveley countergrab
- waiting for them to make an other move than their right extremely fast (light or heavy attack, don't know) or top extremely fast attack, while protecting your left and top side, and don't hop to parry those...
This results in an awesomely long, boring and uniteresting fights where you can only use you Swift strike to punish any other move.

But I digress, the removed move was fun, visually impressive, quite satysfing when landed successfully, and an asset in visual trickery, which is near non-existent in Kensei arsenal. Even though it was not very effective as such, it was one of the very few fun factor he has.

Kensei was already hard enough to play well as he was, and easily blocked/parried/dodged.

So, what the f**k is the reason of this nerf ? why ? I really would appreciate to know it... as many of us would.

And I would apreciate even more that it is re-inserted in his moveset.

Yes I would very much like to see them put it back in as an intended feature.

[Sinistrality89]

I'm not seeing the issue. I can still do the move.

[Tomas_Jari]

Whats the true? I dont see any changes in patchnotes on Kensei...

[bidogow]

the move was removed. It's kinda stupid, kensei really needs different ways to land the third hit of the combo.
I don't know what the hell the balance team is doing.

[Yatagarasu-san]

Bump, I only main kensei since dawn of ages .... and this is utterly dissapointing ... like if kensei needs any update ...it should be giving him more options play offensive ... not TAKE it AWAY ... srsly who made the call??? I tried all heroes, and kensei is only I truly enjoy, because he requires brain and not spam :.. I preordered game and I love it, but I feel like I starting to loose interest in game .. Not saying "U NERF HIM I QUIT" but its bit sad There are unbalanced characters which I wont mention, because I might be wrong as I dont play them often but Taking move from already thin moveset ?? Not cool (((((

[BigJUbi]

Kensei main here, but admittedly I wasn't even aware this was part of his toolset. Perhaps I was using it and not even realizing it.

So before was it...
A.) Side dodge + light attack, top ublockable heavy

Or B.) side dodge + light attack, (light/heavy attack), top unblockable heavy

?

Basically, did the side dodge + light count as one or two steps in the three step combo?