suggestion for kensei upcoming buff | Forums

[kritttjazz]

Currently kensei doesn't have a reliable way of dealing damage to your opponent his top light is fast but u can counter that by having your guard up top all the time. His side light and heavy are super slow and can be easily parried and his so as his side step attack. Furthermore even if you manage to hit your opponent with a side dash light punish or the top light, your next attack is so slow whether it will be heavy or light that people can block or parry it 9 times out of 10, so you will never get to use that unblockable ender mix up until you get a guard break or you whiff attacks toward your opponent but then he can just back off and let you burn your stamina. This causes kensei to play extremely defensively so that can get the parry guard break, this proves troublesome though as nobushi and lawbringer can not be guard break after parry, so all kensei get is the top light. What I suggest would be to allow kensei to be able start his chain with his zone attack which means that he can go in to the unblock able top ender right after the zone since the zone consist of 2 attacks. Currently his zone is almost useless, the only way people use it right now is by canceling the second hit of it in to a top light, but this only works once because after any one see this instead of trying to parry the second hit of the zone they just guard up and prepare to block your zone second hit or what ever u cancel in to. If kensei can chain the zone into a top finisher then your opponent have a better incentive to parry because they dont want to deal with the unblockable ender mix up. Also maybe make his attacks alittle bit faster so people wont parry ur side light 24 7, or so that he can get a top heavy off after a guard break so he can punish nobushi and law harder. As if right now I am happy that u consider buffing this character, these are just suggestion on how you should change him so that he is more usable at a higher level based on my experience as a prestige 5 kensei who does alot of duels.

[WITCH-KING-330]

I don't seem to have trouble with Kensei....across the board anyway Ya once in a while there is someone that is really good at putting down a Kensei....but across the board I would say Kensei is above average at dealing with any class....as to the zone I rarely use it but it's not horrible...but Ya it sucks if they changed zone to something more useable....Kensei would be complete....no Nerf no buffin ********.

[Chucky_Jones]

I don't seem to have trouble with Kensei....across the board anyway Ya once in a while there is someone that is really good at putting down a Kensei....but across the board I would say Kensei is above average at dealing with any class....as to the zone I rarely use it but it's not horrible...but Ya it sucks if they changed zone to something more useable....Kensei would be complete....no Nerf no buffin ********.

What prestige are you with kensei and are you on pc or console? I'm a rep 12 kensei on pc and there was definitely a point where I hit a wall and suddenly had so much trouble cause I started getting matched against good opponents. Kensei is pretty good vs assassins if you can parry but against anyone with a safe opener he can't do **** unless they through out unsafe attack. I recently had a match vs a warden and I won the first round but after that he literally only vortex and blocked so there was nothing I could do. If your opponent won't even try to parry then feinting is useless and kensei is useless. He should get the raider side dash gb so he can actually do something against a turtle ub spammer. Another buff I would suggest would be to either make his dash attack much faster or feintable. No matter what it needs to be safe on block.
He should have his superior block reverted back to its former state cause there was absolutely no reason it needed a nerf. I am not really what changes he could have to make him not really on his opponent attacking. I don't want him to become not her class with an ub opener cause then it would feel less skilled to win with kensei. I think whatever nerf happens to the defense meta will probably help him a lot.

[guor6800]

I don't seem to have trouble with Kensei....across the board anyway Ya once in a while there is someone that is really good at putting down a Kensei....but across the board I would say Kensei is above average at dealing with any class....as to the zone I rarely use it but it's not horrible...but Ya it sucks if they changed zone to something more useable....Kensei would be complete....no Nerf no buffin ********.

11 rep kensei here. I played for two days after the season pass and really made me feel sad. Everyone is just turtling or spamming vortex. As it stands now the Kensei is obsolete. Maybe fixing the defense meta will work something out. But with all due respect I believe they don't give a damn about Kensei. They probably give you some speed on side lights and consider you ok while most of the roster spams disable moves.

[WITCH-KING-330]

What prestige are you with kensei and are you on pc or console? I'm a rep 12 kensei on pc and there was definitely a point where I hit a wall and suddenly had so much trouble cause I started getting matched against good opponents. Kensei is pretty good vs assassins if you can parry but against anyone with a safe opener he can't do **** unless they through out unsafe attack. I recently had a match vs a warden and I won the first round but after that he literally only vortex and blocked so there was nothing I could do. If your opponent won't even try to parry then feinting is useless and kensei is useless. He should get the raider side dash gb so he can actually do something against a turtle ub spammer. Another buff I would suggest would be to either make his dash attack much faster or feintable. No matter what it needs to be safe on block.
He should have his superior block reverted back to its former state cause there was absolutely no reason it needed a nerf. I am not really what changes he could have to make him not really on his opponent attacking. I don't want him to become not her class with an ub opener cause then it would feel less skilled to win with kensei. I think whatever nerf happens to the defense meta will probably help him a lot.

Rep 2 Kensei ...(I work 7days a week and have for kids ....lol ) but I do pretty well. No pro by any means but I've made plenty of high reppers rage quit. ....but I do agree with the previous Nerf there was no need for it ...these debs look at how many kills are made by each hero any because at the time Kensei was probably more played meaning more kills made with him that's probably why they did the mini Nerf to a already "nonmeta" hero.....I still say they should give more useable zone atk....would make a world of difference. But even still I love me sum Kensei no matter what 👍💕

[WITCH-KING-330]

What prestige are you with kensei and are you on pc or console? I'm a rep 12 kensei on pc and there was definitely a point where I hit a wall and suddenly had so much trouble cause I started getting matched against good opponents. Kensei is pretty good vs assassins if you can parry but against anyone with a safe opener he can't do **** unless they through out unsafe attack. I recently had a match vs a warden and I won the first round but after that he literally only vortex and blocked so there was nothing I could do. If your opponent won't even try to parry then feinting is useless and kensei is useless. He should get the raider side dash gb so he can actually do something against a turtle ub spammer. Another buff I would suggest would be to either make his dash attack much faster or feintable. No matter what it needs to be safe on block.
He should have his superior block reverted back to its former state cause there was absolutely no reason it needed a nerf. I am not really what changes he could have to make him not really on his opponent attacking. I don't want him to become not her class with an ub opener cause then it would feel less skilled to win with kensei. I think whatever nerf happens to the defense meta will probably help him a lot.

One thing that would go with how they made the Kensei good guard breaker....make his gaurdbreak interruptive ...lol making up words I guess but make it his lunging gb interrupt even heavies just not uninterruptables.

[mathi4s]

What prestige are you with kensei and are you on pc or console?

Rep 2 Kensei ...(I work 7days a week and have for kids ....lol ) but I do pretty well. No pro by any means but I've made plenty of high reppers rage quit. ....but I do agree with the previous Nerf there was no need for it ...these debs look at how many kills are made by each hero any because at the time Kensei was probably more played meaning more kills made with him that's probably why they did the mini Nerf to a already "nonmeta" hero.....I still say they should give more useable zone atk....would make a world of difference. But even still I love me sum Kensei no matter what ����

@WITCH-KING-330:
Could you stop braging for a minute and just answer the question. Are you a console player or a PC player?

[SenBotsu893]

this might not be exactly a buff for kensei but i always wondered why his movement speed is so slow.
i find it odd that some characters with Heavy Armor run faster than Kensei. Id like to think that more HP means more Armor therefor heavier.

If you compare Kensei with his 125 HP with a Warlord 140 HP or a Lawbringer 150 HP
souldnt he be actually running faster than those?

with that amount of HP he is closest to an Assasin class but.. ehh
regular movement speed is not so much of an important issue anyways.

[Sanguinius42]

Rep 7 kensei on pc here.
I am stuck with slow move speed and animations which when I fail to parry the second light attack I cannot parry it. I love the kensei but I moved to shinobi main as he is faster...

[nufrancis]

Hellow Fellow Kensei User,

I've been surfing a lot this week on Samurai Thread and I think below suggestion are the best buff for Kensei. The Summary of it are the light combo will become uninterruptible (not with hyper armour) by blocks. More like traditional fighting game that player can freely initiate combo even got blocked.

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php...light=superior

Kensei are my main and love him very much.

LETS MAKE KENSEI BETTER.