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[Chucky_Jones]

Before someone says get gud(I know someone will still say it), I am a rep 13 kensei so I know kenseis flaws and strengths. Kensei is already strong vs assassins cause of his range and sweeping attacks that are hard to dodge. He also have a fast guard change and a 40 damage light parry punish. His big issue comes when he is against a turtle who only spams safe ub openers. He has no way to break a turtle and swift strike is near useless. I think that chip damage will help him a lot but until then I think he needs the raider dodge gb for punishing unblockables and avoiding the vortex. It has worked well for raider so there is no reason it wouldn't help kensei vs ub spamming turtles. The cherry on top would be for swift strike to become safe on block but honestly I never use it and would be sattisfied with the dodge gb.

[XxHunterHxX]

So you ir telling me a caracter that you play all the time is not good vs all caracters in the game and ubisoft should make the caracter you play all the time the best caracter in the game coz you want to right ? Kensei is fine as it is he is good vs assasins bad vs heavy thats how it should be if you want that then i can say the same thing about PK i want my PK the way it used to be i want bleeding to stack again and give her more then 2 viable moves ! do you even think before posting this **** ? ubisoft listens to people like you and breaks the game more making the game that was intended to be played in a way be a spamm fest full of noobs ! i think they should go back to the way it was in the beta ! That is when the game was the best and ghet some dam servers !

[That_guy44]

You say the weirdest things my guy. Kensei is far from ok. He's whole right now. His side dash attacks are the easiest to punish in the entire game.

[Enjolras_ABC]

Kensei needs some stamina reduction on his attacks because he is all about the feints.

[Blasto95]

Kensei needs some stamina reduction on his attacks because he is all about the feints.

That won't help to much. You can side dash light into UB heavy feint at least 5 times before running out of stamina. Not many other heroes can Light -> Heavy feint 5 or more times.

Problem with Kensei, he is 100% viable against 90% of players. Once things start getting really competitive, he falls short. He needs some mechanic to help more experienced players, but they have to be careful not to buff him to much for the majority

[MTSHxPreacher59]

Before someone says get gud(I know someone will still say it), I am a rep 13 kensei so I know kenseis flaws and strengths. Kensei is already strong vs assassins cause of his range and sweeping attacks that are hard to dodge. He also have a fast guard change and a 40 damage light parry punish. His big issue comes when he is against a turtle who only spams safe ub openers. He has no way to break a turtle and swift strike is near useless. I think that chip damage will help him a lot but until then I think he needs the raider dodge gb for punishing unblockables and avoiding the vortex. It has worked well for raider so there is no reason it wouldn't help kensei vs ub spamming turtles. The cherry on top would be for swift strike to become safe on block but honestly I never use it and would be sattisfied with the dodge gb.

Hey man as a warlord main i feel your pain. I beat on kensei way to much. Most of the time i find he has to depend on faints to at least get a hit on me but after a couple feints he is out of stamina. And since i dont suck at counter guard break i rarely lose to a kensei. He is under powered and i agree he needs some tweaking.

[MTSHxPreacher59]

So you ir telling me a caracter that you play all the time is not good vs all caracters in the game and ubisoft should make the caracter you play all the time the best caracter in the game coz you want to right ? Kensei is fine as it is he is good vs assasins bad vs heavy thats how it should be if you want that then i can say the same thing about PK i want my PK the way it used to be i want bleeding to stack again and give her more then 2 viable moves ! do you even think before posting this **** ? ubisoft listens to people like you and breaks the game more making the game that was intended to be played in a way be a spamm fest full of noobs ! i think they should go back to the way it was in the beta ! That is when the game was the best and ghet some dam servers !

Are you having a bad morning? you seem to be complaining and being rude on tons of posts. I am here if you need to talk <3

[BeefMan_]

So you ir telling me a caracter that you play all the time is not good vs all caracters in the game and ubisoft should make the caracter you play all the time the best caracter in the game coz you want to right ? Kensei is fine as it is he is good vs assasins bad vs heavy thats how it should be if you want that then i can say the same thing about PK i want my PK the way it used to be i want bleeding to stack again and give her more then 2 viable moves ! do you even think before posting this **** ? ubisoft listens to people like you and breaks the game more making the game that was intended to be played in a way be a spamm fest full of noobs ! i think they should go back to the way it was in the beta ! That is when the game was the best and ghet some dam servers !

Kensei is literally the worst character in the game right now

[Blasto95]

Kensei is literally the worst character in the game right now

Like I said, kensei may be the worst character in the game but he is perfectly viable for a vast majority of the player base. I think he needs some buffs, as a good amount of other heroes do, to be truly competitive with experienced players. But some changes could quickly turn him from the worst to at least near the best.

I think people over exaggerate with the balance of heroes (save for a select few). People spend to much time watching dull 1v1 and even 2v2 fights with the same matchups. Where as in reality, a large majority of the player base is experiencing very different matchups and tactics.

[BeefMan_]

Like I said, kensei may be the worst character in the game but he is perfectly viable for a vast majority of the player base. I think he needs some buffs, as a good amount of other heroes do, to be truly competitive with experienced players. But some changes could quickly turn him from the worst to at least near the best.

I think people over exaggerate with the balance of heroes (save for a select few). People spend to much time watching dull 1v1 and even 2v2 fights with the same matchups. Where as in reality, a large majority of the player base is experiencing very different matchups and tactics.

Every character is perfectly viable against the vast majority of players, because the vast majority of players aren't good. This is especially true in Dominion, where you can get away with playing like a complete moron and still wipe the floor with nearly everybody.
He needs more mixups and options in his kit.
I suggest some of the following

- Change his dodge attacks to heavies and allow Ken to feint them
- Increase the speed of his side lights
- Allow him to soft feint heavies into top lights (This might be too much)
- Make the first hit of his zone attack arc forward instead of to the left side
- Allow him to dodge forward into a top unblockable