Kensei rework is terrible | Forums

[JuiceManDrew]

Kensei main since s1 and they made his top heavy slower and can’t even land it in a gb which you could follow it up unblockable top heavy which gave me a lot of options. Also changing the dodging attack into a heavy was also a stupid idea. Have these developers been sniffing the white stuff? This is the reason why many games have private servers where you can play the older version of the game.

[Duskmare]

Kensei main since s1 and they made his top heavy slower and can’t even land it in a gb which you could follow it up unblockable top heavy which gave me a lot of options. Also changing the dodging attack into a heavy was also a stupid idea. Have these developers been sniffing the white stuff? This is the reason why many games have private servers where you can play the older version of the game.

The top heavy is slow, powerful and telegraphed for a reason. It gives you time to feint it and makes it clear to your opponent you're going for a heavy so that they're more likely to fall for the feint. You don't get a top heavy off a guardbreak but you do get a side heavy off a guardbreak, or you can throw them into a wall and still get the old top heavy unblockable mixup from that.
Why is his dodge attack being counted as a heavy a bad thing? You know that just means if someone parries you then they only get a light attack, not a heavy, right? Plus it allows you to execute off it. Sounds like nothing but positives to me.

[Knight_Raime]

Really just sounds like you don't get the new kensei and are mad because you can't play the same way you used to.
Sorry but that's an issue with yourself. The developers nor the game can fix that.

[Vakris_One]

I'll just quote my reply to you from the feedback thread:

You've never needed a top heavy from GB to go into his unblockable top heavy finisher, you can engage the finisher at the end of any chain incorporating 2 prior consequitive moves. His side heavies have always offered more damage than a top heavy from GB so unless you're new to Kensei you should always be going for the side heavy from a GB. It's very surprising you don't know this about Kensei if you've been maining him since S1.

Changing the swift strike from light to heavy input is really no big deal, why would it be stupid?