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[Sad.Boi_Hours]

How do you beat this thing? Only hero I can't fully understand how to beat. The feints the Kensei has in his arsenal that he can use with his unblockable finisher gets me way too often, as well as some of his other feints that are just a little too tough for me to react to. Please help?

[voiddp]

Against kensei you should not be parry-happy.
He sure is feint-master, but all his soft feints go from any top heavy in a combo, so if it's not top heavy - parry, if its top heavy excpect to block sides, block/Dodge top only in late part of animation.
He can soft feint to any dodge attack, 2 forward top attacks included, and side lights/heavy.

Top heavy finisher? Almost never will be used. But expect a lot of finishers in Dominion when you are not locked on him.
Dodge late and fish for parry of softfeints. Or just block them. Or you can dodge early and still successfully block side soft-feints next. Don't hit him out of it with fast lights as his soft-feinted side heavy finishers have HyperArmour.

If he starts from top heavy - most of the times expect side light or dodge attack. But not forget about dodge/block last moment if not feinted.
Learn to parry dodge attacks, its easiest kensei parry and many of them love to use it a lot, even from neutral.

In group fignts expect and sometimes in 1vs1 expect Nature Wrath from long distance, even if you are sure that it will not hit at least block top. It connects on crazy distances. But also easy to parry..
And in neutral block top always. Dodge forward + Helm splitter is fast and easiest option to go for top Heavy Finisher. But also can be parried if you expect it, or just block.

[DrinkinMyStella]

im a kensei main and the one bit of advice I can give is don't be too aggressive with him, be patient and don 't try to parry because your asking to be hit with a soft feinted attack or a GB. Just take your time and wait till he throws an attack and try to dodge out of it.

[AzureSky.]

Remember that if you add the heavy + other action that kensei does is a REALLY BIG NUMBER in ms, you can literally just use a 500ms or less attack everytime you see him doing the first frames of the top heavy animation, it's the same as raider with his soft feint from side heavies, the move is really slow and experienced players will just attack you when you try to do it.