G4S Claude VonStroke
@MK_ClaudeVS on twitter
I'm making this thread because Kenshi is actually one of my favorite MK characters and a MK9 powerhouse that's been reduced to ash and seems it will stay that way from the looks of it, at least until 2016.
His TF is so bad that it's basically unusable at a high level. His overheads are easily reactable. His spirit charge is decent but EX spirt charge is only -2 and leads to super low damage. His Armored wakeups getting bodied by a lot of the cast. So basically he's supposed to be a zoner and his zoning sucks. On top of that he has ZERO mixups and ZERO pressure. In a game that's based on pressure and mixups you would figure his zoning would be godlike. Nope, instead characters that have ALL THREE things already godlike get BUFFED like Quan Chi.
To make matters worse in reality he probably LOSES to Kitana, that's how bad things have gotten for Kenshi. He's basically a nerfed, shitty MK9 character. After this latest patch i seriously cannot think of 5 variations that are worse than Balanced Kenshi. So yeah, one of the coolest MK characters is trash tier and the only way he can win is if you don't know the match up, or you just get out played by someone a lot better than you using him. This isn't May 2015 anymore, all high level players now know the MU. Pack it up, he'll never make top 8 at a real major again unless something is done.
I only hope that NRS returns Kenshi to his true form and we actually have a character who can put a stop the Kitana, Devorah, Cassie (etc) madness. Otherwise he's going to be one of the loneliest characters on the select scree. PAULO PLS.