I believe that with kenshi you have to take advantage of all of his variations unlike most fighters where 1 variation beats most of the cast.
I tend to use balanced 40 percent of the time, possessed 40, ken 20 based on MUs.
Even though he may be part of the lower tiers I still enjoy using him and seeing the hate mail come in, like get a life,stop spamming the same 10 moves, stop punishing my teleports you bitch( dead serious with these).
I watched a Sonya player arch kick over 30 times I lost count, also bragging he can teach all of us combos, then I played and beat him, the salt came so hard but once he realized I had a mic and called him out on his crap he muted me lol this was my face