heres why I think Jade vs Kenshi is 5-5. Most kenshi I play try to zone jade since she cannot glow his zoning. So he's always aiming for full screen zoning. Heres the trick though, the second you have 1 bar of meter you get in. EVERYTIME. Full screen away? pfff, ex-shadow kick. Even if he blocks it, you're at 0, right next to him. D3 and do some pressure.
also, never break agaisnt kenshi, you need your meter and so does he. It's an armor fistfight.
There is no way Jade/Kenshi is 5-5. It's 3-7 in Kenshi's favor. Kenshi controls the entire zoning screen with armor. Jade does not control the zoning, can't control the spacing, she can't trade her slow Boomerangs, her armor is only good for trades as her armor doesn't not control the zoning either. Ex Boomerangs get blown away by his wake-up invincibility.
Here's the advantage for Jade, she builds her meter only from the damage taken from Kenshi... if you're blocking all of Kenshi's hits then you are helping him build meter for armor abuse. Her Ex Glow and Ex Staff Slam works good against his trades /wake up attacks and armored trades (situational) only. All of Jade's normals/combo starters are very slow so her offense game against Kenshi is very, very weak he can just use Rising Karma on her jump ins and combo her, send her full screen or armor Spirit Charge her back to full screen. Not only that, Kenshi can Ex Telefurry if she tries to duck his regular Telefury and dash block in against his Slashing. As we all know, Jade's damage output is pathetic, she can't keep up with Kenshi's BnB combo damage and his heavy zoning, chipping her health away. At least Kitana (another bad MU character against Kenshi) has the high damage comeback factor 2,1~Ex Fan will grant her 50% combo or a lucky F2,1 launcher or Ex Fan outside his range. The things that hurt Jade the most for this particular MU with Kenshi is her low damage output, slow normals but she can do armored trades except it's difficult for her to keep up with the damage life lead. She can't stay comfortable anywhere on the screen if she has the life lead and Kenshi's ridiculous armor abusing comeback factor is too huge compared to hers (she doesn't have one).
If NRS restores her original damage which was nerfed, I may see it as 4-6, nothing more than that. Considering her original damage output was 40%+ like Kitana's standard BnBs and using meters can grant her near 50% combos then her X-Ray included gave her 55%+. Why the F-U-C-K did NRS nerf her damage anyway? Ermac, Kitana, Cyrax get to keep theirs while Jade gets screwed over, Reptile damage nerf was stupid but he has his abusing Dash to make up for it while Jade had her Up3 nerfed which was considered 'abusive' at one point. What a way to seriously fuck Jade over.
Anyway, you bought up a point, Jade should not use Breakers on Kenshi. She NEEDS the meter badly.