Oh wow this sucks then. I thought it was just me misunderstanding things. So what does possessed has going for it after all? Kenjutsu has the better 50/50s and damage, balanced has the zoning and the meterless damaged. The teleport is good but other than that, any reason to pick it over the other two?
it has a mixture of good zoning and rush down, sure it may not have 50/50s but you can still rush down with a fair amount of success with it
Looks cool
It gets pretty decent damage and a mixture of both zoning and 50/50s. But I think it's the closet variant.
Yeah I agree. It's not a bad variation by itself. It feels at least slightly weaker than the other two but you can still do well with it. It's really nice that none of his variations are trash. The blind man is in a good spot right now.
Call me crazy but I think balanced is looking top 10 right now no joke.
IMO hes top tier now, raiden vs kenshi feels slightly in kenshis favor. The one thing that gave raiden advantage (punishing telekenis moves on block) is now gone, and displacer can get behind him but doesnt have enough tools to open him up afterwards. Id rather guess OH/L than Throw/L
Raiden can still punish tele furry on whiff so it's not easy to keep them out if they know this. I doubt it's in Kenshi's favor good sir.
does it hit high? I played a really good kenshi today and im also not used to the new patch kenshi, I definitely got spoiled with the old matchup but this matchup is at least even now, yes if I get to the corner i get a ton of damage but if he gets out, he has the same amount of damage just doesnt have as good of mixup to start it out
Yep it hits high with balanced and Kenjutsu and has a lot of recovery, its hard to zone raiden like this and raiden has better up close game, mix ups, 50/50s, and resets. Kenshi also doesn't have a low profile hitting move to get through his lightning hand grab thing.
Tempest KL (and probably KL in general) seems to be a bothersome for Kenjutsu Kenshi. He can punish his 50/50's very easily with regular spin for over 30% dmg with one bar (except if you space yourselft really good, which wont be consistent cause even a small misscalculation can be deadly), plus the mobility he has, makes it hard for Kenjutsu Kenshi to contain him.
22 is not a vortex, cause its only +1f adv on hit IIRC. D1 is the best option if you wanna go for the 50/50.
Is anyone really making use of kenjutsu I can't seem to make it work he feels... Sluggish to me
I ve started playing Kenjutsu recently. He seems pretty solid if you master him, possibly top 10 material along with Balanced variation.
The vortex is easily fuzzy guarded and I find my self delaying often.
Yeah same here, i just mentioned it cause its there. Some times its good to use it though for example, if opponent has a breaker and you wanna finish him with a throw.
I dont have issues at sweep ground range. I have issues with people jumping like idiots at sweep range. Thats what i meant. Only reliable solution i found is either d2 or exdb4. I m gonna try db1 as a mean of AA though.
db1 eats jump ins right up, but you don't get much from it in terms of punishing.
From what I can see, you can overhead/low into spirit push and the pushback makes it unpunishable by a lot of the cast (though not all) The reward isn't huge on hit though damage wise but sends them full screen for zoning.. Or you can commit to overhead/low into rsiing sword for the full combo thought its unsafe. Kenshi seems to have quite a fast walkspeed so playing footsies and whiff punishing with b1 might be good.