Actually i love all three. Balanced for me is just MK9 Kenshi. Possessed have teleport which adds a ton of crazy mind games. And last but not least third variation got Ermac push and "hold in air" for an easy combo and some sword strings for nice pressure. Yup loving them all.
The basic gameplay systems alone are a huge nerf to him, also more than 10% of the cast has useable armor and mobility so I'm actually glad his tools got tuned up.
I was actually expecting him to have a variation where he used his sword as a TK weapon. Though they did pretty good with his character so it all works out in the end.
Yeah, nobody's going to use it but possessed is definitely my favorite. I hope it has a pretty baller explanation in the story.
You don't think anyone will use the only variation with a teleport?
It just didn't seem like that great a teleport to me. Maybe he's got like scorpions j. 3 or anti airs won't be worth a damn but mk doesn't have cross ups so falling out off the sky pressure isn't really that rewarding.
I think the teleport will be great, can use any of your jump attacks or fall to keep it a guessing game. We'll see though.
I hope you're right. I'm never going to pick kenshi unless random select makes me so it would be nice to see the variation I like in tourneys, I just don't think the maybe oh Tele maybe full screen low block is enoigh to keep people from using the other two first.
lol I kind of found that funny as well as a subliminal message to the Kenshi haters saying "fuck you, he's balanced now lol" When I saw how slow his moves come out I was like holy crap man, they totally nerfed him haha.
I find it funny how several people think that hes moves now come out slow. A part from *possibly* a bit slower SC in "balanced" variation i would say RK and TKS come out at the same time as it does in MK9. Of course need to see the actual frame data to be sure but for now hes "balanced" variation seems as good as it was in MK9. Also worth mentioning most of hes normals and strings appears to be coming out way faster then in MK9.
I'm not saying it's "bad" or anything, just seems obvious that the start up on the moves seem slower, at least to me. But like you said, guess we have to see the frames and compare. I seem to remember his SC and tk shoulder ram being able to be buffered faster in MK 9 than in MK X demo here but guess we'll have to wait to see for sure. The strings I agree are definitely faster and smoother.
I think it is actually punching the ground not the character to cause a small quake like a mini ground pound.
That's what I was thinking, and if that's the case it would be awesome.
