I don't think its worse than JC or Sonya. At least with Kitana you can relax a little if she gets in. And its not like she can zone that hard either. Don't try and punish her for doing fans. A good Kitana isn't going to machine gun them so don't try to be psychic throwing out tele's. Just ignore them unless she falls into an obvious pattern with them.
The game is then primarily played at footsie range where she definitely wins, but you have options. d4 is your best friend. It can combat with her 21 and d1 pretty well. Back her into the corner where she has nowhere to run . Scorp has one of the better punishers in the game for her doing ass so she has to fight. Once you get Kitana trying to punish you for doing d4's then that's where you can start making reads and start taking more risks with f4, b2, jumps and hellfire depending on how she's dealing with d4.
She controls the match. You can't jump and she has superior footsies tools to keep you out so its easy to get frustrated and start doing random jumps, spears, tele's and hellfires. But her weakness is not being able to do damage to someone who just blocks. As frustrating as it is to try and get in on that bitch, its almost as frustrating for her to know she can't do any damage without you doing something stupid. If the only thing you give her is good spacing, d4's and blocking, she might blink first on doing something stupid before you do.
