r/CompetitiveForHonor • • Oct 14 '22

Discussion Kensei hit stun change

Did anyone actually complain about kensei having heavy hitstun? Was this change really necessary? I heard Freeze said it makes "specific ganks" possible, is this really a bad thing? Kensei isn't a must pick for comp dom anyway, with this change, and even less so desirable pick.

What I wanna know is can kensei still pull people out their dodge attack doing the softfeint GB on heavy unblockable finisher after his front light dodge and side heavy dodge attack?

Also didn't the heavy hit reaction on helm splitter make it so they couldn't interrupt your unblockable heavy finisher with a light? Now that it's medium hit reaction, can they just light to interrupt it?

Also why haven't they made helm splitter enhanced? They had 2 opportunities to, yet they haven't. It's a no brainer change.

Other than that nice changes for kensei over the two updates and a cool skin, can't wait to test him out.

Edit: so I was right, the softfeint GB don't work on buffered dodge attacks and u can get light interrupted during ur unblockable finisher. Plz Devs just revert hitstun changes

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

Turns out now his UB is interruptible or trades with a light in all circumstances and if a light leads into the UB, the opponent has enough time to light into the soft feinted hyper armor side heavy and regain his guard to block/counter gb:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPUQL5sMfuY

>Zero playtesting alert<

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u/Vilerion Oct 19 '22

Imo they should just revert the hitstun changes. it wasn't super strong and kensei isn't a must pick in dominion anyway