KENSHI TAKAHASHI
First Appearance: Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance
Total Appearances: MK: DA, MK: Deception, MK: Armageddon, MK 2011 (Downloadable Content)
Role: Blind Warrior
PL 9 (153)
STRENGTH 3 STAMINA 4 AGILITY 6
FIGHTING 11 DEXTERITY 4
INTELLIGENCE 1 AWARENESS 3 PRESENCE 2
Skills:
Akrobatics 7 (+13)
Athletiks 5 (+8)
Deception 2 (+4)
Expertise (Martial Arts) 8 (+9)
Expertise (Special Forces) 4 (+5)
Intimidation 2 (+4)
Klose Kombat (Unarmed) 2 (+13)
Perception 5 (+8)
Stealth 5 (+11)
Advantages:
Accurate Attack, Agile Feint, All-Out Attack, Chokehold, Fast Grab, Improved Defense, Improved Kritical (Unarmed), Improved Kritical (Sword) 2, Improved Initiative, Improved Trip, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 7, Takedown, Tracking
Powers:
"Ancestral Sword" (Flaws: Easily Removable) [11]
"Blade Reflect" Deflect 5 (Extras: Reflection +2) (15) -- (17 points)
- AE: Strength-Damage +3 (Feats: Improved Critical, Penetrating 4) (8)
- AE: "Rising Sword" Strength-Damage +3 (Feats: +2 to Hit Jumping Opponents) (4)
"Telekinetic Attack" Blast 5 (Feats: Variable Descriptor- Slicing or Bludgeoning Energy) (11) -- [13]
- AE: "Telekinetic Slam" Move Object 5 (10)
- AE: Teleport 2 (Feats: Change Direction) (Extras: Easy) (7)
"Babality"
"Telekinetically Pulls Eyes Out of Head, Then Twists Body Into a Pretzel"
"Telekinetically Stretches Enemy into Snapping in Half"
"Cuts Opponent in Half"
"Drops Sword on Ground, Then Forces Enemy Onto It"
"Slams Face Into 'Camera', Sending Eye Their Sliding Down the Screen, Then Slices Them"
"Telekinetically Uses Veins Like Marionette Wires"
"Spins Sword Telekinetically Like a Blender- Drops Foe In"
Offense:
Unarmed +13 (+3 Damage, DC 18)
Sword +11 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
TK Attacks +11 (+5 Ranged Damage, DC 20)
Initiative +10
Defenses:
Dodge +12 (DC 22), Parry +14 (DC 24), Toughness +4, Fortitude +6, Will +7
Komplications:
Motivation (Revenge on Shang Tsung)- The evil sorceror is responsible for blinding Kenshi.
Enemy (Mavado)- The Red Dragon leader had a run-in with Kenshi during his mission.
Total: Abilities: 68 / Skills: 40--20 / Advantages: 21 / Powers: 30 / Defenses: 15 (153)
-Kenshi was an attempt at creating another major character to the franchise, and it kinda/sorta worked. He was a warrior who got advice from an old man who told him to release the spirits of his ancestors. This old man turned out to be Shang Tsung, and the experience left Kenshi blind and vengeance-driven. He ends up getting mixed up with various characters (including Mavado, Sonya & Jax, Sub-Zero & Ermac, who taught him Telekinesis), but he showed up in all of the later games, including being Downloadable Content in Mortal Kombat 2011! This makes him the only new character from MK: Deadly Alliance to make the latest game.
-Kenshi makes a surprise reappearance in Mortal Kombat X, now getting a Legacy Kharacter in his son, Takeda! He himself sort of acts as an "extra guy" to the heroes, often fighting backgrounders (like the Revenant Nightwolf).
-Kenshi has several neat and unique concepts to him, including Blindsight (Accurate Hearing and Energy Detection), Telekinesis (allowing him to Blast or use his Sword as a ranged weapon), and a Reflecting Sword Attack. In my original MK set, was gonna make him one of the Template guys until I read a bit more info on him (I don't remember him from reading Fighter's Generation... then again, I remember NONE of the post-MK 4 guys), and realized he even hit MK 2011. There's just a bit too much to him for that, especially with all his unique stuff. As a unique blind fighter, he is immune to certain eye-based attacks, like Sonya's Kiss of Death- this is more of a Komplication of Sonya's than anything.