[Balor]

I think this would work well, I also know after playing Kensei that critting and fleur is more often used as refreshes for your kensei combos. As all of Kensei's POWER is packed into their autohits. Examples of crit refreshes being as follows.

Sidecut>Kakegiri>Hirazuki

Move>Wazabane>Hirazuki/Kakegiri

Being the most popular of these combos. An alternative suggestion would be to take Kensei's 25% damage buff, or rather all of the Absolute skills and making them worthwhile. As at the moment Pace & Death are traps that are either not used, or are at the best 2 round damage buffs you would be better off foregoing and just hitting someone with a full combo.

Fear is incredibly useful against mages, otherwise there are better ways to inflict fear for less FP, and better Kensei skills to use in the meantime.

Alternative take would be to allow main class Kensei to apply Absolute Pace/Death/Fear with a refund momentum as part of a kensei combo or to cost no momentum if it's main class but lower the duration of their debuffs. Opening up situations where Death/Fear would be more viable options.

While Pace is just... It's best for dodging basic attackers and nuking them back, could change it to proc on evasion.

TLDR: I like the suggestion. However here is an alternative that would make the tools we already have more viable considering apart from Absolute Fear, NONE of the absolutes get used, and considering Kensei is just Vergil. We need some absolute power.

P.S. Most optimal tank Kensei are going to benefit from whatever dodge Kenseis benefit from in terms of damage. There isn't much to dodge that other than tank kensei having to allot the points to actually hit their basic attacks/going BK. Apart from that there is no point trying to sidestep it apart from being worried about buffing niche Matcha builds.