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Starting at level 7, the Kensai is very high Initiave.
At the highest end, they even beat diviners.
Cool. The more I hear about the kensai, the more I think they could make a good tank. However, it's only one magus archetype. The general magus and its other archetypes do have their strengths, but I'm definitely leaning toward the inquiistors make better tanks then magi overall.
I'm GMing for a group with a magus and an inquisitor. Both have ridiculously high ACs. The Magus can cast Blur, Shield and Mirror Image, which means he's harder to kill (if he has time to buff). The Inquisitor has better damage output.
Either can make a good tank - less so in the early levels of the game.
At level 4 my Tiefling Magus with Dervish Dance has a base AC of 21: Mithril Shirt +1, a Ring of Protection +1, Natural Armor +1, +4 Dex bonus to AC. I also have a Wand of Shield, so 15g per use to go to AC 25 for 10 rounds. The Mithril Shirt allows for up to 6 Dex to AC, so my own Cat's Grace adds in to take me to 27 AC fully buffed, while also adding to +2 to hit, damage, and initiative. Saves are +6 Fort, +5 Ref (+7 buffed), +5 Will.
If I had a Strength based build instead of Dexterity build I could instead have a Mithril Breastplate on at my current level with no armor check due to the Armor Master traits reduction to ACP, but it caps Dexterity to AC at 4 and I wanted to make best use of the Cat's Grace buff.
I've already got the DM approval to add Celestial Armor as a template to a Breastplate (compared to chain it allows for 1 more Dex to AC, one less ACP). Upon acquiring a Celestial Breastplate I would theoretically have AC 33 or so with buffs and a new Dex belt: +5 armor with +3 enhancement bonus, +5 Dex base, +2 Dex belt, +2 Dex cat's grace, +4 shield spell, +1 natural AC, +1 ring of protection. Upgrades to natural armor amulet and ring could push that up a bit more for not too much extra cash.