So it turns out You can cancel the first few hits of Dimitri into Shadow Footdive. ANY Dimitri can be cancelled into shadow footdive. You can also whiff the cancel window if you dont connect with the first few hits of the move.
This is useful if you dont want to rely on grab to juggle someone into a combo like I do.
If you surge a vertical dimitri, the cancel window is the first hit only for the second one.
Diagonal Dimitri just drops the combo. You can shadow footdive, but it misses.
Level 4 Battery Ender puts your opponent in a juggle state. Its basically a surge fireball. You can Gate Keeper or buttton then go into Shadow Footdive to start a new combo.
Surge Rollerskates is wonky, MK and HK whiff because the game cant handle auto correcting your direction in time. Gate Keeper and Dark Reckoning are basically useless. But surge rollerskates does create a jugglestate for your shadow footdive combos.
Also Surge Footdive is +1 on block. This is basically his footsies special that he can throw out to test the waters.
Speaking of footdive, heres what I figured from his Normal input footdive ranges.
Light Footdive and Heavy Footdive are the only versions of his footdive that will land when youre opponent is Close to you. Light hits in front, heavy hits from behind.
Medium Footdive at closerange will Whiff. But Grabrange medium Footdive WILL land AND crossup.
Max footsies range Heavy Footdive crosses up. Light footdive hits low at this range.
MP range Medium Footdive crosses up. Medium footdive is hard to utilize at my level.
These also apply to their surge counterparts.
Lastly, Shadow Fireball can be used for safe pressure. You can also use it to make a blocked Dimitri safe.I think I’ll experiment more with Shadow Fireball and its spicy +2 on block.
In Summary:
Surge Rollerskates, surge/teleport dimitris and Lvl 4 Battery Ender create juggle states.
You can basically start another combo if you finish with lvl 4 battery ender.
Surge footdive and Shadow Fireball are your safety nets.
Dimitris can be canceled into a recapture.
Footsies.