MVC3 Novice Looking for Dante advice

Backstory: I’m new to fighting games and picked up mvc3 because it has quite a few characters I love. Playing online I bounce back and forth between 9th Lord and fighter and win roughly a third of the time (if this information even matters). I recently was able to find an arcade stick for a good deal and my execution is a little lower on that than it was on pad because I’m still learning. This makes things a little tricky as Dante is a pretty execution heavy character and I don’t mind putting in the effort to learn some of his more advanced bnbs.

I’m working with some simpler combos in the meantime. I’m still struggling to find a team composition I like. From browsing the Dante forum, it sounds like sentinel, zero, dr. doom, ammy, haggar, magneto, akuma would all make great additions to my team but it’d be nice to have some feedback from some more experienced players on Dante teammates.

It’d also be helpful hear some suggestions on how I should play Dante. For the most part I’ve been going for teleport mixups and tossing out projectiles to help make my approach safer.

Any other Dante advice would be appreciated too and I’ll definitely scrounge around the Dante subforum for more information. Thanks in advance!

well one thing would be learning his teleport. the air trick can set up mean mix-ups with long lasting assists such as
doom (plasma beam),ammy (cold star) or even wesker (jag. dash). another trick is to learn what to use when. prop shredder after a re-launch isn’t as useful as a stinger (opinion), and dive kicking on a shoto is bound to taste some o dat “shoryu” swag.