The youtube video only shows that his AA options are mostly standing far punches and situations that aren’t practical in a real match. I don’t know any opponent who will jump in that far away on Dictator. No one does, except maybe Chun-Li because her jump kicks have ridiculous hit boxes and her jump range is so large. Everyone knows Dictator has totally crap close range AA, so they’ll jump in at a close distance because Dictator has extremely few options. The ones Dictator already has are extremely spacing specific and some of those are even character specific, like cr.mk working as an AA, but against few instances like Hawk’s j.lp. Giving him something like a standing close jab that is similar to say, shoto standing close jab, would help keep characters from jumping all over him in the corner or directly over him elsewhere in the arena. Just a small tool to help in that situation.
As for wall dive, even in it’s non-knock down state, it still has the same cross up potential and guessing game, and a sector 2 wall dive functions as a tick throw on hit and on block, so the opponent still ends up on the ground. This is an issue because of the hit box, and ST only allows for 1 hit box per attack frame.
I also double checked the hit boxes for WW wall dive.
I originally mis-interpreted what you wrote so I took snaps, but now I see what you’re saying. Still, the hands start up I don’t think would be very useful as a cross up, on top of that they’d have to hit high during his dive and would be unsafe on recovery. Most likely it would be similar to Dictator’s head stomp. On top of that, you could make it so the damage output on the initial hands would be weak, just in case it did have some minor cross up potential, and of course it would be easy to punish on recovery since he would still have to land. To be useful to get a second hit would require to be very deep. Let me show you what I mean by fixing wall dive. You’ll have to excuse the crappy SNES sprite, lol, it’s really terrible compared to arcade goodness, but you should get the idea.
As you can see, without the hit box across the chest you eliminate on of the biggest balance issues in the game.
As for what you can do with the tools you have? I’m not sure. This is why I think for the game to get truly balanced would require a new engine, additional move properties like passing through fireballs but not physical attacks, and additional sprite material. Otherwise, you’re working on extending hit boxes for some moves and shrinking them for others, and giving characters invincibility to work through fireballs. Invincibility isn’t an answer IMO, because look at Boxer. He needed a way through master fireball zoners, so they allowed headbutt to have invincibility (since there isn’t a property for simply passing through a fireball) which allowed him to simply corner rape even characters with reversal moves that have some invulnerable frames during start up.
I guess you don’t understand context do you? I’m not even going to bother clarifying for you.
