More thoughts on the one frame faster Mist Cancels.
Currently, if you Lv2 MC out of a Lv5 attack (like a Heavy Slash attack), and immediately dash, then immediately 2P; you will trade with other 5f 2P's. With 1f faster Lv2 MC, you now beat out other 5f attacks in this situation. And you now trade with 4f attacks. Like Ky's 2P, for example.
We haven't even taken in to account the faster dash, yet.
But, a faster dash could mean two things. Either less recovery frames or less dashing frames.
Less recovery frames would mean when we can attack out of our dash remains unchanged, but wave dashing would be less needed. Less dashing frames would mean we can attack sooner out of our dash, making the above situations even better, but we would also have less frames to dash over things with. But you rarely ever needed all 9 dashing frames to get over a move, and most moves that used all the dashing frames already exceed 9 active frames, and dashing over such moves was mostly due to positioning.
Reducing the dashing frames by even 1f would be an incredible buff. But I feel like they are going to reduce the recovery frames, to make Johnny a little more user friendly.