>I guess Abel is hard to deal with for Dan since all of his
>normals are so slow.

the only thing I wish they would change about Dan, is remove his "slowness" in certain areas. If Rufus can go around being the new Yun/Yang, Dan needs to have his Alpha 2 original speed of normals. I play that game after so much SFIV, even Alpha 3 and other games, and I'm shocked. He's still old school Street Fighter-style as far as combos are concerned.

I noticed it being less painful to fight Abel when using Boxer but I can't use him very well (charge characters I have some issues being predictable) because of Dan's most key flaw.