User blog comment:Frozen Scorpio/My Votes For the SFW Summer Awards 2015/@comment-4988763-20150714184710/@comment-4988763-20150714222339

Ah, this is what I like.

To be fair, like mentioned in the text, he needs to see other people's level of strength to forsee weaknesses. Think of it like noticing an offensive pattern from a video-game boss and predicting their movements from there. Pulling a Terminator is certainly not my intention (especially with that last movie).

Counters are an essential part of Martial Arts. Being a former hobbyist Judo fighter that won a tournament once because of one, while mastering something he's bound to learn them. You might not believe me, but I actually forgot to erase his mastery of those three. Like you said, it's pushing if it is more than one, and I've found a nice method in-story for introducing such strength. There's only so much you can learn through six years of formal training.

High endurance is there because, in this series, he takes a hell lot of physical punishment in battles.

I understand your last point. Admittedly, Dimitri's strengths stem from the way my story is told. Since he fights progressively stronger opponents each installment, he needs to catch up along with my other characters because they know failure leads to severe consequences. Seven planned installments certainly do lead to a lot, yes, but unlike others that introduce strengths when it's relevant and discard them when not, I'm planinng develop every and each one of them.

I hope you can understand from where I'm coming from.