To again address that crouching characters don't get launched as high, I'm often finding that it's unreasonable to crouch-confirm a raw bf3 and there are also a lot of attack animations that are considered crouching at unpredictable times, and so I end up going for the ji2 anyway before realizing that the opponent is too low for normal combo routes. I'm finding that the best consistent follow-up in this case mid-screen is d4 xx db3/bf3. With good timing on the ji2 and against larger opponents, it's also still possible to connect 12 xx special. In the corner, ji2 d1 into normal combo routes seems to always work.