I'm certainly not knowledgeable to say how it would be in AH. But my guess is that according to a lot I have read about it, the higher the model the less uber it would actually be except in two areas. Two areas that HTC generally imo uses to give a high eny to; speed and guns package. The J2M5 would not be much of a turny bird by most standards but with a high top speed at any alt and 4x20's it would probably have real high eny. Iirc the 5 was used primarily as an interceptor. The 3 would be a turnier bird but still wouldn't turn with most IJ planes I'd imagine, prolly out turn the KI61, ?
I say all ^ that with a brain exhausted and now scrambled from watching the Bears punch holes in my FF Super Bowl hopes. Long day to have counted on Bears to show up and instead the Eagles decided the Bears would go nowhere...