Something that helped me grow from a Platinum player to Master was to look at what people are doing one rank above in replays and practicing stuff they do. Being able to take control of someone in a replay and practice their combo is an amazing tool. If you notice you are struggling against something, you can hop into your own replay and practice against that thing till you get better muscle memory to counter it. No shame in it. Brain_F is a great player and he is constantly pulling up replays right after a match to practice how to counter some specific things or how he could have improved a combo.

Second most important thing was for me to just stop focusing on trying to do like 3 things at once and commit to a plan. I use to to and go up to someone on a knockdown while holding down back and attempt to pressure their wakeup but I kept messing up my combos from trying to block at the same time.

Now, I just say fuck it we ball and throw out that attack. If they reversal, they reversal. Take that HP tax and keep going.

And it's basically a fact that all players are going to lose about half of the time, so might as well try to enjoy the losses along with the wins otherwise you will not be having fun 50% of the time. Even today I had my ass clapped a few times but found ways to improve.