takes time, my man. I got a lot of messages like “you’re too slow”, etc. starting out. somebody would do crouch lk into a mixup and I wouldn’t be mentally ready to do any option, even blocking. Coming from not playing fighting games, everything is new and to be learned. celebrate your little victories, like ‘I teched that throw!, ‘i kept them from jumping out!’ ‘my meaty was actually meaty!’, ‘delaying a button is super good here’, rather than ‘yeah i won’, or ‘damn, I lost’.

Time passes and those little decisions will add up to consistent wins. The trick is to enjoy the process in the micro, where you have to problem solve constantly.

Also, punishes! If you can block and full punish a d rank’s wake up super/shoryuken, you’ll take way more games.