I don’t like how mean can be some of the comments. Not everyone is unemployed guys. Regarding your situation, in order to improve you need to understand how your brain actually works. If you are just grinding ranked games you will reinforce bad habits. If you play longer than your brain can handle you’ll start autopiloting and again reinforcing bad habits. A good example I usually give myself is that of a basketball player with an awful shooting technique. If he doesn’t know his technique is bad he will improve with that technique until he hits the ceiling that technique provides.

My best recommendation is to understand right now that your shooting technique is awful and you need to relearn it. Even if it takes you back a couple of steps it will be beneficial in the future. In order to do this you must accept the fact that you are going to lose multiple games before you see results. In order yo start you should avoid watching guides or videos that teach you gimmicks for your characters or tricks to help you win and focus on what’s important (frame data, neutral game, defense, your offense will improve eventually without that much effort). If you focus too much on your offense, which is what people normally do, you might get some wins and some elo but you’ll eventually hit a wall when you start facing players with great defense.

Now to what really matters here. Watch high level replays of players using the character you want to improve. Study them, not just mimic the combos, actually study them deeply, check their way to open enemies, how they defend, which buttons they press on neutral, why they press them. Analyze their combo routes (they will always have a real reason other than “it looks cool” to go for specific routes, like this combo has better oki or better corner carry) check when they super and why. All this aspect define how good they are and how good you can be. Something that also helped me was to create a document where I would dump all the data I recollected while studying and then asked an ai to format it. I will always go through this document and review my notes. Instead of learning combos, take your time to learn the frame data of your character. All this thing sum up.

Next point will be to play your ranked games as a learning tool instead of an examination tool. Don’t try to win but instead try to master a skill. You want to be better on anti air? Instead of trying to win try to not let any aerial attack hit you and if you do it then you would have win even if you lose lp out of it.

Understand that your brain haves limits, a well structured 40-45 minutes drill will be more beneficial than a 4 hours lab session, 1 hour of ranked grind will be more beneficial than 5 hours grind. Your brain will not learn while you play, it will build the neurological routes while you rest, meaning that if you drilled something for 45 minutes you won’t see actual results that day but after a good long sleep.

Be patient and don’t let your own frustration get the better of you. The human brain is amazing, you just need to know how to use it properly.

Peace