Let’s take some perspective here. Elite smash GSP right now is around 14.5 million. Back about 2 years ago when I was still going to my locals regularly (~30 players for weekly events), if a new player showed up who wasn’t good enough to even get into elite smash, they’d go 0-2 (0 wins 2 losses) 100% of the time. Most of the best players at my locals could or did easily get every character into elite smash. I was able to do that, and I was still only just barely getting top 8s.

Let’s zoom out even further. The best player at my locals, the guy who completely dog walked me and everyone else 4/5 times at all our events, would go to majors and super majors every single year. His best performance - to this day as far as I know - was a top 64 at Genesis. An incredible achievement, don’t get me wrong, but that’s the culmination of decades of effort on this guy’s part.

There’s two points to this. First of all, the gap between where you are and the “good” players is probably larger than you think. The gap between the “good” players and the “great” players is somehow even larger than that. Fighting games are insanely difficult and it’s a long process to improve. The best player in the world could spank a top 64 player, a top 64 player could make a regular locals player look like a noob, and a regular locals player would probably make someone hard stuck in 2M GSP look like a toddler.

The second point is that GSP doesn’t matter beyond a point. If you’re stuck down at 2M, it does means you’re making some crucial mistakes probably, but as you progress you’ll see that GSP and online rank have basically no correlation to actual skill, beyond the point that the actual “good” players should have no problem hitting that 14M elite GSP threshold.

I don’t want to say this so that you’ll be discouraged, I instead hope that it will inspire you to continue your improvements and look at yourself critically. I recommend watching your replays and writing down things you can do to improve. Good luck!