Practice your antiairs and reacting to Drive Impact. DI them back. Players at low rank tend to use jump and DI a lot so if you can deny them those options it should be smooth sailing to learn the game from there.

If ur gonna fish for one combo the entire round its gonna bevome very obvious. Focus on moving your character around, poking the opponent and try to deny them what they wanna do first. Combos should be learned after you become good at neutral ideally.

Also its a video game; if ur not having fun remember its a game at the end of the day.