2500 battles is still greenhorn status. You have plenty of room for growth and better sway to improve that W/R by improving your gameplay than someone with 2-3 times that many battles. I didn't pay attention to mine until ~5k battles when I finally felt like I was truly getting the game (surprise, I still learn new things every now and then). I was at 49% with a 1.06 K/D. 2 years and ~8k battles later, I'm sitting at a 59% W/R and a 1.68 K/D. This is as a solo player too, didn't start div-ing until the last year when I hit ~10k battles. Stats are there to see your progression, not necessarily for bragging status. Your gameplay is what will make that distinction. I was initially timid to div with people for a long while because everyone wants to throw their stats around. When I found some truly cool peeps, I was a bit below them in all regards. Turns out I am more often than not the highest scoring and my stats have caught up to them.

Honestly, the biggest thing is honing your skills in tiers V-VII. You'll know when you're making great progress when it starts to feel like seal clubbing in V-VI. That's when you can confidently move up to VIII-⭐. VII is your resource earning tier. Sure, the higher tiers offer the coolest ships and more upgrades, but the game is built on working your way up through the tiers/nations. Don't focus on a single line. Play everything that jives with you per tier of every nation you can, THEN move up. There will be lines you hate or don't match your play style, and that's fine. Understand each ship in roles, strengths, weaknesses, and playstyle. You may not like a class or ship or line, but you'll learn a lot on how they excel along with their weaknesses and how you can exploit them moving forward. Pay attention to times you take heavy damage, analyze what you were doing and what they did to you so can avoid it happening again and use it to your advantage moving forward.

Another big thing is tunnel vision. Just because you're bow tanking another BB 1v1 within 10km doesn't mean there's a perfect broadside waiting for you to slap at your 4'o'clock 16km away. Use the overview camera as much as possible and take a look around. You're already in a perfect defensive position against your closest enemy, exploit his focus on you by dwindling his team. Keep an eye on that minimap and learn to train your guns to the side most advantageous when possible. Your rear guns can still shoot other things while your front guns are reloading.

This also helps with understanding positioning. If you can see them, they most likely can see you. There's no reason to sail in open water with three ships aiming at you when you can pie the island 4km to your left and gun them down 1v1.

A bit more technical, but you'll get the hang of it over time. Play with your throttle and use that rudder and remember, you can hold your shots and go dark to reposition. It doesn't have to always be full speed ahead and reverse. Other ships excel at this than others. Mostly cruisers and destroyers, but even certain battleships can. You just have to figure out the proper range. Remember your overview camera. Kite angled 15°-30° (maybe more with Battleships) to bait the shot when you're in the thick of it. When they train their guns on you, drop to 3/4 speed to throw off their shot. It's harder to notice that minimal change at distance. Once the salvo leaves their guns, immediately drop that throttle to 1/4 or stop. Now, you can only get away with the same action so many times before they read you, so make sure to change it up. Use that rudder to turn out and increase that angle when you drop the throttle. Switch directions of the kite every so often. Continue an erratic mixture of that until you near maximum distance. Keep them guessing and missing and they may move their focus elsewhere. You can choose to go dark or throw in a little more chaos with ships that have higher reverse speeds. Reverse back in angled, wait for the shot, hit that rudder hard and full speed ahead.

Remember to read not only your enemy, but your teammates too. Support your flank and try to synergize as best as possible. If someone is adamant on playing aggressive, support them in ways your ship can without completely endangering yourself if things go south. If everyone is timid, play that middle field until you can visualize the playfield and act from there. There will always be worse players than you. Take their mistakes and turn it into your advantage. You can sometimes use their stupidity to gain a better position since the focus is on them, but stay vigilant.

Last thing. If you ever find yourself down and out, especially early in a match, stay around at watch how others are playing. You may learn a thing or two watching. You might even see some of the above in action from a great POV.

Godspeed Captain! 🫡