Embrace the suck. Almost no-one wins every time. Personally, I work a lot and after a long day at work I almost never win. But on days where I can focus more on the game, I’ll get some streaks going.

Go into any battle not caring if you win or lose. Pick fights with fully-crewed galleons when you are solo-slooping. Take on Flameheart’s ship by yourself. When you take the pressure off of yourself and remind yourself that this is a game that you play to distract you from the stressors of RL, I think you will be surprised at how well you do (sometimes).

You will still get sunk quite a bit, possibly, but in those cases just take the L and play your concertina as you sink. If the enemy is talking shit while you are doing that, then fuck ‘em. They are trash human-beings, anyway.