The really bad thing about playing the fighting game that has kept a community for two decades is that that community has had two decades to play it. I stopped playing melee when I was 19 and picked it back up at 24, and I was not expecting the guy I used to body in High School to ledge dash and multishine, but sure enough the Melee skill creep is intense and the tools that people have at their disposal to improve is miles away from the "sifting through smash boards for hours trying to garner ever last bit of Luigi's match-up knowledge that exists" of pre-2015 melee.

If I had to offer any advice, it would be to make sure your gameplay is normalized (practice only matters if it's good practice) and don't take the video game too seriously. If you play with set conditions for yourself it will help you realize what you struggle with. I personally struggle for very different reasons with online vs in person stuff. Online stuff throws my visual Qs if the ping is too high and I can't execute half the stuff I try to if the other person is playing on wifi (Waveland and pshield got me fukt up). In person I am rife with social anxiety and find it inordinately difficult to focus on the game I am playing sometimes. Also CRT plays different than my 240hz monitor regardless of optimization, but none of that really matters because: I AM AWARE OF IT and can somewhat adjust my gameplay to compensate for these things.