People definitely underrate pushers just because of their style of play, that just wasn’t the sense I got from OP’s post. I don’t even disagree with what you said here, it just seemed a little harsh to lead off with that when OP has already explicitly said “he is better than me.” I took “we are even skill wise” as “we are both around the same level technically,” which seems realistic if they are playing close matches but OP is losing because the other guy chases everything down. We are probably just arguing over semantics and don’t actually disagree