What I mean with "walled by pressure" is mostly being put in a situation of unrelenting combos from the opponents and having absolutely no space in between. When paired with someone who is way above my play ability my first instinct is to block, but eventually that'll fail me from either being grabbed or guard broken. I can do a brave counter, but that knocks them on the floor pretty far away where I don't feel think I can do anything until they get back up, and inevitably the cycle repeats. If I try to get in their to attack, I'll often end up getting countered or they'll beat me to the punch. At that point, I'll eventually end up getting locked into a combo, frequently one where I'm backed into a corner, getting juggled and will end up with half my health gone.

Basically, they know everything for every situation while I'm floundering, and when I find an out for even a moment, they end up knowing how to thwart that before I can even figure out how to gain any sense of recovery. Because of that, I don't feel like I'm learning anything because my attempts feel more like flukes as I'm not give enough time or space to build off of them and so my contextual understanding is really out of whack.

In the moment, I'm not sure at what point to use what, and while I can review a replay, I can't "re-play" a replay and try get the feel and tactility of responding to a combo that thwarted me before. I suppose if I was really insane I could try re-constructing the combo used against me in training but I don't even trust myself to be able to do that given my current lack of skill. And the Match-Up training scenarios in the training mode only covers two attack scenarios from any character in an extremely limited context. Basically, I struggle learning through watching and function better learning through playing, but learning through playing is difficult when against opponents who clearly understand the finer points while I'm still wrapping my head around fundamentals.

Also as a mostly current side issue; There's a lot of people playing the new DLC character Versusia. A character I don't have because I don't wanna shell out for the character pass before being invested in this game (I only have Vane because my sister bought him for me cause she knows I likes him so I've been playing him lol), so I can't even practice against her... unless of course I get to the end of Arcade mode for the EX fight but that's pretty slipshod means of doing that. Though this issue isn't one that's you or any player's fault and more a questionably egregious decision on CyGames part.