Something not clicking for me
I've been a Strive player since day one and I really like the game, but since I started there has always been something missing in my ability to play it. At first I thought it was just something that would go away with time, but recently I have found I don't really have the same issue in other games. I just cant get used to thinking quickly enough to respond to anything in this game. In SF6 and GBVS I feel like I have a grasp of the pace of the game and all the mental load that comes with them, but this game feels like I am barely able to keep up with everything I need to. I legitimately cant focus on even landing basic combos in my matches because I'm being overwhelmed by my own options and those of my opponent. Everything just happens so quickly and despite having almost double the hours in this game than I do in any other, I never felt like I adapted to it. In the other games, there is a lot to look out for, but I feel like I can reset for a little after every interaction and appropriately respond to the next one. The variance of options and things like RC just stack so many possibilities into each moment that I can't think straight and default to bad options of my own.
To boil it down, it just feels like this game moves too quickly for me to properly rotate options and think about a gameplan both on offense and defense. It gets really frustrating for me at the end of the day when I just feel like I'm getting opened up by myself and not what the opponent is doing. Anyone have any tips on how to reduce the mental stack in this game to something more manageable? I've been learning a new character recently so, that isn't helping, but I feel like I'm having trouble actually implementing what I practice. I know it isn't just do it in training mode and you can do it in game, but I have a much harder time with that transition in GG than I do anywhere else and I am unsure how to remedy it.
TLDR: Game is so fast that it is hard to think about implementing new options and I often freeze and default to bad/very standard options and it gets me killed.