Ive been playing since CT but extremely casually mostly against CPUs. CPE is the first game where I've tried to play online more than a couple of vanilla and I'm getting wrecked by many opponents.
I've been trying to learn the basics, so I don't know long combo strings or anything, but I've been trying to include things like high low mixups, barrier blocking, trying to overdrive instead of spamming burst, learning which normals are the fastest, etc.
Yet, I just lost to some guy about 30 games in a row, and I barely made any progress from where I started. He played Terumi, then Jin, then Ragna, and I faced the same issues every time. Even though Noel is supposed to be a rushdown character, I couldn't find any openings due to my range disadvantage.
If I rushed in, I would get countered immediately, or if I attempted a mix up string I would get DP'd after a few blocks. I could try to spam some neutrals but I would get punished since if I whiffed they were still probably in range to retaliate but if they whiffed I wouldn't be able to hit them. No matter what I did, it would inevitably end with my desperately guarding in the corner. I could burst but the same thing could happen again. I could continue blocking but I couldn't find any openings because of the pushback and range disadvantage, and inevitably a hit would get through my guard, after which I would get helplessly juggled for a combo that took out a third of my health at least.
What can I do to improve?
