>get matched against a grand master rank Elena
>literally all they do is gattling jabs into a driverush into more gattling jabs with resets into throw
>literally all the damage they got was either from throws, jabbing me trying to backdash/jump out of a bad read on a throw, or DPing me after successfully jumping out of a throw
>every confirm put me into a corner where I was stuck in this blender of jab/driverush/throw/overhead until I died
So basically getting good at this game just means doing the shit people with low MR do when they're desperate but for the entire game and with fewer gaps?
Does the game ever stop being guilty gear jab/throw mixes powered by drive rush?
Its not even like I wasn't able to take a few rounds, but I had to basically never get hit because as soon as they got a confirm I was in the corner with no actual answer to this shit. I don't have a reversal, backdash is too slow and doesn't get me out of the corner anyway, tech doesn't actually get me out either and risks losing 70% of my HP, and even if I block every mixup I'm still fucked because its going to burn me out and then it just gets even worse.
Is this all the game is? All this time I've spent practicing and trying to improve has just been spent working towards that kind of shit?