what to do when you feel like you will forever be a bad player

I've just come to accept what my limits are. I know I'll probably never be good and that no matter how good I'll get, so long as I'm not the next level above there'll always be something annoying me and making me feel like I'm not good enough. If I lose because of something I'm too reluctant to study then I'm at the point where I just accept it.

It's harder to get mad when you're not achieving endless expectations you set for yourself if you don't trouble yourself with setting them to begin with. At the end of the day it's meant to be fun and you'll always win some and lose some, regardless of how good you get. Even 'good' players, arbitrary as that is, will keep losing and winning so long as their competition is scaled accordingly; you're not guaranteed to just keep winning more unless you're around a tournament level or you're a big fish in a small pond.

I just had to learn that so long as there's always a better player then my place in a match isn't ever really going to change; sure I'll learn to play better, but if my opponents do too then nothing changes all that much. I can either push myself like crazy and have big wins, big losses, and close matches. Or I can chill, not push too hard, and have big wins, big losses, and close matches. That approach won't be for everyone but that's how I do it.

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