So, I have a weird mindset problem, and I can't nail it down. It's all purely mental too, not really "skill" but mind.
I *know* the right moves in a lot of my matches. I know what to avoid. But even when I'm conciously thinking about it, and about what not to do, my hands still autopilot their ways into defeat. An especially maddening example is (I'm a Peach main) I kept floating at a Palutena, and she would use Usmash to cover my float. Easy peasy, don't float above her. Yet, even when I was watching her charge the Usmash, I still found myself floating like an idiot. It's like, I know not to do that, why am I doing that!?
There's other matches where I'm failing less miserably than that, but there's still a margin of autopilot. Later last night I was playing Juni, I as ZSS, and they were Olimar. Was getting my ass kicked the first 3 matches. Then something clicked. Like I could physically feel it clicking into place, I decided I was done with that shit, and there was a *noticeable* difference in my play, and I ended up winning. I even went back over the footage -- it wasn't them playing worse, but me better. But I don't know how to channel that regularly! I need to know how to be "in the zone" so that I can use what little skill I *do* have, so that I can improve myself. Instead of just channeling my inner autopilot.
Any ideas?