It was harder to get into Diamond than it was to get into Master, for me. Have this clip from the previous round with this Chun-Li.

As much as I hate the sentiment that "Master" doesn't mean "good player", you can make it in there with some pretty big knowledge gaps, as you can see. This was the first Master I went up against, but since getting in I've had people lose to even sillier shit, myself included.

One thing where I was kinda lucky to have it click somewhere in the middle of Diamond was that I started tapping my parry button along to the beat of people's combos/blockstrings and that started giving me tons of bonus perfect parries overnight. Prior to making that minor adjustment I didn't really use my parry all that much outside of matchups with a lot of projectile spam.

TL;DR: Perfect parry is pretty good, and occasionally be willing to bust out the dumbest plays you can think of, cause people don't do well against wild playstyle switches.

Here's the outline for the super oversimplified guide I wanna make.

Please ask me any questions you can think of.

I wanna make a ridiculously oversimplified guide to both Manon, and more importantly my learning process with her as a whole.

Also I'm looking into going to my weekly locals, cause I've run into a couple of those guys on ranked and I didn't get completely destroyed.

It really is. It took me way longer to make the adjustments to get out of Platinum than to get out of Diamond.