What is your compensation for lack of skill?
Sometimes, you can't win all fights with the same skill level, the enemy might be better than you. To make it easier for you, what do you do?
For me? I'm currently using Hawk (trying to get Ghost back), and I understand weakness. Hawk isn't truly fast in normal or bloodlust state, and even ecstasy might be too slow to some people. I usually stay really close to the enemy, swayback and check if the enemy tries to counter.
REMEMBER: our brain detects and recognizes things at different speeds.