Sounds fun. Unfortunately, finding someone right around my skill level who still plays is extremely difficult. So I'm usually fighting people who are either clearly worse than me or ten billion times better. Such is my fate.
Yeah, just fought a Pink rank Zato=1 yesterday on REV 2 and I pretty much learned nothing throughout the set I had with him because I either got somewhat lucky rounds against him or I just got straight up slaughtered not knowing on how to handle the match-up. I do notice the improvements vs other players who are closer to my skill level though.