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My Friend Gets Really Mad When I Give Him Advice

IWillLoseLP·7/22/2016, 7:28:23 PM·1 votes·988 views

My best friend started playing League a couple months after me. I play much more frequently and spend a lot of time looking stuff up to help me improve. Right now, he's Unranked, almost done with his promos, and I am Bronze 3. I'm not saying I'm good, but I feel like I am better than a lot of people in my elo and better than him, so I try to give him advice to help him improve. He's an adc main and I'm a support main. He gets around 60 cs by 12 minutes, so I tell him to try and work on csing a bit more. I also tell him stuff he could've done to avoid death if he died, or what he could've done better in a specific trade. We recently played a match where he was Ezreal and I was Soraka (This probably happened because this was his first time ever playing with a Soraka support) and we were against a Twitch Blitz bot lane (We are skyping with each other). I told him to stay under minions because they had an extreme kill lane, while we had more of a sustain lane. We get pushed close to our turret, but not at our turret, so the Blitz is still able to hook us. Where my friend is standing, he would be safe from hooks straight through the lane, but vulnerable to getting hooked from the bushes, which is exactly what happens. He gets hooked a couple times, never really changes his position, even though I tell him to stay further from the bush. Later on in the laning phase, (We have not died once to them yet) we are pushing up because only Twitch is there. Then Blitz comes from river and e's my friend. Twitch comes up and stands next to Blitz and ults. My friend so far has not taken much damage, les than half his health, and, at the moment, I have my W on a 1.6 second cooldown with a 200 health heal plus my ult. My friend E's away from Blitz hook. It looks like he is gonna be safe, but then I see that he hasn't E'd toward our turret, but right on top of thw Twitch and the Blitzcrank. He then still has enough time to ult and get a q off before dying (Which has a surprisingly long casting time). I then tell him that he could have E'd toward me where I would have ulted (If I needed to) and healed him with my w 200 HEALTH EVER 1.6 SECONDS. I try to tell him that I could have saved him, but he doesn't listen and keeps interrupting saying "No, there was nothing else I could do. Twitch ulted and Blitz would have hooked me." I tried to reason with him, saying that I could've blocked the hook that was already on cooldown and that I could probably heal faster than Twitch could do damage. I also stated that he wasn't even low so there was no point in suiciding. Then he just ended the Skype call. He alwasy does things like this. He gets really mad at the smallest things and he won't take any of the advice I give him. For example, before the game, I told him that Alistar Vayne bot lane might be a good kill lane. He just shot down that idea beause he saw on Champion.gg that it had a lower win rate.

Also, how do I tell him that he has the wrong mindset. I've tried telling him that he is really negative and that we can still win if it's 1 to 10 in kills, but he never listens to me. Whenever I bring up the topic that he could get mad over the smallest things, he just ends the Skype call.

7 Comments

Godhri7/22/2016, 8:40:26 PM4 votes

You two are WAY too low ranking to be worried about stats/winrate/duo compositions. Focus on learning the basics first. Even gold level players haven't grasped fully the basics of the game yet.

As Archerno1 stated, stop giving advice if you notice he's not taking it and if he isn't asking for it. He gets mad because you keep giving him advice that might otherwise be unwarranted. For example, 60 cs by 12 minutes isn't that bad for bronze level play. Getting better with the basics comes with time. Let him learn stuff on his own and stop giving advice.

What you can do is work around him. Look at what he does and what you can do to help accommodate it until he learns better. For example, in your lane against Twitch and Blitz, you could bait out the Q OR ward the bush and then poke from within your minions. As any ranged support, you should be heavy poking if you notice your adc is being passive otherwise you will leave him/her vulnerable to poke.

Work on your movements and you can easily learn to bait out skill shots like Blitz Q or Morgana Q. Once the Q is down, you guys can charge them and win the trade easily.

archerno17/22/2016, 7:30:15 PM3 votes

Stop giving advices if u arent asked for them. Person is supposed to learn on his own

Calabok7/22/2016, 8:47:27 PM2 votes

TLDR : solution is to NOT give him advice

1wolfpack7/22/2016, 8:45:52 PM1 votes

didnt read this, too long, pls summarize. thanks

IWillLoseLP7/24/2016, 12:44:30 PM1 votes

Could you explain Minion Leading and when I need a Zz'rot please? And how could I get a good enough grasp to fully utilize the potential of a strong duo composition? I feel like I will be stuck in Bronze for a long time, but I will get out eventually, so might as well know things sooner rather than later. As for the video, THANK YOU SO MUCH. That video helped me out a lot, plus I watched one about a Thresh adc in Diamond. Now I know so much more than I did before. Of course, I can't use some of the tips that were given, because this elo is terrible (I doubt they would even notice if I put a lantern over the wall)

As for Soraka, I did poke with her a bit, but it seemed meaningless because of Blitz's Relic Shield. I used Q a bit, but most of the time it was for the boost on W it gave.