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How do you stop a friend from ruining his life over league

MissFishbones·9/24/2016, 11:22:53 AM·2 votes·656 views

Me and my friends play league all the time together. We all got placed in bronnze together and we're starting to climb up. We play aram, rotating game mode, normals, ranked. Almost everything together (we mostly solo rank though). But one of my friends is starting to take the game too seriously even in normals or arams and getting some real anger issues with it. He ruined his relationship because of league, broke down his wall, scared his family and friends with yelling. I honestly think league isnt good for him especially that he's not an angry guy in general. I know that it might be his way of releasing his anger but he's really ruining his life over it. We talked to him and suggested he quits but he's in denial and he's too prideful to admit that he has a problem

Any advice? (When we started playing a year ago he used to never be toxic or mad at the game, the past month he signals mia and yells at teammates when they die)

6 Comments

Jo0o9/24/2016, 1:12:39 PM3 votes

Intervention time.

Kei1439/24/2016, 1:31:14 PM2 votes

let him know this:

If he is at the proper MMR, then he'll get a 40 / 40 / 20 game ratio:

40% of the games he'll stomp no matter what happens

40% of the games he'll get stomped no matter how much he tries

20% of the games he'll have influence over the victory / defeat through his gameplay decisions and communication .

so if he's loosing with a feeder and unable to gain control back of the game, then it's one of those games that he'll get stomped no matter what.

But if it's those 20% games, then him tilting his teammates won't do him any good.

Of course this is only assuming he is at the proper MMR, the ratio is going to be different if he's supposed to be at a different ELO.

If he doesn't like those ratios, then he needs to "get good". Which means to focus on improving himself every game instead of looking to win. The wins will come along when he gets better.

Also, tell him that there is no point to be defensive with people asking for reports. All a report does is flag the system to check for toxicity, if none is found, then the report gets thrown out.

Knowing those two things takes alot of the stress off frustrated games, thus allowing them to enjoy the game more.

Zezockary9/24/2016, 6:46:15 PM2 votes

I realize this is an old post, and apologize for taking this much time to get to it, but if he is having anger outbursts that severe then he might need to see a psychiatrist and get some kind of medication. He probably won't, but I would suggest advising it if it continues for too long.

dominusx9/24/2016, 12:06:14 PM1 votes

gun him down like the degenerate his is. this is the answer to everything.!!111!1!11!111!!111!!1!!111!

Morality Coach9/24/2016, 7:49:59 PM1 votes

I've gotten angry and stomped people out for over 20 years now. It's not that big a deal don't worry about it. Society wants to freak out every time someone gets angry and fights but its natural.

Have him get into Judo or Brazillian Jiu Jitsu.

Ladayen9/24/2016, 7:56:46 PM1 votes

Are you at his house when he playys? Maybe you can record him when he blows up and then play it back later when he's calm so he can see for himself what everyone else sees.