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Dealing with toxic IRL friend

Creator: Omnislash GG February 2, 2015 2:44pm
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Hey guys, I've just been having an issue with a friend of mine. It got to the point where I've had to block him for the 2nd time on LoL.

Basically, he rages at me over skype about any of my supposed misplays and refuses to acknowledge any mistakes he makes. He also does this over chat to our teammates, and it just gets really annoying. He'll usually support me in bot lane, but he does really questionable things every match (starting fights when they're up on us, usually) and then rages at me for "being a p****". This has mostly been happening since he got placed Silver I (he's played a total of 12 ranked games in his life). He always calls me a "Bronzie", no matter how many times I tell him that silver is bronze with a few more wards. I also play with friends from work, who are far more fun to play with. They refer to him as "your friend who rages a lot."

You could say "Ok, don't block your IRL friend, just don't queue with him." The other problem is that he'll spectate my games and give me "tips". They're rarely ever helpful and come in the form of "wow, you suck for missing that W" or something. It just throws me off. It's annoying to get "advice" in anything from someone that is marginally, if at all better than you at it. Also, I never asked for the "help".

He's a great friend and a good guy IRL, though. Was I right to block him? What else can I do to get him to be cool and just have fun with the game?
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/b/ advice:

1. Masturbate in his room
2. When he enters his room, look him dead in the eye
3. Establish dominance
4. Make him your *****

Seriously though, tell him why you blocked him and if he doesn't change his ways keep him blocked. I have like 1 or 2 friends on my friend list who are like CLOSE friends. I hate the people around the place I live in (small, everybody knows everyone, close-minded etc.) so I just don't play with them.
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I think at some point you'll have to confront him with his attitude, especially if you keep seeing him IRL. Nothing will change for the good if you just keep him blocked (it can only worsen your friendship).
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I support the /b/ advice. Don't forget to throw some "anonymous is watching" in along the way.

If masturbation doesn't work, resort to talking it over. You could also try throwing his computer in the pond.

In the end I'd tell him to be cool and just have fun with the game. Or you could link him to this thread and we'll give him some spanking in your stead.
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meh it depends how sensitive he is tbh. Whenever some of my friends have gotten really mad at me, i just tell them that we're cool outside of league, but i won't play with him/her unless their attitude improves
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Heck he's is not like me when i rage on call of duty I rated myself 7/10 continuous getting respawn killed by the same player.
On league of legends its usually 4/10 because i play with kids who don't know how to ward probably and we up losing.

If he rages next time Use force & uninstall lol client from his laptop or such. I have to do that with Cod games it's been ok so far.
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Well, this has happened to me before. One of my friends was toxic as hell and couldn't help but keep being toxic in-game and whilst we were on Skype.

So I started by muting him on all communications literally as soon as he gets out of line. I would re-add him after the game was done (or he would re-add me) and I would simply proceed to do this until he stopped raging.

Face-to-face, I basically told him straight up that if he keeps ****-talking in game, I just wouldn't play with him and he wouldn't get any better. He's never spectated my games before and criticised me on those, but if he did when I had told him not to, I would have indefinitely blocked his account. Friends that don't know where to draw boundaries are dangerously close to not being called friends at all, at least when it comes to Leagues.

And in some cases, where I do not know the person in real life, even if I had being playing with them for some time, I literally would just block and delete them.

Alternatively, direct him to this site and we'll sort him out.

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