I’ve been playing Valorant for almost a year now, and this has been my first FPS I have played. I am currently sitting at Gold 3, almost platinum (which I’m really happy about). I have a friend who is Silver 1 and we have played the same amount of time, I started playing when he did. We’re good friends, and I want the best for him, and I am constantly offering him advice, like hitting the aim labs or warming up in the range, or even lowering his sensitivity since his aim is really shaky (he uses .7 800 dpi if you are wondering). He is generally a really stubborn and angry person and doesn’t like to take advice from me or my other friends. I will give an example from a game from a few days ago. We were playing on the map Ascent, and we were attacking. We were going to A site, while the friend in question went to peek mid with a Marshal. He had bought an Operator the round before and died with it, so me and my teammates told him that the enemy Jett most likely had it and was going to hold mid with it. Regardless of these words, he peaked and three seconds into the round he died and got angry.

Obviously, making the same mistake over and over again, one is bound to learn from their mistakes. But my friend is stubborn and does not care about improving in the game. He tells me that Aim Training is a waste of time and just wants to have fun in the game, and doesn’t care about his rank. But him rage quitting almost every game we play together tells me that he still cares about his performance in-game.

I’m at a really low point in this friendship. I feel as if none of my words I tell him he even listens to. I have tried many things to help him out, yet he just ignores them and does what he wants to and ends up getting angry when what he wanted to do doesn’t work. I’ll give another example: He died after missing several shots, and through his mic, I heard him slam his desk in anger. I asked him kindly if there was anything he could have done to change the outcome of the situation. He just tells me to shut up and leaves our Discord call we are in.

With that all said, what should I be doing as a friend to both help him out with his skill in-game and his emotions? Any feedback is appreciated :)

TL;DR: My friend is stubborn and doesn’t listen to others for opinions, and ends up getting mad when he dies in-game after not listening. What should I be doing as a friend to help him with his skill in-game and his emotions?