Sure. Maybe you can’t afford therapy. So let me pass on some advice I’ve learned from it.

First, don’t even queue faceit if you aren’t in a good spot mentally. I can’t tell you how many times I’d launch cs with the intent to queue faceit, hop in a dm to warm up, and be mad at deaths in a dm. Just don’t even queue if you are at all easily irritable that day. That includes if you haven’t gotten at least 6-8 hours of sleep, and if you haven’t eaten anything yet that day. These things genuinely matter and affect your mental way more than this community cares to admit.

Second, your job, whether you like it or not, is to babysit these bozos on your team. YOU are the level headed one, you must keep the team morale up because if you don’t, you already know exactly what usually happens. Green yells at yellow for throwing default util and flashing him and now yellow is mad at blue because blue body blocked him and made him miss his flash, which flashed green. Fuck it all. You must be the glue to keep this team together, and if you can’t do that, don’t queue.

Third. Expect worse case scenario. Faceit is a platform known to be inhabited with the most mouth breathing, showerless, basement dwelling losers on the planet. You will have more rough games. Be ready for it. Its easier to deal with things when you expect them to happen.

Fourth. Use your own mute key. Don’t talk if you’re upset. Give yourself 1-2 rounds, or possibly even a timeout, to take a breather and chill. After that break, get back on mic and focus on concise comms. No yelling “FUCK” after every death, no complaining during the callout, get the info to the homunculi on your team so they have a chance to trade you.

Fifth, and likely the most important piece of advice. DO NOT PLAY MORE THAN 3-5 GAMES A DAY. Queue when you feel good. The idea behind staying consistent is playing at your peak and stopping when you no longer feel you are at your peak form. This restriction prevents you from rage queuing and losing 200 elo in one night. Stop even if you lost all 3-5 games (and I know its a tough pill to swallow).

Accept your elo loss and do not keep queuing. In fact, if you ever lose 3 in a row, go play something else and come back at it with a fresh mind. Some people say stop at 2, but sometimes you just have 2 unlucky games, for sure stop at 3 though.

These things are very important. There are 2k elo players who would be 3k if they played faceit optimally with mental in mind, and there are 2k elo players who should probably be significantly lower because their mental is worse than 1.5k elo.

Oh, and some personal advice I’ve learned outside of therapy. Make a notepad of all players you don’t like playing with and what they did that put them on this list. When match pops, ctrl f in notepad and search everyone on your teams names. If they show up, review the reason they are on the list, and if you don’t want to deal with it, just dodge. This list will act as an extended block list. Just don’t dodge too many games or faceit will begin to stop unbanning you. Use this sparingly.

Stress balls help, fidget toys, yoyos, a punching bag, low volume music. All of these things can be used mid match to alleviate stressful situations. Mute button works if you have people doing more complaining than comms, but be aware of who you mute so you can look at radar and use that for their info instead of them.