Over the last couple of weeks, the League of Legends community has brought up concerns about the behavior of FlyQuest’s star top laner Bwipo. During streams, viewers have watched a shocking increase in toxicity through his actions online, but now, the 25-year-old has given answers to his fans, along with some worried friends who have reached out to him.
After League content creator LS spoke to him about his recent behavior, Bwipo supposedly contacted a mental health specialist. He was apparently diagnosed with an ailment that he didn’t go into detail about but said that there was “something going on with him” that was causing him to act irrationally.
He also said that he’d make a video explaining his situation in the coming days to “enlighten” people about what he has been going through. Even still, the pro player spoke about his latest drama and the problematic statements he made while playing solo queue in Europe in preparation for the 2024 World Championship.
“I’ve always been a controversial player,” Bwipo said. “When it comes to gameplay, I’m pretty thick-skinned, so I don’t mind people hating me for that. It sucks, of course, but I know that my gameplay has flaws right now, and I have to practice hard to make them better. I have no shame in playing poorly, [but] I’ll feel shame when I play poorly in an official match.”
Bwipo’s comments were thrown into the spotlight when various viewers posted his clips to the League subreddit. Former pro player and streamer IWillDominate also made a 50-minute video on Bwipo’s recent antics, including his reactions to clips of extreme toxicity where the top laner would berate and name-call his teammates to an extreme degree.
In the first clip, for example, he began ripping into his jungler for not rushing in for a gank, asking him if he has a disease, and saying that he “really hopes that something bad happens to [his jungler].” He continues on, saying that playing with the teammate “gave him AIDS in his brain,” much to the shock of IWillDominate and the rest of his audience.
Dom also noted a significant difference from his mentality towards the game from a year ago, where he was a lot more positive towards the solo queue experience as a whole. In an old clip from 2023, Bwipo said that professional players should never be toxic towards players in solo queue, and should instead be grateful for them since they allow them to play League as a career.
“If you don’t have respect for the people playing in your game, you don’t have respect for the fact that you get to play this game for money,” Bwipo said on stream last year. “If the [average player] didn’t play League, you wouldn’t be getting paid to play League. It is a privilege to have people worse than you in this game that are still interested in high-level play.”
Despite the deterioration in attitude, a good sign to see him getting professional help, with the window still open to be ready for Worlds when the tournament begins on Sept. 25.
Published: Sep 21, 2024 03:54 pm