alarm clock.
Honestly, don’t try to pressure em too hard. If he keeps talking about wanting to get better, I would say go to an offline scene and let him try his hand against someone good.
Hell, just watching people who actually know what the hell they’re doing will either inspire him or turn him the hell off.
And yes, I have encountered those who have BIG but fragile egos. Hell, made a post in the Scrubquotes thread as to how I pretty much made a person quit all fighting games after I bodied him to death and back on Marvel vs. Capcom 2. To be fair, he was talking a lot of noise while I was just casually playing.