Back when I was in the FGC, this was really a thing. Has to do with the mindset and expectations of people who play a game and knowing how it works. They expect their opponent to have at least some understanding, and thus part of their predictions are based on a variety of options a thinking person would do in a given situation.
If you throw in someone who
really has no idea what the fuck they're doing, it throws this all out of whack. I've seen good players lose to complete newbies simply because their mental processing didn't understand the opponent's program - because there wasn't one. The good players who are able to recognize this switch up their playstyle to be either purely reactionary or just simple rushdown followed by backing off, then more rushdown. Either works to destroy the newbie, but this only happens if the good player recognizes it
is a newbie who has no idea what they're doing. The rest of the time, the good player is just trying to figure out how their opponent is playing and failing because their opponent doesn't know themselves.
It literally is this:
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