"new trend" and "recent years" in the same sentence.....a tad, oxymoronish, no?
To my knowledge, smart players have been adapting to how the pattern changes since the pigs ate my brother. Why not take a pro-active stance on their lane play alterations and figure out how to stay ahead of the curve and change the pattern so they might score better? It's the reason I try to have a better average in my third & fourth games of a series than when the oil is fresh. It tells me that I'm able to read and react to lane condition changes better than my opponents.
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