players who have similar understandings of games are likely to succeed together because the barrier for information transferral gets weakened severely. you don't have to explain what you mean when you say "x is gf pretending to be miller/nilla" because they recognise the same things because they have the same experiences and caught the same tells as you did, or they were there when you explained it the first time. there's a whole other level of language coherency and a boatloads of interpretation that is outright skipped because the language became understood and normalised within the first few games.
it's not just about "being good at reading your friends" either. this is a factor, i could easily start to catch on to maxwell's habits, because even strong players have them, but that, frankly, is the necessary to be a top player. being good at reading people as a whole is entirely about remembering what people do and why. playing with the same person over and over again only speeds up that process for that specific person.
unrelated side-pointfurthermore, the process of becoming a better player happens in stages. people have to start noticing a new player's subconscious patterns. that player has to start getting caught with it to work on it, and weak players won't even notice the reason they're getting caught. none of that would happen within the space of a single round, unless they were interested in playing non-casually themselves.
there are more factors that can be discussed and investigated but i don't have to the energy left lol, this room is far too hot
