my partner just told me about the most fucked up rivals of aether strat they do. if they want someone to stop projectile spamming, they'll put all their mental stack into making sure the projectiles are as ineffective as possible, and when their opponent finally gives up and does something else, they'll let their opponent hit them a few times to activate the reward center in their opponent's brain and make them keep doing that instead of projectiles.
conditioning your opponent is one thing but this is like. dog treat strats. the sheer social dynamics at play here...
