He played the meta game. Get more new players to play more and longer gives him more and bigger targets later. The same reason I wouldn't totally whoop my frien

He played the meta game. Get more new players to play more and longer gives him more and bigger targets later. The same reason I wouldn't totally whoop my friends at smash brothers back in the day. If you just barely win, you may win more games, because newbies aren't discouraged.