Early
Early adverb - Before the usual or expected time.
Far ahead
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- It's been relegated now to being a "Snowballing" build option if a team is decently far ahead in the early-mid game to provide even more pressure, and thus force a collapse of the enemy team's already weakened defense.
Source: Scrappy Weapon - Something of a bizarre usage in Dan Abnett's Warhammer 40,000 novels, where his early Gaunt's Ghosts stories namedrop characters who he would later develop in future novels, but his Word of God reveals that he hadn't actually planned so far ahead.
Source: Chekhovs Gunman / Literature - Many of the heroes considered 'pubstompers' or restricted to 'early game' can still be devastating in the late game and at higher skill levels provided the team coordinates enough to buff them up until they are far ahead or the player has a flawless command of their abilities.
Source: Difficult but Awesome
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