Why is it important for a team's strategic priorities to change when a match shifts from the early game to the late game?

It is important for a team's strategic priorities to change from the early game to the late game because the fundamental conditions, available resources, unit power levels, and objective values within a match evolve significantly. In the early game, characters typically possess limited abilities and resources, focusing on individual growth through resource acquisition, often referred to as 'farming' for gold and experience. The strategic priority here is often safe resource accumulation, gaining initial advantages, and avoiding high-risk engagements that could impede individual progress. Early objectives, such as minor resource nodes or small map control points, provide incremental advantages. As the match progresses into the late game, characters generally reach higher power levels, having acquired significant resources, advanced items, and developed abilities, known as their 'power curve' reaching its peak or critical stages. The game's major objectives, which provide substantial and often game-ending advantages, become accessible and critically important. Consequently, the strategic priority shifts from individual resource acquisition to coordinated team play focused on securing these high-value objectives, engaging in decisive team fights, and destroying the opponent's main structures. Mistakes in the late game carry significantly higher consequences, making precise execution and understanding of 'win conditions' – the specific actions or objectives that lead directly to victory – paramount. The team's overall 'composition,' meaning the specific combination of characters or units chosen, also dictates whether they are inherently stronger in the early or late stages, further necessitating a strategic adaptation to leverage these inherent strengths at the appropriate time.