Learning from Taylor studying vendor folder PHP general

I notice Taylor uses both these techniques:

public static function __callStatic($method, $params)
    {
        $instance = \Model\Dog::class;
        $c = new $instance;
        return $c->$method(...array_values($params));
    }

and

public static function __callStatic($method, $params)
    {
        $instance = \Model\Dog::class;
       return call_user_func_array(array($instance, $method), $params);
    }

If I use one of these like

use Model\DBcall\DBdog as db;

then

$dogrows = db::dogCountadmin($dogsearch, $aval);

Both of the first two methods I showed work perfect. But which is better to use in modern PHP,

return $c->$method(...array_values($params));  

//OR

return call_user_func_array(array($instance, $method), $params);

First one, second, either.

Thanks.