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ARK: Survival of the Fittest cover artvsHeroes of the Storm cover art

ARK: Survival of the FittestvsHeroes of the Storm

ARK: Survival of the Fittest leans Optimization (Mind & Math); Heroes of the Storm leans Reads (Mind & Math).

EXECUTION5 /10READS6 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
ARK: Survival of the FittestHeroes of the Storm

Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads6 vs 7

Heroes of the Storm leans harder on reads: Team-fight cooldown trading is prediction

Variance4 vs 3

ARK: Survival of the Fittest leans harder on variance: resource spawn and taming randomness

Optimization7 vs 7

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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