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ARMSvsStreet Fighter EX3

ARMS leans Reads (Competitive PvP); Street Fighter EX3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION6 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
ARMSStreet Fighter EX3

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Street Fighter EX3 leans harder on execution: Combo execution and reaction timing decide exchanges

Reads7 vs 7

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 1

ARMS leans harder on variance: Minor stage and item randomness

Optimization4 vs 4

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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