head to head
vs
Bunch of HeroesvsTricky Towers
Bunch of Heroes leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tricky Towers leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Bunch of HeroesTricky Towers
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 7
Tricky Towers leans harder on execution: Placing physics bricks fast under pressure is the core test
Reads1 vs 2
Tricky Towers leans harder on reads: Timing spells against specific human rivals adds light prediction
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
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.