head to head
vs
Dead or Alive 5vsTeam Fortress 2
Dead or Alive 5 leans Reads (Competitive PvP); Team Fortress 2 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).
Dead or Alive 5Team Fortress 2
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads8 vs 7
Dead or Alive 5 leans harder on reads: The strike-throw-hold triangle is live human prediction
Variance2 vs 3
Team Fortress 2 leans harder on variance: Random crits and spread inject RNG
Optimization5 vs 5
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.