head to head
vs
Enotria: The Last SongvsNier: Automata
Enotria: The Last Song leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Nier: Automata leans Execution (Practiced Mastery).
Enotria: The Last SongNier: Automata
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
Nier: Automata leans harder on variance: Loot drops and chip rolls add minor randomness to builds
Optimization7 vs 6
Enotria: The Last Song leans harder on optimization: Mask builds and learning movesets are the meta-game
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.