head to head
vs
Fatal Fury 2vsNidhogg
Fatal Fury 2 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Nidhogg leans Reads (Competitive PvP).
Fatal Fury 2Nidhogg
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 7
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads7 vs 8
Nidhogg leans harder on reads: Pure human duels of feints and conditioning
Variance1 vs 1
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization4 vs 3
Fatal Fury 2 leans harder on optimization: Matchup knowledge and frame punishes are learnable theory
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.