head to head
Super Smash Bros. Melee asks more than Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory, and the gap is execution.

Execution · Competitive PvP
Input execution and human opponent prediction across a two-plane fighting system.

Execution · Competitive PvP
A platform fighter with one of the highest execution ceilings in any competitive game, layered on top of deep human reads.
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Super Smash Bros. Melee leans Execution (Competitive PvP).
Super Smash Bros. Melee leans clearly harder on execution.
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Special-move inputs and lane-shift timing demand practiced hands
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Wavedashing, L-cancels, and tech-chasing set an extreme physical ceiling
Super Smash Bros. Melee leans clearly harder on reads.
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Versus play is constant prediction of a human's habits
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Reading DI choices and opponent adaptive habits is constant and non-convergent
Super Smash Bros. Melee leans a little harder on variance, though the gap is small.
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Nothing random once matchups are known
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Stage hazard RNG and spawn positions add marginal chaos
Super Smash Bros. Melee leans clearly harder on optimization.
Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory
Learning frame data and lane mechanics underpins competence
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Character matchup tiers and optimal movement routing are deeply studied
A matching score does not mean a matching test. Two games can both sit at 10 on execution and demand completely different things of you - which is why the reasoning above matters more than the number beside it.