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Fatal Fury Special leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Nidhogg leans Reads (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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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 Special leans harder on optimization: Punish routes and plane-shift tactics are learnable.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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