head to head
vs
Legend of YmirvsPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Legend of Ymir leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).
Legend of YmirPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Axis by axis
Execution4 vs 3
Legend of Ymir leans harder on execution: Action combat with evades, softened by automatic systems
Reads3 vs 2
Legend of Ymir leans harder on reads: Open-world PvP adds some human prediction
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization7 vs 7
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.