head to head
vs
Little Fighter 2vsSpeedRunners
Little Fighter 2 leans Execution (Pure Mechanics); SpeedRunners leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Little Fighter 2SpeedRunners
Axis by axis
Execution8 vs 8
Even - both lean on execution about the same.
Reads5 vs 5
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance1 vs 2
SpeedRunners leans harder on variance: Item pickups add party-game chaos
Optimization3 vs 4
SpeedRunners leans harder on optimization: Optimal racing lines per track 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.