head to head
vs
Monster Hunter: WorldvsMount & Blade
Monster Hunter: World leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Mount & Blade leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).
Monster Hunter: WorldMount & Blade
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 6
Monster Hunter: World leans harder on execution: Deliberate weapon timing against huge movesets
Reads1 vs 1
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance3 vs 3
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization8 vs 7
Monster Hunter: World leans harder on optimization: Knowing the monster and building counters is the game
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.