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Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Street Fighter leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION6 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10
Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3Street Fighter

Axis by axis

Execution6 vs 7

Street Fighter leans harder on execution: Notoriously stiff inputs make landing specials the real fight

Reads5 vs 5

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance1 vs 1

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization3 vs 2

Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 3 leans harder on optimization: Character matchups and meter use are a thin learnable layer

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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