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Necromunda: Hired Gun leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Pokémon Legends: Arceus leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION7 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 3

Necromunda: Hired Gun leans harder on execution: Wall-running, grapple movement and gunplay set the pace

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 7

Pokémon Legends: Arceus leans harder on optimization: Research tasks and agile-strong style choices reward planning

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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