head to head
vs
Splatoon 2vsTribes: Vengeance
Splatoon 2 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Tribes: Vengeance leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).
Splatoon 2Tribes: Vengeance
Axis by axis
Execution7 vs 8
Tribes: Vengeance leans harder on execution: Skiing momentum and mid-air disc shots have a brutal ceiling
Reads5 vs 5
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization6 vs 5
Splatoon 2 leans harder on optimization: loadout and turf strategy solvable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.