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SquadvsStarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Squad leans Execution (Competitive PvP); StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans Execution (Grand Arena).

EXECUTION8 /10READS7 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION5 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution8 vs 9

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans harder on execution: APM, macro, micro-control under pressure

Reads7 vs 8

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans harder on reads: 1v1 ladder vs adaptive humans modeling you

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization5 vs 8

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty leans harder on optimization: build orders, economy curves heavily solved

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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