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Street FightervsTennis for Two

Street Fighter leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Tennis for Two leans Execution (Pure Mechanics).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
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Execution7 vs 6

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

Reads5 vs 3

Street Fighter leans harder on reads: Human versus rounds still reward bait and punish

Variance1 vs 0

Street Fighter leans harder on variance: Nothing hidden between two visible fighters

Optimization2 vs 1

Street Fighter leans harder on optimization: Tiny moveset leaves little system to solve

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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