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Street Fighter leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Ultimate Chicken Horse leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads5 vs 6

Ultimate Chicken Horse leans harder on reads: Predicting what obstacles opponents will place is genuine social reads

Variance1 vs 2

Ultimate Chicken Horse leans harder on variance: Block placement creates novel layouts each round

Optimization2 vs 4

Ultimate Chicken Horse leans harder on optimization: Optimal obstacle placement strategies are learnable over sessions

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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