head to head
vs
WWE 2K22vsWWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
WWE 2K22 leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 leans Execution (Competitive PvP).
WWE 2K22WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
Axis by axis
Execution6 vs 5
WWE 2K22 leans harder on execution: timing reversals and grapple execution
Reads4 vs 4
Even - both lean on reads about the same.
Variance2 vs 2
Even - both lean on variance about the same.
Optimization5 vs 4
WWE 2K22 leans harder on optimization: movesets and match strategy are learnable
Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.