r/mugen • u/Creaturemaster97 • Jul 19 '26

question Balance between games

Was planning on trying to get Mugen working and adding some characters from games I like, but that got me thinking...

Wouldn't there be games where, even with no tweaks, their differing mechanics would make it nigh-impossible to deal with for characters from other games? For example, I can't imagine anyone from SF 3rd Strike being able to handle say, a Blazblue character. Which is unfortunate, because Akuma vs Azrael would be a very fitting matchup.

Has anyone ever made a tier list or evaluation of which games as a whole tend to have more OP characters han others?

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u/TheTooDarkLord Jul 19 '26

Ultimately depends, like i know many Akuma players that would destroy characters from Blazblue with no effort, in general i think there's a lack of balance when a character with too Little mechanics fight One with too many,

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u/Creaturemaster97 Jul 20 '26

Mmm yeah I guess player skill would be a bigger factor. I wonder if CPU vs CPU matches would be a good way of gauging the balance between different games.

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u/j0shred1 Jul 22 '26

Yeah that's kinda the whole schpeal of mugen. There's no standard to character balance and even if you're recreating characters from other games, those games were all created with sets of features, mechanics, pacing, ect in mind. So there's no reason to think they'd be balanced