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If the bout is enjoyable to both parties, what matters if the scale is exactly equal?  What does exact equality even [i]mean[/i] in a fluid and subjective game like this one, hm?
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Generally speaking tournament play is specifically designed to be competitive, so like modern combat sports, it has weight classes. You don't see true equality even in that 'unpowered' level of play, but you like to see characters that at least seem to stand in a similar class of power, so as to determine at least in part who is outright the better fighter, rather than the better character.