Keep in mind that Mark McKinnon was eventually forced to sit down and actually run a full combat with characters at similar power levels by his co-designer David Pulver, and that they actually regarded this as enough of a failure in what they considered “standard” play to change things in the newer edition.
In fact the existence of BESM 3E is clear evidence that the math was found to be borked, and that parity is expected as a baseline. Whether it’s in genre for the fiction or for most TRPGs, there’s a baseline that’s usually expected to start from where you can then deviate. And even then it’s for a special case that isn’t at all universal.* We’re not talking about a sandbox game here, where encounter variance is expected to be high and PCs are intended to be ruthless in either quashing easy stuff or avoiding hard stuff. Unless you’ve got work to show here and you just haven’t written it out yet. It’s like a Markov chain where you aren’t allowed to just skip to the end. Their tactics, the battlefield, internal reserves, whatever. D&D-style attrition combat wouldn’t make sense here.” Okay, when’s the last time you saw a duel where the participants kept missing each other in the same way every time? Goku fighting Vegeta on a featureless plain or whatever? Never, that’s when, because even when they’re not hitting something about the story is moving forward. “Besides, even if you are fighting a Big Bad who is equally skilled, those sorts of extended duels that go on forever and are decided by the first clean hit, are extremely in-genre. The whole point of that example is that combat rolls are going to trend around it, so while you may get better results depending on a power disparity it’s still not going to be nearly that kind of golden mean of 50%-70% baseline to keep the majority of combat interesting. X and Y are going to be similar in most cases.
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