@BumblingBear: Wait, is that you in your profile picture? And where can I find those videos?
@evileeyore: Alright, let's give it a try.
The powerful being will be the Demon Lord from reply #84 of the Generic NPC thread.
The weak one will be the Poisonous Demon from reply #64 of that same thread.
The Demon Lord's base complexity before modifiers with Method #1 is 88 (26 skill points, 14 skill cap, 48 refresh).
The Poisonous Demon's base complexity before modifiers with Method #1 is 14 (6 skill points, 3 skill cap, 5 refresh).
The Demon Lord's base complexity before modifiers with Method #2 is 86 (5 stress, 7 skill cap, 48 refresh, 8 mild consequences, 4 moderate consequence, 6 severe consequence, 8 extreme consequence). This is slightly ambigous, because the Demon Lord has True Shapeshifting and could get more or less consequences by shuffling his skills.
The Poisonous Demon's base complexity before modifiers with Method #2 is 15 (5 stress, 3 skill cap, 5 refresh, 2 mild consequence). You could pump this up to 19 by deciding that the Poisonous Demon goes to moderate consequences. Method #1 unfortunately has no way to simulate that effect.
So they look pretty even right now. But that'll change once we start incorporating modifiers.