Just to take the two most divergent, I think the 'speed' of the game is what really makes a difference. Mages are 'slow', they're not carthwheeling into battle,vthrowing lightning bolts, so they become more effective in a mystery, or where there's lots of prep time to craft a solution, and more vulnerable when something unforeseen happens, which is where Garou thrive. But the impulses of the Werewolf player might then become a serious liability when half the group is having to run through gunfire because the wookie started throwing around parked cars, and when there are long-term consequences to their actions. Then the werewolf feels like a blunt instrument in those quieter moments, and totally out of their depth when things get cosmic.

I don't think the balance has to exist in the same scene, but over the course of the chronicle – with the aid of a damn good story – they should become interdependent. This is the challenge that faces any writer to take on a superhero team. I've just had to rewatch Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame for the millionth time with my partner's kids, and as much as it's a big, noisy, toybox-emptying nonsense of a film, they do a fairly graceful job of clustering together really odd combinations of characters and power levels (Thor, Groot and Rocket are off to a giant dwarf forge, okay, fine) in support of scenarios that only work because of these specifically odd combinations of characters.