It depends on your mud, but if there's a lot of customisation then I don't think you can reasonably make every possible setup a good one.
I recall once seeing a player wandering around my mud with a greatsword in one hand and a tiger claw (which is specifically designed to be used as a pair) in the other, loaded down with so much armour he could hardly move. He didn't have the right stat distribution to use those particular weapons properly, and his talents were geared towards a completely different style of fighting. I could have taken any element from his setup and forged a deadly character around it, but combined they just sucked, and I doubt anyone could have achieved many victories with such a character build.
Thus I'd phrase the test more like: "Can a skilled player rack up victories with a character setup built around any skill, talent or weapon?"
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