Both the equal-mass-embryo scenario and the high-mass-ratio impact scenario form Uranus and Neptune analogues with comparable low probability (~0.1-1%), so neither is dynamically preferred.
NOTE: Explaining why the Uranian satellites have equatorial prograde orbits despite the large planetary obliquity
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We show that the existence of prograde equatorial satellites is consistent with a collisional tilting scenario for Uranus. In fact, if the planet was surrounded by a proto-satellite disk at the time of the tilting and a massive ring of material was temporarily placed inside the Roche radius of the planet by the collision, the proto-satellite disk would have started to precess incoherently around the equator of the planet, up to a distance greater than that of Oberon. Collisional damping would then have collapsed it into a thin equatorial disk, from which the satellites eventually formed. The fact that the orbits of the satellites are prograde requires Uranus to have had a non-negligible initial obliquity (comparable to that of Neptune) before it was finally tilted to 98 degrees.
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Accretion of Uranus and Neptune: confronting different giant impact scenarios
Both the equal-mass-embryo scenario and the high-mass-ratio impact scenario form Uranus and Neptune analogues with comparable low probability (~0.1-1%), so neither is dynamically preferred.