No there aren't loads of differences between the two. If everyone argued like this nit picking every detail it would literally be impossible to compare any two situations in this manga because they are never 100% the same, those two have the same major factors involved and thus are completely comparable.
Let me repeat the factors:
1.Attacker not using hardening
2.Defender using hardening
3.Sharp attack
4.Casual attacks
But the results came out different for the two defenders (Law, and Doflamingo).
That's a completely inaccurate way to compare armaments of two different people. There are multitude of ways to compare COA. Most obvious of all would be comparing them against the same attack or different attacks which are equally powerful. The factors you've mentioned are least important of all, if anything.
If their attacks were equally powerful, that's when you can safely assume what you're been saying "i.e. Law's armament > Joker's" to be the case. Not to mention,the attacks technically aren't of the same nature, considering one is from a sword and the other is from strings which aren't as sharp as the former.
*A persons casual attack can be stronger than another persons casual attack.
*Someone's haki less attacks can be far more powerful than that of another.
*Sharpness varies depends on the nature of the weapon and it also depends on special cases such as Law's fruit.
a)Forget about sharpness; If Zoro, hypothetically, blocks a five colored string attack via armament, and then launches one of casual attacks of his which is much more powerful than 5c strings, and if it overpowers Joker's armor. Would you consider them to be on fair grounds just because both the attacks aren't haki imbued? despite the fact that Zoro's attack is more powerful? Power output and the nature of the attack are the most important factors if you ask me.
a.1) Let's create a scenario where two brawlers"X and Y namely" have a fist fight; Both are casual,fists,blunt attacks,haki less and both gets defended with COA. If both of them make each other bleed with their casual attacks....Does that mean Haki X > Haki Y? or Y>X? or Y=X? or That it simply means that the power outputs of their punches are strong enough to overpower each others armors? The last one makes most sense of all.
a.1) Let's say X couldn't overpower Y's haki in the aforementioned scenario; What does that mean? That Y>X? or that X's attack isn't strong enough to overpower Y's haki? It's obviously the later. And it would be the same for vice versa.
Saying he tightened his grip out of anger doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things, we know his BH wasn't enough to receive no damage upon gripping a sword, which is all that matters.
And since when is Law's room an excuse? When did Law ever make anyone bleed with his sword in his room? In the entirety of PH not one drop of blood was shed via his sword, so I really don't get where this room talk is coming from. It has more to do with Doflamingo's BH not being good enough to grip a sword without bleeding.
No,not you. This shitty "everything that doesn't support my stance is irrelevant" argument doesn't suit you in slightest. I've never denied the fact that his haki is not strong enough to take Law's attack, but it doesn't make Law's haki any better than his is what I've been saying. Law can have a overwhelmingly stronger armament than Joker for all I care; but it can't be because when happened in their clash like you've been implying.
Law's room is an excuse but a reason as to why Joker armament had been cut; Why and How he was bleeding from the attack is still an unexplained mystery. But Law activating room prior to attacking Doflamingo and him using shambles to get behind him is a well proven fact.
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Barely or not, Luffy was bleeding, which is the only thing that matters lmao.
In what way can you call this a counterargument to what I've said? I genuinely have no idea.
By the way,Tightening grip is actually a thing. Hody was able to inflect a serious wound on Luffy's body by pressing his teeth against Luffy COA. The same Luffy escaped a sharp haki imbued attack of Doflamingo which by all means should far more powerful than Hody's attack with a minor dent. It should explain howmuch of an impact "pressing" may have on a defensive armor. Doflamingo was essentially pressing his hand against the sharp edge of the sword, which might result in his COA getting overpowered even if his armament is strong enough to block the attack under normal circumstances.
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