this would be an upgrade to the baseline expectation

it’d be hard to realistically compare them because both styles were designed due to different circumstances. Western sword styles were designed to combat heavily armored units, so they tend to favor power, while due to the lack and poor quality of japanese steel/armor, japanese sword styles favored quick strikes as targets were more often than not, lightly armored, so it’s a question that if you willingly chose to put the fighting styles against each other, whether or not the competition is lightly armored or heavy armored basically affect whose more likely to win the match.