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Sorry the katana wins.

Also if you're comparing European steel and Japanese steel from say the 1300s, the Japanese steel won every time.

Wrong Tamahagane Steel, while ingenious in its creation, still had more impurities that Spring steel, also made the blade more brittle.

Also the long sword is harder to yield and has slower attacks. Going up against a more agile katana fighter, the longsworder is at a serious disadvantage.

Wrong! It is heavier and single bladed and is at a disadvantage when thrusting due to the curvature. I have studied both, you get faster swings with a Longsword as it has more momentum when swung properly so is actually faster and since it tended to be double bladed and have more advanced techniques like half blading it was more agile and versatile, while being longer, lighter AND stronger.

There's a reason that in the modern cooking world, Japanese knives are the best.

Literally nothing to do with Katana
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