Speaking of videos... I watched your fight against the Watchdog, and it puzzled me that in the last phase of the fight I made +1700 damage per hit, and you made about 300-400. My stats are probably higher than yours, but it doesn't explain that big of a difference, because in the first phase of the fight the difference was only +200 per hit, and we both used the Cane's whip form. Could it be, that it raised the damage when I got the dog to its knees three times in a row before the last phase? I used Empty Phantasm Shell, but it didn't seem to affect the damage, and it should increase it only by 80 in the best case.
It didn't use the area attack against me either, whereas that happened few times in your fight.