Talk:Quinque/@comment-96.245.33.61-20150628052408/@comment-96.245.33.61-20150704235908

It's more of a quinque is sturdier than a kagune thanks to engineering and reinforcement from quinque steel. Quinques and other kagune have been shown cutting clean through a kagune. This is devasting to weaker ghouls while stronger ghouls like Roma or Serpent with immediately regenerate their kagune. However despite the many S and SS ghouls introduced, very few have broken a quinque. Kaneki and the Owl ghouls have busted up some pretty high level quinque, koukakus at that. Hwowver this group includes three one eyed ghouls and a SSS kakuja, no mere fodder. The fat clown ghoul did break Takeomi's though it was a mass produced C rate quinque.

Essentially it's like having a $500 factory sword vs an individually crafted sword worth small fortune. Both have a cutting edge, and can do some damage in properly trained hands, but only the carefully crafted one will stand up in a duel between another of that caliber. Also there's efficiency. Slice off a head in one clean stroke or be forced to do some messy hacking.