I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here. Are you saying you think the defense stat actually directly subtracts from the damage done? If that’s what you’re trying to say, that’s not actually how the damage equation works.
You can also tell intuitively that it doesn’t work that way, because if it did, you’d never do any damage taking a rainbow team against a stronger opponent. But every actual hit always does damage, even if it isn’t much damage.
