Because they should.

Ne pas.

And yeah, they should a little.

For all we know hidden stats could go up

I'm glad someone agrees with me. It makes sense to me at least based on the only way to improve is through sparring even though equipment figures into it. So it should based on what sparring would do without the equipment but maybe by half. Then only be based on what styles and moves are used.

I believe it does increase something to do with experience maybe