You act like if it hits her head, will just hit the head, or if it hits her leg, will only affect the leg. Whitebeard's quakes affect his foe's entire body, and reason I would not think she would be blown to pieces?
It wasn't she shooting spikes, it was the one she was fighting, Isley.
Here's what their impacts look like, and that's when he's in his low-powered, non released mode. He and his opponent had been trying to hold back to prevent collateral damage but ended up wrecking the whole place.
Also, Blackbeard did show it's possible to surviving being personally hit by the quakes, so they seem to be designed for area of effect damage more than personal damage.
That does not even begin to rival Whitebeard's casual power output though.
Blackbeard survived one. Point? Blackbeard is one of the most durable characters in all of One Piece, he's practically a sponge, it's his most outstanding ability, even beyond his Devil Fruit, and is the reason why the Yami Yami no Mi is viable for him. A Vice-Admiral giant was killed instantly by a quake punch that did not even directly hit him.
Well, there's a major issue with comparing them. Almost all of the attacks by high-level Claymore characters are very concentrated (and as mentioned, those impact-explosions are less than his max. His true ones are said to be in another league of speed and power. They wouldn't make much bigger explosions but are much more dangerous to a single target).
You won't see as much mass damage, but I can tell you Isley could rather casually kill a giant with those too.
I was referring to here encountering(curbstomping) Riful and Dauf. She used some sorf of spike tech that pierced Riful's body from the inside out...at least I think.
Priscilla is by no means matching Whitebeard blow for blow in every clash. She does however have enough strength to significantly damage him. I wonder how internal damage would fair off against Priscilla's regen anyway?
No-one's arguing that Whitebeard's super destructive, but Priscilla's pretty tough herself and has crazy regen so that most damage against her really doesn't matter much.
Priscilla tanked getting pummeled by an infected Dauf and still managed to kill him. Considering he was already an armored Colossus with a power boost, that's pretty good. Not close to Whitebeard's strength but she could tank some of his lesser blows.
Blackbeard is hardly a low showing for WB, that guy rivaled Shanks in single combat and survived Ace's Entei along with pretty much everything they've thrown at him the entire series. Luffy with second gear didn't do any lasting damage and was countered easily, the guy is beyond Blueno's tekkai by a good margin.
With that kind of reasoning, I think Priscilla win thanks to her long range capabilities, pure destructive powers and speed. You really must be more descriptive if you intend to topple an argument, because everything is relative to each ones universe. Priscilla is a top tier in her world, up there with Teresa. That in itself however, ain't worth anything in this debate because there's no way to relate it to Whitebeard.
In terms of dealing with resistance, many awakened ones are very hard to cut with the swords wielded by the superhumanly strong claymore (said swords also being unbreakable so they can put a lot of force into them).
Even next to those awakened, however, Isley is far more durable, being both huge and heavily armored. And Priscilla destroyed half his body in an instant. Dauf is similarly super-tough, and similarly provided no resistance to her attacks.
Blueno level Tekkai would be entirely useless against her without a doubt. I don't even know how useful Rob Lucci level Tekkai would be.
Priscilla's a good matchup because she is so offensive oriented- for defense, she doesn't try to stop them (though her body, being a awakened one's, is still pretty darn tough, it's just not her focus), she just doesn't care due to regen, so more attack power tends to simply mean more blow-through that doesn't accomplish much. Offensively, on the other hand, her strength and odd growth attacks like the spikes are very high-level. So she might beat someone who's objectively much directly stronger, by not caring about the attacks she gets while her own attacks inflict real injury in return.