No offense taken and I actually run into you A LOT and I win every single time, I don't think stats matter much right now because it just gives the actual player an advantage or something. I have lost once though but funnily enough it was to someone with a lot of points in that flower skill not the whip one.
Stats that you own, aren't put into the arena as you can see everybody has the same dmg as their hardcore. The reason for that is probaly so the user who fights arena people still has a chance of winning. If for example the real stats would be implemented then I would have 742 DMG instead of the 477 DMG. It's kinda annoying how they take away any challenge at all and make it so the player gets adventage.
I figured that was the case as you can literally just blindly fight anyone and expect to win.
Maybe they'll fix that with the leaderboard update but I imagine it'll make the other stats actually matter as well at the time of the update. Either way I hope they update arena somehow to make it less brain dead than it currently is.