Sorry for the bump, but I wish people would remember X-23 is more than just claws. Her primary skill set is stealth, black ops, assassinations, and espionage, and she's highly trained in the use of firearms, explosives, poisons, and pretty much every other means of making things dead, and especially early in her history she's frequently been shown using firearms (including as a sniper, and high long-range pistol accuracy in X-Force. She even sniped a helicopter pilot who was IN FLIGHT in Target: X with a perfect headshot). In other words, pretty much every advantage the Punisher is being given, Laura is ALSO proficient in. She's also an excellent tactician and strategist (she was able to quickly ascertain that an apparently unguarded door was actually VERY heavily guarded during Messiah Complex), and is established as being able to formulate multiple plans of attack for killing everything around her the instant she sets foot in a room (during X-Force she had established 27 plans for killing Matthew Risman WHILE HER HANDS WERE BOUND, and only stood down at Wolverine's orders). Black Widow also notes that it's UNUSUAL for Laura to wade head-first into a fight without a plan (set off when she bumps into the thugs who took over her ex-pimp's business, so she was explicitly running on rage), so is also highly likely to prepare for an encounter before-hand.
It then becomes a matter of how well can Frank contend with someone who can fight Daken (who, as noted in this thread, tore him to shreds) to a draw, can smell and hear him coming LONG before Frank would even know she's there (her senses are more acute than Wolverine's), is a master tracker (she easily located her cousin in the middle of SAN FRANCISCO hours after the girl was kidnapped, entirely by scent), could evade detection by every telepath at the Xavier school (including Emma Frost), and could even sneak up on Wolverine until a freak change of the wind gave away her scent.
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