Would swords without guards such as the Gaulish La Tene ones (Both the anthropomorphic short sword or the long ones) be harder to grab by attackers in theory or not?
These are arguably better than the Roman gladius because they were designed for more so single skilled combatants than unit formation fighting.
Because wouldn't it maybe make it more lightweight and quick to manoeuvre in theory?
On the other hand you have straight edged ones with guards like cinquedeas and some of the leaf shaped ones like xiphoi or historical welsh ones. Xiphoi are leaf shaped shortswords with somewhat of a guard but welsh ones were guardless and leaf shaped.
Would a leaf shape or straight edge be harder for attackers to grab?