Gameplay wise - no. But the way you feel after defeating her by your hands and luck is very pleasant to say the least. I spent a plenty of attempts while trying to beat her the first time
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There's no difference - I don't want to punish players who aren't engaged with the battle system, so they can skip it with no downside (other than that it defaults to a HP win so you don't get to see WP or Shatter win dialogue screens) :)
The Hall of Fame runs on the honour system, but if you want to show everyone that you definitely didn't use autowin then a WP win will do it. Hall of Heroes is impossible to get into using autowin, obviously.