I'm pretty illiterate in this area, but maybe people define "tools" differently, some say only a chisel (and other real life sculpturing tools) are the only tools, some say that the "re-sizing" (and other such) tool is a tool too.  I'm not confused as far as the poly count is, I know what that is, and it makes sense what you're saying (no matter the poly count), but for being illiterate in sculpturing programs, I'm confused what RorrKonn is saying.