After my opponent assigns his creatures as "attacking" me (player), I decide to take the damage and lose some life. Upon such decision, he says he redirects the unblocked creatures' damage to my planeswalker, effectively making it lose all it's loyalty counters. The game doesn't play that way, right? He's arguing that the "other" sources of damage it mentions on the planeswalker page of the magic website refers to creature damage as well.
Right, in order to deal combat damage to a planeswalker you have to attack the planeswalker directly. The redirection stuff is only applicable for noncombat damage. Comp rules quote, bolding mine:
306.6. Planeswalkers can be attacked. (See rule 508, “Declare Attackers Step.”)
306.7. If noncombat damage would be dealt to a player by a source controlled by an opponent, that opponent may have that source deal that damage to a planeswalker the first player controls instead. This is a redirection effect (see rule 614.9) and is subject to the normal rules for ordering replacement effects (see rule 616). The opponent chooses whether to redirect the damage as the redirection effect is applied.
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Edit: thanks for the help guys (: