_"Well, between the arrow wounds, the slashes, my side and your back, we ought to make one whole entity once we're within the shrine's walls."_

_"For us both to be bled of mana before they started attacking in earnest... The manikins here are growing smarter.."_

_"Some of them, at least... That's not a good thing by any stretch, but it would be fool's pride not to acknowledge it."_

_"Hmnh..."_

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I know in the oldschool Dissidia games the manikins had a wide variety of possible AI patterns they could execute, and some of them were.. troublesome to deal with until you got them down.

So I'd fancy in an actual story setting they'd be able to at least learn some. Sometimes you just have to hope for the aggressive bruiser because the smart ones are such a pain to deal with.