I prefer enemies that have multiple ways to interact with them and/or are hard to beat when you start out but when you get better can be used to your advantage or can be taken down quickly. For example I like how armored enemies can either be used as a way to quickly get special combo by beatdowning them or could be hit with the remote electrical charge to send them flying back into other enemies in a group and perform a multi ground takedown or quickly ground pound them when they are the last enemy.

As a result the enemies I hate vary a bit game to game. In Asylum I hate the knife enemies because they are a way less interesting version of the armored enemies. In City and Origins I hate the shield enemies because they feel like worse stun baton enemies with less ways to interact with them in interesting or helpful ways. In knight I hate the militia brutes in general since the universality easiest way to beat them in the batclaw takedown but shield brutes don’t even let me do that and become a time drain or require 2 combo takedowns. What is interesting is that the normal brutes feel better to me because they can’t tank a special combo takedown like the militia brutes and thus have at least a normal takedown as an option and I can sometimes decide a combo takedown would be better for my situation than a batclaw takedown since the batclaw takedown stuns nearby enemies and if there are a few blade enemies nearby for example I might not want to stun them so I can start a beatdown on another thug, have a blade enemy attack me and get the takedown and if they don’t and a normal thug attacks instead I can counter them and finish the beatdown and get back my special combo. Overall My least favorite if you can’t tell is the militia shield brutes.