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The strong enemies realizing that fighting Al is way more trouble than it's worth may in fact try to leave and have done so before. The one that took his arm acted on instinct and countered him and he's way more wary to the point of paranoia now. It's plenty fearsome in part due to his wariness and likely way faster reaction time ever since then and the fact that he's strong and clever enough to turn a 1% win chance into 100%. His counters are more or less "someone strong enough to take him down but smart/kind enough to not kill him" It sounds silly but nice people with a lot of power are the most likely to counter him on accident. Powertripping sadists and psychos will get fucked up. He's more or less the perfect antihero even in terms of his abilities.