Max thrust forward with his blade, impaling two of the green-skinned Myceloids on the jagged steel, then swung the sword up and overhand, stopping the blade halfway through the forward strike to toss the bodies off and into the crowd.
That was what these creatures wanted to see. They wanted glory, the chance to slay a champion, and that's what they could get with the two Command Units and the three Hunter Suits in the group.
Max smashed a smaller Myceloid to the side with his shield, throwing it at an unoccupied Android, and then engaged with the largest opponent that he could find. To these creatures, size was equivalent to strength, and they had no concept of the advantage that advanced robotics could offer a smaller unit.
They did understand the tensile strength and yield points of metals, though, and they would target specific areas that they believed to be weaker based on their species' experiences fighting against similar targets.