just gave it a go.
i'm really rusty so ashamedly it took me a few mens to kill him the first time. seriously good AI though...
it does always seem to merge down into you though. you can kill them really quickly by energy fighting and going for a high diagonal immel merge instead of trying to get him witha cutback reversal on the merge (his frickin scissors were GOOD!
great job HTC, really good, believable AI.