Verzhak’s company is on the champion.

...used a cheat to reveal the entire map and started watching what the computer was doing. And it's struggling. That is, it's building something, gathering something, but it's doing everything extremely inefficiently. And yet, I remember how, as a child, it made me furious on the "Normal" difficulty (which is right after "Beginner"). Strictly speaking, it doesn't seem like a bug; the computer is even using portals to attack. But the disregard for mines and the failure to utilize the obvious advantages of a level 24 hero are concerning... Could it be due to Windows 10?

The problem is that on difficulty level 5, neutral armies are three times stronger than on level 2, and 4.5 times stronger than on level 1. And the AI hero's armies can be pre-set and sometimes don't even grow over time. But the neutral armies do grow. The AI hero sees that the enemy is stronger and that it will lose, so it's afraid to engage in battle and use some other abilities. After all, it can only use the tactics that are programmed into it; it can't select individual units, etc. But a human can use unconventional tactics and destroy large enemy forces with small forces.