Oh, man, this is almost too easy. My responses shall be threefold:

1) Unless the monster stops to use consider, there is no "obviously superior".
Heck, with people reincing all the time, I don't even know who's a level 90
merchant and who's a level 112 ninjagaiden anymore.

2) Ambush avoidance is done by certain skills and stats. You know what they
are. If you're level 100 and don't have any int, dex, or alertness, and you
get ambushed, this is not entirely our fault.

5) If you're so "obviously superiour" why don't you just take the 1 or 2
battle rounds to make the 1k monster into a small red smear of ansi and
possibly get a mithril or box out of it? If some punk comes at you with a
sharpened stick, and you've got a shotgun, maybe he should pay for it, ja?

Shinarae Lluminus