Aahh, the miniblins, those annoying little things. I swear, their presence and their little chant just makes me want to slap them in the face, except slashing them with a sword is much more fun. So, I guess I'll name my favoirate ways to "take care" of these little demons.
Firstly, I have my classic "Press L and B rapidly", which works great against the horde of weak enemies, mainly just about any enemy that ends in "-blin." (The only exception here would be moblins.) I don't know why, but whenever I do that, it ends up making the game lose quite a few frames. However, it's fun to do, especially in a place like Shark Island. My second preference for attacking these nuisances would be to, in a place like Shark Island or any other place where sword wielding enemies are present, lure them to that enemy, then once the sword enemy begins to strike, jump out of the way so that way the enemy armed with the sword ends up killing his comrade. For some reason, the higher ranking darknuts feel the need to attack them anyways if they're in the way.
My final way to try to take out these pests would be using the hurricane spin. It's a bit bad when you have to deal with the other enemies during the recovery time, but it's still quite a fun feat to do. It isn't even that hard to get the spin of hurricanes (yeah, I just came up with that), and it doesn't take that damage, but I'd suggest spending the last 3-5 seconds trying to get into a safe spot to recover (or hit an object like a tree). So, those are my three ways, and I'm pretty sure you all have done those before at least once.
Although, that seems to be my system with most enemies... if it works, of course.
