Talk:Sentient/@comment-67.167.9.255-20150731134259/@comment-7645613-20150731143609

They don't say that specifically, but yes. Think of it like fighting the borg with a stick, they don't expect it and since the tenno wield the stick, it's more powerful than they expect so they are slower to react to a bunch of tenno sweeping in and slaughtering them in mass.