oh the pup thing is something I previously reported on. Was a series of posts from a jp whose bug report had been ignored and even in their the devs said they couldn't repeat it so he made a youtube video showing and explaining it. The gist of it is if you can force it so your automaton wouldn't ws and from my personal tested it also stopped it from using ranged attacks possible other stuff but still meleed. Seems they didn't actually see the possible use for this as one of the biggest complaints of pup tanks is you can't stop the auto from wsing and ruining skillchains