Friendly Mecha knights need to be fixed in three ways:
1. Make them use their shields.
2. Make them shock less.
3. Increase their damage/health.
Friendly mecha knights are amazing and helpful, in the royal jelly palace, one almost survived the arena before the boss, and another almost survived the boss battle, but they aren't doing enough damage, and they get killed too easily.

Another idea: Make them a rarity.
Friendly mecha knights would be bought from the supply depot for 5 energy each, dropped in the clockworks, and rewarded through missions. There would be a mecha knight kit counter right next to the heat counter, and when you click on the mecha knight symbol, you would use up one mecha knight kit and spawn a friendly mecha knight, so when a mecha knight kit drops, you won't have to dump all your vials of a status to use it, or have to use a mecha knight kit that you don't want in order to make space for vials.

I like mecha knight kits.
-Pery and Grizbarr