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I would expect a Beastmaster or Necromancer to have some sort of a small familiar that can warn them or even interfere with the attacker - a bird, living or undead, something like that.
A Priestess might receive some divine guidance (intuition) to avoid surprise attacks.
I guess the Golden One doesn't make much sense though...being made from gold makes little sense to begin with either way.
The main objective was to cover a good percentage of the heroes most likely to be important for the AI though, as the human player will generally not rely on winning a battle by letting their hero die and deal retaliation damage in the process. (while also leaving a few out because we also don't want First Strike on the player's champions to become irrelevant at all times - for this reason the Swordsmen, Illusionist, Elven Archer, and most non-champion heroes didn't get the ability.)