User blog comment:B214/Volume 17 spoilers./@comment-117.217.186.212-20140224111716/@comment-24502975-20140227010021

I wouldn't say Ise isn't intelligent at all, he's actually quite smart when he uses his brain. Even so, he's improving quite a lot now instead of just charging ahead with pure power and absolutely nothing else (ie, how he commanded the mini dragons in Vol16).