Random rambling bcs I’ve just rewatched the Predating vs UM and Wheeljack fight in S03 ep 9. Are these obvious? Yes, but I very much just want to yap.
The fight scene was constructed intelligently to tell us what exactly their fighting style were and how they later made up for each other’s weakness and managed to hold their on against Predaking.
By at first separating them, we get to see how they individually choose to fight against an opponent like Predaking: stronger, faster, more durable but inexperience and instinctive. It’s clear that a constant combo works, the ways they went about it were ofc different.
Wheeljack is smaller and more agile, so he used maneuvers to evade Predaking and then run/jump back to gain more power in his punches/kicks. The problem was however he needed time to and by charging directly into Predaking, he could predict the trajectory per instinct/ learning curve and then disrupted Wheeljack’s combo, which was exactly what happened in the end, which then Magnus jumped in.
Ultra Magnus is evidently not as fast as Wheeljack so the only thing he could do was keep combo-ing until Predaking dropped. He could manage a closer distant as he was more sizable and his hit was stronger. But then he’s not fast enough. Predaking ofc then outmaneuvered Magnus and his combo was also gone.
So long story short, Wheeljack’s fast and agile but lack power, Magnus’s strong and durable but not fast, and by the time they worked together, their strengths overlapped with the other’s weaknesses which helped them almost win against Predaking.
