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Honestly in an all out fight no holding back, max power, no cheats. who would win the fight?

Season 1 Optimus prime

Megatron

Or

Predaking.

So a bit of context:

I'm currently in the midst of writing a book/fanfiction based on my own version of Transformers, which is a mix of Transformers Prime and Transformers One (although it's closer to the aligned/ Transformers Prime continuity).

Not trying to spoil too much, but in this universe, Elita is forged as a seeker during the era of the Caste System, and she's basically blamed for a crime she didn't commit, gets arrested and banished from Vos (the city of seekers), and sent to be scraped or incinerated. Before she is though, she is saved by O-16 (Orion pax) and D-16, two low-class miner bots. In her arrest, she basically gets her wings damaged to the point that she can't transform or fly (not properly). So at that point, she's forced to lie low and pretend to be a miner bot like Orion and D.
Anyway, skipping on, the war begins, and in one of the first battles, Elita gets struck down and nearly dies; she is then restored with the power of the Forge of Solus Prime thanks to Alpha Trion. This means she's fixed and can transform again.
Fast forward again; Elita does not accompany Optimus on the Ark and remains on Cybertron with Ultra Magnus, up until Shockwave (Who also stayed behind to command the Decepticons after Megatron chased after Optimus) finally cornered the remaining Autobots. Ultra Magnus was forcefully saved by Elita, but Elita was captured by Shockwave and was stuck with him until Shockwave was discovered to be alive by Knockout and was brought to Earth. At some point, Elita escapes her cell on the Nemesis and finds the Autobots.

When Elita finally comes to Earth, she initially has a flying form, but I've been debating whether she should keep it or not. One point for it is that it is a tactical advantage for the Autobots since they are all landform bots (except maybe Optimus, I'm still debating on giving him beefed-up form). On the other hand though, it has limits; I think a flying form may be too noticeable for a good disguise. Although a landform would be more ingonito, you also lose that advantage, and a key part of her history.

*Note* Transformers before the war (or before Earth, rather) cannot change or acquire new vehicular modes on their own; they don't discover they can emulate other vehicles until they get to Earth. If you're a seeker/flyer your a flyer, if you're a land vehicle your a land vehicle, etc. Once they get to Earth, bots can choose whatever form they want, no matter their original function, but most stick to their original ones because it's familiar. During the war on Cybetron, Shockwave created a procedure to forcefully change a landbot into a flyer/ seeker, but it was dangerous and terribly painful; it is also permanent, so they can't change forms or gain a new vehicular form, and they are stuck as they are.

One solution I have thought of is maybe to use that period of her being nabbed by Shockwave to my advantage, say maybe he somehow made a way to make bots triple changers and subjected her to that experiment? Although I don't want to make her overpowered, it seems like a good solution to my problem. I mean, Shockwave did make the procedure to forcefully make a landbots into flyers, so it's not far-fetched to assume he would try to do both.

Overall, I'm not sure, so if you all have opinions or suggestions, please let me know.

(Also, credit to the artist of the art, I make no claim to them and only am using them for representation purposes. If you have an issue with this, please contact me)