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The Decepticons must be twice more powerful than Autobots. To be able to fight each other, and simultaenously fight the Autobots.

Auto Bot wrote:The Decepticons must be twice more powerful than Autobots. To be able to fight each other, and simultaenously fight the Autobots.

Don't forget the deadly humans.

Auto Bot wrote:The Decepticons must be twice more powerful than Autobots. To be able to fight each other, and simultaenously fight the Autobots.

(I'm most familiar with G1 so that's is what I'm basing this on)

I thought the Decepticons were always stronger than the Autobots. The Decepticons were the Cybertronian military while most of the Autobots were regular citizen-bots who fought because it was the right thing to do, not because they'd been trained or built for it. Most of the Decepticon losses come from things like Starscream declaring himself leader in the middle of the battle or half of the forces running away or some other kind of internal dysfunction. There were times when the Autobots kicked their asses flat-out, but mostly the Decepticons fell apart from inside, IMO. The Autobots' strength lay in their honor and ability to work as a team that made the most of their strengths, whereas the Decepticons battled as a bunch of individuals.

I don't know if this changed in the other Transformers series.