Scales to Megatron who knocked down the Washington Monument with just one punch.He also survived an explosion from deep underground.Ion Blaster can make Devastator lose his footing.Flipped over an ocean liner and later threw it.Truck mode can smash through stone and send other Transformers careening through steel or stone walls.Megatron survived this with just a couple cracks in his armor, and Optimus was able to beat him down to the point where he could’ve died had he not been reformatted and turned into Galvatron.Doing so would require up to 9.5 zettatons of TNT. Megatron was able to survive an explosion that knocked Cybertron out of Earth’s orbit.The Matrix of Leadership can send him visions of possible futures.Once managed to somehow to beat Cthulhu.
He can effectively lead skirmishes on different battlegrounds.In the Prime Wars Trilogy, he finally defeated Megatron one-on-one, ending the Great War.Fought his way past the government’s elite guard into the Cybetronian Senate while he was still Orion Pax and without the aid of the Matrix.Has repeatedly beaten several high-ranked Decepticons, including: Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, Shockwave, Scorponok, Blitzwing, Motormaster, Barricade, Brawl, Breakdown, Kickback, Bombshell, Shrapnel, Trypticon and more.Killed Nova Prime during the Dark Cybertron event.Through the millions of years he has been alive, he has mastered almost every form of combat and become one of the greatest tacticians in Cybertron’s history.By this point, Shockwave was in possession of literal god-level powers and the ability to rewrite the fabric of reality as he saw fit.Teamed up with Megatron in the IDW comics to save Cybertron from the corrupted Shockwave, subsequently burying the hatchet between them in that continuity.Led the Autobots to victory in several continuities where the War for Cybertron had ended.Was reforged into Sky Convoy to defeat Super Megatron and the Sky Giant.Wiped out the Hate Plague before it could infect the whole galaxy.
Has defeated Combiners such as Devastator, Menasor and Bruticus all by himself.In Transformers: The Headmasters, he merged with Vector Sigma - the Allspark - to save the Earth at the cost of his own life.Led the Autobots for more than several million years in the fight against the Decepticons through many different planets.Prevented Megatron from using the Ferrotaxis supercomputer to cyberform the Earth during the events of Transformers: Devastation.