the fight between megatron and sideswipe is awful

[XXall_4_Dah_N00kieXX]

Megatron is a damage sponge, and his sheild move just makes the fight tedious.

[Morninglord]

Use rush attacks. Drive around till you hit top speed. Your exhaust will get flames.
Then drive over to him and press one of the attack buttons.
It will break his shield, stun him, and probably make him go flying into the barriers, which will damage him.
Drive in circles around him while you build up speed, his shots will mostly whiff because Sideswipe is the fastest autobot by default, so the safest at building speed since its harder to hit him. Not impossible though, so remember you don't have to hold the trigger down in car form. You can let go and tap dodge to dodge in car form.

[XXall_4_Dah_N00kieXX]

that's what I'm doing, it's tedious, and in hard mode megatron takes a lot of damage, and takes out a lot of health.

[Morninglord]

Just so you know, I'm not interested in defending the existence of this fight to you. My focus is on telling you how you are supposed to fight shields, and telling you ways to make it easier just in case you don't know them. Whether you enjoy doing those things is none of my business. I'm sorry to hear you don't enjoy it bud.

Originally posted by Cult of Khorne Vileness Fats:

that's what I'm doing, it's tedious, and in hard mode megatron takes a lot of damage, and takes out a lot of health.

Buy the rush flurry from the shop as soon as you can and do a heavy attack rush flurry on him once you break his shield. It's easy and does a lot of damage.

You can also buy reversal and dodge one of his attacks then hold an attack button. Reversals break shields as well.

To speed up the getting to top speed to do the rush attack, transform into car form while dodging an attack (just hold the trigger down when you dodge while holding the left stick in any direction). It will put you at max speed instantly. Then just turn around so you are facing him and do the rush attack. Hold the circle button to burn out to turn around faster.
You dodge him, burn around in a circle, and then immediately rush attack him. You can usually land the rush attack before focus ends, so he doesn't get a chance to do anything.

Once you break the shield, do vehicle attack chains by aiming and shooting after your vehicle attack lands on him. This will trigger another flash, letting you do another vehicle attack. The command attacks like shove and uppercut can let you do more of these. They can be landed after a Vehicle attack hits an enemy, buffer them.

Uppercut is particularly useful because shooting after it will always give you a vehicle attack, whereas just doing a vehicle attack then shooting only works once with any given weapon. You usually have to swap ranged weapons to continue the chain. With uppercut, you just vehicle attack, uppercut, shoot, repeat.

If you don't have any of those, just mash out light attack, heavy attack, heavy attack after doing the second vehicle attack, just before it hits. This will hit them mid air before they fly away and you can do a short combo into another vehicle attack. It's very unlikely they will parry you if you are on commander, at least not all the time.

Btw, if you have starting equipment, I can't remember what he starts with, so let me know what it is so I can tell you if you can or can't VE by shootin gwith it and how it works etc.