Decepticons are obsessed with combining. If you leave 2 ‘cons is a room alone together, they’ll be standing on each other’s shoulders in seconds! I guarantee it.

The only combiner who could be considered successful (as in a perfect melding of the components' minds) in Gen 1 was Predaking, who in all the Gen 1 media except the cartoon was shown to retain the intelligence, cunning, and ferocity of the Predacons, united flawlessly by their love of the hunt and able to work as one single predatory beast.

I love how when the fans were given a choice, they collectively said 'eff if, let's go full girl!' Srsly shows some intestinal fortitude as a fan base. It doesnt have to be a boys club

Favorite combiner: Volcanicus. Not necessarily for ability or anything like that. The Dinobots are my favorite team of characters and I'm so happy to see they got an official gestalt form after so long. The giant sword is obviously a plus.

Imagine if like 5 combiners could combine into a super combiner the size of Unicron

The triple changers would be a good basics topic, I think.

"Decepticons are obsessed with combining. Get 2 of them alone in a room and one will try and stand on the other's shoulders."

When I was a kid, I loved the combiners! My favorite Decepticon combiner team was the Stunticons, and my favorite Autobot combiner team was the Aerialbots.

Devastator being the first always has been important to me, but I would say Predaking always fascinated me more.

im genuinely surprised that Transformers and Voltron have never gotten any sort of crossover. Voltron is literally a combiner!

Computron would have to be my favorite. He was the first combiner I ever owned so he has a special place in my heart. And I just love the sci-fi/fantasy aesthetic of the Technobots' alt modes. However, that being said, I've got much affinity for most of the Decepticon combiners as well. I mean, I'm Autobot all the way, but it's hard to not like badasses like Devastator, Bruticus, and Predaking.

I friggin LOVE combining robots! Ever since watching Power Rangers at a young age, the idea of multiple machines combining into one BIGGER robot by folding and changing their appearance has always fascinated me, and I'm very glad that the franchise of Transformers is another franchise that keeps the concept alive and kicking!😁

Optimus: Uh Jazz look out, there’s combiners Jazz, there’s combiners Jazz: Oh no Prime, there’s combiners Prime, combiners Both: Ahh ahh Prime: *Combiners*

The Devastation image of devastator was what my eyes first saw

As far as combiners go I'm partial to Devastator as he was around first. Chris these videos are so good, I watch them as soon as I see them in my feed, keep up the good work! :)

Fave Combiner Bots: Victorion(I love her rusty getup), Superion(because aerialbots) Fave Combiner Cons: Bruticus(PLAY FALL OF CYBERTRON AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND), Megatronia(her color palette is just so glam)

My favorite combiners are Safeguard and Defensor! Safeguard because I love his component characters very very much, and Defensor because his honorable mother hen personality is an adorable and refreshing departure from “big scary dumb bot”

I’m almost ashamed to say that my new favorite combiner is Optimus Maximus...I wanted an Optimus combiner since forever (who DIDN’T pop Prime into Magnus’ armor at least once?), and now I have him 😊! This series is fantastic! My only complaint is that I have to wait so long for the next episode...but I’m so very thankful you make me wait and take the time to do this show right. Keep up the fantastic work, Chris!

Devastator, the first and still the best

Excellent work, a transformers lore channel is such a great thing to be able to watch, my favorite combiner is either Bruticus or Abominus

My three favorites would be 3: piranacon cause of his obscurity as well as the amazingly styled individual bots that worm him, there was a lot of creativity there 2: monstructor because of sheer brutality and cause he’s basically just abominus + devastator 1: devastator, why? mean just look at him, there’s so much personality put into that character, especially in the IDW continuity, there friendship with prowl was just the sweetest thing.

I happen to be stickering my reissue g1 constructicons while watching this

my favorite is the version of devastator from the IDW comic series that has prowl used in the combiner

Man Chris, you do not disappoint! Thought I knew about combiners, learned SO much more.

It’s such a breath of fresh air to hear someone talk about transformers and do so in a positive light. Way to many “haters” in this fandom now days.

Hey Chris McFeely. My favorite combiner ARE..... 1.) The Aerialbots 2.) The Protectobots 3.) Skylinks 4.) The Technobots Those were MY FAVORITE Transformers as a KID.

I have a theory,that in order to work together completly they need to work as a team and gain each others trust,so the can work in combined form

"THE BASICS on COMBINERS". Well, now you just need to do the basics on Titans and I'll be happy.

DERR GOANNA BILD AN ARRRMEEEE OF COM BINE OOOOOOORRRRS! I'm sorry

Combiners are definitely one of my favorite topics, thinking about both the physical means and the mental effects. You did a fantastic job here!

My favorite combiners are Devastator and Predaking :) Scramble City style combiners do not sit well with me. I prefer it when each member has a specific spot.

Not many know this, but the limbs of the said "Scramble City" combiners can actually combine with G1 Metroplex, connecting to his shoulders and knees, hence the name Scramble City.

I think, Predaking, since it was so amazing when he combined when he hunted Megatron.

I love these videos, you are one of an elite few that has the bell clicked.

Favourite combiner would have to be predaking. Just love the idea and concept. RID 2001 Rail racer is a great concept too

I certainly hope that if not in the Power of the Primes toy line than a future toy line we get the Sea-cons with Combiner Wars connections

Please do The Basics on Ironhide He’s my favourite Transformer

That Enigma of Combining is pretty powerful being able not only control combiners but fully revive a dead ones and reminding us never trust Starscream.

My favorite would be Piranacon by the Seacons. It's the first combiner I got to read about in the few comics I had back in the day. Some story involving them and I think Shockwave and Galvatron.

Prime! Look out! *COMBINERS!*

6:02 How ironic, because Computron would've been able to dodge that, being an advanced supercomputer and all.

Fantastic video! I'd have to go with the Unite Warriors Grand Galvatron on the grounds that the eplaination for his existence in the accompany comic as well as his limbs are some of the most out there stuff I've seen in Transformers and it amuses me to no end.

My favorite combiners have always been Superion and Bruticas. Superion because the team that makes him is awesome. Being that they were the break out bots for the autobots side that were planes. Bruticas because the team I feel pretty much sum up what it means to be decepticons. Especially with Onslaught and Swindle. Who are two of my favorite decepticons.

Awesome video, Chris! Really high quality stuff. I am looking forward to your videos every week. I am not a great fan of combiners in general, but if I'd have to pick one, it would be IDW's Devastator with Prowl as it's head. Speaking of Prowl; hopefully we'll have a Basics on Prowl one day... and a million other characters. Love your Basics videos so much!

My favorite combiner is bruticus and movie devastator has some of the coolest movie decepticon designs

Basics on Triple Changers would be pretty cool. Not sure how much lore information exists behind that, but it might be worth looking into.

My favorite combiner? The Predacon(not those ones.) combiner Predaking! They unite fully being one of the few combiners to act normally, as the Predacons are unified by their love of the hunt. Also he has a lion on his chest and bird wings. Hard to get cooler than that.

Great video on one of my favorite topics. 😄 I would have my favorite Combiners are Defensor and Predaking.

My personal favorite would have to be raiden but landfill may just be a close second.

Chris I love this series! So much information to take in and it’s so interesting. Favourite combiner is definitely Bruticus because I grew up on RID 2001 and armada and so on but when I learned of G1, Bruticus was always my favourite combiner at first because of the look but now because of the characters (and the look) my favourite version of Bruticus has to warbotron’s version.

My favorite combiner was the fan-made "Extinction". "Extinction" utilized all 5 Dinobots.

The only G1 transformers figure I ever owned was First Aid. I didn't know much about transformers at the time, but as I grew older I discovered he was part of a team called the Protectobots. And so my love for Defensor was born. I have just got the last part of Defensor on Ebay, the elusive and hard to find Blades.

THEY GONNA BUILD AN ARMY OF COMBINERS!

Brilliant series. How about an episode on The Wreckers?

Honestly, I love Defensor and I don't know why. Maybe it's the colors, or that he's a fun concept for a combiner, I truly don't know. I just like him and I don't know why.

My favorite Combiner is Computron, for no other reason than it coincided with my favorite Grimlock story. (Always been a sucker for a good Flowers for Algernon plot) Now I’m real excited to see a proper Dinobot Combiner team. One that isn’t The Beast, no less.

I’m surprised defensive is outclassed so often He’s often used as “deus ex machina” the robot

The Basics on Energon Ironhide. Yes that sounds about right.

I've always been a Bruticus fan, which initially started with Ruination in RiD. That toy and the FoC Bruticus are the only combiner toys I've been able to get so far.

I'd have to say Menasor (G1) is my favorite combiner. I mean, the first episode they appeared in showed them chopping trees in half while driving, flying off cliffs, and in that one episode where Wildrider crashes into a wall and knocks off Bluestreak, he drives off fine, but with the combined mode of the Stunticons, if their armor in vehicle mode can withstand that much in vehicle mode, he's one tough combiner!

To be frank, I don't remember watching the entirety of G1 so I can't say I have a nostalgia fuelled favorite, but I really like Abominus.

My favorite combiner? OVERCOMPENSATRON!

Excellent video series. I'd be curious for an explanation as to how the movie Constructicons work. I remember all of the individual Bots being sold separately, even under different names, and then their vehicle forms part of Devastator, but with no robot transformation ..it was all so peculiar.

Devastator is everything I think of when I think of when I think of ‘combiner’. Awesome video Chris!

Computron, Menasor, and Predaking the goats

A burger and a turkey sandwich should combine to form Burgerturk.

Thanks for this video. I enjoyed it . I think my favorite autobot is the technobots, and favorite decepticons are the stunticons. I loved that episode when Optimus and team looked like them to infiltrate and throw off megatron plans for the day. Haha , I’m gonna go watch that right now actually . Thanks again.

I do like the idea of the combination having to be mentally uniform to function efficiently/effectively or it could be hindered or come undone and personal I like the approach of one controlling consciousness as oppose to the individual components having to work in consort with each other

Masterpiece Devastator and Bruticus pls XD

Well my favorite combiner is DragonStorm and maybe you could do a video on the guardian knights at some time

This is a great video in a great series, thanks Chris! With Machinima's series still building, have you thought about doing a 'Basics' on what they're calling 'Titans?' And I've wondered, where does Omega Supreme fall in these classes?

My favorite combiner is Devastator for many different reasons but the most significant is his portrayal with Prowl in the IDW comics. I was blown away by the art and the characterization. Having said that here are my ideas for future 'the basics' episodes. - Jazz - Prowl - Ironhide - Knockout - Ratchet - Wheeljack - Rodimus/Hot Rod - the Wreckers - Optimus - Primus - Unicron - The symbiont/carrier relationship - Sideswipe and Sunstreaker - Jetfire/Skyfire - Megatron - The Decepticon Justice Division - Starscream - Seekers (all fliers) - The human characters - Minicons - Mass displacement - Transformers Live Action Movies (Bayverse, I bet it would be fun to make!) - The G1 marvel comics - The Japanese side of the fandom - The fannon - Thundercracker - Scourge -Galvatron - Astrotrain - Sixshot - Triple changers - Cybertron - Alt. modes/ Transformation Cogs (T-cogs) - Female transformers (Arcee, Elita-One, Chromia, Nautica, Windblade etc.) - Animated - The unicron trilogy - The aligned continuity - Autobots - Decepticons - [...] Primus! I'm sorry about the length of this list! But it's just I love this series so much, Transformers is a huge part of my life and... I just love watching you, Chris, do it justice. I'm looking forward to the next episode!

7:08 DULL SURPRISE!

Victorion is my fav.

well this clears up a lot that i was confused about with RiD season 4 combiner force, i watched it as a kid so there was a fair bit i forgot about.

I've always loved Predaking since reading the Dreamwave comics, something about him being one of the only truly unified combiners.

I think that this video is very good researched

Can you do the basics of the character Star Saber. He is my favorite character

Thanks for mentioning the Scramble City Combiners ability to swap. I don't think they every brought this up in the U.S. when the toy line was first introduced.

I have all of The Special Teams collection. My favourite group is The Stunticons, my favourite Decepticon of the collection is Swindle, my favourite Autobot (the character not the toy) of the collection is Groove

Bruticus angry! Bruticus SMASH like button!

The basics on minicons?

Another great vid! I can't be the only one who'd like to see a Basics on The Rise and Fall of Dreamwave... could I?

The Terrorcons are my favorite gestalt team, 1st and only team I completed during my childhood in the Gen 1 days. So, needless to say, I am very excited we are getting them in Power of the Primes this year.

You missed "the beast"

Optimus: Uh Jazz look out. There's combiners Jazz: Oh no Optimus look out there's combiners Both: Ahhhhh Optimus: Combiners

1:05 i really love how you explain it with these cybertronian clips. At first i dint know what you mean but until the bay one popped up. Now i know what you mean

I just recently got CW Defensor, and I really like his Concept of a Rescue Unit becoming a Bigger one to solve bigger problems.

Defensor is my favorite. I'm partial to Decepticon, as a whole, but I think I can confidently say that Defensor is, objectively, the most underrated combiner.

Happy New Year! I like your videos that you have produced every weekend. Something I noticed in one of your videos is that I don't see the video on the Technobots. I hope you make the video soon. Can't wait to see another future video.

I can never forgive the Bay films for taking a fan favorite in Devastator and turning him into a scrotum joke. A joke that doesn't even make sense when you think about it. There is no piece of construction or demolition equipment that has 2 wrecking balls.

As a kid I used to go Bruticus ,, and smash stuff ,, as a 46 year old i still do it... Yet I still love Devastator

0:48 "Oiler's dead" "I am sad that Oiler is dead" "Did you know Oiler is dead?" "WHY ARE YOU NOT SAD THAT OILER IS DEAD!!?" AKA: More or less; the entirety of Slide's dialogue in IDW's Optimus Prime comic series

Combaticons were my fave out of all the combiners 😊 Arielbots were pretty cool too.

Awesome video, LOVE em all. I am very partial to Bruticus, first combiner I ever owned.

Something I would like to know more about is one of the few Transformer units that as far as I know, never got a Combiner form despite being all the way back in G1 (like the Dinobots) - the INSECTICONS. The team from G1 is the one most recognise, but then there's all the different bots as part of the Insecticon subspecies (also like the Dinobots), so there's a lot to cover. The Insecticons were pretty much the Decepticons answer to the Dinobots, so it makes sense that they shared a lot of qualities - though the smaller size of the Insecticons meant a mass-produced version of them was involved in one or more Eras of the show. You may want to include some other things that, while not technically Insecticons, are similar enough to be talked about, like the Scraplets - and don't forget to mention that Starscream was for a very brief time an Insecticon, when the ghost of his Spark possessed the body of Waspinator during the Beast Wars! (Starscream and his transcendental spark could be a video of it's own, too!)

Even though Predaking is seemingly the most powerful Superion with the Enigma is actually the most powerful combiner and he is my favorite thank you Chris great vid

Even though I know all of this, I always find your videos interesting!!!

I like G1 dragstrip & I like dragstrip design too!😍😻😍😻😍😻😍😻😻😻😍😻😻😍😻😍😍😻😍😍😻😍😻😻😍😍😻😍😻😍😍😍

Devastator is my Favourite, I do like me some fan made Dino bot combiners though.