I mean, Dai Atlas, OP, Scorponok and Grimlock survived from the Toraxxis Mega-Refinery explosion. Megatron scales to OP, UM have fighted against Scorponok and OP, so he scales to that. Arcee have fighted against UM, so she scales to that, Star Saber have bested and killed Dai Atlas, so he scales to that, Nova Prime scales to OP via fighting inumerous times with him, Galvatron scales to that via batling with OP, Tarn scales to that via fighting with Grimlock some times, same with Shockwave. Overlord scales to that via defeating UM, Sixshot scales to that via battling with OP and Black Shadow scales to that via defeating OP and UM, the only thing here from what i can tell is that Black Shadow feats are all speaked, and not showed. Most characters here normally scale to that 4 characters that survived the explosion, only Overlord and Arcee scale different, both to UM
I think that this scaling chain have no real Circular Reasoning, we not imply that Overlord is 6-A because he is stronger then OP, because Phase-Sixers are stronger than OP, we are only using a scaling chain to see if they scale to that feat