Cloud Strife vs Zack Fair

Two of the main protagonists of the Compilation of Final Fantasy 7 duke it out for the main character throne.

Both combatants respect each other and are well aware of their capablities.

Pre-Match round:
SOLDIER 2nd Class Zack vs Infantryman Cloud

Round 1:
Soldier 1st Class Zack with Angeal's Buster Sword vs Ex-SOLDIER wanna be Cloud during the events of the Disc 1.

Round 2:
SOLDIER 1st Class Zack with all the experience he gathered during the Crisis Core ordeal vs Cloud with all the experience he gathered during the FF7 adventure.

Round 3:
Zack somehow comes back from the dead a month after the events of Advent Children--his skills and physical prowess remain intact. Cloud will fight Zack with the First Tsurugi. Zack gets to use the Buster Sword & the standard soldier katana.

Discuss.

Pre-Match: Zack wins in a stomp

Round 1: Zack wins if its vs Cloud at beginning of disc 1, Zack vs Cloud at the end of Disc 1, im not sure, possibly Zack.

Round 2: Goes to Cloud

Round 3: This is the same matchup as Round 2, AC Cloud is the exact same as FF7 Cloud, except Cloud getting the First Tsuguri which puts him at an even bigger advantage

PR: Zack.

1. Stalemate, with a slight leaning towards Cloud, Cloud essentially IS Zack at that point.

2. Cloud easily

3. Cloud even easier.

I believe Zack takes the win from Cloud at the end of disc 1.

I agree with all the rest.

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Cloud being essentially Zack? I don't buy it.

I mean Cloud can learn some of Zack's skills and techniques, but he will never touch his experience. And experience will make a vast difference between 2 characters with similar movesets and skills. However at the end of FFVII Cloud has gathered a shit load of experience and with it he defeats Zack who unfortunately died before his time.

My 2 cents.

Well he gained all of Zack's memories and even emulated his fighting style.

I don't see why he would not get his skill.

The Jenova cells in Clouds body scans minds via telepath like what it did to Tifa, that could be how Cloud went from Infantryman to a Zack wannabe, or the Hojo experiments.

I am not saying he can't get the skills or techniques. I am talking about experience. The experience of fighting the top 3 1st Class Soldiers and surviving...even if Sephiroth whooped his ass. LoL.

You know what gets me...Hojo wanted to test his Jenova reunion theory. So he experimented on Cloud who showed weak tolerance to Jenova and because of that was Mako poisoned. But why would he use Zack when 1st Class SOLDIERs get the same procedure and are able to tolerate Jenova's influence. Why would Hojo use him if the result is already visible? Meh. Maybe he used Zack as the control subject. But whatever it doens't matter.

I read a translation of Ultimania that stated Cloud's personality during the beginning of the game is a combination of Tifa's memories of Cloud and Cloud's superego. Perhaps his badass "don't give a shit" attitude and heroics were possible because of him acting like a super version of himself aka the way he visualized hismelf. That coupled with Hojo's experiments, which were identical to the procedures SOLDIERs 1st Class go through, could very well prove why Cloud went from a pussy to a badass.

Cloud is more skilled. ]dur

And has more and better feats.

Hell, even punk ass infantry Cloud did what Zack failed to do.

Beat Sephiroth. haermm

1.Zack

2.Cloud

3.Cloud

Originally posted by Dark-Jaxx
And has more and better feats.

Hell, even punk ass infantry Cloud did what Zack failed to do.

Beat Sephiroth. haermm

Of course he has more feats. The guy is Square Enix's poster boy.

Infantryman did beat Cloud, but Cloud didn't fight Sephiroth at all. All he did was fatally wound him while Sephiroth was busy drooling all over his momma. Afterwards he attacked a wounded Sephiroth who was holding Jenova's head in one hand and the masamune in another, and was still ****ed up. Had Cloud fought Sephiroth like Zack did we wouldn't have FFVII.

Anyways.

Originally posted by Zack Fair
Of course he has more feats. The guy is Square Enix's poster boy.

Infantryman did beat Cloud, but Cloud didn't fight Sephiroth at all. All he did was fatally wound him while Sephiroth was busy drooling all over his momma. Afterwards he attacked a wounded Sephiroth who was holding Jenova's head in one hand and the masamune in another, and was still ****ed up. Had Cloud fought Sephiroth like Zack did we wouldn't have FFVII.

Anyways.

dur

Concession accepted. 😊

There's nothing to prove.

Sephiroth shrugged off Cloud's attack with one hand without trying. Even when he was fatally wounded. Had Cloud engaged Sephiroth like Zack did he would have been killed 5 times before his corpse hit the floor.

131

Yet Cloud threw Sephiroth into the reactor ftw. 131

I am not arguing against the facts.

Nice try though.

Go harass wil7 with your mad skillz!

cloud wins all in all he beet Sephiroth 3 times zack dint win at all so cloud wins

Originally posted by ThunderGodEneru
PR: Zack.

1. Stalemate, with a slight leaning towards Cloud, Cloud essentially IS Zack at that point.

2. Cloud easily

3. Cloud even easier.