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| "Let's mosey" |
Name: Cloud Strife
Origin: Final Fantasy VII
Gender: Male
Classification: Mako Enhanced Human/Mercenary/Former Shinra Infrantryman/Sephiroth Clone
Age: 24 (15-21 during Before Crisis and Crisis Core, 21 during Final Fantasy VII, 23 during Advent Children)
Powers and Abilities: Super strength, speed, durability, magic, master swordsman, summoning, flight and levitation, potentially possesses the likes of elemental manipulation (of the fire, lightning, ice, water, wind, and earth variety), healing and regeneration (mid-low), poison manipulation (in the form of Bad Breath and Bio), time manipulation (in the forms of Haste, Slow, and Stop), barrier creation (in the form of Barrier, Big Guard, MBarrier, Reflect, Shield, and Wall), shapeshifting (in the form of Bad Breath, Frog Song, Mini, and Toad), petrification (in the form of Break), absorption (in the form of Magic Hammer), gravity manipulation (in the form of Demi and Laser), soul manipulation (in the form of Death), energy blasts (in the form of Flare, Matra Magic, Shadow Flare, and Ultima), telekinesis (in the form of Comet), mind manipulation (in the form of Berserk and Confuse), teleportation (in the form of the Escape and Remove), able to induce silence, able to induce sleep
Weaknesses: Nothing notable | His power boost functions much like adrenaline and doesn't appear to last very long | Nothing notable | His power boost functions much like adrenaline and doesn't appear to last very long | He's mentally fragile from Hojo's experiments for most of the game, but this is remedied by the end
Destructive Capacity: Wall level+ | Multi continent level (able to contend with Ravens [characters noted even before the Player Turks 3 year coma as being comparable to/stronger than SOLDIER 2nd Classes like Essai and Sebastian]) | At least wall level+, likely higher | Solar system level (able to impale Sephiroth, cause Sephiroth great difficulty in parrying his strike, and physically overpowered him entirely) | Solar system level+ (has defeated Sephiroth with all versions of Omnislash. Notably, at the end of the original game, Cloud's will briefly surpassed Sephiroth's in their battle inside the Lifestream)
Range: Extended human melee range with his Buster Sword, much higher with magic and Summons
Speed: Unknown | FTL (able to contend with Ravens) | Unknown | FTL | FTL+ (capable of keeping pace with Sephiroth [a character far stronger than Bahamut Fury] in all incarnations)
Durability: Wall level+ (able to endure attacks from AVALANCHE Troopers [characters capable of destroying stone statues] and casual strikes from a Raven) | Multi continent level (appears to endure a strike from a bloodlusted Raven)| At least wall level+, likely higher (able to endure attacks from G Deleter) | Solar system level (able to endure being thrown by an injured Sephiroth parrying his previous strike) | Solar system level+ (tanks an attack from Jenova∙DEATH, tanked the awakening of the five remaining Weapons in the Northern Crater, survived the Ultimate Weapon's Shadow Flare, survived several of Sephiroth's telekinetic attacks, and survived Sephiroth's Octaslash [or at least slashes that just moments before parried his original Omnislash] in Advent Children. Also superior to Bahamut SIN [survived a Braver while being killed by Climhazzard] and Kadaj [who tanked a Finishing Touch])
Lifting Strength: Class 1 (comparable to other Shinra Troopers) | At least Class 25+ (able to contend with Ravens) | Class 1+ | Class G+ (physically overpowered Sephiroth) | Class G+ (superior to Tifa Lockhart [a character that can lift and toss Weapons])
Striking Strength: Class MJ (comparable to AVALANCHE Troopers and other Shinra Troopers) | Class NJ (able to contend with Ravens) | Class MJ+ | Class XPJ (physically overpowered Sephiroth) | Class XPJ+ (appears to break free of Sephiroth's telekinesis)
Stamina: Superhuman+
Standard Equipment: His Gun, a Raven's Sword | His Gun, a Raven's Sword | His Gun | Buster Sword | Buster Sword, First Tsurugi in Advent Children (collection of 6 swords combined into one) and Fenrir (his bike)
Intelligence: Skilled and experienced combatant
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Braver: A powerful singular jumping downward slash.
- Cross Slash: A single physical attack with three slashes. Can inflict paralysis. In AC, with the first Tsurugi, he can split it into 2 separate blades and do a cross slash.
- Bleam Blade: Fires a Blue energy beam that can be fired multiple times at once.
- Climhazzard: Strikes his target, then proceeds to jump up into the air, slicing his way up his target in the process. Used to finish off Bahamut SIN/Tremor in ACC.
- Meteorain: Cloud swings his sword and fires off 6 meteor-like bolts of energy at his opponent(s).
- FInishing Touch: Swings his sword, generating a tornado/distortion of air that sends his target(s) flying.
- Omnislash: Cloud's original ultimate Limit Break. It's initiated when his sword is imbued with fighting spirit from the heart for just a moment. In the blink of an eye, 14 critically damaging strikes are dealt one after another… Cloud then dramatically leaps into the air and brings his sword down for the final slash.
- Omnislash Version 5: Cloud separates his sword into six blades that surrounds his opponent. He then grabs each blade and slashes the enemy with each of them. During this attack Cloud glows in an orange aura and moves fast enough to create afterimages and finishes before the afterimages disappear. He does this with the First Tsurugi which is made up of those swords.
- Omnislash Version 6: Cloud does this in the Advent Children Complete movie, same as his Version 5 but he glows blue and hits in an unpredictable pattern and seems much faster.
- Cherry Blossom Slash: This move is used in the game Final Fantasy Tactics.
Notable OBD Victories:
- Gilgamesh (Fate/Stay Night) – Gilgamesh Profile
- HST (Holy Shonen Trinity)
- Guts (Berserk) - Guts Profile
- Nnoitra & Grimmjow (Bleach) – Nnoitra Profile, Grimmjow Profile
- Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV) - Noctis Profile
Notable OBD Losses:
- Goku (Dragon Ball) - Goku Profile
- Sol Badguy (Guilty Gear) - Sol Badguy Profile
- Superman (DC Comics) - Superman Profile
Other: The profile covers the canon version of Cloud. An overview of Cloud Strife's feats across the compilation can be found organized here, here, and here. A catalog of all compilation feats can be found here.
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| Cloud Strife during Before Crisis and Crisis Core |
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| Cloud Strife during Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus |
*Little canon information is available in regards to which summons the party may or may not possess (much like with magic materia), thus it is up to the thread maker to specify what sort of materia, if any, Cloud has at his disposal at the start of a match.*
Key: Before Crisis (Base) | Before Crisis (Heightened Emotions) | Nibelheim Incident (Base) | Nibelheim Incident (Heightened Emotions) | Final Fantasy VII/Advent Children