Quote Originally Posted by Heartless Angel View Post
Though I much prefer Squall as a protagonist, to be perfectly honest, he wouldn't stand a chance against Cloud. Squall's just a normal dude with some combat skills. Cloud's a genetically enhanced, mako infused super soldier. Cloud definitely wins in raw physical strength and endurance. You an say a gunblade requires alot of skill to use, sure. But really, what sounds more complicated to you, a sword which you hold a bit differently and have to pull a trigger on to optimize damage, or a sword which contains like, 8 different swords, which you have to learn to assemble, disassemble, and reassemble in the middle of combat, and can pretty much freely shift to dual wielding with other seperated weapons ready to switch to at a moments notice. I mean seriously, Tsurugi is like, the most complicated sword ever concieved, yet Cloud's mastered it. Cloud defies the laws of physics all the time with his attacks. In terms of sheer close combat skill, Squall doesn't even come close.

If summons were canon, they couldn't even use them, considering their blast radius alone would annihilate both combatants and most surrounding cities. Even if that weren't the case, their destructive power doesn't really matter. A teraflare from Bahamut ZERO's going to reduce a body to ashes just as efficiently as Eden, it just won't rape as many continents in the process.
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Well you forgot one major thing. Junction.
That alone makes up for his supernatural disadvantage.
Now for his physics. He displayed a great amount of agility when he jump several meters into the air in the galbadia prison while Selphie and Quistis took the stairs.

Advent children I don't except here because they added a plethora of techs.
If FF8 had the same treatment, the same would have happened*points to dissidia*.

I would say Cloud has the advantage naturally in endurance. He fell from that plate thingy and survived while squall got pierced and got hurt severely.