Cloud could be considered one of the strongest characters in the Final Fantasy series. While Cloud could cream many other characters in a fight, many would wonder how he fairs against other Japane🎐se originated characters from anime. With his pure strength, it's interesting to find how he handles being put up against other characters in the overpowered world of anime.
His strength is on the upper tier so there are many that Cloud could defeat. But being upper tier doesn't save him from much stronger anime characters out there. So here are 5 who Cloud can defeat in battle🐭 and 5 characters who would beat Cloud in a fight.
10 ♐ Would Destroy: Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist) 🀅
Edward would easily get overpowered by Cloud's buster sword. In a sword fight, Cloud has magic abilities that would lead to an advantage over him. Edward would b🔴e better with distant attacks but is much more human in durability than Cloud, leaving him defenseless if he tries for close combat. Add onto🐬 this Cloud's summons and Edward would easily get defeated.
9 Beat Cloud: Ichigo (Bleach) ꩵ
While Cloud has many abilities and super moves, he lacks transformations. Ichig🍌o has many to choose from and a distinct teleport ability that would leave cloud helpless. In the case of a summon, Ichigo is well-experienced in dodging techniques of large monsters and overcoming them. In the case of Cloud summoning the Knights of the Round, Ichigo has experience taking on multiple sworded enemies at once and would be able to defend himself. While Clou༒d has the advantage in wword combat, Ichigo simply possesses stronger abilities that would overpower Cloud.
8 🥂 𝓡Would Destroy: Goblin Slayer (Goblin Slayer)
Goᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚblin Slayer might be a great strategist but his whole premise is that he is only overpowered compared to a normal person. Up against Cloud with actual magical abilities, he wouldn't last in stamina alone. Even with his team behind him, he would struggle because of Cloud's summons which could deal damage past their magic, leaving him without a shield for the attacks. This would lead to an immediate victory for Cloud once the summon's super🐠 move activates.
7 ꧅ ꧋ Beat Cloud: Goku (Dragon Ball Super)
While the whole sword versus fist issue would come up, as in the question of can Goku be cut by a strong enough warrior, Goku would dominate most of the fight even in a weaker form. Once again, Cloud𒉰 lacks a stronger form or the ability to consistently levitate giving Goku the advantage, while Goku can also use many more Chi at🃏tacks compared to Cloud.
ꦑEven with that advantage, Goku 🍎will prefer to fight closer with devastating attacks, and as shown in the games, Cloud can not withstand falling from a great height. That means it would take one blow away attack from Goku to severely injure Cloud and end the fight rather quickly. All this without God forms.
6 Would Destroy: Yamcha (Dragon Ball) ꧑
Even at his best, Yamcha still has the durability of a human. He lacks many of the advanced abilities that make most of the cast of Dragon Ball overpowered when compared to other fighters. This lack of transformations and abilities would give Cloud the advantage wi𝓀th similar flight capability and sword combat. Add summons onto this and Yamcha would be wiped by even the simplest holy attack from it.
5 🅘 ꧑ Beat Cloud: Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Hiei, especially by the end, has 🏅nuclear blast levels of damage and a lifetime of experience killing demons and large dangerous monsters with a sword. His sword speed is nearly unmatched and would put Cloud in a bad defensive position who is much slower.
Hiei also has the advantage of multiple forms with added benefits, as well as experience fighting multiple ꧂strong foes at once in case of a Knight of the Round summon. It's likelyꦬ Cloud wouldn't handle the first round onslaught from Hiei's straightforward attack strategy.
4 ♛ Would Destroy: Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Kuwabara has a distinct advantage with his dimensional slice ability but with how little he can control it, it's unlikely to be relied on. While 🌺he can survive most of the time through sheer dumb luck when it comes to fighting demons, as well as his everlasting supply of guts and determination, he wouldn't survive a direct hi෴t from a summon if Cloud used a top tier one compared to perhaps Ifrit. Cloud's swordsmanship skills also outmatch Kuwabara who is not very skilled. In a close battle between swords Cloud would easily overpower him.
3 𝔉 Beat Cloud: Naruto (Naruto Shipp𒀰uden)
The biggest deciding factor in this fight is that Naruto has a nearly unlimited amount of chakra and transformations to boot. He is good at defense against a sword and has experience dodging a💟 buster sword. While Cloud could handle his shadow cloning technique with a summon, Naruto can summon as well to counter it. Naruto is also much more tricky than most opponents give him credit for𓆉 with planning out a winning attack for the end. With most of Cloud's abilities dodged or countered, Naruto gains the upper hand.
2 Would Destroy: Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan) ♔
SPOILERS! Erin has a lot of power in controlling titans, however, Cloud has the advantage of fighting many strong and tall enemies at once 🍎as well as being a skilled magic swordsman. Magic and summons being two things you wouldn't find in that world would devastate most titans. While Cloud would always be in danger of getting punt-kick KO'd, he could take out a titan swarm with a summon and use his final move on Erin to take him ou🅰t. It would be close but Cloud would have the ability advantage over Erin who is the equivalent to a top tier boss.
1 ꧑ Beat Cloud: Alucard (Hellsing Ultimate) ♚
Alucard is essentially a demi ꧒immortal that would take some really big plot points just to weaken. At his normal stage, he would dominate over Cloud, not including his later transformations. Alucard, with 100's of years of experience killing, would easily get the upper hand, especially if Cloud would get in close. Most of Clouds attacks would be rendered useless unless he used holy magic, but even then may not stop Alucard.