Cloud Strife

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## Summary

**Cloud Strife**
 is the main protagonist in Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VII:
Advent Children, and also appears in the spin-off games of the
Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, including Dirge of Cerberus -Final
Fantasy VII- and Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-, as a supporting
character.

An arrogant and proud
 swordsman at first, Cloud believes himself to be a former member of an a
 top-ranking member of Shinra's elite paramilitary unit, SOLDIER. Now
working as a mercenary-for-hire, Cloud takes a job with the anti-Shinra
organization AVALANCHE to bring down his old employers. It's revealed
during the game that he isn't what he seems: Cloud failed to qualify for
 SOLDIER and instead took a job as an infantryman. During a mission to
Nibelheim with Sephiroth and his best friend and SOLDIER 1st Class Zack
Fair died, Cloud was wounded and used as a lab experiment for Hojo. Zack
 broke them out years later but died in the escape, and Cloud, suffering
 from a great deal of physical and psychological trauma, impressed
Zack's memories on his own, creating a false past and a false
personality to match it. With the help of his friends, learns there is
more to being a hero than possessing physical strength and fame.

After the truth is
revealed he suffers a stunning revelation, but thanks to a journey to
the center of the mind, he comes to terms with who he is and rebuilds
his persona from the ground up.

## Powers and Stats

**[Tiering|Tier]: 4-B** | **4-B** | At least **5-A** to **4-B**

**Name:** Cloud Strife

**Origin:** [Fantasy VII|Final Fantasy VII]

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** 21 *(FF7)* 23 *(Advent Children)* 24 *(Dirge of Cerberus)*

**Classification:** Human, Former Shinra Infantryman, Mercenary, Successful Sephiroth Clone

**Powers and Abilities:** [Physical Characteristics|Superhuman Physical Characteristics], [[1]], [[2]],
 Master Swordsmanship, skilled in the use of a shotgun and grenades
(Having formerly being a Shinra Infantry man), use of Mako to empower
weapon and for different effects (Braver, Meteorain, Cross-Slash,
Finishing Touch, Omnislash Version 5, Omnislash, and many more),

[Potency|**Attack Potency**]**: Solar System level** (Capable of slaying the Weapons) | **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) | At least **Large Planet level+** to **Solar System level** (Higher tiered summons like Typhoon or Knights of the Round are capable of this level of power)

[**Speed**]**:** **FTL+** (Capable of keeping pace with Sephiroth [a character far stronger than Bahamut Fury] in all incarnations)

[Strength|**Lifting Strength**]**:** **Superhuman+**

[Strength|**Striking Strength**]**: Class XPJ** (Capable of injuring Sephiroth with physical blows) | **Class XPJ+**

[**Durability**]**:** **Solar System level** (Tanked the awakening of the five remaining Weapons in the Northern Crater and survived Sephiroth's Octaslash [Or at least the slashes that just moments before parried his original Omnislash] in Advent Children)

**[[7]]:**
 Extremely large, he can fight for a long time without being exhausted,
also he was impaled many times by Sephiroth and he was still fighting

[**Range**]**:** Extended melee range with his Buster Sword, much higher with magic

**Standard Equipment:**
 Buster Sword, Ultima Weapon (His final weapon in FFVII), Materia,
Fusion Swords in Advent Children (Collection of 6 swords combined into
one), Ribbon (Protects him from status ailments), Fenrir (His bike)

**[[8]]:** Skilled combatant and leader

**Weaknesses:** None notable

**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.

**-Blade Beam**: Fires a Blue energy beam that can be fired multiple times at once.

**-Climhazzard**: Strikes enemy, then jumps upwards running the sword along the enemy. Cloud uses Climhazzard to defeat Bahamut SIN in AC.

**-Finishing Touch**:
 Hits all enemies with a tornado causing death, or dealing normal damage
 for any enemy immune to death. In Dissidia he instead spins around the
opponent, delivering multiple slashes while rising to the air, then
knock them down.

**-Meteorain**: Cloud swings his sword and fires off 6 meteor-like bolts of energy at his opponent(s).

**-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 up to
thirteen slashes and seems much faster.

**-Cherry Blossom Slash**: This move is used in the game Final Fantasy Tactics.

Most of the info on some of these techniques is based on game mechanics and the movie Advent Children.

**Other:** The profile covers the canon version of Cloud.

**\*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: Base** | **Limit Breaks** | **Summons**

## Gallery

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## Others

**Notable Victories:**

Roronoa Zoro ([Piece|One Piece]) [Zoro|Roronoa Zoro Profile]

Hiei ([Yu Hakusho|Yu Yu Hakusho]) [Profile]

Link ([Legend of Zelda|The Legend of Zelda]) [(Composite)|Link Profile]

Augus ([Wrath|Asura's Wrath]) [Augus Profile]

**Notable Losses:**

Superman ([Comics|DC Comics]) [(Post-Crisis)|Superman Profile]

**Inconclusive Matches:**