Talk:Comment Section Central/@comment-27921095-20200202212047/@comment-26558142-20200202213619

If you talk about matches that were already done, Link and Cloud comes to mind. Especially Cloud would suffer from the new rules, since it would prevent him from using any materia (since he doesn't use them in the Advent Children movie which stands at the end of his adventure) and could prevent him from getting any RPG buffs from his weapon or armor (iirc neither fusion sword nor his advent children clothing are part of FF VII arsenal not including a possible appearance in the remastered version). It could also strip him from Supernova, since DB seems to put more emphasis on lore and cutscenes feat than attack animations, but I'm unsure here. Link on the other hand could benefit. If they stay with Composite Link (unsure if that would be the case), there is no reason to limit his arsenal like in the first matchup. Then you have lore feats that could put Link above Cloud (Majora surviving the "world destroying" moon could make Link planet level by scaling, while Cloud needed help by that one Canon to destroy a "planet" level weapon).

The outcome wouldn't change in comparison to their official DB fight, but at the moment Cloud seems to be stronger affected by the new rules in a negative way.

P. S. Not saying Link automatically wins, since there are other factors to reconsider. Just saying what I feel about a potential rematch under the new conditions