Overall advantages:
Strength winner: Link (Link is stronger at base and at max by the thousands of tons)
Arsenal winner: Link (cloud has only 1 weapon specialty, swords, link has over a 100 gear in combat)
Magic winner: Link (Clouds are majority temporary magical, links are indefinite mystical)
Maneuverability winner: Link (cloud better at base, link better at maximum enchantments via flight, jump spell, and speed enhancing gear)
Dexterity winner: Link ( Lasers, light arrows and magic are faster than bullets)
Power winner: Tie (what ever cloud can do with his sword, link can do with various hammers)
Weaknesses: cloud (cloud can bleed by a thin sword canonically, always needs a team: link can only be killed by constant damage but never did bleed)
Who won in more scenarios and categories? Link just has way to much in his arsenal.
Similar match? Captain america: Super soldier
(Cloud) vs Thor: Mystically enchanted by the gods
(Link)
1mp materia + ribbon + dual summon Quadra magic hades + KOTR I'm not sure how link would even land a hit my friend
Dont see why cloud would need the ribbon, Link has basically no status effect attacks other than morph...the summons can be countered by any impenetrable combos spells link has.
Too bad cloud didnt do those things to sephiroth or these guys:
https://youtu.be/87tDO1_nofE
Nayrus love >>> Nights of the round
Staff of byrna >>> Hades
All clouds materia/summons are base on a time limit via magical (so link can wear them out with his various defensive combos). Links gear is based on mystical via indefinite. (link has no time limit). Clouds summons other than odin, doesnt even one shot low level monsters nor targets 3+ at a time, KOTR doesnt even one shot most bosses, links medallions one shots every low-mid level foe on the screen.