Cloud Strife vs Link vs Sephiroth vs Solid Snake 2006

Link vs Cloud vs Snake vs Sephiroth (2005 Characters - BR Day 3]])

Before we were introduced to the four-way format and the loveliness of how it would basically screw with everything, we got a bit of a test run in 2006’s Battle Royale, which pitted Clinkerothio and the two winners from the male and female bracket (Snake and Samus respectively) in a series of polls in which the last-place entrant would be eliminated each day until only one remained. Basically, the Battle Royale came down to how well you could predict SFF, since it was likely that it was going to be two Nintendo characters below Link and at least one Square character below Cloud. Most people had Crono taking the sixth spot.

Enter Super Snake, who proceeds to crap all over the entire male bracket and the Battle Royale itself. Thanks to a hefty helping of Link SFF, Snake managed to outlast Samus and Mario. That’s fine. But few expected him to outlast Sephiroth himself, which he managed to do by the skin of his teeth at almost the last possible second. Metal Gear Solid and all its characters seem to have a tendency to do that. Snake’s wild ride through the Battle Royale was the cap on his amazing run throughout the year.