Samus=Kirby> Everything else.

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Link would probably pick up a magnetic staf in the dungeon before Kratos, use it to scale walls, then eventually use that staff in the fight to have Kratos' swords stuck to it.
When that happens, throw in a quick couple of slashes, repeat 3 times, pick up heart container.

Next stop, the FF dungeon. Boss: Cloud

Twilight Princess - Link can teleport at will
A Link to the Past - Link can travel to an alternate reality
Windwaker - Link can teleport at will when on the water

Link would never get involved in a fight unless he was going to win - and if the fight did start going Kratos's way, he would teleport to safety.

It's like the Pirates vs Ninjas debate, there are some situations where the pirates would win, but the Ninjas aren't going to get drawn into those types of fights.

there is only one way to make this fight worthy of debate. we strip them of any extra's and they fight as they are with just one weapon. No Blades of Athena and no Master Swords and capes and jugs and pills. They fight on Neutral Territory (No Sony turf and No Nintendo Turf... and no MS Turf).

Kratos and Link will fight in the Greenhill Zone from Sega's Sonic where Sonic will referee the match.

I am a fan of Zelda, but I will be honest, I dont know much about his entire history like some people here do, but I believe in a neutral world where both fighters are stripped of any extra's, Link will have trouble. Even with Extra's taken away, Kratos is God; he is immortal, he has got powers without the need to have potions and more then anything else, he has major strength as well as a very high pain threshold.

Considering this, Kratos will win hands down.

If Kratos was to put his powers aside and become Mortal to make the fight fair, i reckon he would still win the fight since he is agile, strong and and i don't really think Kratos understands what pain is. Link is a force when he is well equipped where as Kratos is a force regardless of weaponry or not.

The only way in which Link could win (other then using the aid of extra's) is Women. Kratos is a sex fiend. If Link had a pair of breasts, he could distract Kratos and chop his balls off and hand them to him.

kratos wins. in the first place, kratos can't lose to anyone. if he can take down the king of the gods in single combat, then there's no one else that can beat him.

especially not some guy in green tights.

If you combining all games with all power ups and Items Link wins by like 10000 tousand miles. He would not only have 10 ways to be invincilbe but would also have badass magic swords ranged weapons allies and not to mention the god of Hyrule always backs Link in the end. Kratos is a lone gunner, Link is not and never has been.

If you combining one GoW to one LoZ then link still wins, Arrows hurt Kratos in game just like deku nuts hurt link. Link has a horse and the Light arrows or Ice arrows or Fire arrows a sword that can shoot frigging lazer beams. Kratos also has Magic, Link has ways to relflect said magic Via Mirror shield. Kratos has limited life and potions so does link but in GoW 1 & 2 you can't carrier much, link has a magic pouch to store infinte amounts of anything this is and always has been a part of links armory.

The big thing everyone seems to be forgetting if you put both of them on a filed with nothing around them to give either home turf advantage link would still win as his arrows have no range limit and he can see forever via no horizon and 3rd person view.

Kratos in no of the GoW game I have yet to play can on his own view the world in anything but a Isometric type style, which means to hit or see link it would have to be on his screen which is thousands of times more compressed then links. View in front of you in a 1-1 fight > Viewing an area aroudn you.

I hate to go into such detail, but Kratos isnt a do all kill all do anything he wants charecter hes an emotional get revenge bound to rules type charecter to give him dynamics.

Link Samus FF charecters are do all, be all, end all, most powerful beings to ever enter video games they can power them selfs up way beyound need in any other there games. Kratos just scrapes by in hard modes for 99% of players and Link Samus and FF charecter totaly demolish anything in there paths at max power in there games.

Kratos is designed to be weak and emotional, Link has very little emotion and is not bound by laws. This is why I can beat temples in totaly wrong orders or in Metroid I can fit 250 missles in my arms, or in Final Fantasy I can remove all charecters but 1 from my party and still mop the floor with any boss in any of the games.

Lets face it though guys Mario with a Star > Any gory killer you can think of, because in the end nothing beats the star.

See, this is what I'm talking about. Once you get some real thought out arguments, this is actually fun.

I agree that if you take Kratos at the very start of his series and Link at the very start of his, maybe just have both completely their first quest or get through 25% of the game so they have a few basic items, that Kratos would have the advantage. Even if Link had the bow, it would still be a question of if Kratos was fast enough to bridge the gap, or if Link has enough speed or any other way to maintain the gap and still be able to fire accurately at the same time. If Kratos did manage to bridge the gap, I think it would entirely depend on how well Link can roll and flip, duck and block to avoid Kratos attacks. I think Kratos could have Link down in roughly 3 shots, provided he could land them all solidly, so it's really a question of how much Link can wear him down before it comes down to a melee battle and if Link can whittle him down the rest of the way before he gets killed. Also by 25%, Link should be able to get a bottle and a fairy in most games, so that would give him a good "time to run" points.

After about 25%, I think Link starts gaining the advantage. Link always has some bombs, usually has a bow or some other ranged attack, commonly has a boomerang of some sort, usually some sort of speed boosting item, frequently some sort of recovery item that gives you a second life if you die, and commonly has some sort of method of teleportation/control over time/transformation.
When you take all the powers from all the games, the sheer diversity just makes it unquestionably in Link's favor. It doesn't matter that Kratos beat a god, get over it. In Greek and Roman mythology, people beat gods all the f-ing time, all they were really were very powerful people that never seemed to die naturally. Doesn't mean that someone who can kill them can kill anything EVER.

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Simple answer as to who wins. ME. I exist in the real world, and I can unplug my console and then neither character exists. ;)

You forget, you're not the only person who plays God of War and Zelda. Theoretically, in order to really beat those characters, you'd have to turn off every console on which a Zelda or God of War game is being played. Now I'm not sure how constantly God of War is being played, but I'd put fairly even odds on the idea that someone, somewhere is playing a Zelda game every minute of the day, esspecially considering how many of those games there are. It's possible that's not the case though, but even then, it would be whoever turned off their console last that would really count as "beating" those characters.