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I'm gonna be the odd one out here and give this to Raiden and Pals.

Mario decloaking Zeratul is a very legitimate strategy that gets Zeratul killed early, Gordon can take out at least Vivi and possibly Maria, and Pamela has some time to work and do her thing here if Zeratul doesn't get to her. She doesn't need to be invincible to survive long enough to matter. A lot of it comes down to if Raiden can get to and take Cloud out early enough, because if he can then all those buffs and debuffs go away. It's true that Megaflare takes out most of Raiden's support, but this is where Pamela's re-raise effect matters, she can soak it and revive and make sure Raiden gets his lifesteal back up. And a Raiden with Lifesteal can take Ridley out (even a good Ridley), I'm pretty sure. Thing about Bahamut is you legit don't need to fight him at all he lasts a minute, you just need to dodge him as best you can and wait for him to time out. So yeah, I think if Raiden realizes that he needs to have a sword duel with Cloud (and the man does love sword duels, and as much as Cloud CAN decide to play buff bot he's also a big fan of sword fights and is probably not hanging back so far that he wouldn't be able to be engaged on...) Basically it's pretty plausible to me that Raiden takes Cloud on early while Ridley is brawling with Giant Mario, and if he does then I think he's got a very solid path to victory.