Just finished the base game and dlc of cyberpunk and after looking up some powerscaling for V, they seem to be in scale for the MG universe and thought it’d be a fun matchup. They seem busted looking at the skills they can unlock and especially with Sandevistan shenanigans, but some strong  antifeats in cutscenes. 

For V, give them the best setup and weapons possible as I’ll be doing that for Solid Snake. They can only have certain implants on at a given time so no mantis arms plus gorilla hands obviously. 

As Metal Gear is unfortunately a bit more niche of a series these days compared to my youth, I’ll quickly list off some feats and chainscaling so you guys know it’ll be a decent matchup. 

should chainscale strength and lifting to big boss who was able to shoulder press a metal gear (giant, walking nuclear tank) in the Peace Walker game from stomping him to death with its foot. Solid Snake is a clone of big boss and also defeated this greatest soldier of the 20th century with hairspray and a lighter with no gear somehow. 

\-beat a cyborg ninja (gray fox) in hand to hand combat who was easily able to deflect bullets along with having stealth camo (invisibility)

\-defeating multiple metal gears, tanks, and helicopters on foot with only rocket launchers (or with the tank only hand grenades)

\-crawled through a microwave hallway for over five minutes where most people would burn alive and explode in twenty seconds as a weakened old man due to accelerated aging 

\-took dozens of uninterrupted hits straight to the face in quick succession from Liquid Ocelot directly after the microwave hallway experience who was shown at the beginning of the fight to be able to dent the battleship they were on with his punches. Snake beat him in hand to hand. 

\-unique martial arts style that allows him to neg diff people with guns no matter if snake is carrying weapons at the same time. 

Snake has whatever gear he has in canon, but I’ll mention his standout/unique gear. Infinity bandana which allows infinite ammo (not even kidding and mentioned in a cutscene), stealth camo that grants invisibility (but can break), octocamo which blends in with his environment and prevents thermal detection, solid eye which allows night and thermal vision, psycho mantis doll (throws a ball that if hitting a person allows Snake to manipulate their body. May only work for people who have nano machines inside them like in the MG universe). HNK MK.23/SOCOM pistol with a silencer attachment. Remote controlled rockets, electric stun knife, and various assault rifles, sniper rifles (including a rail gun), and explosives. 

Snake is in his supposed prime between the events of MGS1 and 2. You guys can discuss on who would win if they start close to each other or have some distance and don’t know the others location. Despite the feat scaling I gave for Snake and not V, I think it’ll be very close and they seem to be scaled equally in most cases I look for. Just letting you guys know Metal Gear has plenty of anime sci fi bullshit in its series too. 

Solid Snake (Metal Gear) vs V (Cyberpunk 2077)