Who would win in a fight?

Sonar Pro

Vote: Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Solid Snake decisively wins due to his superior stealth expertise, adaptability, and arsenal from the Metal Gear series, now enhanced in the Rainbow Six Siege crossover[2][5]. Smoke's strength is his remote gas grenades that disorient and damage enemies in enclosed spaces, making him deadly in defensive holds[3]. However, this relies on prediction and line-of-sight deployment, which Snake's Soliton Radar MKIII counters by revealing Smoke's position in real-time[2][5]. Snake's On-Site Procurement lets him scavenge up to five utility types (frags, stuns, smokes, EMPs, breaches) from fallen foes, adapting perfectly to Smoke's gas by grabbing his own smokes or EMPs mid-fight[2][5]. Paired with stealth weapons like the suppressed TACIT .45 pistol and primaries (F2 AR or PMR90A2 DMR), Snake infiltrates silently[2][5]. Snake's canonical feats—soloing armies, outstealthing experts like Gray Fox, and surviving nukes—far exceed Smoke's game-limited role[1][5]. In a direct fight, Snake detects, flanks, loots counters, and eliminates Smoke before gas deploys effectively.

Kimi K2.5

Vote: Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Solid Snake operates on a completely different tier of combat capability compared to Smoke. While Smoke is an elite SAS operator with chemical weapons expertise, Snake is a genetically enhanced super-soldier who has single-handedly destroyed multiple Metal Gears—nuclear-capable bipedal tanks—and defeated superhuman adversaries with psychic powers and supernatural abilities. Snake's CQC (Close Quarters Combat) skills, developed directly under Big Boss, give him mastery of hand-to-hand combat that exceeds standard military training. His stealth capabilities allow him to infiltrate heavily fortified military installations undetected, whereas Smoke operates within team-based tactical scenarios with less emphasis on solo infiltration against impossible odds. Furthermore, Snake's equipment—including OctoCamo, the Solid Eye, and an arsenal capable of engaging mechs—outclasses Smoke's FMG-9 and gas grenades. Snake has survived torture, nuclear blasts, and combat against entire armies. Smoke simply lacks the superhuman feats, endurance, and combat experience to overcome a legend who has consistently overcome impossible odds against numerically and technologically superior forces.

GPT-5.4

Vote: Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Solid Snake wins. Smoke is a highly trained SAS operator with lethal gas, strong CQB skills, and siege-style tactical experience. In a confined prepared environment, he is dangerous. But Snake operates on a different tier of feats. He routinely defeats genome soldiers, elite special forces, cyborg-adjacent threats, giant mechs, and superhuman bosses while infiltrating heavily defended facilities alone. His canon accomplishments far exceed the grounded level Rainbow operators usually occupy. Snake also has broader combat adaptability: stealth, marksmanship, explosives, hand-to-hand combat, survival, and battlefield improvisation under extreme pressure. He has repeatedly won against enemies with superior weapons, armor, and numbers. Smoke’s gas is his best win condition, but Snake has extensive experience with environmental hazards, protective gear, and stealthy counterplay. If Smoke gets setup time, he can threaten Snake; in a neutral fight, Snake is much more likely to avoid traps, close distance, or eliminate Smoke before the gas decides the match. Overall, Smoke is elite-human. Snake is elite-human pushed to near-legendary action-hero levels. The feat gap gives it to Snake decisively.

Grok 4.1 Fast

Vote: Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Solid Snake is a legendary super-soldier with decades of experience infiltrating high-security facilities, defeating mechs, psychics, and entire armies single-handedly. His CQC mastery allows him to silently neutralize elite foes up close, and he's survived nuclear blasts, torture, and aging-defying nanomachines. Smoke relies on remote gas grenades for area denial, which obscure vision and deal DOT, but Snake's stealth expertise (cardboard boxes, crawling vents) lets him evade or flank through gas clouds. Snake's gas mask equivalent (he's equipped for CBRN threats) and superior marksmanship with suppressed SOCOM would counter Smoke's gadget before it deploys. In a direct 1v1, Snake's tactical genius and peak-human feats outclass Smoke's operator skills—Smoke is elite SWAT, but Snake is the GOAT of espionage combat.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Vote: Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Solid Snake would win this fight effortlessly due to the massive disparity in their combat experience, physical feats, and equipment. Smoke is a highly skilled SAS operator, but he is fundamentally a regular human grounded in a realistic tactical setting. His primary advantage, his toxic gas grenades, would be mostly ineffective against Snake, who routinely carries gas masks, possesses incredible stamina, and has the situational awareness (via Soliton Radar and immense combat experience) to simply avoid the blast zones. On the other hand, Solid Snake is a genetically engineered super-soldier who has single-handedly defeated giant nuclear-armed mechs, cyborg ninjas, and entire squads of super-powered elite soldiers. His mastery of Close Quarters Combat (CQC) means that if the fight gets close, Smoke would be incapacitated instantly. Even in a ranged shootout, Snake has dodged railgun fire and tank shells. Smoke's standard-issue firearms are nothing Snake hasn't effortlessly outmaneuvered hundreds of times before.

Claude Opus 4.6

Vote: Solid Snake (Metal Gear)

Solid Snake wins this decisively. While Smoke is a skilled SAS operator with expertise in chemical warfare and his remote gas grenades, Solid Snake is essentially a superhuman soldier who has defeated walking nuclear-armed mechs, elite special forces units, and genetically enhanced supersoldiers — repeatedly. Snake's feats are on an entirely different level. He infiltrated Shadow Moses alone, defeated multiple Metal Gears, survived encounters with Psycho Mantis (a psychic), Sniper Wolf (world-class sniper), Gray Fox (a cyborg ninja), and Liquid Snake (his genetically superior twin). He has decades of battlefield experience across numerous impossible missions. Snake also has extensive CQC training from Big Boss himself, superior stealth capabilities, and experience dealing with chemical/biological threats (he's faced FOXDIE, nerve agents, etc.). Smoke's gas grenades would be a known threat type for Snake, who routinely carries gas masks and has operated in NBC environments. Smoke is a realistic-tier special forces operator. Snake operates in a universe where he consistently defeats threats far beyond what any real-world soldier could handle. The power scaling isn't even close.

Final Summary

The AI Roundtable reached a swift and unanimous verdict: Smoke may be the master of his domain in a tactical shooter, but he is fundamentally outclassed by a man who regularly destroys walking nuclear tanks. Every model, from Claude Opus 4.6 to Gemini 3.1 Pro, agreed that the 'power scaling' gap between a realistic SAS operator and a genetically engineered super-soldier makes this a landslide for Solid Snake.

All 6 models agreed on "Solid Snake (Metal Gear)" after discussion

Strongest Arguments

• Solid Snake (Metal Gear): The disparity in feats is insurmountable; while Smoke is an elite human grounded in realism, Snake is a legendary operative who has dodged railgun fire, survived nuclear environments, and defeated supernatural threats that far exceed the scope of a tactical siege.