Highlights
- Hey Ya! aids lucky user Pocoloco in winning a horse race.
- Bohemian Rhapsody creates fictional characters but is volatile and weak.
- Moody Blues replays past events, aiding in investigations.
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is known for its flashy combat, performed through stands. Many stands have abilities that are good for overpowering weaker opponents in battle, such as those paired with the titular JoJos. Others manage to hurt their own users.
However, there are many stands with a fighting ability that ranges from mediocre to nonexistent, while still managing to be effective for the user. These may not be combat-focused stands, but they’re still able to be effective when used outside of battle. Here are some of the best JoJo stands that aren’t as optimal in direct combat.
5 Hey Ya!
Part 7: Steel Ball Run
Hey Ya! is a fascinating stand. On its own, it has no confirmed abilities outside the simple encouragement of its user. However, its user happens to be Pocoloco, a man with outstanding luck. After being told he would be at his peak for two months, Pocoloco decides to enter a horse race. It is not one of the most powerful stands in Steel Ball Run, but it was very useful for its owner.
By making use of unorthodox twists and turns based on advice from Hey Ya!, such as sliding on dead cowhide or propelling himself from a branch, Pocoloco is ultimately able to win the overall race by a technicality. The true winner, an alternate universe version of Diego Brando, disappeared after finishing first. Pocoloco ultimately pocketed $50,010,000, which would be worth over a billion in today’s time, all thanks to the advice of Hey Ya!.
4 Bohemian Rhapsody
Part 6: Stone Ocean
This stand is one of the most volatile in the series, capable of directing the entire world into chaos. It belongs to Ungalo, one of DIO’s four known sons. Ungalo was an unhappy drug addict who wished to take revenge on the world. Father Pucci helped him briefly realize his dream.
Bohemian Rhapsody can make a number of fictional characters real, with them often behaving in a manner identical to their original stories. People not involved in the character’s story are still capable of interacting with it, such as when Narciso Anasui becomes the titular wolf of the Brothers Grimm-published story, The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. This results in him getting his stomach torn open and having rocks stuffed inside, and leads to him drowning, much like the wolf in the original story.
This stand is not particularly useful for direct combat, although its creations are largely incapable of being attacked. It seems to simply happen everywhere rather than pick and choose its foes. This is perhaps due to the scope of Ungalo’s hatred for the world. However, it has a glaring weakness: If someone creates a character who can return every fictional being to their stories, the stand’s power ceases to work. This was accomplished by Weather Report, who had Vincent Van Gogh’s self-portrait illustrate the character Put Back.
3 Moody Blues
Part 5: Vento Aureo
While Moody Blues isn’t completely helpless in a fight, its utility as a stand exists mostly outside the realm of combat. Leone Abbacchio’s stand is primarily skilled in reenactment. It can replay past events, with an event needing more time to manifest depending on how long ago it happened. In the “rebroadcasting” phase, it is vulnerable to attack. Nonetheless, the Moody Blues aided Passione and Giorno Giovanna on many occasions.
This skill works much like a recorded video, as it can be fast-forwarded to skip through unnecessary events, or paused for investigative purposes. The reenactment can also have limited interaction with the present, as seen when Abbacchio used his stand to fly a plane by reenacting a pilot.
2 Paisley Park
Part 8: JoJolion
Inspired in part by screwy GPS directions, Yasuho Hirose’s Paisely Park is a long-range stand whose primarily abilities are related to manipulating technology. Paisley Park’s wide variety of abilities include, but are not limited to; hacking into electronic devices (such as security checkpoints and computers with private records), copying various types of technology for her personal use (such as X-Rays), and more broadly, modifying the technology of Yasuho and those significant to her, such as Josuke Higashikata, to assist her in getting to her desired destination, like a GPS.
It often displays limited time choices, which Yasuho can select to acquire a device she may need later in her journey. While the exact extent of her abilities is ill-defined, Yasuho is not a fighter, but she is still largely helped by Paisley Park during the events of JoJolion.
1 Pearl Jam
Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable
Tonio Trussardi is a skilled chef who enjoys making people happy with the food from his native land of Italy. In the town of Morioh, where many stand users with malicious intent are based, including later allies such as Okuyasu Nijimura and Rohan Kishibe, Trussardi is one of the few who never sought to fight. His stand, Pearl Jam, reflects his kinder nature, as does its ability is to cure people of ailments when infused into his cooking.
Tonio diagnoses his patron’s ailments with palm reading, and mixes Pearl Jam into the proper curative dishes. Pearl Jam has been shown to cure insomnia, diarrhea, and even cavities, with damaged teeth being expelled and replaced with healthy new ones. Despite its unilaterally kind and good nature, the visual actions taken to achieve its goals are graphic. Often, the body part affected by the ailment is violently expelled, being replaced with a healthy version later. This caused Josuke to wrongly suspect Tonio of foul play before being properly explained how the stand’s ability works.
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