JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's Strongest Stands Are Officially Ranked by Series Creator (2024)

The most recent project by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's creator, Hirohiko Araki, is the first public art display of the franchise, where the author also used the opportunity to showcase and rank the strongest Stands in the franchise. JoJo has left an indelible mark on popular culture in Japan and the rest of the world, being considered one of the best shōnen of all time, and its influence increasingly extends to being referenced in other manga and anime, music, fashion, works of art, and passionate fans that show their love for the series by mimicking JoJo's poses.

Hirohiko Araki revolutionized his own story by introducing in Part 3, Stardust Crusaders, the Stands, which are the physical manifestation of each character's spirit and life energy, whose appearance is related to the personality and ability of its user.

Hirohiko Araki just revealed The Fountain Boy, a public art piece for the new station building, Innogate Osaka, at JR Osaka Station, a modern re-envisioning of the last statue that was on display for 103 years, with the eccentricity of the JoJo style. In the public project, the author not only included an original character to represent “the Fountain Boy” but also painted seven JoJo's Bizarre Adventure’s Stands ordered by strength.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure’s Creator Ranks Star Platinum as the Strongest Stand

The Author Places November Rain From JOJOLands at the Top Because of the Artwork’s Theme.

The Fountain Boy artwork is painted on stained glass on the front of a black sphere, which depicts a boy with curly hair making a pose as if he is receiving rain or water. Above the boy, there are seven Stands from different parts of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The author revealed in the public ceremony covered by Gigazine that he included these Stands because they, just like the water cycle, are also invisible powers of nature.

Fountains circulate, and they are natural phenomena in the world... they evaporate and fall from the sky... so Stands are also a depiction of the power of nature in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure," an invisible power - Hirohiko Araki.

While November Rain, the stand of Jodio Joestar, the protagonist of Jojo’s Part 9 JOJOLands, is placed at the top of the artwork because of its ability to create rain, which serves to provide water for the fountain, the author ranked the rest of the stands by power and strength.

They’re in order of their strength and power (laughs). Since it’s a fountain, I also included November Rain, a stand that makes it rain. It’s the one that creates the most rain for the fountain. - Hirohiko Araki.

The stands featured below November Rain are from left to right, Jotaro Kujo’s stand Star Platinum from Stardust Crusaders, Kira Yoshikage’s Killer Queen from Diamond is Unbreakable, Funny Valentine’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap from Steel Ball Run, Jolyne Cujoh’s Stone Free from Stone Ocean, Giorno Giovanna’s Gold Experience from Vento Aureo and Johnny Joestar’s Tusk ACT1 from Steel Ball Run. This rank confirms Star Platinum as the strongest stand in the franchise according to the author.

Star Platinum Is an Invincible Stand According to Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure’s Creator

The Author Had Previously Established Star Platinum as the Strongest Stand in Stone Ocean

In The Visitor Part 9 of Stone Ocean (JJBA's chapter 613), Araki states in Star Platinum's stats that when its ability is fully developed, being able to stop time for 5 seconds, it becomes the strongest and most invincible Stand in the world. The author also refers to Star Platinum on another extra page as “the strongest known Stand ability.” Star Platinum, despite being short-range, is above the rest in terms of power, with superhuman strength, enhanced senses, and combat stats that no other stand can match: speed and precision.

However, even in part 6, before introducing powerful stands like D4C Love Train and Tusk ACT4, Star Platinum's impressive power was overshadowed by Gold Experience Requiem, the evolved form of Giorno Giovanna's Gold Experience. This means that Araki was probably ranking the ability using the base form of each Stand as a measure. If the evolved form of the stands is excluded, Star Platinum is physically unmatched. This would explain the absence of Made in Heaven, the final evolution of Padre Pucci's Whitesnake.

The Rank in the Fountain Boy Uses the Base Form of JoJo’s Stands

JJBA’s Creator Included Gold Experience and Tusk ACT1 Instead of Their Evolved Form

The final form of Giorno Giovanna's stand, Gold Experience Requiem, is considered by many fans to be the strongest in the series, having an overpowering ability and speed. Requiem can nullify any action taken by the opponent, reversing it to an initial point where it had not occurred, which, as demonstrated in the final fight against Diavolo, is even applicable against stands capable of altering the flow of time. However, the Gold Experience depicted in the artwork is its base form, just like Tusk.

This means that the author was not taking into consideration the evolved form of the stands to rank them in the artwork. Not only Gold Experience Requiem and Tusk ACT4 are stronger than Stone Free, but also with D4C Love Train, Funny Valentine can't experience misfortune of any kind, which makes him essentially invincible to Killer Queen's Bites the Dust stand.

Nevertheless, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is characterized by its unpredictable fights that aren't won by the strongest or the one with the most powerful Stand, but rather by the one who cleverly uses the situation and resources at his disposal, which is one of the beloved aspects of the series.

The fact that Araki has ranked iconic Stands of the franchise enriches fan debates about JoJo's Bizarre Adventure abilities while also highlighting the complexity of the power system in the series.

Source: Gigazine

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

Created by

Hirohiko Araki

TV Show(s)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Character(s)

Will A. Zeppeli , Jonathan Joestar , Giorno Giovanna , Jotaro Kujo , Joseph Joestar , Jolyne Cujoh , Johnny Joestar , Josuke Higashikata , Gyro Zeppeli

Video Game(s)

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle R