Josuke Higashikata of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable.
When being introduced it was like he was the new kid on the block because of how he came
out of the woodworks being so strong, but how strong is that?
Welcome to the ‘Outside of’ series where I take a character from a franchise to list
and calculate their feats to see how strong they are.
Though I think I won’t have to do too much here since Josuke and his stand Crazy Diamond
isn’t as difficult to scope out.
Josuke throughout part 4 has done so well in his fights due to his restoration ability.
While I could go on and talk about how much I love that he isn’t just power circulated,
this isn’t the video for it.
So, let’s go over the strength of Josuke and his Crazy Diamond.
So, the first thing I want to go over is probably the best thing that we have on Josuke and
Crazy Diamond because it sets them up for so much more than what he’s portrayed to
be in the show, it’s also one of feats where there’s a lot to investigate since there’s
many ways to approach it.
This is referring to when Crazy Diamond had overpowered Star Platinum.
The thing with this, even approaching this at face value, you can see that Jotaro had
no intentions of fighting Josuke.
So, with him on the defensive side, Crazy Diamond was laying into him.
Though there was a moment to where Josuke had busted Star Platinum’s defense wide
open.
It also wasn’t really a speed thing that broke it, Jotaro speaks on it being the power
of it which means he had just overpowered him in that instance.
Now Jotaro could’ve approached it with a stand off draw type of situation where he
tries to test his speed against Josuke, but he was coming off his defense being broken
so the only way to retaliate was with time stop.
Along with that, he’s rusty.
Though I believe that it would be safe to say that Crazy Diamond comparable to Prime
Star Platinum, the thing is that we don’t see Josuke being put into the same situations
that Jotaro was in, so I can’t say that Crazy Diamond is the same as Prime Star Platinum.
If Prime Star Platinum was 100%, then the Star Platinum we have in Diamond is Unbreakable
is 75%, meanwhile Crazy Diamond would be 85%, this is speaking on attributes like strength
and speed.
If you want all the numbers for where Prime Star Platinum stands, I have a full video
going over it and Jotaro.
But aside from all the scaling, we have some more feats for Crazy Diamond that do well.
The Star Platinum scaling is reason enough, but Josuke has still done some cool things.
Josuke has the ability to channel his inner Dio by donutting people including his mom.
While he has the strength to do so, he can do more instead of just giving them that physical
pain.
Referring to when he punched through two people and left the knife of the man inside of his
stomach.
Then the last thing we got on strength is Josuke being able to shoot ball bearings out
of Crazy Diamond’s hands like a gun.
Now I’ll be going over the powers of Crazy Diamond in specific after Speed and Durability.
Now about the speed of Crazy Diamond.
I would say the easiest thing is still scaling to Star Platinum.
Though not just the fight between Jotaro and Josuke, but the fight between Kira and Jotaro,
and then you have Josuke beating Kira reminiscent to the way that Jotaro did.
Yeah, it goes everywhere.
But in terms of feats and statements, I’d rather keep the scaling.
Because there was that one statement to where Josuke believed that Crazy Diamond threw punches
at around 190mph, and that’s a huge lowball.
On feats, the first thing I want to bring to light is Josuke against Teruno, the stand
user of Enigma.
To where Crazy Diamond was able to react to an unexpected gunshot from him.
Jotaro had done something similar to this with Star Platinum, but the thing was that
Jotaro was doing so it would be easier to catch it.
This isn’t Josuke’s first gunfight either, going back to early DIU to the fight between
him and Keicho Nijimura with his stand Bad Company.
While trying to manage Koichi being dumb at the moment, Josuke had to fight against every
unit of Bad Company at once.
Bad Company while being a small army, they definitely carry the power to take out anybody
that can’t contest with the strength and speed of the stand.
Josuke was able to contest with every bullet and missile being shot, but the push back
from it all had blown him back through a wall.
That was only due to Josuke not taking it as serious because Keicho wasn’t originally
shooting to kill.
Even after that, he was casually walking through the gunfire because none of it was faster
than Crazy Diamond.
And for the last one, there’s Red Hot Chili
Pepper versus Crazy Diamond.
Regular Chili Pepper isn’t anything to Crazy Diamond, but this was when Chili Pepper was
being powered up by the electricity of Morioh.
Even when being ridiculously enhanced by electricity, Chili Pepper wasn’t out-speeding Crazy Diamond,
if anything Crazy Diamond was matching it blow for blow.
Though the strength of Chili Pepper is what was able to push past Josuke’s flurry of
punches.
That’s going to be it on speed.
For Durability, we can refer to the fight we had just mentioned and what had taken place
after Chili Pepper landing a hit on Crazy Diamond.
Keeping how strong Chili Pepper should.
He had overpowered Crazy Diamond and is going for kill shots because he’s limited on time.
Punching into a Crazy Diamond that was recovering from getting launched, Chili Pepper damaged
him, but with nothing fatal or anything breaking.
This sent Josuke into a forklift and the same forklift was destroyed from the impact of
Josuke being punched into it.
At this point we can believe that Crazy Diamond is a stand like Star Platinum to where it
can take what it dishes out.
That’s going to be it on Durability, so now we can go over Crazy Diamond’s restoration.
So, there’s a lot to go over on what Josuke can do and had done, but I’m just going
to mention the most important ones here.
There’s a lot.
Changing facial structures, punching through his mom to catch a stand, Angelo into
a rock, reconstructing Bad Company’s missiles, destroying and restoring Rohan’s motorcycle
while riding it, restoring energy back to where it was output, restoring a metal road
to pull him out of…
Well I guess some sort of paper dimension.
Restoring an entire Hayato from exploding, restoring the debris in his wound to move
himself, blood blade, and glass heart bullets.
Josuke is one of the smartest stand users we see, but he’s also working with a stand
with an ability better than a lot.
Restoration itself is an extremely versatile ability, but him being able to do so much
is possible because he can think of it.
So big credit to Josuke.
Thank you guys for watching!
I’ll be going over some more characters before I get to Kira, so
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