DIO BRANDO.
Oh wait, wait have I been here before?
Oh yeah…
Well.
He’s changed between Phantom Blood and Stardust Crusaders.
For the better, he got a stand.
Everything else, well yeah, not really.
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.
Now, I usually go about this in an easy to approach format, but I’m going to be going
back to my old ways and going to add more thought than needed for something here in
fiction where it probably doesn’t work the way that it’s supposed to, but I’m taking
the time to see what would happen if it did.
That’s going to be later.
So, starting this off let’s approach the body stealer with his strength first.
I’m going to be the one to tell you that DIO’s strength is one of the oddest things
to approach for the following reasons.
Not his body, natural strength, and body control.
There’s a certain strength that Jonathan held over Dio with it being his hamon-modified
muscles, and along with that, he had become stronger than Dio overtime.
If you were to remove the vampire strength boost from Dio, and the modification that
hamon gave to Jonathan, Jonathan would be able to beat Dio and beat him bad.
Keeping that in mind, Dio had taken over Jonathan’s body.
So, with taking over his body you would think that he would hold the same strength as Jonathan?
Well, that’s a difficult thing to go about since his vampire essence is what’s trying
to take over the body and make it his, but there’s some large traces of hamon still
left in the body of Jonathan which means that its more of the body that he can’t control
and use to his advantage.
So, he doesn’t have enough control of the body to use it to it’s fullest potential
or it’s natural strength that came with the body, and since he’s not a full vampire,
he doesn’t get the boost that he did in Phantom Blood.
So, that asks where exactly Dio is when there’s so many things to consider.
Well, there’s an easy way to see where he stands in strength, but I’m also going to
go about figuring out where he is in comparison to his original self.
Where he stands in strength is at a reasonably strong level that’s stronger than most of
the stands in Stardust Crusaders or even in all of JoJo if we’re talking about his own
pure strength.
One of the most iconic moments we see in JoJo is Dio’s infamous Road Roller attack where
he picks up a Road Roller from who knows where and throws it down onto Jotaro.
There’s a lot that goes into here also.
It doesn’t say whether if Dio had kicked off the ground to lift the Road Roller, or
he did it with The World’s assistance.
In the manga, we see it being Dio who’s the one having the Road Roller drop onto Jotaro.
Even in the anime, they had paid attention to detail in the manga, and still had it only
being Dio.
They also made sure to show Dio punching with the assistance of The World when he’s attacking
Jotaro.
So, I’d take the Road Roller feat as a Dio feat.
A road roller with two drums like the one Dio had used, are usually around 28 thousand
to 35 thousand pounds, but with it being the times of the early 90’s when publishing,
and being in the later 80’s in Stardust Crusaders, it’s safe to say that the older
forms of road rollers would be more over 32 thousand to 35 thousand.
There’s also a chance of the weight of the specific road roller varying due them being
in Egypt, since Araki had taken the design from Egypt directly, it’s different.
And while some people don’t think Araki pays attention to detail, trust me, he does.
So, here I’d think it’s safe to say that Dio can lift above 30 thousand pounds, which
is good.
Now, where Dio is, in comparison to his original self.
While figuring out how he works was odd, how to find this isn’t that difficult.
In Dio’s prime, his regeneration beat out a large amount of fire burning him as if nothing
happened, his slightest moves had killed, and he had survived being split down the middle.
In Stardust Crusaders, you would be able to expect more if Awakened Dio was on the same
level of original Dio, but he wasn’t.
Before Dio had taken the blood of Joseph, he had taken a blow to the head from Jotaro.
That punch alone had put him in a ridiculously damaged state where he had felt a lot of these
human feelings that a vampire normally wouldn’t.
Plus, if you think about the capabilities of vampires, you can just refer to Straits
and how many grenades he had made contact with and how he still regenerated from it.
If Dio’s power and vampire percentage is parallel to his regeneration, which it should
be, he’s around 20 to 25% DIO.
That begs the question, where does Awakened Dio stand.
He looks a lot stronger than how he was before taking Joseph blood, but then you have to
think about whose blood is he taking, and how is it affecting his body.
Since it’s Joseph blood, it’s both Joestar and Hamon blood.
While it being blood and contributing to his regeneration since he’s a vampire, it’s
blood for Jonathan’s body.
So, it’s most likely that it’s allowing Dio to tap in to more of Jonathan’s pure
strength, and also somewhat helping him on getting back to normal.
Since it’s hamon blood, it’s also possible that it’s doing a bit worse for him.
So, Dio we see before is 20 to 25%, Awakened Dio is around 35 to 40%, Dio in Phantom Blood
is 100%, and Dio with Jonathan’s body if fully controlled and made his, would make
him around 120 to 125%.
That’s speaking more on in terms of strength, after 100%, his regeneration is as good as
it gets.
To put it in perspective, Dio with The World had broken a few bones when punching Jotaro
since Star Platinum’s defense is on par with The World’s attack.
If Dio was at where he wanted to be, he would’ve blown right through Jotaro since it would’ve
been the same as two The World’s punching Jotaro at the same time.
Adding onto that, you have to think about how strong Jonathan was.
He ended up being stronger than Tarkus who had lifted a mountain, and that was just due
to an extreme surge of hamon given to him by Zeppeli.
Dio at his prime was stronger than both Jonathan and Zeppeli.
So, putting Jonathan and Dio together is one of the things you don’t want to mess with.
Now, going on into his speed.
I believe that this is something that had stayed relatively the same, there’s a difference
between original Dio and Dio now, but it isn’t anything noticeable in terms of speed.
But, there’s something that I came across that some people also probably noticed.
When Dio was punching down onto the road roller, the hands of The World had shown with his
arms.
So, I was thinking about it either being Dio being supported by The World in his punches,
or he’s punching with the same speed as The World.
We’re shown that Star Platinum and The World are supposed to be punching at the same speed,
so if that holds up here then and they’re still punching at the same speed in this situation,
then that would say a lot about Dio.
To be safe, I’ll say he’s being supported by The World.
But, the hot take is going to be Dio is punching at the speed of The World, which means lightspeed
punches.
Most likely, Dio remains hypersonic.
Onto his durability, which we saw.
We know of his regeneration, but his durability something else.
He’s been hit by Star Platinum multiple times over and was still alive from almost
all of it.
Granted, he needed blood to recover from a lot of his injuries.
I had already gone over Jotaro in a different video, but you got Jotaro at his most serious
against Dio.
Against Kakyoin, who was someone who he helped recover from the beating he gave him, he had
blown out the side of his school building.
At his most serious, he had gone full out to the point where his punches left holes
in Dio.
But, to be able to take Prime Jotaro punches and not immediately die from it is notable.
Those are City-Block level blows and Dio surprisingly doesn’t just explode from that alone.
So, that finishes off on his durability.
Now the final thing to approach on Dio is on his ability to stop time.
Dio at the end of Stardust Crusaders was able to stop time for 9 seconds, which was significantly
better than his original 5 seconds.
If Dio had been able to live past the event of Stardust Crusaders, he would be able to
extend his length of time even further.
Which would end up having us in Eyes of Heaven after a while.
I had a video discussing the potential of Dio if he had ended up surviving the events
of Stardust Crusaders.
But onto time stop.
While we’re told that time stop is usually done in the span of seconds, from how it’s
shown in the anime, you’d think he’s doing it for minutes.
It’s just safe to say, when he has access to 9 second time stop, it’s usually more
than enough for the people you’d put Dio against.
Dio.
A vampire that could’ve been stronger by making better decisions, but he does well.
I’d like to see a canonical take on it by Araki than a logical theory, but not on end
of Stardust Crusaders Dio, but Dio if he had won, but before the Heaven plan.
There’s information given in Jojo6251, which I guess works help to make the theory even
close to canon.
Thank you for watching!
If you have another JoJo character or any character you want to see, be sure to leave
it in the comments.
I’ve got requests to move on into DIU, but also had got requests for characters like
Polnareff, Wamuu, and Kakyoin.
There’s a few other characters from 1 through 3, but I’m mentioning the most notable ones.
So, that’s still up in the air.
I’ll see you guys in the next.
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Until then, peace out and God speed.