The 20-meter emerald splash, how strong is it?
Why do I care?
Well, the 20-meter emerald splash was an ability that we only saw once.
After seeing it getting easily defeated, a lot of people believed it’s not that much
of a crazy ability.
Well context matters a lot, and stopping time is busted.
But I’m a firm believer in Kakyoin, and I believe that there aren’t that many Stand
users that have a chance against the 20-meter emerald splash.
So, let’s go over every stand and putting them in the same position as DIO to see if
I’m somewhat right.
Starting this off with Star Platinum, but let’s put this before the DIO fight, which
means he can’t stop time yet.
Star Platinum can absorb the shock from an emerald splash with his forearm covers, but
he would be unable to deflect the multiple Emerald Splashes since there would be too
many.
It’s like the issue he had with the knives, but the problem with this is that it’s a
20-meter radius emerald splash.
The effect of knives being close was a problem, but what if you end up multiplying the number
of them?
Along with that, you’re increasing the speed, and the size of them.
Plus, DIO couldn’t even matchup unless he stopped time.
So, this takes both Jotaro and Star Platinum out of the picture.
Onto Hermit Purple, a stand with not that much…
Yeah ok, onto Magician’s Red.
Alright, well how does Stand Fire fair to the Emerald Splash.
This is actually one of the things that puzzles me because it isn’t a confrontation that
you would ever see.
Well, along with telekinetic minerals, he secrets some sort of telekinetic slime water
that goes with it.
With the combination of both, it should put out that fire, but the fire isn’t exactly
even there technically.
The same fire is susceptible to getting manipulated by other stand’s and their abilities.
Like in the Polnareff Vs. Avdol fight.
Almost forgot to mention that the flames of Magician’s Red aren’t about to melt the
Emerald Splash, especially since stand fire is based more on melting physical things.
Now, Kakyoin Vs. Polnareff.
Silver Chariot is a ridiculously fast stand, but it can’t clash head on with these Emerald
Splash.
If he moves his sword in the circular motion, he can take care of the projectiles in front
of him.
The problem with that is that he wouldn’t be fast enough to get the ones behind him.
Take him out of his armor, and I believe he would be able to clash with a 180 half of
the radius, but the other 180 would be enough to take him out in his now weakened state.
Polnareff isn’t really made for a quantity of attacks, and mostly prospers in 1 on 1’s.
Iggy & The Fool, do they match up?
Well “The Fool” can make a pretty strong defense to protect Iggy from the Emerald Splashes.
The problem is that he can’t really do anything to combat it.
So, if he can’t combat it then he’ll be stuck in his defense for a while, and it will
break after enough Emerald Splashes.
Tower of Gray!
Well, we had seen how well he had done against singular Emerald Splashes going at separate
times.
He got trapped into a trap originally caused by those singular attacks, and he won’t
do well against the radius of Emerald Splashes.
Along with that, it’s the stand and the user standing together.
Tower of Gray can do well if he’s not around at all and has a surprise factor, but that’s
not the case here since we’re positioning him in the same place as DIO.
Dark Blue Moon…
Well there’s no water so…
Strength!
Yeah this stand can probably take the Emerald Splashes, but it would be pretty odd.
Since its power is binding itself to an object and making it ridiculously stronger, the only
thing around him would towers.
So, yeah it can probably do pretty well.
Side note: I hate this stand.
Ebony Devil can’t match up.
Yellow Temperance is cool, but won’t matter here.
Hanged Man is a stand that can completely avoid this, but serves no defensive purposes
to help his user.
Emperor is literally a gun vs. an armada of shotguns.
Empress just sucks, and is very situational since it’s based on getting on to the person.
I give it credit if it’s already on Kakyoin, but Kakyoin wouldn’t even need a single
Emerald Splash if it was on his arm already.
Wheel of Fortune, the original western stand-off.
Man Vs. Car.
Well, this man turns the car into Swiss cheese.
Justice, this is a great stand.
The problem with this stand is that there’s no defensive capabilities for it.
Now, instead of going through every stand, I’m just going to tell you which stands
don’t match up in a back to back way.
It’s either they have poor defense, or they’re situational.
Lovers, poor defense.
The Sun, situational with a poor defense.
It has a poor everything too if the user must be careful with his own stand.
Death 13 is situational.
Judgement has poor defense.
High Priestess has a pretty good chance because of Mineral Possession.
It’s good in the same way that Strength is good.
Geb has poor defenses.
Khnum is both situational and have poor defenses, but it would be funny to see him change his
face to one of the Stardust Crusaders.
Or maybe even Kakyoin, just to freak him out.
Tohth can maybe help by predicting beforehand, but it’s not a stand for something instant
like this.
Anubis depends on who it is, but if he was possessing Polnareff then he could possibly
do something to get out of it.
The stand by itself can’t do anything, and it has poor defenses because it can’t do
anything.
Bastet is way too situational, and I completely dislike this stand being in Eyes of Heaven.
That doesn’t have anything to do with this, I just don’t like this stand.
Sethan, good but the distance would be too far for him to be effective.
Osiris can’t match up at all.
Horus could possibly build a well enough defense to stall, and then could also fly out of the
web of Hierophant Green.
Atum is completely situational, and doesn’t match up.
Tenore Sax…
Well the web would still exist, but maybe he could hide.
There’s not thing he can do to combat Hierophant Green though.
Cream, now Cream is a Stand that’s like “The World” in this case.
The 20-meter Emerald Splash doesn’t match up to him at all.
Kakyoin gets easily stomped in this.
Now, there are more stands obviously, but there’s no point of doing so because we
don’t have to worry about Kakyoin in further parts.
If we’re going to be fully honest, while the 20-meter Emerald Splash beats the majority
of the Stardust Crusaders stands, this isn’t too much of a feat due to the Stands in part
3.
If was supposed to go over every stand, then it would be a large feat, because then we
see something with stands that hold a challenge and aren’t focused on being too situational.