JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 3 - Stardust Crusaders
“The World's true power, as its name suggests, is to reign supreme over the entire world!”
~DIO
Overview[]
The World is a close-range power type of Stand like Star Platinum. Its power far exceeds most Stands and is equal to the previously mentioned Star Platinum. The World is the Stand of the main antagonist of Stardust Crusaders, DIO. The World is capable of stopping time itself for a limit of 5 seconds. The World is obtainable from an arrow with a 1.5% chance, making it one of the rarest Stands in-game.
Compared to its Alternate Universe counterpart, The World focuses on close range combat, having two barrages and a Stand Jump for extra mobility with some slight range capabilities with its knife throw. The World's main ability - to stop time - is a major advantage of The World as there are only a limited amount of stands that can move within stopped time.
However, Gold Experience Requiem can cancel out the Time Stop with its Return to Zero ability. Furthermore, Road Roller is a heavily punishable attack when used incorrectly, allowing to put the user in a bad position if it misses.
Total Skill Points: 53 Points
Skills[]
LMB - Punch: This short move with a short cooldown deals 8.9 damage at max destructive power and can be combo up to 5 times, ultimately dealing 44.5 damage if all hit.
E - Stand Barrage: The World unleashes a powerful and fast barrage. (1.5 at max Destructive Power, 1.8 Hamon charged.)
R - Stand Barrage Finisher: The World releases a very powerful punch that is able to break through blocks and ragdoll your victims. (11, 17.7 at max Destructive Power.)
T - Throw Knives: The World throws a single knife in the direction of its user's cursor. At the final upgrade of this move, three knives are thrown. This move can be blocked, but only 4 times before the block is broken (at Max Sturdiness.). This stuns enemies. (5.1, 8.1 at max Destructive Power, you can use it without TW out but it won't have the destructive power upgrades.)
G - Road Roller: TW's user jumps high into the sky, bringing a steamroller down with them, slamming it down where they were previously standing. This move used to deal close to 70 damage. After the update on 1st July 2022, it now deals 0-200% of the opponent’s health depending on how much health they have lost. This move bypass block and ragdolls opponents (13 on impact, 0.5 during barrage phase, and the final hit depends on how much health the victim has lost.) [You can avoid this move fairly easily even if you only have dash and not any mobility moves] This move can attack multiple players at once as long as they are under the steamroller.
Y - Kick Barrage: The World throws a flurry of kicks forth at his target which finishes with a strong kick that is very fast and powerful. This ability can be perfect blocked at the start, but if you're late it will be a guaranteed barrage. (1.5 barrage at the kicks, 11 damage at the last kick.)
X - Stand Jump: The World does a huge leap forward, allowing you to climb buildings, as well as run away. Launches you twice as far during Time Stop.
Z - Time Skip: The World quickly stops time and you teleport in the direction of your cursor. It can be used to scale buildings at ease, due to its short cool down, though you can't use it in TS.
H - Rage Mode: The user screams and enters a state in which their Stand emits a red effect. This gives a 20% damage boost to all moves and allows use of Time Stop. This also allows you to take less damage.
J - The World (Rage Mode): The user does a quick start-up animation and yells "Za Warudo! Toki wo tomare!" (The World! Stop time!) before stopping time for 5 seconds, allowing you to land attacks on your opponent while they cannot move. During stopped time, you are unable to run and your Rage bar rapidly gets consumed. You and others with Time Stop Resistance can also jump higher during this time. When attacking your opponent in stopped time, all projectiles stay in place until time resumes, and you can constantly punch and use knockback moves on your opponent without knocking them back. During this time your opponent cannot counter barrage, leaving you a free barrage. Note that stands with the Time Stop Resistance skill will be able to temporarily fight back, depending on how many times they have upgraded the resistance, and as written above, they will also get this jump boost, allowing them to be able to jump high, and consequently avoid your attacks in the time stop, or achieve a height where you are unable to use your M1 attacks)
Skill Tree[]
Constant Rage: Increases the amount of time Rage Mode lasts for.
- Constant Rage I: 1 Point
- Constant Rage II: 1 Point
- Constant Rage III: 2 Points
Throw Knife: Lowers the cooldown of knife throw.
- Throw Knife I: 1 point
- Triple the Knives: 4 points, throw 2 more knives, making 3 knives in total
Time Stop Mastery: Increases how long The World can stop time for.
- Time Stop Mastery I: 2 points
- Time Stop Mastery II: 2 points
- Time Stop Mastery III: 2 points
Anger Issues: Rage meter fills up faster.
- Anger Issues I: 1 point
- Anger Issues II: 1 point
- Anger Issues III: 2 point
Destructive Power: Increases stand damage.
- Destructive Power I: 1 point
- Destructive Power II: 1 point
- Destructive Power III: 2 points
- Destructive Power IV: 2 points
- Destructive Power V: 2 points
Stand Jump Upgrade: Increases how high you can stand jump.
- Stand Jump Upgrade I: 2 points
- Stand Jump Upgrade II: 2 points
- Stand Jump Upgrade III: 3 points
Combos and Tips[]
Trivia[]
- Every skin for this Stand uses an old model, though The Waifu V2 uses a much different model.
- The World used to be able to be able to get a 9 second time stop, and could do a double timestop. This used to work on The World, Star Platinum, & The World (Alternate Universe)
- On December 9th, The World's kick barrage got a new effect and was made to be more accurate to the anime.
- The World's eye color in the anime is actually hazel, rather than red.
- This is the first Stand in the Evolution of the Heaven's Plan.
- This Stand was one of 6 Stands to get a R63 Skin from the Stand Skin update. The other 5 being King Crimson, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, The Hand, Star Platinum, and The World (Alternate Universe). The World and King Crimson were the first to get R63 versions.
- Road Roller has been fixed so players will not be able to get out of its range. It is also harder to dash back. It was also made to bypass block. It was changed once more in Version 1.0 to have very little knockback, meaning victims will no longer be freed if hit at farther distances.
- The World's alternate self is The World (Alternate Universe)
- Like every other TS and TE stand on mobile, The World's time skip can only go forward of where the user is facing.
- Vampire is usually considered as the best style for this Stand as you can confirm Road Roller off of Vaporization Freezing, and because you are able to pull your Stand during Kick Barrage, allowing you to hit Life Drain.
- If you hit Road Roller on someone using a stand counter (e.g. King Crimsom's Epitaph / C-Moon's Gravitational Negation) the counter will be cancelled and the user will still get the Road Roller damage (but without the extra execution damage).
- To avoid this all you must do is evade almost the entire move, and in the final hit, activate the counter and walk towards the Road Roller.
Gallery[]
| Stands and Specialities | ||
|---|---|---|
| Stands | ||
| Arrow Stands | Whitesnake • Star Platinum • The World • Anubis • Red Hot Chili Pepper • Crazy Diamond • Killer Queen • Gold Experience • King Crimson • Silver Chariot • Hermit Purple • The Hand • Purple Haze • Cream • Hierophant Green • Magician's Red • White Album • Aerosmith • Six Pistols • Beach Boy • Mr. President • Sticky Fingers | |
| Rib Cage Stands | Scary Monsters • The World (Alternate Universe) • Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap • Tusk (Act 1) | |
| Evolved Stands | Gold Experience Requiem • King Crimson Requiem • Chariot Requiem • Killer Queen: Bites the Dust • Star Platinum: The World • Tusk (Act 2) • Tusk (Act 3) • Tusk (Act 4) • D4C: Love Train • C-Moon • Made in Heaven • The World Over Heaven | |
| Specialities | ||
| Specs | Boxing • Sword-Style • Spin • Hamon • Vampirism | |