JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Part 4 - Diamond Is Unbreakable
Josuke Higashikata! I, Okuyasu Nijimura, will make you disappear with my The Hand!
~Okuyasu Nijimura
Overview[]
The Hand is a blue Stand with yellow eyes and black stripes. It has gold rings on it's arms and the yen sign on it's torso. The Hand's ability is to erase anything from existence, even including the air. This allows Okuyasu, The Hand's user, to pull things to him or accelerate forward, both of which are seen in YBA. You have a 4% chance of getting it from an arrow.
The Hand can be a very annoying-and deadly stand if you don't know how to counter it. Its erasures deal a ton of damage and remove a limb, hindering your mobility and defense, in addition to having a short cooldown.
However, The Hand does have some major flaws. The erasures are really its only source for damage, unless you combine it with a spec. These moves can both be parried and have obvious sound cues for when they come out. The erasure pull can also lead to you getting parried, since the two damaging erasures are the most likely moves to be thrown out after a successful pull. Along with that, The Hand is a slow stand that gets most of it's damage from heavy, slow striking moves. Nimble, agile, and aggressive stands like The World: Alternate Universe or White Album counter The Hand's slow, defensive play style. (This is dependent on the user, but overall aggressive stands work well against slow stands which moves are too slow to catch up.) Usually, fighting styles fix the problem and you can still manipulate the stand to fix your play style.
Total Skill Points: 42 Points
Skills[]
LMB - Punch: The Hand throws out a basic punch dealing 5.5 damage per hit, comboing for up to 27.5 damage per 5 hits.
E - Stand Barrage: The Hand unleashes a barrage of slow punches, dealing 0.9 damage per punch. This move has little to no end lag.
R - Stand Barrage Finisher: The Hand throws a heavy punch, dealing 11 damage and ragdolling the opponent. This move has a somewhat high end lag.
T - Erasure: The Hand swipes its opponent, dealing a maximum of 61.2 damage (76.5 with hamon). This move also erases one of the opponent's limbs. If the opponent's leg is erased, they will lose the ability to run. If the opponent's arm is removed, more damage will be inflicted on the target. If the opponent loses both arms, they cannot block. This move has a 10 second cooldown.
Y - Secondary Erasure: The Hand does a second swipe, dealing a maximum of 48.6 damage (60.8 with hamon). This swipe comes out slower than the first erasure. This also erases one of the opponent's limbs, and has a longer cooldown than the first erasure. This move has a 20 second cooldown, and ragdolls opponents.
X - Erasure Pull: Erases the space between the user and the opponent, pulling them into The Hand's attack range. This move has an end lag of about half a second. Although this move does not deal damage, it stuns the opponent the same way if you were to use LMB on the opponent.
Z - Erasure Acceleration: The Hand erases the space in front of the user to leap forwards. This move does not deal damage.
Skill Tree[]
Erasure: upgrades the damage on Erasure.
- Erasure I: 2 points
- Erasure II: 2 points
- Erasure III: 3 points
- Erasure IV: 4 points
- Erasure V: 4 points
Accelerate: buffs the distance covered by Erasure Acceleration.
- Accelerate I: 2 points
- Accelerate II: 3 points
- Accelerate III: 4 points
Pull: increases the range of Erase Pull.
- Pull I: 2 points
- Pull II: 3 points
- Pull III: 4 points
Erasure: 1 point, The Hand swipes its hand, erasing one of the opponent's limbs and dealing great damage.
Erase Pull: 4 points, The Hand swipes its hand in order to erase the space between the user and the opponent, pulling them closer.
Erasure Acceleration: 4 points, The Hand swipes its hand in order to erase the space in front of the user, propelling them forward.Combos and Tips[]
Trivia[]
- After the recent remodel to both The Hand and it's R63 Skin, The erasure effect stopped working, as the parts needed to activate the effect are no longer on the model. This originally was only the case for Chromo Hando, but every model created after it also doesn't have the parts needed. However because The Other Hand uses the old model, the effect still works, making it the only skin where the erasure effect works.
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