JoJo Stand Quiz: What Stand Would You Have?

In JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure a Stand is a manifestation of its user’s fighting spirit, which is why no two are alike and why a Stand so often looks like its owner’s personality given a body. That makes “what Stand would I have” a fair question to put to a personality quiz.

Each of the 12 questions is about how you behave under pressure: what you do when a problem appears, how you lead, where you like to stand in a fight. Every answer adds points to one or two of eight Stands from Parts 3 to 6. You get the Stand you matched most strongly, and the share of your answers that went to each of the others.

The match between a temperament and a Stand is our reading of each user, not something the series states. The reference section below is canon throughout — each Stand’s user and ability, the rules every Stand follows, and where the names come from.

A Stand is a psycho-spiritual manifestation of a person’s fighting spirit, each with its own supernatural ability. Stands are introduced in Part 3, Stardust Crusaders: the first one appears in Chapter 114 of the manga and the word itself is first used in Chapter 116.

The name is explained in the story. Joseph Joestar calls it a Stand because it stands next to its user. Hirohiko Araki has said the idea came from wanting to draw “the heart and soul” — a way to make an invisible force visible on the page, and the device that has carried every Part since.

Stands are wildly different from each other, but they share a handful of rules, as set out in JoJo’s Bizarre Encyclopedia. These are what make Stand battles puzzles rather than contests of strength.

The Encyclopedia groups Stands by how they operate, drawing on the official artbooks for some categories. The classification of any individual Stand is the wiki’s, so treat it as a useful map rather than an official ruling.

Stands are also rated on six parameters — Destructive Power, Speed, Range, Stamina, Precision and Potential — each graded from A (very good) to E (very poor), with C as the average human level. The grades are given outside the story: they first appeared in the end-of-chapter pages of Part 5, and earlier Stands were graded later in artbooks.

The Stands of Part 3 are named after the tarot’s Major Arcana, and once the cards run out, after nine Egyptian deities. From late in Part 3 onward the great majority are named after Western musicians, bands, albums and songs — which is also why several were renamed for English releases.

The protagonists’ Stands in Parts 3 to 6 follow a pattern of their own: platinum, diamond, gold, stone.