JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future/Vanilla Ice/Introduction

Vanilla Ice (ヴァニラ・アイス Vanira Aisu) is an antagonist featured in Stardust Crusaders. He is the last Vampire created by DIO and one of the penultimate Stand Users the Joestar Group faces upon infiltrating DIO's Mansion. After the group is split up, he is sent to take out the team consisting of Avdol, Polnareff, and Iggy. Vanilla Ice is a Stand User controlling his void-based ability, Cream, to battle.

As a character, Vanilla Ice is an incredibly powerful one, boasting the strongest oki and very powerful defensive/offensive options, he is a real menace to go up against. Being one of the characters with Instant Air Dashes (IADs) that are relatively easy to perform, opening up his opponent isn't big of a deal, especially combined with his other options like his fast roll or high priority dashing normals. Vanilla Ice is one of the strongest characters to turtle with - his normals in Stand ON have extreme priority and fast recovery, which can make it hard or even impossible for most characters to contest or whiffpunish.
Combined with all that, and the fact that he has one of the highest damage output, Ice can effectively end the game with a single confirm, while making it hard for his opponent to challenge him in neutral. Vanilla Ice is considered to be the best tournament legal character, easy-to-learn and high reward gameplay makes V.Ice a perfect pick for a fast headstart.

Difficulty: Fairly Easy

Pros	Cons
Easy to pick up and not hard to Master Fast Dashing Speed, has an Airdash in Stand ON, overall Great Maneuverability compared to most of the cast Arguably the best Okizeme in the game, even outside of his unblockable setup Can be practically Inapproachable in Stand ON with his high-priority Normals Despite being the tallest stand in game, Cream can low profile certain projectiles other stands can't Builds good amounts of Meter Insanely strong IAD that can link into his main BNB The Slurpdrop which lets you instantly drop down from Stand ON jumps by deactivating your Stand Can easily escape tech chasing with his floating and dashes, can even punish an attempt tech chase with said slurpdrop Good grab that can create bad situations for your opponent in the Corner Has a Frame 1 Super (S.623AA) that is hard to punish, and can setup into Okizeme Has a confusing Pseudo cross-up with his S.236A/B/C into 1 A/B/C	Both Stand OFF and Stand ON Guard Cancels aren't very useful outside of a few select situations Extremely floaty Stand ON jump, which can get him stuck in a weird air blockstun where he can't tech or turn stand off in the air Small Stand Gauge means he can be Stand Crashed easily

Vanilla Ice

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Stand: Active

Defense Value Stand OFF: 89

Defense Value Stand ON: 78

Stand Durability: 72

Roll Speed: 29

Wakeup Speed: 35

Prejump Stand OFF: 5

Prejump Stand ON: 4

Notable Players

Color	Nickname	Country	Platform	Accounts	Notes
	DM	Japan	Arcade (BigOne2nd)	None	One of the few Japanese players to play Vanilla Ice seriously. Status: Active
	Lamar	USA, Midwest	Fightcade 2	N/A	Is considered the man of a million faces; since he plays under many aliases on fightcade. He's also the Vanilla Ice Veteran of fightcade Status: Semi-Active
	Soui	USA, East Coast	Fightcade 2	Fightcade: Soui	very trollish play style, though was very threatening overall Status:inactive
	BiLL	USA, East Coast	Fightcade 2	Twitter: FGCBill	Veteran since GGPO, also plays Rubber Soul. Status: Semi-active
	Poezn	USA, West Coast	Fightcade 2	Fightcade: MasterChief982	Known for both strong defence and insane IAD pressure Status: Active
	Dannythebalu	Canada	Fightcade 2	Twitter: Dannytheballu	Veteran since GGPO. Status: Semi-active
	PartildSISM	Belgium	Fightcade 2	Twitter: PartildSISM	Offline warrior. Status: Temporarily Inactive
	vokxx	Russia	Fightcade 2	Fightcade: triple six	Soviet Super Soldier. Status: Inactive/Retired?
	tavinhocj	Brazil	Fightcade 1+2	Fightcade: tavinhocj Twitter: @Tavinhocj	Veteran brazilian player and one of the strongest in SA, doesn't play frequently but is still active inside the community. Status: Inactive/Retired?