JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future/Devo

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Devo the Cursed (呪いのデーボ Noroi no Dēbo), also known as Debo or D'bo, is a minor antagonist featured in Stardust Crusaders.

An infamous Native American shaman and assassin in DIO's service, Devo ambushes Jean Pierre Polnareff in his hotel room in Singapore. His Stand, Ebony Devil, has the power to possess inanimate objects, but only after Devo himself was hurt, growing in strength as Devo grows more hatred to his opponent. This allows him to remotely control them from any distance.

Devo is famous for being the first character in fighting games that controls a separate entity, in his case, a literal puppet, hence the archetype: "puppet character". Unlike other puppet characters, such as zato=1, carl clover or miss fortune, who tag team their opponents, devo switches between controlling only the doll's specials where he can use them for frametraps at best or oki and having full control of the doll, getting access to its unreactable 50/50s and normals with hitboxes as big as the doll itself at the cost of not being able to move and receiving roughly double damage to the main body. Devo's gameplay relies on heavy neutral and ground control with the puppet. Devo is scary when his stand is behind you for the inability to hit the puppet, and when devo is close(sandwiched) he can perform his powerful combos that can kill or set okizeme.

Difficulty: Very Hard

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Pros Cons
  • Huge Damage Output in Combos
  • Very Strong Mixups and Okizeme
  • Possibly the best reversal in the game
  • Decent Normals
  • Extremely Short Crouching Hurtbox
  • Very Fast Roll
  • Highest stand off Defense in the game along Hol/Hoingo
  • Good area control, technically you're in two places at the same time.
  • Extremely High learning curve, with both Difficult links and Doll's positioning dependent Combos
  • Remote Stand Only
  • Most Specials in Stand OFF and ON are Highly committal without Meter
  • Extremely slow Meter Build without S.22X, which is Unsafe on Hit if not cancelled into Tandem
  • Pressure can be easily punished if it's predictable
  • Sometimes crippled by the IPS
Devo

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Stand: Active

Defense Value Stand OFF: 78

Defense Value Stand ON: 89

Stand Durability: 88

Roll Speed: 28

Wakeup Speed: 35

Prejump Stand OFF: 5

Prejump Stand ON: 3

Notable Players

Color Nickname Country Platform Accounts Notes
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Anri Japan Arcade (BigOne2nd) N/A "Best Devo" - SQ.
Status: Active
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Zeke USA, East Coast Fightcade 2 FightCade: psi_mega
falcos grandpa
Discord: Zeke#9566
Old Devo player. Master of the Air Tandem.
Status: Active
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Aleph Null USA, West Coast Fightcade 2 FightCade: Aleph Null
Twitter: @jojoHFTFaleph
Discord: Aleph Null#1342
HFTF Youtuber. Also plays DIO.
Status: Retired
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Cloudskipper USA, West Coast Fightcade 2 FightCade: CloudSkipper
Discord: ???
Appears Once In A Blue Moon.
Status: Retired/Rarely Active

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