"Only Stands can Beat Stands"

only stands can beat other stands, but fortunately most stands come attached to a squishy human that can be beaten with a gun

Every "rule" in JoJo about stands is just an assumption. The person who came closest to understanding stands was probably Dio and Pucci.

It'll be cool to have a character who's only ability is to see other stands. Without a stand to fight back that character would have to use assassination to kill the user without altering the stand.

"Only stands can beat other stands" Except when they don't "Beating the user will deactivate the stand" Except when they don't "Emerald splash never misses" Except when emerald splash misses

"most stands are a visualization of the user's psyche" Jotaro: pumch

2:58 "Only stands can be defeated by other stands!" i'm pretty sure regular people can also be defeated by stands

If I remember right, stands operate under selective intangibility, an "I can touch you but you can't touch me" with physical matter. The exception I believe is when a stand uses a physical object as a weapon against another stand, but this happens categorically

It is true only a Stand can directly attack another Stand, but about anybody can potentially kill the user. The Pillar Men would beat 98% of Stand Users regardless of being unable to directly interact with their Stands or even see them.

"Only stands can beat other stands" DIO using his index finger to deflect the emerald splash

"stands are the visualization of the user's psyche" damn bro avdols psyche be looking finger lickin good

"Only stands can beat stands" How to beat a stand without stands Step 1: obtain a stand Step 2: do NOT use a stand. Step 3: obtain hamon/vampirism (or be born with ripple in general) Step 4: fight a stand.

i always heard “only a stand can beat other stands” as a prophecy, not a judgement of physical power—“many things can beat stands, but only a stand will happen to be used for it”. this explains how joseph can beat empress using a barrel of tar, and how josuke can beat red hot chili pepper with some seawater. hermit purple found the barrel of tar, and crazy diamond made the tire that pushed red hot chili pepper into the sea. the stands allowed those objects to be used, so they technically beat the other stands. maybe anyone could’ve used the objects, but they didn’t, fulfilling the prophecy

ONLY STAND USERS CAN SEE OTHER STANDS except when they don't ONLY STANDS CAN HARM OTHER STANDS except when they don't AND ALL DAMAGE DONE TO A STAND WILL REFLECT TO THE USER except when they don't -Viva Reverie Edit: apparently people are still calling me out on this so AHEM I KNOW ALL THESE RULES HAVE OBVIOUS EXCEPTIONS. I didn't make this joke I stole it from viva reverie(READ the whole comment before replying pleas)check HIM out he makes really funny stuff and to the guy that said I don't deserve 2.2k likes You're right but still we take those

Basicaly what happened at the beginning of creating JoJo: "Araki shouldn't we decide clear rules for stands from the beginning?" Araki: we'll figure it out as we go along

Even putting aside the examples of stands being harmed by real things, the “only stands can harm other stands” rule never really made sense to me because like, stands interact with real objects all the time. If Star Platinum can grab a bullet, then why can’t a bullet hurt Star Platinum? My idea of this is basically that stand users choose when their stands are and aren’t corporeal, which is also why stands can sometimes phase through stuff. So if you see a bullet coming at your stand you can just like, turn it off. I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense but it’s what I think.

“So only stand user can see other stands,” Except for when they don’t. “Only stands can harm other stands,” Except for when they don’t. “And all damage to the stand is reflected onto the user!” EXEPT FOR WHEN THEY DONT.

The thing some Jojo fans forget about is that in a fight with a stand user, it doesn’t matter if you can ‘beat the stand’, but if you can get to the (very mortal) user

Summed up: stands themselves normally can’t be beaten or hurt through physical means, however any physical object,being or attack outputting more force then the stand can stop will ultimately bypass the stand being able to go through it, even if the stand itself does not take damage or get effected by the force.

considering that killing the stand-user is the primary strategy used to attack and defeat a stand, I think what they meant by this was only a stand-user can defeat another stand-*user*, and they mean it more as a generalization than a 100% hard fact like, DIO was able to - seemingly - defeat Jotaro's stand because he'd been able to watch it, assess its capabilities, and then try to plan a counter-attack. DIO even tried to actively avoid having this strategy reversed on him by keeping his stand's power a secret a normal person could potentially kill a stand-user if they don't really have a plan to protect themselves, or if the no-stand-person gets lucky, but it'd be at least as difficult as fighting a vampire without hamon, if not even more difficult

"Only stands can beat other stands" refers that physical objects or beings can't directly damage or defeat a stand. There are two ways of defeating a stand user; either you defeat the user until they can't use their stand, or you defeat the stand which defeats the user in the process. The first way, for example, is the road roller, which is effective only because it attacks Jotaro, if it only attacked Star Platinum, it would be useless since Star Platinum can just let the road roller pass through him. You don't beat the stand, you beat the user, and defeat the stand in the process. The second way is, for example, the fight against Empress. The user, Nena, is not damaged at all throughout the fight and she's defeated when the stand is destroyed, not when she's directly attacked.