JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure is one of the most beloved, most-memed, most posted-about franchises in all of fighting games. Surely its characters dominate SaltyBet, right? ZA WARUDO, time-stops, “is that a JoJo reference,” the whole thing?
We pulled the data on 72 JoJo fighters across more than 8,400 SaltyBet matches [1] — and the answer is wonderfully anticlimactic: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure wins exactly 50.1% of its matches against the rest of the roster. A coin flip. The most hype franchise on the select screen is, in aggregate, perfectly, hilariously average. But that 50/50 hides one of the widest internal spreads we’ve ever charted — from a Dio variant at 76.8% all the way down to a fan-favorite protagonist at 14.7%. Let’s dig in. To be continued →
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| JoJo fighters tracked | 72 |
| Total matches involving a JoJo fighter | 8,401 |
| JoJo-vs-JoJo mirror matches | 45 |
| Win rate vs non-JoJo opponents | 50.1% |
50.1% against the field is as average as a franchise gets. For comparison, when we ran the same analysis on Dragon Ball, that roster came in at 47.6% — so JoJo edges out the Saiyans, but both land within a couple points of the 50% baseline. The takeaway is the same one we keep running into: as we covered in why some MUGEN characters always win, a famous franchise label tells you nothing about win rate. The matchmaker doesn’t care that Jotaro is iconic. It cares about the build.
Here’s how SaltyBet has sorted those 72 JoJo fighters across its tiers:
| Tier | JoJo Fighters |
|---|---|
| X | 6 |
| S | 11 |
| A | 23 |
| B | 12 |
| P | 20 |
JoJo is an A-tier-heavy franchise — 23 of its 72 fighters live in A, the platform’s busiest competitive tier. But look at that P-tier tail: 20 JoJo fighters sit in P, the bottom rung. That’s the MUGEN reality of a hugely popular series — for every polished, tournament-ready Dio build, there are a handful of half-finished joke edits and low-effort variants that the matchmaker has quietly filed away in the basement. If you’re fuzzy on what these tiers mean for betting, our tier list explainer breaks it down.
The franchise’s top performers (minimum 50 career matches):
| Fighter | Record | Win Rate | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dio's evil incarnation | 179-54 | 76.8% | S |
| Stroheim | 142-50 | 74.0% | A |
| Black polnareff | 82-31 | 72.6% | B |
| Ultimate requiem giorno | 41-16 | 71.9% | X |
| Young joseph | 149-60 | 71.3% | A |
| Destiny.dio | 150-61 | 71.1% | S |
| Josuke higashikata | 114-59 | 65.9% | A |
| Jotaro | 136-73 | 65.1% | A |
Dio’s evil incarnation is the king of JoJo SaltyBet at 76.8% across 233 matches — a heavily-played, battle-tested S-tier build that does exactly what the villain is supposed to do: win. Behind it, the Stardust Crusaders era carries the franchise. Stroheim (74.0%), Young joseph (71.3%), and Jotaro (65.1%) are all Part 2-3 mainstays, and they’re the spine of JoJo’s respectability. The Pillar Man scientist and the young Joestars simply show up and produce.
The fun outlier is Ultimate requiem giorno at 71.9% in X-tier — Gold Experience Requiem doing Gold Experience Requiem things (“your actions have already been decided”). It’s the rare JoJo fighter that earned its way into the elite tier and stayed there.
Not every Stand user is built different. The worst JoJo performers (minimum 50 matches):
| Fighter | Record | Win Rate | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jolyne cujoh | 17-99 | 14.7% | B |
| Okuyasu nijimura | 17-74 | 18.7% | B |
| Enrico pucci | 57-166 | 25.6% | S |
| Shadow dio fc | 44-111 | 28.4% | B |
| Shadow dio | 63-151 | 29.4% | S |
The cruelest stat in this whole piece: Jolyne Cujoh, the protagonist of Part 6, wins just 14.7% of her matches — the single worst record among established JoJo fighters. Stone Ocean’s heroine has the lowest win rate of any JoJo character with real sample size. The MUGEN build just doesn’t translate, and the salt mines are unkind to her.
And here’s a delicious irony: Enrico pucci — Jolyne’s own arch-nemesis — is also a struggler at 25.6% despite an S-tier billing. The Part 6 final boss and final hero are both near the bottom of the franchise board. Made in Heaven, unmade in SaltyBet.
If you only remember one thing about betting JoJo on SaltyBet, make it this: “Dio” is not one fighter — it’s a dozen, and they could not be more different. Look at the most-active Dio-and-friends builds:
| Fighter | Record | Win Rate | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dio's evil incarnation | 179-54 | 76.8% | S |
| Destiny.dio | 150-61 | 71.1% | S |
| The world-dio EX3 | 98-131 | 42.8% | S |
| Clone dio | 95-141 | 40.3% | S |
| Shadow dio | 63-151 | 29.4% | S |
Every one of these is S-tier. Their win rates range from 76.8% down to 29.4%. Same villain, same tier, wildly different outcomes — because they’re different MUGEN authors’ builds with different AI, movesets, and balance. Bet “Dio is good” and you’ll be right half the time and broke the other half. Bet the specific Dio in front of you, and you’ve got an edge. This is the entire thesis of franchise betting on SaltyBet in one character: the name on the card is not the fighter in the ring.
The franchise’s most-played fighter overall, by the way, is Shadow diavolo — 274 matches at a solid 62.0% in S-tier. King Crimson erased the matches where it lost, presumably.
One reason we pulled this report now: JoJo’s been running a touch cold lately. Over the first two weeks of June, the franchise’s collective win rate dipped to the high-40s%, down from about 55% the prior fortnight — a soft patch with no single culprit (a scattering of losses across Anubis polnareff, Shadow dio, Jolyne, and others, while Dio’s evil incarnation quietly went 5-0). We want to be straight with you, though: that’s a two-week wobble over a few dozen matches, and it means almost nothing against an 8,400-match, 50.1% baseline. Franchises don’t “decline” in a fortnight; they regress to their mean. JoJo’s mean is a coin flip, and it’ll be back at a coin flip soon enough.
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