All-Star Battle R/Dio Brando

"You weakling! (貧弱貧弱ゥ！！)"

Dio Brando (ディオ・ブランドー) was confirmed for All-Star Battle R during the game's initial announcement trailer.

Although his moveset remains fundamentally the same as his from, a few tweaks have been made to both balance the character and fit him into the overall gameplay changes that All-Star Battle R brought along.

As the voice of Dio since the Phantom Blood anime, Takehito Koyasu reprises his role for All-Star Battle R. As with the majority of the game's roster, voice lines for Dio were either added or re-recorded.

Gameplay
Dio Brando has 800 health and uses the Vampirism (吸血) Battle Style, which converts part of the damage he receives from non-Ripple attacks into recoverable gray health. As a vampire, Dio also has access to several moves that drain either health or Heart Heat Gauge from his opponent while restoring his own.

General Changes

 * Dio's run speed is faster than it was in All-Star Battle.

Dialogue
Dio's first ten Taunt and Victory Lines are included in his Taunt and Victory Poses respectively, with two lines per pose; the first two poses of each type are unlocked by default, while the other three of each must be purchased for 450 G each. The remaining lines of both types can be purchased as a single set for 300 G. Dio's Tag Lines can be purchased as a set for  140 G.

Special Interactions

 * When Dio defeats with his Heart Heat Attack, Jonathan attempts to block the laser attack with his hands, as he does in the original story.
 * As with all Vampires and Pillar Men, Dio will burn in the sunlight during the Situation Finish for the DIO's Mansion stage.
 * When hit by 's Heart Heat Attack, Dio closes his right eye and the right half of his mouth, as he does when Jonathan splits his head in half during their climactic battle.
 * When hit by 's "It's an illusion." skill, Dio clutches both sides of his head and closes his right eye and the right half of his mouth, as he does when healing his head after the aforementioned attack.

Dialogue
Outside of, Dio has unique interaction dialogue for both his match entrances and victories when facing certain characters.

All-Star Battle Mode
All missions in featuring Dio Brando as a combatant, in order of appearance.

Music
Dio's theme is How feeble! (貧弱貧弱ゥ～～ッ！！), and can be unlocked in-game by landing the "Frozen in your tracks!" skill in 's Dio vs. Extra Battle.

Its name is taken from Dio's taunt toward Dire after completely freezing the latter's body.

1.3.0

 * "Punch right through you!"
 * Expanded move's hitbox.

1.4.0

 * Throw Escape
 * Adjusted to standardize character advantages and disadvantages after their throw escapes.
 * "Vaporizing Freeze"
 * Fixed a case where only the attack behavior was performed without the backward movement behavior.
 * Fixed so that if the same technique hits 3 times or more, the opponent will be knocked down.
 * "That must be five or six ribs broken"
 * Adjusted to move farther back when the attack is guarded.
 * "WRYYY!!"
 * Slowed startup.
 * Increased damage.
 * When hitting an airborne opponent, this skill will now cause a groundboucne.

1.4.1

 * Reversal Assist
 * Changed number of uses from 2 to 1.

1.6.0

 * Dash Forward
 * Increased dash speed.
 * Crouching Heavy Attack
 * Increased forward movement.
 * "Useless, useless, useless, useless!" skill
 * Decreased the number of button presses required to increase the damage.
 * "How feeble!" skill
 * Decreased the number of button presses required to increase the damage.
 * "That must be five or six ribs broken!" skill
 * Reduced recovery time.
 * Increased the knockback when hitting an airborne opponent to balance for the reduced recovery time.

2.0.0.

 * "Frozen in your tracks!" skill
 * No longer triggers Counter Hit on a successful activation.
 * Increased damage.
 * These changes affect the Assault Assist as this is the skill it uses.
 * "WRYYY!" skill
 * Fixed an issue where this move would not reduce the opponent's Guard Gauge.
 * Assault Assist
 * Fixed a bug where, when certain characters triggered this assist, they could still move and attack while Dio was on screen.

2.1.0

 * Crouching Heavy Attack
 * Fixed a bug where the opponent could act while the screen was darkened when this attack was Flash Canceled.
 * "I'll suck you dry!" skill
 * Added the ability to Flash Cancel the skill and cancel the skill into other skills and HHA.
 * Reduced damage.
 * Decreased startup for the anti-air variant.
 * Removed the opponent's invincibility after this skill hit, meaning that it is possible to combo off this skill now.
 * "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes!" HHA
 * Fixed a bug where if the HHA was Stylish Guarded and the hitbox disappeared, this attack could still counterhit an incoming attack.
 * Assault Assist
 * Decreased stocks from two to one.
 * Reversal Assist
 * Increased stocks from one to two.