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. Like 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 (スタンド) Battle Style. During a fight, he can use several different attacks that were featured in Phantom Blood.

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.
 * Fixed the opponent's damage reaction when aerial hit succeeds.

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.