Lisa Lisa makes her first playable appearance in the PS3 game as a DLC character (along with Old Joseph, as part of Campaign #2, named "Ripple Masters"). As a Ripple-user character (along with Jonathan Joestar, Will Anthonio Zeppeli, Joseph [Both Parts 2 and 3], and Caesar), Lisa Lisa can recharge her Heart Heat Gauge through "Ripple Breath" by holding down the Style button, performing a pose, as well as deliver enhanced versions of skills if Style is inputted in place of normal attack buttons. Lisa Lisa has 900 HP.
Lisa Lisa also appears on the stage "The Battlefield" as a background character along with Kars. If Joseph is one of the combatants ingame, Lisa Lisa will cheer him on. This is assuming that Lisa Lisa herself is not part of the fight.
Lisa Lisa always starts the match wearing sunglasses; if she get hits by a HHA/GHA, she will drop them on the stage (making her the only character in the game who can lose an item of clothing during a match). Lisa Lisa's alternate costume features her Italian Oarsman's outfit worn during her debut; by wearing this costume, a mask will replace the sunglasses.
Moveset
During a fight, Lisa Lisa can use several different attacks that were featured in Battle Tendency.
Lisa Lisa encapsulates the rare and unconventional "Rekka" archetype of character, firmly within 'rushdown'. Most of her skills begin or are part of a "Ripple Chain" exclusive to her playstyle, allowing her to successively branch and chain as many moves together as she desires to rapidly confuse a defending opponent. However, there are recovery gaps in-between many of her looping attacks so as to prevent the chain from becoming an inescapable perpetual combo, or let her pressure her opponent's guard indefinitely.
Lisa Lisa's various Ripple Chain attacks offer immense burst damage, allowing her to deal devastating combos for less effort. Her skills are especially built for 'mix-ups', leaving the opponent unsure whether to defend high or low. More importantly, her esoteric playstyle allows her to rapidly overwhelm those unfamiliar with her arsenal. Even with gaps in her offense, she can utilize moves that properly defend against or avoid incoming attacks in anticipation, up to and including her powerful GHA, forcing her opponent to remain cautious.
Her biggest weakness is an intrinsic one: the barrier of entry necessary to wield her. Lisa Lisa's unusual style of control when attacking calls for a much greater degree of precision and focus to utilize. As a result, she's widely considered one of the most difficult characters in the game with an extraordinarily high level of execution. As a rushdown character, few of her moves extend past close-range, meaning she requires more effort to close the distance and is less versatile overall. In addition, she's somewhat dependent on Heart Heat to keep her vulnerability to a minimum; If skills within the Ripple Chain aren't Ripple-enhanced, her opponent can easily recover and be given the chance to defend or even retaliate during the Chain.
Lisa Lisa is a highly technical, unorthodox fighter who requires great skill to properly play. However, once mastered, she offers consistently high close-ranged damage output and the means to repeatedly outmaneuver and outsmart her foe, winning battles in explosive bursts.
ON GROUND Lisa Lisa breathes out to produce the Ripple, charging her Heart Heat Gauge. As a Ripple master, Lisa Lisa's Ripple Breath replenishes the HHG faster than most other Ripple users, being roughly 150% of the normal rate and tying with Zeppeli's for fastest in the game.
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ON GROUND Lisa Lisa quickly slides clockwise to the opponent's side, granting her some invulnerability and allowing for sudden evasion to a higher degree than the standard Sidestep. This skill activates the Ripple Chain.
ON GROUND After a move that begins/loops the Ripple Chain is performed, Lisa Lisa will automatically reset into a neutral stance with a spin, during which the Ripple Chain may be continued on input.
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ON GROUND Lisa Lisa performs a short hop followed by a spinning kick. This skill activates the Ripple Chain.
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// ON GROUND Lisa Lisa performs a downward strike with her hand infused with the Ripple. This skill activates the Ripple Chain. If Ripple-enhanced, the move deals more damage and leaves the opponent crumpling, leaving no room for them to recover between attacks.
+ /// IN AIR OK This move can only be performed in mid-air. Lisa Lisa throws a knife downward. This skill activates the Ripple Chain upon her landing. If Ripple-enhanced, the knife shocks the opponent, hitting them up to five times and leaving no room for them to recover between attacks.
ON GROUND A Ripple Chain attack. Lisa Lisa swings her Ripple-infused scarf around to smack the opponent. This attack can either follow up with a skill that continues the Ripple Chain or a finisher.
ON GROUND Lisa Lisa follows up by dashing toward the opponent. This skill loops the Ripple Chain.
ON GROUND A Ripple Chain attack. Lisa Lisa performs a flip and drop-kicks the opponent, before landing on her feet. This skill is a middle attack that cannot be blocked crouching, and can either follow up with another skill that continues the Ripple Chain or a finisher.
ON GROUND Lisa Lisa follows up with a back-flipping kick. This skill loops the Ripple Chain.
ON GROUND A Ripple Chain attack. Lisa Lisa performs a spinning double kick while on one hand. This skill is a low attack and cannot be blocked crouching, and can either follow up with a skill that continues the Ripple Chain or a finisher.
ON GROUND Lisa Lisa follows up by leaping over the opponent. She may perform a normal air attack while airborne, but doing so will cancel the Ripple Chain. This skill loops the Ripple Chain.
+ /// ON GROUND A Ripple Chain finisher. Lisa Lisa infuses the Ripple into her scarf and twirls it, hitting the opponent and leaving them crumpling. If Ripple-enhanced, this attack does more damage, but immediately knocks the opponent down, leaving no room to continue the assault.
+ /// ON GROUND A Ripple Chain finisher. Using her scarf to prop her up, Lisa Lisa delivers a potent drop kick, knocking the opponent down. This move is a middle attack that cannot be blocked crouching, and an attack that can hit downed opponents. If Ripple-enhanced, the attack does more damage.
+ /// ON GROUND A Ripple Chain finisher. Lisa Lisa flips over the opponent and sends a pulse of Ripple directly into their head with both hands crossed (similar to how she placed the breathing mask on Joseph). This skill is an unblockable command Throw. If Ripple-enhanced, the attack does more damage.
ON GROUND Lisa Lisa, using just her index finger, sends a blast of Ripple into her opponent.
+ 2 ATK Buttons ON GROUND Lisa Lisa holds up the Red Stone of Aja high above her head. After a short brief period of her channeling Ripple energy into it, the Stone fires off a focused, powerful, and unblockable laser at a downward angle. If the opponent is hit, they will be knocked to the ground as Lisa Lisa proudly states that she must protect the Stone.
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ON GROUND A counterattack GHA that can also be chained into during the Ripple Chain. Lisa Lisa gracefully twirls her scarf around her not unlike a ballerina. If the opponent strikes her with a non-Throw, they'll be repelled into the air by a sudden blast of Ripple. Wrapping the Ripple-embedded scarf around the opponent to trap them, Lisa Lisa states that it is Satiporoja Beetle-thread, able to conduct 100% of the Ripple. She then rapidly assaults the helpless opponent with a flurry of Ripple-infused punches and kicks, all whilst noting that the scarf was specially made and expensive. Lisa Lisa finishes by delivering a final back-flipping kick as she retrieves the scarf and unravels the opponent in a single motion.
Notably enough, this GHA deals roughly ~37% of the opponent's max health in damage, making it the second most powerful Great Heat Attack in the entire game, bested only by Diavolo's, whose GHA deals ~42%.
Story Mode
Battle Tendency
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2. Land the "Snake Scarf" skill. (1000 G)
Kars: You Ripple users like to fight fair, huh? Then let's settle this fair and square.
(生贄 Ikenie)
2. Use the "Shining Sabres" special. (1000 G)
Kars: You Ripple users like to fight fair, huh? Then let's settle this fair and square.
Trivia
- In the English localization, if Joseph defeats Lisa Lisa, his victory screen quote has him say, "Why did it have to come to this?! You are tearing me APART, Lisa Lisa!".[1] This quote is a joke-translation and a reference to the 2003 American drama film The Room, in which Tommy Wiseau's character, Johnny, shouts "You are tearing me APART, Lisa!"[2]
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