All-Star Battle R ★ Diego Brando
Diego Brando (ディエゴ・ブランドー, Diego Brando) was confirmed as a playable character alongside Robert E. O. Speedwagon, Mariah, and Pet Shop during the Street Date trailer.[1] With his addition, there are technically 3 playable versions of Dio in the game.
His moveset is similar to that of his Eyes of Heaven appearance, with modifications made and new aspects added to better fit him in with All-Star Battle R's different style of gameplay.
In the English localization of All-Star Battle R, Diego's Stand, Scary Monsters, is localized as "Frightening Monsters", carried on from its first official usage in Eyes of Heaven.[3]
As Diego's voice actor since Eyes of Heaven, Takehito Koyasu reprises his role in All-Star Battle R as well. Like with the majority of the roster that have returning voice actors from Eyes of Heaven, voicelines for Diego were added and re-recorded.
Gameplay
Diego has 920 health and uses the both the Mounted (騎乗, Kijō) and Stand (スタンド, Sutando) Battle Styles, fighting foes with Silver Bullet and Scary Monsters. During a fight, he can use several different attacks that were featured in Steel Ball Run. Unlike most other characters that use the Stand Battle Style, Diego does not summon and dismiss another entity when utilizing his stand. Instead, Diego has several different attacks that either allow Diego to transform parts of his body into that of a dinosaur's or summon dinosaurs to attack his foes. His HHA allows him to fully transform into a dinosaur, gaining all new attacks and abilities while the transformation lasts.
As a Steel Ball Run character, three parts of the Holy Corpse will slowly appear scattered on the stage when Diego is played. He can pick up these pieces to receive progressively better blessings that boost his performance in combat. If Diego is played against Johnny Joestar, Gyro Zeppeli, Funny Valentine, or another Diego, both players will have to fight over the three corpse parts as no extras will spawn in.
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Command List
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Attack type: High
Damage: 12
Attack type: High
Damage: 7 + 7 + 9 (23)
Attack type: High
Damage: 32
Attack type: Low
Damage: 11
Attack type: Low (first hit) High (second hit)
Damage: 10 + 10 (20)
Attack type: Low
Damage: 35
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 15
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 25
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 37
If the Style input () is chained from normals while unmounted, 'Quick Mount' is triggered at the cost of Heart Heat, whereby Diego mounts Silver Bullet much faster, and the act of flipping onto his horse can knock the opponent into the air. This provides an easy and quicker method of mounting as well as transitioning Diego's unmounted combo into a mounted one.
Attack type: High
Damage: 30
Attack type: High
Damage: 44
Attack type: Low
Damage: 15
- Diego gains access to the follow-up skill "Are you ready?!"
- All of Diego's skills are enhanced in some form or another, mainly boosting their damage.
- The rate at which Diego's Heart Heat Gauge fills is increased.
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, he becomes invulnerable during this skill's start-up, allowing the attack to function as a reversal.
Attack type: High
Damage: 30 / 35 / 40
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, this attack inflicts more damage.
Attack type: High
Damage: 29 (1 part) 47 (2 parts) / 33 (1 part) 61 (2 parts) / 36 (1 part) 75 (2 parts)
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, his invulnerability during this skill's start-up is extended to right before the tail attack begins.
Against human players, the attack can easily bypass blocking due to Diego having changed to their other side the instant before the attack is released (known as a "cross-up").
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 50 / 55 / 60
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, the dinosaurs inflict more damage.
Attack type: High
Damage: 30 per dinosaur (1 part) / 36 per dinosaur (2 parts)
Attack type: Throw
Damage: 110
Dinosaur Diego gains a new set of normal attacks and skills, drastically improving his overall damage output and range. He gains passive Super Armor at all times and cannot be staggered, knocked down, or launched, allowing him to power through any attack. Most prominently, Diego becomes immune to most opposing HHA and GHA; Heat Attacks that only continue upon connecting with a first hit will simply fail against Dinosaur Diego, and he will bypass any counters and counter-type Heat Attacks and strike the opponent without triggering them.
However, Dinosaur Diego is unable to guard, taunt, Flash Cancel, Stylish Evade, or Stylish Guard, leaving him little in the way of defending himself from incoming damage, and he can still be KO'd. Interestingly, when struck by an HHA and GHA, Guard damage (damage that would have been dealt to Diego's Guard Gauge upon blocking) is converted and added to the incoming attack's normal damage. This means Heat Attacks that would deal higher Guard damage, such as Gyro's GHA, still deal significant damage to Dinosaur Diego even if they would technically 'fail'. HHA that continue executing without an initial hit will still deal full damage to him as well, assuming he cannot interrupt the attack.
As HHA can be universally canceled into from most attacks including skills, this gives Diego a means to extend combos by chaining into its activation, instantly canceling an attack not unlike a Flash Cancel and allowing him to continue his offense into Dinosaur Form.
Diego partially transforms, readies his claws, lets out a "WRYYYYYY!", and charges forward in a melee strike. If the attack connects, he sics three small dinosaurs on the opponent that lunge and bite at them. Sprinting in after them, he leaps and delivers a series of relentless claw-handed blows to his opponent's body. Finishing the assault, Diego bears his fangs and screams his murderous intent, before unleashing a superhumanly powerful upwards chop to cleave them up the middle.
Attack type: High
Damage: 360 / 431 / 540 (depending on HH gauge)
Attack type: High
Damage: 15
Attack type: High
Damage: 20
Attack type: High
Damage: 30
Attack type: Low
Damage: 14
Attack type: Low
Damage: 25
Attack type: Low
Damage: 36
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 18
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 28
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 40
If the Style input () is chained from normals while unmounted, 'Quick Mount' is triggered at the cost of Heart Heat, whereby Diego mounts Silver Bullet much faster, and the act of flipping onto his horse can knock the opponent into the air. This provides an easy and quicker method of mounting as well as transitioning Diego's unmounted combo into a mounted one.
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, he becomes invulnerable during this skill's start-up, allowing the attack to function as a reversal.
Attack type: High
Damage: 65 / 70 / 75
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, this attack inflicts more damage.
Attack type: High
Damage: 29 (1 part) 47 (2 parts) / 33 (1 part) 61 (2 parts) / 36 (1 part) 75 (2 parts)
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, his invulnerability during this skill's start-up is extended to right before the tail attack begins.
Against human players, the attack can easily bypass blocking due to Diego having changed to their other side the instant before the attack is released (known as a "cross-up").
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 45 / 55 / 65
If Diego holds two Corpse Parts, the dinosaurs inflict more damage.
Attack type: High
Damage: 30 per dinosaur (1 part) / 36 per dinosaur (2 parts)
Dinosaur Diego gains a new set of normal attacks and skills, drastically improving his overall damage output and range. He gains passive Super Armor at all times and cannot be staggered, knocked down, or launched, allowing him to power through any attack. Most prominently, Diego becomes immune to most opposing HHA and GHA; Heat Attacks that only continue upon connecting with a first hit will simply fail against Dinosaur Diego, and he will bypass any counters and counter-type Heat Attacks and strike the opponent without triggering them.
However, Dinosaur Diego is unable to guard, taunt, Flash Cancel, Stylish Evade, or Stylish Guard, leaving him little in the way of defending himself from incoming damage, and he can still be KO'd. Interestingly, when struck by an HHA and GHA, Guard damage (damage that would have been dealt to Diego's Guard Gauge upon blocking) is converted and added to the incoming attack's normal damage. This means Heat Attacks that would deal higher Guard damage, such as Gyro's GHA, still deal significant damage to Dinosaur Diego even if they would technically 'fail'. HHA that continue executing without an initial hit will still deal full damage to him as well, assuming he cannot interrupt the attack.
As HHA can be universally canceled into from most attacks including skills, this gives Diego a means to extend combos by chaining into its activation, instantly canceling an attack not unlike a Flash Cancel and allowing him to continue his offense into Dinosaur Form.
Diego partially transforms, readies his claws, lets out a "WRYYYYYY!", and charges forward in a melee strike. If the attack connects, he sics three small dinosaurs on the opponent that lunge and bite at them. Sprinting in after them, he leaps and delivers a series of relentless claw-handed blows to his opponent's body. Finishing the assault, Diego bears his fangs and screams his murderous intent, before unleashing a superhumanly powerful upwards chop to cleave them up the middle.
Attack type: High
Damage: 360 / 431 / 540 (depending on HH gauge)
Attack type: High
Damage: 17
Attack type: High
Damage: 27
Attack type: High
Damage: 100
Attack type: Low
Damage: 16
Attack type: Low
Damage: 25
Attack type: Low
Damage: 75
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 20
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 40
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 44
If Dinosaur Diego holds two Corpse Parts, the dinosaurs inflict more damage.
Attack type: High
Damage: 30 per dinosaur (1 part) / 36 per dinosaur (2 parts)
If Dinosaur Diego holds two Corpse Parts, this attack inflicts more damage.
Attack type: High
Damage: 125 (1 part) 145 (2 parts) / 135 (1 part) 155 (2 parts) / 145 (1 part) 156 (2 parts)
If Dinosaur Diego holds two Corpse Parts, this attack inflicts more damage.
Attack type: Middle
Damage: 65 (1 part) 70 (2 parts) / 75 (1 part) 80 (2 parts) / 85 (1 part) 90 (2 parts)
Attack type: Throw
Damage: 120
Attack type: High
Damage: 75
Attack type: High
Medal List
Costumes & Tints
Either complete all "Steel Ball Run" campaign online missions or buy from Medal List
17,000G
Diego's outfit in the Tubular Bells story arc
ASB Mode Stardust Crusaders Mariah vs Diego Extra Battle
Reach Level 3 with "Magnetization Gauge" style
Scary Monster's Steel Ball Run appearance
ASB Mode Steel Ball Run Diego vs DIO Extra Battle
Land the "USHAAAAAAAA!" skill
Sentinel bust
Either complete all "Free Battle" Campaign online missions or buy from Medal List
5600G
Unlocked by default
Based off Diego's colors from the cover of Ultra Jump 2006 Issue #1
Unlocked by default
Based off Diego's colors from the cover of SBR Volume 17
Unlocked by default
Based off Diego's colors from his World Collectable Figure
Poses
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Dialogue
- “Useless, useless! (無駄だ無駄ァァァッ)”
- “So you're just an amateur. (今ただのド素人と認識した)”
- “That's right, this Dio was always going to prevail. (どうせ……最後に追い抜くのはこのDioだ)”
- “I saw that. (先が読めた)”
- “I told you I was at my best! What were you thinking? (だから絶好調だって言ったろ?どこもなんともない)”
- “Mind your own business. (余計なお世話だ)”
- “You're going to regret that! (後悔させてやるぞ……………!!)”
- “This feels great! For some reason, I'm totally refreshed! (気分がいいッ!なにかすごく気分が爽快なんだッ!)”
- “The battle has already begun. (戦いはすでに始まっているぜ……)”
- “*sniff sniff*... Coffee. I smell coffee. (クン。うーむ。クン。これはコーヒーだ。コーヒーの香りがする)”
- “No living thing on Earth can escape a dinosaur's ability to see motion! (地球上の生物で恐竜の動体視力で勝てる動きはない!)”
- “Just... Just stop annoying me. (いいか……ウザイ態度はもうやめとけ)”
- “This is no time for nonsense. (ウダウダ言ってる時か?)”
- “The winds of victory are at my back... (勝利の風はこのDioの背後から追って吹いている…)”
- “Hurry up and pay me! Give me the bills in your pocket! (カネを出せ、急げ! ポケットから紙幣だ!!)”
- “I did warn you. (警告したからな…)”
- “Your weakness is your perfectionism. (そのこだわりが弱点だ)”
- “I'm not going to pretend to be noble. (「きれい事」は言わないぜ)”
- “I'm going to cut your flesh into pieces, then line all your organs up on the ground! (おまえの肉を切り裂いて臓器を床に出して順番に並べてやるッ!)”
- “I'll kill you! (ブッ殺してやるッ!!)”
- “I told you, I've figured out your weakness! (『弱点』は
つかんでる と言ったろうッ!)”
- “Money... I want money. Simple, right? (『金』だ………オレは「金」が欲しい………わかりやすいだろ?)”
- “Diego Brando... Call me "Dio." (ディエゴ・ブランドー、通称Dio)”
- “Sniff, sniff. (クン、クン)”
- “What's happening? (何かが起きる…)”
- “The scar where this head was torn off! That line is the tragedy of the human world I left behind! (切り裂いた首のその傷はッ! オレがいた人間世界の悲惨の「線」だ…)”
- “Camouflage? You like lamps? You know this one won't light up, though. (保護色か? ランプは好きか? 明かりはつかないという意味だが)”
- “I need one Stand user, one loyal servant of Dio. I Repeat: A servant. (「スタンド使い」がひとり欲しい。このDioに忠実な『部下』としてだ。繰り返すぞ、「部下」だ)”
- “Taking stew in a shoe is too good for those who opposed me! I'll rip their pride to shreds and throw it on the ground! (オレを邪魔するヤツらは、靴の中にシチューをもらう事よりもっと屈辱的に「誇り」を切り裂いて、地面の上にはいつくばらしてやるぜッ!)”
- “I'm Diego Brando, a.k.a. Dio, born of English lowlifes, but raised in a noble house and proven as a master jockey in the races! (イギリス下層階級の出身だが名門貴族に育てられ、競馬界で認められた天才ジョッキー、ディエゴ・ブランドー、通称ディオ!)”
- “The glory of the Steel Ball Run Race that even the kings and queens of England covet! I'll do anything to claim it for my own! (スティール・ボール・ラン・レースでの栄光ッ!それはイギリス王室さえも動かす権力ッ!それを掴むためにはいかなる手段も厭わないッ!)”
- “If I ever see him again, I'll eradicate him! (
あいつと出会ったら !! オレは『消滅』するッ!!)” - “You flinched! (躊躇したなッ!)”
- “I win! (勝ったッ!)”
- “You just proved all the weaknesses I've predicted! (これで予想したおまえの『弱点』は、今全て証明されたッ!)”
- “You weren't all that. (なんて事はないヤツのようだったな…………)”
- “Who are you? Why does a jockey like you exist? (何者だ、こいつ……………世界にこんな騎手がいたとは!!)”
- “You think I'm done? I'm doing just fine! My vision and my stamina are the best they've ever been! (ナメるなよ…すごく良く見えるぜ! 視力も体力も絶好調だ!)”
- “The next time you approach me, I'll devour you. I'm about to retire you into the ground! (2度と近づいたら今度は喰い殺す。これからおまえに再起不能という言葉を教えてやるぜッ!!)”
- “Everything will belong to me, Dio! (これで全てはこのDioのものだッ!)”
- “But I'm going to get more full of myself! I will completely rule the entire flock of pigeons from above! (オレはもっと気取らせてもらって「ハトの群れ」をとことん上から「支配」してやるぜッ!)”
- “Everything, no matter what, has a flaw. (なんであろうと……必ず
クセ というものがある)” - “Damn, he must be a pro jockey! (こいつ! プロの
騎手 出身かッ!)” - “I can't lose to some country bumpkin... (あんなイナカものより後でゴールだなんて…)”
- “You wretched hicks! I'm going to stand at the apex of society! (くそ田舎者どもッ! オレは必ず社会の頂点に立ってみせる!)”
- “Everything will belong to me, Dio! (これで全てはこのDioのものだッ!)”
- “I want money. Simple, right? (オレは「金」が欲しい……わかりやすいだろ?)”
- “I'll take Manhattan! (オレにマンハッタン島をくれッ!!)”
- “Whoaaaaa! I died in this world! (うおおおお! こっち側の世界のオレが死んだッ!)”
- “The winds of victory are at my back... (勝利の風はこのDioの背後から追って吹いている…)”
- “I'm the winner! (勝ったのはオレの方…だ!!)”
Special Interactions
This section requires expansion.
Dialogue
Outside of All-Star Battle Mode, Diego has unique interaction dialogue for both his match entrances and victories when facing certain characters.
All-Star Battle Mode
All missions in All-Star Battle Mode starring Diego as either the Player or Enemy, in order of appearance.
Stardust Crusaders
2. Reach Level 3 with "Magnetization Gauge" style: Scary Monsters 3D Model
3. Land a Heart Heat Attack: Mariah Color Tint C
Mariah: Lord DIO? No, you're an impostor. You don't have any of his charisma.
Steel Ball Run
2. Land the "I'll call them Tusks!" skill: Johnny Publicity Artwork
3. Call 3 Assists in a single round: Diego's Theme
Johnny: He's our enemy! I knew it all along! Dio is one of the terrorists!
2. Land the "Useless, useless!" skill: Diego Publicity Artwork
3. Land the "USHAAAAAAAA!" skill: Diego Color Tint C
Diego: Me... Another me? Is this the President's Stand?
Gallery
Media
Music
Diego's theme is Hungry! (『飢えた者』!, "Uetamono"!), and can be unlocked in-game by calling 3 Assists in a single round as Johnny Joestar in All-Star Battle Mode's Johnny vs Diego Normal Battle.
Its name is a reference to Johnny Joestar's explanation on why Diego will beat Gyro Zeppeli in the third stage of the Steel Ball Run race in Chapter 32 of Steel Ball Run. Johnny specifically says that Diego "is someone who's hungered!"
JoJo Glossary
Art & Misc Moveset Callbacks
Misc
Update History
1.3.0
- Dodge [Mounted] (Background and Foreground)
- The activation of the move has been standardized for all characters.
1.4.0
- Throw Escape
- Adjusted to standardize character advantages and disadvantages when being throw escaped.
1.4.1
- Jump [Mounted]
- Standardized the animation lead-in to jumping with other characters to reduce imbalances due to differences in jumping.
1.6.0
- Crouching Medium Attack [Unmounted]
- This attack now launches opponents.
- Fixed cancel timing to now cancel after the second hit.
- "My speed is supreme." special
- Increased forward movement.
- "You hesitated!" special
- This special now hard knockdowns opponents.
- Removed Diego's collision while attacking, allowing him to move through opponents.
- "Gouge" skill
- Delayed attack start-up.
- version: Will still combo if comboed from a attack.
- version: Will still combo if comboed from a attack.
- version: Will still combo if comboed from another skill that bounces the opponent off the ground.
- Shortened invincibility period.
- Delayed attack start-up.
- "Useless, useless!" skill
- Skill can now be activated in the air.
- Adjusted invincibility period for aerial and mounted versions.
- "Reversal Assist"
- Decreased stocks from two to one.
Trivia
- Like most of the new ASBR characters that made their first playable appearance in Eyes of Heaven, Diego's model and color scheme are taken from his Eyes of Heaven counterpart. However, his render is now the one once used by his parallel world self.
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