JJOCT7 R3M3 Jojolity

Judge Donkey Kong (Flame)

On one side of this match, Emi and Baingan were tasked with “Display your unique brand of stage control in combat and leveraging the environment!” — and the idols do turn it into a stage! From the singing (unfortunately only in the music video) to the duo’s general control over the battlefield using both Stands to counteract each of the environmental hazards, this duo gets a solid **7**!

Meanwhile, Titan and Hāvā were tasked with “Display your unique brand of survival in combat and leveraging the environment!” Their defensive and careful playstyle is notable throughout, from the various measures to keep themselves safe as well as how they approach their opponents, but what struck me the most was the Narrative segments — a fun read and exploration of Titan as he explored the mountains and what it meant to fight to survive (both against mountain and pop idols.), that overall along with the gameplan lifts the Jojolity up to a **9**.

Judge Diddy Kong (Alpha)

Alrighty, let’s get to the beef! That I want to grill. No this is not a bit, I bought a grill today and I am very hungry.

Starting once again with Lotus Street Mountainfold, we have to express stage control! Well, you’ve got more than enough star power, let’s see where this goes!

Rather than retread what I’ve said in the quality delib- please read that first- I’ll point at something different! Emi! and Baingan- to me, at least- present the argument of what is necessary when creating tech to cover bases. Is a paragraphs-long explanation of the usage of a piece of tech necessary when it is a useful tool with several functions?

Why this is necessary when bringing up stage control is quite simple! Most of the artifices of it are done through tech, with some of it being a grabbing hand, a pushing wall of noise, the stretching of rocks or metal, and a thousand other things! From the beginning, the stage is both a weapon and a shield to be used by the competitors, and that is a very good thing.

I’ll consider this a low **8**.

Moving back to the Mountain Mountain Mountain Mountain MOUNTAIN- *cracks neck*- Moonbeam Riders…

I went into this at the bottom of your quality delib, where the entire strat is built around that survival kit and tech being pushed to the extreme, with all fights being trades or whiff punishes, and your kit being used masterfully to make those happen.

It was an unfortunate callout, since I didn’t want to snub myself of writing your JoJolity bit incidentally- and yes, I did bring it up entirely incidentally, I read JoJolities after I do quality delibs to separate them in my head- but I’ll leave it in there.

From the word go to the point where the carts stop, everything is built around the idea: survival. Every layered piece of tech, every moving paragraph, every extra moving part, every new edifice I’ve seen… it’s all built on the JoJolity as a foundation. The strat itself was made from it.

Much as I find 9s and 10s to be entirely subjective, and the things I hate justifying the most in this system, I feel like I can’t give this anything but a **10**. Even if it isn’t perfect in someone else’s eyes, how does one objectively grade something that is, at its basest level, built on and from the point it’s trying to make?

Judge Dixie Kong (Extra)

Starting with Emi! and Baingan, stage control can be quite nebulous when there isn't really much of a consistent stage to control. That said, you rise to the task admirably, making the most out of the various obstacles and hazards to make life as easy as possible for yourselves and as difficult as possible for the other guys. Similarly to quality, it's just good work all around, and I think it's similarly deserving of a **7.**

As for Titan and Hava, you've got some seriously phenomenal Jojolity work here. Hava an Titan are basically extremophiles, and using the idea of pushing them to the limit and stripping away the layers of "humanity" to leave behind only an instinct works very well with the themes of the characters - both focused on helping others, but both willing to make tough choices when the time comes. This gets a **9** out of me - definitely one of the strongest Jojolity performances I've seen.