So you know the joke that Polnareff has the worst luck in Part 3 and attracts the most Stand Users? I wanted to see if that was true so I made a pie chart recording every single time the Stardust Crusaders encounter an enemy Stand User.
RULES ARE SIMPLE.
1. For every Enemy Stand User one of the Crusader’s encounter, they will get a Point
2. Points are given to whoever attacked or was attacked by the Enemy User first. Other Crusaders who attack, are attacked, or help with the fight after that initial action will receive Encounter Points. Crusaders who were present but did not assist will not receive Encounter Points
EX: During the Tower of Gray fight, Jotaro, Kakyoin, Avdol and Joseph are present when he appears. Jotaro attacks and is attacked by the Stand first, Avdol almost uses Magician’s Red to help but doesn’t because it could blow up the plane, and Kakyoin defeats it with Hierophant Green. Jotaro would get the Point, but only Kakyoin would get an Encounter Point.
3. It is possible for multiple people to get a Point from one opponent if they are attacked as a group or if the actions happen at roughly the same time
EX: when Polnareff first attacks the group, he attacks Joseph but Avdol immediately attacks him with Magician’s Red. Both get the point.
4. I will only count encounters that happen in the “present” of SDC, meaning encounters like Avdol, Kakyoin and Polnareff’s first meetings with Dio or Joseph and Avdol fighting Iggy won’t receive points
5. I will only count a second encounter with the same Stand User after their “episode” has concluded. Multi Part episodes with the same Enemy User and encounters like Oingo/Boingo and the final fight with Dio will count as a singular encounter for the sake of this rule
There are also a few….. difficult situations that I wasn’t sure how to count, so to avoid confusion I’ll explain them here:
- With the Empress, by technicality it’s Polnareff who has the first interaction when Nena runs into him to stop him from killing Hol Horse. However, she doesn’t actually fight anyone until the next episode when she attaches her stand to Joseph. I decided to give them both a Point because the incidents happened in separate episodes
- Given the close quarters of the car, Wheel of Fortune attacked them all at once, so they all get a Point
- While Jotaro was the one to punch Steely Dan, Joseph was the one who was affected by the Stand at the same time, so it’s a Point for both of them
- Similar to Wheel of Fortune, Sun also attacked the whole group at once
- Avdol and Kakyoin both get an Encounter Point for the Daniel D’Arby fight because technically their souls assisted in the fight
- Kenny G is counted for everyone because his illusions were seen by and tricked everyone when they entered Dio’s mansion
- Less of an exception thing and more something I found funny: the Point for DIO technically goes to Polnareff because of their encounter on the stairs
With those rules and explanations in place and way too much time spent combing through every single fight, and I learned a few things.
1) The jokes about Polnareff having the worst luck are correct, given the fact he encountered a THIRD of all their enemies first
2) Iggy only contributed his last few episodes
3) Avdol and Kakyoin were done dirty and should’ve been allowed to fight more
Maybe I’ll make one for Diamond is Unbreakable later.
The exact who fought who, assisted with what, and the Encounter Point pie chart will be under the cut
[ID: a pie chart, titled "SDC Enemy Stand Meetings". Underneath are the colors of the pieces exolained: Jotaro - dark purple, Kakyoin - green, Polnareff - silver, Avdol - dark red, Joseph - light purple, Iggy - black. The biggest piece is Polnareff's with 33.3%, followed by Joseph and Jotaro with 24.4%. Then Kakyoin with 8.9% and Avdol and Iggy, both with 4.4%.
ID 2: a screenshot of several tags:
Jjba. I love this. Also yeah (in all caps). Abdul was done so dirty this is ridiculous. He's been here since episode 1 and he has the same points as Iggy. /end ID].
[ID for the image under the cut:
Another pie chart for the encounters and fights, also titled "SDC Enemy Stand Meetings". The colors are the same: dark purple (Jotaro), green (Kakyoin), silver (Polnareff), red (Avdol), light purple (Joseph) and black (Iggy). This time the pie pieces are a bit more balanced. The biggest piece is Jotaro's with 25%, followed by Kakyoin with 22.9%. Then Avdol with 20.8%, Joseph with 14.6% and Polnareff with 12.5% and then Iggy with 4.2% /end ID].
