Joseph Joestar - Powers and Abilities

Powers and Abilities

In Part 2, he becomes a master of the Ripple power. In Part 3, where Stands are introduced in place of the Ripple, Hermit Purple manifests itself as a tangle of thorny vines, which Joseph can wield as both weapon and defense. They are relatively weak; however, Hermit Purple also provides Joseph with considerable telepathic ability, enabling him to sense locations or thoughts by projecting them into a camera, or a TV, or even into an image made from the sand of a dusty street. Hermit Purple is the only Stand wielded by a Joestar, along with Holy's (whose own Stand takes after the Hermit's plant-like nature), that does not have a humanoid appearance. It awakened in response to Dio awakening The World.

In a Fist of the North Star like fashion, he'll verbally predict what will happen to his enemies and quote, often verbatim, what they will say. His enemy will then unwittingly repeat said prediction, shocked by Joseph's "mind reading". This is primarily in series 2, although he does perform this feat again in series 3 just before he destroys Empress.

He invented the Joestar's "secret technique" which also was used by Jotaro later in the series. The secret technique is running away.