Giorno Giovanna — power rating and matchups

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Win

v Leaky-Eye LucaPart 5 ch. 2 / global ch. 441

Luca hits the frog Giorno made from Koichi's luggage with a shovel; a shovel-shaped dent appears on the back of Luca's head and he falls lifeless. JoJo Wiki records his death; Wikipedia says Giorno kills him.

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience, Part 2 Wikipedia: Giorno Giovanna

No decisive result

v Koichi HirosePart 5 ch. 3 / global ch. 442

Koichi weighs Giorno's hand down with Echoes ACT3 Freeze; Giorno grows a tree beneath himself to rise out of it. Koichi's attack on the tree is deflected back and knocks him down, and Giorno escapes. Giorno notes Koichi held back his Stand's full power.

Opponent held back

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience, Part 3

No decisive result

v Bruno BucciaratiPart 5 ch. 6 / global ch. 445 – Part 5 ch. 8 / global ch. 447

Bucciarati has attached zippers to Giorno by switching arms with Rossi. An arm is torn off (the summary is ambiguous whose) and Gold Experience's attack misses Bucciarati, who had braced for it. Giorno says Bucciarati will become his ally and states his dream of taking over the city.

Held backOpponent held back

3 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 6 / global ch. 445Zippers open on Giorno's cheek and shoulder. Gold Experience punches Bucciarati, giving him a surge of life energy, so his mind runs faster than his body and a punch to the jaw feels like it lasts minutes. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Bucciarati is Coming, Part 3
Part 5 ch. 7 / global ch. 446Bucciarati, thrown back by the punch, reveals Sticky Fingers and escapes through a zipper; he hides inside a boy (Antonio Rossi). When the boy swats at a fly, the attack is deflected and Bucciarati is forced out. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Bucciarati is Coming, Part 4
Part 5 ch. 8 / global ch. 447Bucciarati has attached zippers to Giorno by switching arms with Rossi. An arm is torn off (the summary is ambiguous whose) and Gold Experience's attack misses Bucciarati, who had braced for it. Giorno says Bucciarati will become his ally and states his dream of taking over the city. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Bucciarati is Coming, Part 5 Wikipedia: Golden Wind manga

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Bucciarati is Coming, Part 5 Wikipedia: Golden Wind manga

Win

v Black Sabbath (Polpo's Stand)Part 5 ch. 15 / global ch. 454

Black Sabbath, moving through bird shadows, grabs Gold Experience's ankles; Echoes ACT3's Freeze does not loosen it. Gold Experience speeds up a nearby evergreen's ageing until it crumbles, leaving no shade, then destroys Black Sabbath with a barrage of punches.

Help: Koichi's Echoes ACT3 joined the fight

Had help

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Joining the Gang, Part 5

Win

v PolpoPart 5 ch. 16 / global ch. 455

Polpo's banana turns into a gun in his hand and he shoots himself (JoJo Wiki: "accidentally kills himself"). Wikipedia: Giorno indirectly kills him with a gun disguised as a banana because Polpo had killed an innocent bystander.

Prepared

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Joining the Gang, Part 6 Wikipedia: Giorno Giovanna Wikipedia: Golden Wind manga

Win · team encounter

v Mario ZuccheroPart 5 ch. 19 / global ch. 458

Giorno turns Narancia's shoe into a fly to track him. To prove himself to Abbacchio he lets Soft Machine attack him and is deflated, leaving the fly leading to Narancia. Bucciarati defeats Zucchero (ch. 461 per JoJo Wiki).

Decisive action: Bucciarati, defeated Zucchero · Giorno Giovanna’s part: Planted the fly tracker that led the team to Narancia

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: The Mystery of Soft Machine, Part 1 JoJo Wiki: Mario Zucchero

Win · team encounter

v IllusoPart 5 ch. 45 / global ch. 484 – Part 5 ch. 46 / global ch. 485

Purple Haze finishes Illuso with a barrage after a capsule breaks and his face melts. Giorno makes a snake from a brick by the broken capsule and uses its blood as a vaccine. JoJo Wiki credits Abbacchio's sacrificed hand for the mission's success.

Decisive action: Fugo, Purple Haze barrage · Giorno Giovanna’s part: Carried the virus into the mirror world, tracked Illuso and made the vaccine

2 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 45 / global ch. 484Giorno infects himself with Purple Haze's virus before Illuso pulls him into the mirror world, so Illuso is infected too. Illuso returns to the real world and cuts off his arm; Giorno turns a stone into a snake to track him, and Purple Haze grabs Illuso by the throat. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, P…
Part 5 ch. 46 / global ch. 485Purple Haze finishes Illuso with a barrage after a capsule breaks and his face melts. Giorno makes a snake from a brick by the broken capsule and uses its blood as a vaccine. JoJo Wiki credits Abbacchio's sacrificed hand for the mission's success. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, P…

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Man in the Mirror and Purple Haze, P…

No decisive result

v Prosciutto (The Grateful Dead)Part 5 ch. 50 / global ch. 489

Giorno and Narancia age rapidly. Giorno reasons that body temperature drives the ageing; Trish puts an ice cube on Narancia and his skin starts to revert.

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: The Grateful Dead, Part 2

Win

v Baby Face and MelonePart 5 ch. 64 / global ch. 503 – Part 5 ch. 68 / global ch. 507

Remains of the first Baby Face, turned into a venomous snake, return to Melone and bite his tongue; he dies off-panel from the poison.

4 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 64 / global ch. 503Baby Face cuts a cube out of Gold Experience's throat, wounding Giorno's throat too, so he cannot talk or breathe. He also loses pieces of his right foot and right eye. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Baby Face, Part 4
Part 5 ch. 65 / global ch. 504A rock Baby Face has become splits apart before Gold Experience's punch lands; Baby Face takes more of Giorno's throat. Having learned it turns things into specific organs, Giorno restores his throat, eye and foot. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Baby Face, Part 5 Wikipedia: Giorno Giovanna
Part 5 ch. 67 / global ch. 506Baby Face grabs Gold Experience's "hand", which Giorno turns back into pieces of Melone's motorcycle he had disguised as it. Pinned by the heavy parts, Baby Face is burned out by the motorcycle's gas and ignition circuit. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Baby Face, Part 7
Part 5 ch. 68 / global ch. 507Remains of the first Baby Face, turned into a venomous snake, return to Melone and bite his tongue; he dies off-panel from the poison. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Head to Venice!

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Head to Venice!

Win · team encounter

v GhiaccioPart 5 ch. 70 / global ch. 509 – Part 5 ch. 76 / global ch. 515

Giorno heals Mista's fatal head wound from a reflected bullet. At sunrise Gold Experience repeatedly kicks Ghiaccio into the pole, impaling his neck and killing him.

Decisive action: Giorno, kicked Ghiaccio onto the pole · Giorno Giovanna’s part: Powered Mista's root bullets, healed Mista and delivered the kill

2 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 70 / global ch. 509In the falling cold Giorno cannot create any life. He infuses bullets with Gold Experience's power; Mista fires them at Ghiaccio's ice shield and the heat of impact turns them into roots that break through. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: White Album, Part 1
Part 5 ch. 76 / global ch. 515Giorno heals Mista's fatal head wound from a reflected bullet. At sunrise Gold Experience repeatedly kicks Ghiaccio into the pole, impaling his neck and killing him. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: White Album, Part 7

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: White Album, Part 7

Feat / note

Venice rescue — Bucciarati’s exceptional continuationPart 5 ch. 83 / global ch. 522

Giorno heals Bucciarati's body and sends his laptop out as a flying fish to call the team. The Boss, hiding in the roof, decides to kill Giorno but retreats when the team arrives. Bucciarati later drives his hand onto a metal shard without reacting. Wikipedia: Giorno is unaware Bucciarati is now a …

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: The Mystery of King Crimson, Part 5 Wikipedia: Golden Wind manga Wikipedia: Giorno Giovanna

No decisive result

v Squalo (Clash) and Tizzano (Talking Head)Part 5 ch. 86 / global ch. 525 – Part 5 ch. 89 / global ch. 528

Clash teleports itself and Giorno between puddles and into the sewer, stopping his breathing, and burrows into his wound. Narancia shoots Giorno's chest and a toilet bowl; Aerosmith then shoots Clash, injuring Squalo.

2 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 86 / global ch. 525Clash bites off Narancia's tongue; Giorno performs a tracheotomy on Narancia with a pen and gives him a new tongue made from a ladybug brooch. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Clash and Talking Head, Part 1
Part 5 ch. 89 / global ch. 528Clash teleports itself and Giorno between puddles and into the sewer, stopping his breathing, and burrows into his wound. Narancia shoots Giorno's chest and a toilet bowl; Aerosmith then shoots Clash, injuring Squalo. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Clash and Talking Head, Part 4

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Clash and Talking Head, Part 4

No decisive result

v Notorious B.I.GPart 5 ch. 96 / global ch. 535 – Part 5 ch. 101 / global ch. 540

The party falls toward the ocean as Trish's Stand evolves; Trish shows Giorno's hand. Notorious B.I.G survives as a legend that targets boats at sea.

3 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 96 / global ch. 535Notorious B.I.G's flesh attaches to Giorno's arm; Mista shoots that arm off with Sex Pistols. More flesh attaches to his other arm and Giorno cuts it off with a glass shard. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Notorious B.I.G, Part 3
Part 5 ch. 97 / global ch. 536Giorno is left without both hands; JoJo Wiki says Gold Experience works through its user's hands, so the wounded cannot be healed. Trish sees Giorno's brooch, transmuted earlier as a precaution, turning into a hand and resolves to protect it. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Notorious B.I.G, Part 4
Part 5 ch. 101 / global ch. 540The party falls toward the ocean as Trish's Stand evolves; Trish shows Giorno's hand. Notorious B.I.G survives as a legend that targets boats at sea. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Spice Girl, Part 2

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Spice Girl, Part 2

Win · team encounter

v CioccolataPart 5 ch. 122 / global ch. 561 – Part 5 ch. 123 / global ch. 562

Giorno talks to buy time. When Cioccolata takes Mista hostage, a beetle (the transformed bullet) digs out of his brain. Giorno refuses to spare him; Gold Experience repeatedly pummels him and throws him into a garbage truck.

Decisive action: Giorno, beetle bullet then Gold Experience barrage · Giorno Giovanna’s part: Planted the bullet in Cioccolata's skull and beat him into a garbage truck

2 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 122 / global ch. 561Cioccolata kicks Giorno off the helicopter; Sex Pistols No. 5 fires a bullet through Giorno's hand, which becomes a branch that saves him. Mold eats the branch; falling, Giorno kicks a small piece above Cioccolata. It reverts into a speeding bullet that enters his skull, disabling Green Day. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Green Day and Oasis, Part 8
Part 5 ch. 123 / global ch. 562Giorno talks to buy time. When Cioccolata takes Mista hostage, a beetle (the transformed bullet) digs out of his brain. Giorno refuses to spare him; Gold Experience repeatedly pummels him and throws him into a garbage truck. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Green Day and Oasis, Part 9

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Green Day and Oasis, Part 9

Feat / note

Narancia’s death in Giorno’s body — evidence onlyPart 5 ch. 138 / global ch. 577

Giorno tries to heal Narancia but fails and Narancia dies. Giorno returns to his own body, now healed.

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: The Requiem Quietly Plays, Part 6 Wikipedia: Giorno Giovanna

Win · team encounter

v Diavolo (King Crimson)Part 5 ch. 143 / global ch. 582 – Part 5 ch. 149 / global ch. 588

GER's punches send Diavolo into the Tiber and his body vanishes. He is fatally stabbed by a drug-addled vagrant at a sewer edge, wakes on an autopsy table being dissected, then trips into a road and is run over; last seen begging a little girl not to come near. Giorno: "Your end has no ending! That…

Decisive action: Giorno, Gold Experience Requiem · Giorno Giovanna’s part: Took the Arrow, became Requiem and trapped Diavolo in endless death

6 logged exchanges

Part 5 ch. 143 / global ch. 582Diavolo strikes behind Chariot Requiem's head, crippling it, and takes the Arrow. Giorno turns his blood on King Crimson's fist into a colony of ants that chew through the shaft, and the Arrowhead falls. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Diavolo Surfaces, Part 3
Part 5 ch. 145 / global ch. 584Diavolo takes the Arrow but it passes through King Crimson's hand and falls. Diavolo destroys the ball behind Chariot Requiem's head; every soul returns to its own body, Diavolo's far from the Arrow. Bucciarati's soul departs; Giorno takes the Arrow. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Diavolo Surfaces, Part 4 JoJo Wiki: Diavolo Surfaces, Part 5
Part 5 ch. 146 / global ch. 585Giorno raises the Arrow. Gold Experience stabs itself, a huge hole appears and it collapses. Diavolo, encouraged by an Epitaph vision of Giorno failing, has King Crimson punch its face; the skin shatters like a shell, revealing something inside. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: King of Kings Wikipedia: Golden Wind manga
Part 5 ch. 147 / global ch. 586Diavolo attacks again and misses as something emerges from the shell; the Arrow sets itself on GER's forehead. GER sends a rock at Diavolo that becomes a scorpion and stings his hand; he cuts away the flesh, then erases time to behead GER and Giorno. JoJo Wiki GER: GER flicks stones too fast to see. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem, Part 1 JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem
Part 5 ch. 148 / global ch. 587In erased time Diavolo foresees impaling Giorno on King Crimson's arm; then events run backwards, the erased time is restored and his own movements rewind. GER speaks to him in erased time: his vision could come true, but its power denies that reality, "you will never arrive at the reality that will occur" / "You will never reach the 'truth'!"; "Not even my master, Giorno Giovanna, knows of this." He is back where he started and GER beats him. other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem, Part 2 JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem
Part 5 ch. 149 / global ch. 588GER's punches send Diavolo into the Tiber and his body vanishes. He is fatally stabbed by a drug-addled vagrant at a sewer edge, wakes on an autopsy table being dissected, then trips into a road and is run over; last seen begging a little girl not to come near. Giorno: "Your end has no ending! That's the power of Gold Experience Requiem!" Diavolo: "H... how many more times will I die!?" other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem, Part 3 JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem, Part 3 JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem JoJo Wiki: Diavolo

Feat / note

Gold Experience Requiem — Arrow falls after the fightPart 5 ch. 150 / global ch. 589

With Diavolo defeated, the Arrowhead falls at Giorno's feet (chapter summary). JoJo Wiki GER: the Arrow GER wore on its forehead "eventually falls to the ground" (ch. 589). No later GER use is shown in Part 5.

Statement; speaker not identified; not a demonstration

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem, Part 4 JoJo Wiki: Gold Experience Requiem

Feat / note

Ending — Arrow kept in the turtlePart 5 ch. 155 / global ch. 594

Mista and Trish find Polnareff in Coco Jumbo's room and Giorno takes him in. Giorno decides to keep the Arrow in the turtle to protect it, and becomes Passione's new Boss.

Evidence checked: other secondary source checked JoJo Wiki: Sleeping Slaves, Part 5 Wikipedia: Golden Wind manga

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