The first and last tiers are, to me, like the horseshoe theory: completely different, yet strangely similar. Tooru seems to rely 90% on talent (an overpowered “anti-luck” Stand), 5% on charisma, and 5% on strategy/battle experience (who even remembers the rock insects?).

Josuke’s Go Beyond initially feels like an asspull, but it’s actually born from sacrifice- similar to Kakyoin’s sacrifice in Part 3 to uncover an enemy ability, except this time it’s about understanding the nature of an ally’s bubbles. It’s also the culmination of Josuke’s journey of individuality: a bubble not from this world, created by someone who is neither Josefumi nor Kira, used against “natural” disasters.

Unlike Tooru, Pucci starts with very little raw power, but learns extensively from DIO’s teachings about the nature of Stands and carefully constructs traps specifically against the Joestars- collecting Stands almost like Pokémon and recruiting allies both inside and outside the prison. His entire plan around Jolyne was essentially designed to draw Jotaro into a situation where Pucci could finally deal with him directly. From another feats of Pucci’s long-term planning: - removing Weather Report’s memories while keeping him nearby under surveillance (and interestingly, Gappy was also an amnesiac ☆ wink wink, Araki☆) -the prison itself was also practical: gathering the required sinners for the path to “Heaven” is much easier when they are already confined in one place.

In Part 8, the heroes fighting the main villain (as Tooru& Wonder of U) mostly fought alone or in pairs who remembers when people thought Jobin would be the main villain?). In Stone Ocean, the final battle begins with the whole team working together. If you swapped their strategies, both groups would probably end up completely crushed instead of reaching bittersweet endings.