Devo the Cursed (呪いのデーボ Noroi no Dēbo), also known as Debo or D'bo, is a minor antagonist featured in Stardust Crusaders.
An infamous Native American shaman and assassin in DIO's service, Devo ambushes Jean Pierre Polnareff in his hotel room in Singapore. His Stand, Ebony Devil, has the power to possess inanimate objects, but only after Devo himself was hurt, growing in strength as Devo grows more hatred to his opponent. This allows him to remotely control them from any distance.
Devo is famous for being the first character in fighting games that controls a separate entity, in his case, a literal puppet, hence the archetype: "puppet character". Unlike other puppet characters, such as zato=1, carl clover or miss fortune, who tag team their opponents, devo switches between controlling only the doll's specials where he can use them for frametraps at best or oki and having full control of the doll, getting access to its unreactable 50/50s and normals with hitboxes as big as the doll itself at the cost of not being able to move and receiving roughly double damage to the main body.
Devo's gameplay is very freeform and usually relies on heavy neutral and ground control with the puppet. Devo is scary when his stand is behind you for the inability to hit the puppet, and when devo gets you between himself and the puppet (sandwiched) he can perform his powerful combos that can kill or set okizeme.
Difficulty: Very Hard
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Notable Players
Color | Nickname | Country | Platform | Accounts | Notes |
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Anri | Japan | Arcade (BigOne2nd) | N/A | "Best Devo" - SQ. Status: Active | |
Zeke | USA, East Coast | Fightcade 2 | Fightcade: psi_mega falcos grandpa Discord: Zeke#9566 |
Old Devo player. Master of the Air Tandem. Status: Active | |
Ricky | Uruguay | Fightcade 2 | Fightcade: PoderosoDragon Twitter: @PoderosoRicky Discord: poderosoricky |
The 214AA Dragon Status: Active | |
Duckstopher | USA, East coast | Fightcade 2 | Fightcade: Duckstopher Twitter: @Duck35928436 Discord: duckstopherhftf |
Can and will TOD with ds5a only Status: Active | |
Aleph Null | USA, West Coast | Fightcade 2 | Fightcade: Aleph Null Twitter: @jojoHFTFaleph Discord: Aleph Null#1342 |
HFTF Youtuber. Also plays DIO. Status: Retired | |
Cloudskipper | USA, West Coast | Fightcade 2 | Fightcade: CloudSkipper Discord: ??? |
Appears Once In A Blue Moon. Status: Retired/Rarely Active | |
jjarina | United Kingdom / Malta Ukraine |
Fightcade 2 | Fightcade: jjarina~ AppleJuice-chan Discord: jjarina_ |
previously vac banned many moons ago for inhuman levels of 5C mash Status: Active |