JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future/Alessi

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Alessi (アレッシー Aresshī) is a minor antagonist featured in Stardust Crusaders. He's a cowardly assassin and one of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods attempting to assassinate Polnareff and Jotaro in Luxor as Mariah battles Joseph and Avdol. His Stand is Sethan, a rejuvenating shadow.

Alessi is a rather straightforward character with a not-so-straightforward gimmick of turning his opponents into their younger version (or minor characters) for a limited time to unleash high damaging attacks on their heavily weakened forms. He's also a Weapon Stand character, meaning he gains access to the Custom Combo super, but unlike the other characters, his Custom Combo is different due to his lack of chain combos in Stand On.

His Stand is very unique in that it's a shadow on the floor. When activating the Stand, Alessi can expand it by holding the Stand button which changes the points where his attacks start.

Pros	Cons
Short Hurtbox - Alessi has the third shortest hurtbox when crouching, allowing him to duck under many of the cast's optimal BnB's and good buttons Strong Grounded Movement - Sporting fluid ground movement and a great backrun, Alessi's repositioning ability is a lot more free-flowing than other characters Powerful Guard Cancel - The glue that holds Alessi's defense together. Huge hitbox, quite fast, and pretty much zero input overlap with other specials Oppressive Neutral Control - Potent ground control in s.On, decent normals in s.Off, and tight defense options, combined with a dominant tool in 41236+A/B/C forces opponents to play around Alessi's gameplan. Passive stands specifically crumble under his toolset High Damage - Alessi's lowest damaging BnB already does around 50%, with character specific routes and Unblockable Resets dealing upwards of 90-100%, allowing for two or one-touch combos Slippery To Pin Down - Fast wakeup and prejump lets Alessi to avoid pressure and okizeme, speedy dashrun allows him to escape from many situations, and a great GC that resets the game back to neutral Smooth Learning Curve - With a very forgiving skill floor and a huge skill ceiling, Alessi's capabilities allows for players to pick him at any skill level	Wide Hurtbox - Many conversions that shouldn't be possible on skinnier characters will connect on Alessi, and there's more of a chance to be outpoked in neutral Pre-emptive Hurtboxes - Any normal with Sethan has huge hurtboxes that appear before its active frames, which severely cripples their priority Poor Anti-Airs - Pre-emptive hurtboxes, bad hitboxes, and high recovery/startup on all of Alessi's potential anti-airs makes dealing with aerials very difficult Poor Air Presence - Linear aerial movement, short and low priority air normals, and no air specials/supers make Alessi's air presence quite bad when he's not in advantage Low Momentum - All optimal combos end with the game state back in neutral, and his pressure is often quite bad, lowering Alessi's oppressiveness and potential on offense Polarising Matchups - While Alessi stomps characters below him, characters higher on the tier list can stop him dead in his tracks with proper matchup knowledge Inconsistent Moves - Some moves in Alessi are among the worst in the game, and many of his attacks don't function properly. Characters falling out of his supers, random oversights by the devs, weird proximity ranges and more all impact Alessi's consistency as a character

Alessi

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Stand: Weapon

Defense Value Stand OFF: 89

Defense Value Stand ON: 84

Stand Durability: 88

Roll Speed: 42

Wakeup Speed: 33

Prejump Stand OFF: 2

Prejump Stand ON: 2

Notable Players

Color	Nickname	Country	Platform	Accounts	Notes
	KneeCo	USA	Fightcade 2	Fightcade: KneeCo	Tech & stand stretch enthusiast. Status: Active
	captaintenshou	Norway	Fightcade 2	Twitter: Fightcade: captaintenshou rat race	Formerly S.DIO main. Status: Retired
	Poezn	USA	Fightcade 2	Fightcade: @MasterChief982	Current Vanilla ice player Status: Active
	Guruslum	USA, Midwest	Fightcade 2	Twitter: @guruslum Fightcade: guruslum	Low Tier God. Also plays Hoingo. Status: Retired