Weather can turn a generic team into an unstoppable force if managed well in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Spirit, so be sure to adjust your formation, placement, timing, and roster beforehand. This guide will provide you with some of the best weather strategies in the game, which will improve your combat.
Top Weather Effects & Interactions
The weather system in JoJo Golden Spirit is dynamic and more prominent in later stages, such as Bloody Battle and other survival modes. So be sure to choose characters with weather kits, such as Chill applicators like Ghiaccio and Pet Shop, or those interacting with dampness, as they can amplify or counter those types of effects. Here are the most important weather effects in the game:
| Weather | Effects |
|---|---|
| Blizzards & Snowstorms | Slows attack speed and can deal damage during movement. Snowstorms can inflict Chill, thus reducing Attack Speed by 30% for 10 seconds on everyone. Prosciutto’s aging “The Grateful Dead” effect is also suppressed. |
| Heavy Fog | Reduces the range and damage of ranged units, favoring melee strategies. Narancia can ignore these range-reduction effects. |
| Sandstorms | Similar range-reduction issues for ranged units. Narancia is the only one who can ignore them. |
| Rain | Squalo gains increased skill and normal attack range. |
| Strong Wind | Can boost ranged unit attack speed and damage, so focus on a ranged lineup. |
| Extreme Heat | Prosciutto’s aging effect performs much better. |
Best Weather Strategies for Combat
Before locking your team formation, always check the weather description, and prioritize units that benefit from it or are immune to it. If a stage suddenly feels harder, recheck the weather, which may explain the drop in your team’s performance. Here’s how to successfully swap to weather units:
| Weather | Strategies |
|---|---|
| Blizzards & Snowstorms | Counter slowdown with Attack Speed buffs, energy batteries from Lisa Lisa, or units that apply their own Chill for control, such as Ghiaccio and Pet Shop. Avoid over-relying on Prosciutto, since his aging will be suppressed, and prioritize Giorno Giovanna’s heals and Koichi Hirose’s Immobilize instead. |
| Fog & Sandstorms | Lean into melee with frontline pressure and tanks like Jonathan Joestar or Ermes Costello. Use Narancia if available to you for ranged immunity, or simply reduce pure ranged reliance. |
| Rain | Boost Squalo or similar range extenders for some good skills or control comps. |
| Strong Wind | Maximize Ranged Type with Caesar Anthonio Zeppeli as your hypercarry, who benefits from distance damage. Position your ranged units as far back as possible for their inherent +5% damage boost per tile distance. |
| Extreme Heat | Utilize Prosciutto for stronger Senility and AoE aging with execute. |
Lastly, check each unit’s attack range before placing them in certain weather that reduces ranged forces. Protect your supports, healers, and energy batteries by using tanks that absorb pressure. Agility units gain crit when untargeted and can stealth in fog, so place them carefully to weather movement penalties. You can always preview attack directions via the pre-battle interface.
