Styles fall into one of six, later seven main categories: Ripple, Vampirism, Mode, Stand, Mounted, Baoh Armed Phenomenon, and Ogre Street, each utilizing different abilities when the Style button is pressed.
Along with the ability to use various special attacks and techniques with different directional inputs, each character possesses a Battle Style, allowing them to utilize additional moves with the "Style" button. Gameplay uses five main buttons light, medium, and heavy attacks, a dodge button, and a "Style" button. The player wins a round by draining all of their opponent's stamina, or by possessing more stamina than their opponent when time runs out. Like most fighting games, the aim is to defeat your opponent by draining their stamina gauge ( HP is used in a certain game mode) with various attacks and special techniques. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is a 3D fighting game in which players can fight against each other using characters taken from the first eight story arcs of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series (and one from a prior work by Araki), fighting in various locations taken from the manga. The in game display includes a health bar, Guard Gauge, and Heart Heat Gauge.
Jonathan Joestar (right) blocking an attack from Dio Brando ( Phantom Blood version, left).