JoJo's Bizarre Adventure/Hamon

Articles About JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abilities
Abilities	Hamon - Vampire Physiology - Zombie Physiology - Pillar Men Physiology - Stands - Spin

Background

Hamon also known as Ripple is energy created from the blood flow of a living organism. Hamon users are able to weave Hamon by using special breathing techniques that allow them to draw the energy produced by their blood flow. This energy is identical to the energy produced by the sun making it fatal to beings such as Vampires, Zombies, and the Pillar Men. The potential to use Hamon can be inherited through one's parents though without training those with Hamon potential may be unaware their abilities. Hamon users who develop a Stand will gain the Stand Hermit Purple as shown with Jonathan Joestar and Joseph Joestar.

User Abilities

• Martial Arts: Hamon users use the Sendo fighting technique, the way of the hermit.

Standard Hamon Abilities

• Superhuman Physical Characteristics: Untrained Hamon users such as an early Joseph Joestar was able to withstand being launched into metal with enough force to break it and can crack a part of a pillar by throwing clackers at it. Will Anthonio Zeppeli, a Hamon user who uses a non-destructive type of Hamon, can spilt a rock in half and destroy brick.

• Acrobatics & Air Manipulation: Hamon users can launch themselves into the air and jump up high distances.

• Afterimage Creation: Hamon users can create afterimages.

• Body Control: Hamon users can extend their limbs with Zoom Punch.

• Surface Scaling: Hamon users can focus their fingers into a specific spot to scale up oily surfaces. Joseph was able to use his Hamon to stick to oil being spewed out of a pillar.

• Water Manipulation: Aquatic Flow & States of Matter Manipulation; Hamon users can use their Hamon to control water. Hamon users are able to solidify and sharpen liquids with Hamon.

• Penetration Damage: Physical Penetration; With Hamon Cutter, Hamon users can create blades of liquid sharper than scalpels. With Bubble Cutter, Hamon users can create sharp spinning discs made of bubbles.

• Life Manipulation: & Plant Manipulation Can cause a wilted flower to bloom.

• Enhanced Senses: Hamon users can feel changes in air flow when on alert.

• Radar Sensing: Hamon users can use things such as wine or cloth as a life detecting radar.

• Water Walking: Hamon allows one to walk on water.

• Electricity Manipulation: Electricity Surging & Conducting; Hamon can shock people, Joseph Joestar used this to knock out a pilot just from touching him. Those hit by Hamon attacks describe it as if there was electricity running through their attacks.

• Fire Manipulation: Hamon users can light their arms on fire using Scarlet Overdrive.

• Precognition: Premonitions; Hamon users can see someone’s future through touching them. Hamon users can see the future during battle.

• Biological Manipulation: Hamon can reorganize one's cell and make their functions go haywire. Hamon users can use Hamon to confuse the bodies of others.

• Reflection Manipulation & Attack Reflection: Hamon can redirect attacks through the use of objects imbued with Hamon.

• Longevity: Hamon keeps you in your prime much longer than usual.

• Healing: Hamon energy can heal broken bones, including a broken neck. Hamon can heal diseases like Gangrene.

• Pain Manipulation: Hamon energy can soften physical pain.

• Vibration Manipulation & Energy Manipulation: It is also called Ripple, as it creates vibrations that turn into energy waves.

• Light Manipulation: Hamon utilizes the powers of the sun allowing it to glow.

• Explosion Manipulation: Hamon can incur explosions.

• Durability Negation: Hamon can conduct through living organisms, thus ignoring durability. Can stop ones heart with Hamon.

• Non-Standard Interaction & Metaphysics Manipulation: Spirit Manipulation; Hamon can conduct over and affect Stands. Stands are consistently referred to as spiritual energy, beings that are a powerful apparition created by the stand users own life energy, with it being known physical objects such as guns can't hurt Stands.

• Purification: Hamon was shown to restore Bruford’s humanity.

• Self-Sustenance: Nutritional Self-Sustenance & Restful Self-Sustenance; Hamon can allow users to go long periods of time without food, drink, or rest.

• Magnetism Manipulation: Life Magnetism Overdrive magnetizes living things to bunch them together, such as leaves. Hamon can be positively and negatively charged.

• Gliding: Hamon users can magnetize leaves and use them to glid across large distances.

• Hair Manipulation: Hamon users can use even hair and weaponize it to block attacks.

• Absorption & Power Bestowal: Hamon users can transfer their life energy to other allowing those who absorb it grow stronger from it. Those affected by Hamon Hypnosis grow stronger from it.

• Sleep Manipulation: Hamon can put animals to sleep.

• Blood Manipulation: Hamon can stop bleeding. Hamon users can create bubbles made of blood. Hamon users can infused Hamon into blood.

• Organic Manipulation: Botany Applications; Hamon can harden cocked pasta.

• Mind Manipulation: Hamon Hypnosis allows for the user to control the mind of whoever they touched with Hamon. Hamon users can use Hamon Hypnosis to read information from one's subconscious.

• Animal Manipulation: Able to inject Hamon into an animal to control them. Joseph used this to control the vampire horses during his chariot battle.

• Pierce Resistance: Standard Pierce Resistance; By concentrating Hamon into a specific part of their body, Hamon users can resist being pierced by pressurized oil, knifes, spikes.

• Cloth Manipulation: Hamon users can harden cloth with their Hamon.

• Heat Manipulation: Hamon is hot enough to burn hair.

Advanced Hamon Abilities

• Advanced Enhanced Senses: Top tier Hamon users can hear dozens of people breathing from a distance.

• Advanced Heat Manipulation: Ultimate Kars' Hamon is powerful enough to melt and vaporize flesh.

Resistances

• Poison Manipulation: Users of Hamon can expel poison from the body using blood control.

• Absorption & Biological Manipulation: Hamon users can resist the Pillar Men trying to absorb them into them, which Joseph describes as them using their own cells to expel digestive fluid to devour the persons cells.

• Corruption & Necromancy: Hamon users can expel Dio's vampiric extract which can turn one into an undead zombie out for blood.

• Fire Manipulation: Hamon users can resist fire.

Weaknesses

• If A Hamon user can't breath they will eventually run out of Hamon.

• If A Hamon user were to use Ultimate Deep Pass Overdrive they will rapidly age until they become old.

• If A Hamon user's Hamon unable to connect with its target, the target will be unaffected. A way to prevent Hamon from connecting is by freezing the users way of attacking with it before it could reach it's target.