Best JoJo's Bizarre Adventure openings

Opening 2 wins 79% of its duels and tops the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure opening ranking ahead of Opening 8.

Opening 8 holds second place with 1345 ELO points, but a sharp 75-point gap separates it from Opening 4 in third. Opening 2 dominates the podium with 1400 ELO points across 47 duels, establishing itself as the community's clear favorite. Opening 1, the original series opener, sits just behind at rank 4 with 1261 ELO points after 67 duels, the highest duel count in the top 5. At the bottom, Opening 10 v2 languishes at rank 13 with 1059 ELO points and a 28% win rate, while Opening 5 v2 and Opening 7 v1 round out the lower tier. The community appears to favor earlier series openings, with the top 4 all drawn from the first half of the franchise.

This ranking emerges from 323 duels voted by 10 players across 13 contenders, last updated on 12 October 2026. VAINKEURZ builds its rankings through head-to-head matchups, where each vote adjusts ELO scores to reflect collective preference. The tight clustering in the middle ranks suggests competitive balance among several openings, while Opening 2's commanding win rate reveals a consensus pick. Whether you champion the early entries or believe later openings deserve recognition, cast your vote to shape the ranking and challenge the current hierarchy.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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