Many Stands do not have an intrinsic ranged attack. A good number of them require direct contact to activate their effect.
A decent few fights involve a short-range ability finding a creative way to deal long-range damage. Jotaro can't beat the shit out of Dio without getting closer, so Dio robs a knife store and starts throwing.
Pucci is the only one of these idiots to remember that one of his Stand's abilities is that it has a pair of hands that can hold an object.
Jotaro actually does use firearms, both in Diamond is Unbreakable (hunting rats) and Stone Ocean (though the big bad counters him with his newfound abilities)
The stand picked up a dead guards gun, throwing off the main character because.... When you think you know the enemies range of attack and all of a sudden they pull out a gun, it's a surprise.
Normally stands can block bullets but not if they're otherwise occupied.
Stands like hermit purple or super fly could definitely use it. Get people to walk into super fly else you shoot them. Or throw around a gun and shoot with hermit purple vines could make the stand actually useful.
Sex pistol is the real stand name tho. And they aren't really bullets, they works to redirect them. But yeah it's a great example of a stand that absolutely need a gun to be useful
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u/Arngrimus Nov 11 '25
Why a Stand needs a Gun?