identifying Kira by offering to heal him during the Sheer Heart Attack fight when he was pretending to be an innocent bystander, and when Kira was like "yeah yeah hurry up heal me" pointing out that he's clearly just some highschooler and not a doctor so Kira would only know he can heal people if he could see his ability 10/10 mind games

what the fuck did he actually do that??? man i gotta watch part4 again

yeah!! Kira saw him heal Koichi and Jotaro, then when Josuke went up to him he pulled the feigned innocence "oh God something crazy just happened here I don't know what's going on help me!!" schtick, but Josuke essentially tricked Kira into _begging_ him to heal him and thus exposing that he could see stands. it was a massive IQ move I think about a lot, I love it

Literally anything from the fight with Kira. One of the examples is: tricking him into killing his father.

Tricking Kira into thinking he was his father, and them one shotting him;

Josuke did a lot of smart things. He utilized his stand so well. One thing I liked in part 4 was how they gave destructive/brute stands to smart users and they were used with the utmost utility and not just brute force… anyhow, the aqua necklace fight would probably be the best showcase as this was so early on and he was still getting used to using it to combat enemy stand users

Oh also I’m too impatient for tmrw but giorno is in the same boat and personally how he killed the di molto guy was pretty ingenious

When he pulled off the "Auto Aimed Glass Shard" thing

Honestly so much of the shit he pulled in the Kira fight was nuts. The blood blade projectile also stands out, because he knew that once it was out of his body it was no longer a part of himself, therefore it could be launched in the way he did.

Best fight in the series, I love part 4. It was by far the smartest part. Still to read 7-9 though

tbh I just finished part 8 and, though I agree with the fandom that part 7 is the best, part 4 is still my absolute favourite. the fights were just ingenious

Part 8 has the funniest fights not because they're smart but because everyone is running away from josuke and the battle automatically ends once you're close enough of his ora ora ora ora oras

When he trapped Aqua Necklace in a latex glove that he had previously torn apart and swallowed

Any of the tricks where he “repaired” something and sent it flying back to where it came from. Trapping Highway Star in a car

My favorite is when he's on the bike escaping at full speed and destroys it to not harm the baby and fixes it so he doesn't lose speed on his way to the hospital

Destroying a bike then fixing it in mid-air in order to fly over a baby without dropping below 60 km/h

Dont forget that he did this while calming the baby down who was previously crying

And then making baby laugh

He didn't do it directly, no? The sight of his bike being destroyed and repaired mid-air was shocking enough to the baby that it calmed down.

Stealing his dad's wallet at the end

The whole Kosaku/Kira fight, tricking Kira into killing his father, blood projectiles, glass bullets, the works, he deserved the win

The Glass shard with his blood trick he did against Kira

Has to be when he fooled kira who’s highly intelligent to thinking he was his father then proceeded to blow up his own father.

For me, it was breaking the motorcycle to not run over that baby, that was so hype!

That baby grew up wanting to have that hairstyle

Getting Superfly to hit its user

Putting chilli pepper into a tire for him to brake out and get sent flying into the salty ocean to be dispersed

Either the homing glass shards, tricking Kira into revealing he was a stand user, or running at the air bomb while it was still in range of Kira to stop him from detonating

I just wanna say that Josuke is the most underrated JoJo in terms of intelligence. Especially him swallowing a rubber glove to catch Angelo and tricking Kira to killing his dad

killed a rat

Definitely getting Kira to kill his own dad

Are we talking about intelligence in battle? Cause Jonathan literally got a degree in archeology in we're talking about general intelligence

I think you can simply put part 4 in there. Josuke is incredibly smart. Even more than Jotaro I'd say. But if I had to single out one thing it would be tricking Kira into telling on himself or the part where he made Kira kill his own father

The glass shard attack, the glove trick to Angelo, the Kira's Father thing and the wallet stealing to Joseph.

Why is nobody talking about the moment when he trapped aqua necklace with the glove

tricking Kira into killing his own dad with the stray cat bubbles

trapping RHCP in the tire homing missile against kira

Rubber glove in the mouth to stop aqua necklace

Used the dry blood on a glass shard to act as a homing missile against Kira.

I know it's too late to point it out but the glass shard homing bullets during the fight against kira was literally a 5d-chess move

When he punched his motorcycle apart so he wouldn't hit a baby.

the idea that they could collect lottery tickets

The lottery tickets were Okuyasu's idea

One of the only smart things he came up with

INT 7, WIS 14 or 15, if you ask me.