Stand Out Beginner Guide
This Stand Out beginner guide follows your first session in order: learn movement, help Jodio, meet Meryl, get your Phone and carry out the villa job.
Stand Out beginner guide: move, fight, talk
Start with Hey Ya’s movement tutorial. Hold Left Shift to sprint, then press Q to dash. Follow the direction arrow toward the road, where a cop is bothering someone. This arrow is a navigation marker; the Mysterious Arrow you use for a Stand is an inventory item you receive through the tutorial.
Win the first fight using Mouse1 for light punches, R for heavy punches and F for block. Focus on recognizing those three actions rather than trying to learn an entire moveset during the opening encounter. Once the fight objective is complete, talk to the stranger you helped. He introduces himself as Jodio and tells you to visit Meryl at IKO IKO for work.
Controls to keep beside you
| Action | Keyboard / mouse |
|---|---|
| Sprint | Left Shift or W + W |
| Dash | Q |
| Light attack | Mouse1 |
| Heavy attack | R / Mouse2 |
| Block | F |
| Summon | E |
| EX moves | T |
| Pilot mode | Left Control |
| Camera lock | Left Alt |
| Crouch | C |
| Menu / pose / emote wheel | M / P / L |
Learn the movement and defense keys first. Add E when you are ready to summon your Stand, then T for EX moves. Left Alt controls camera lock, while Left Control enters Pilot Mode. Keeping those two keys distinct helps when a Stand has remote-control abilities. C becomes especially useful during the villa mission, where staying low helps avoid cameras.
You can rehearse the inputs as separate actions: sprint, dash, light attack, heavy attack, then block. After receiving a Stand, repeat the same short sequence with it summoned. This gives you a baseline for recognizing which effects come from ordinary combat and which come from the Stand’s special skills.
Meet Meryl at IKO IKO and get the Phone
Speak with Meryl Mei Qi at IKO IKO and take the Rohan heist briefing in Storyline 2. She gives you a Phone and recruits you for the job: Rohan Kishibe has a diamond at his villa in Hawaii. Keep the Phone with you for Meryl’s calls as you continue the mission.
The Phone also opens applications including Huber, Maps and Bounties. For redeeming a code, open Gifts (Codes). The Stand Out codes page lists the actual code strings and posted rewards, including RELEASE for three Mysterious Arrows and HUGE100K for one Bizarre Arrow. Copy the full string into the application rather than entering its reward name.
Reach Rohan’s villa and find the hidden vault
Storyline 3 sends you to Rohan’s villa. Search for a concealed mechanism rather than expecting the vault to be in plain sight. Meryl points you toward hidden levers, a book protruding from a shelf, movable bookshelves, crooked paintings and loose wall panels. Inspect those features as you move through the building.
Use C to crouch and stay low around cameras. A useful search pattern is to examine one room’s shelves, paintings and panels before moving to another room. That keeps you from repeatedly checking the same obvious furniture while overlooking a small interaction. The clues describe possible mechanisms, so use the visible features of the room to guide your search.
Storyline 4 is the hidden-vault objective. Opening the vault alerts Rohan. Once the vault is open, shift your attention from searching to completing the escape objective. Storyline 5 has you leave the villa with the diamond and Lava Rock; its listed item rewards include a Blue Diamond and Lava Rock.
Your first Stand, rerolls and storage
Completing the tutorial gives you a Stand Arrow. The Mysterious Arrow awakens or rerolls your Stand. Use the Stand index once you know its name, then open a profile to learn what the kit actually does. Start with Star Platinum, The World or King Crimson if you want examples of base abilities, held inputs and EX costs.
Before rerolling a Stand you want to keep, visit D’Arby at the Docks for Stand Storage. He can turn a Stand into a chip. Using a chip permanently replaces the Stand currently equipped, so storing and equipping deserve separate decisions. The item guide explains chips, Arrow Parts and Roka uses.
For another arrow, Mysterious Arrows come from crafting, bounties, quests, Train Raid and Raid Shop as well as the tutorial. Lucky Arrows cost three Mysterious Arrows to craft; Bizarre Arrows cost nine. Read the arrow comparison before combining materials, especially if your goal is a Part-focused roll rather than a rarity tier.
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November 15, 2026.