There is no secret-Stand system in Stand Out
Start with the straight answer, because the search term is everywhere and the game does not have the thing the term describes: no official source — documentation, changelog, announcement or FAQ — uses the phrase “secret stands”, and no hidden unlock condition exists anywhere official. What community videos call secret stands are Stands that cannot come from a normal arrow roll: every one of them is published under a different route, just not inside the arrow pool.
That distinction matters in practice: if a Stand has a route, the route is published; if a Stand is absent from every pool, the reason is published too. This page collects all six published non-arrow routes in one place.
Route 1: Opal Roka evolutions
Two Stands exist only as transformations and can never be rolled:
- Star Platinum: The World — Opal Roka on Star Platinum, 10% swap / 10% lose your Stand / 80% unchanged.
- The World: Alternative Universe — Opal Roka on The World, same odds.
The percentages are tier-dependent — as of October 7, 2026, tier scales both the success and wipe chances, and the S tier Opal Roka has a 0% chance to wipe. The full item breakdown, including the other three Roka types, is on the evolution guide.
Route 2: Quest Stands
The Quest Stands family has three published members:
- Hermit Purple — Billy’s task: defeat DIO, then use Life-Giving Overdrive on plants 15 times while Standless with Jonathan Hamon equipped.
- Jojosapiens — from Space Oddity, or by having 7,500 sold accessories in the Catalog.
- Yo-Yo Ma — a themed side quest added November 2, 2026 drops its Stand Chip at a very low chance; the stand itself is also in the arrow pool as a Rare.
Route 3: Raid chips
Two Stand Chips are published as raid rewards, both only on Hard difficulty and both at 1.0% — the lowest rate on either drop table:
- King Crimson Full Stand Chip — Train raid Hard, 1.0%, or 200 Tokens in the Train Shop.
- Highway Star Stand Chip — Highway Star raid Hard, 1.0%, or 200 Tokens in the Highway Star Shop.
The two drop tables and both shops are reproduced on the raids guide. Note that King Crimson and Highway Star are also in the arrow pool — the chips are a second route, not the only one.
Route 4: Boss chips
The DIO boss can drop a The World Stand Chip, a drop in place since October 23, 2026. No rate is published. Like the raid chips, this is a second route for a Stand that also rolls from arrows.
Route 5: Story-locked Stands
Three Stands are in the arrow pool but only after you finish the main story: Burning Down The House, Catch The Rainbow and Strength have been locked out of arrows since October 26, 2026. Before that point they are unobtainable from arrows; no other route to them is published.
Separately, arrows used before storyline completion draw from a modified pool that excludes Super Fly, Rolling Stones and Cinderella (October 23, 2026) — a temporary restriction, not a route.
Route 6: Stands currently in no pool at all
Four Stands were pulled from the arrow pool on October 29, 2026, to be added back sometime after release when there is time to rework them:
- John Rod and Cat Size — removed, no longer flagged for rework.
- Tower Of Gray and West End Girl — removed, and both are still flagged as being reworked.
At the November 15, 2026 snapshot none of the four is obtainable through any published route.
What about “secret moves”?
The same videos use the phrase “secret moves”. There is no secret-move system either — what they show are each Stand’s documented EX (awakening) abilities, which every Stand lists alongside its base abilities. This wiki documents those per Stand on each stand profile, including EX cooldowns where they are published.
One related phrase worth decoding: “watch set”. Community guides reference it around Death 13 and Mandom, and it is neither an item nor a hidden unlock — it is the name of those Stands’ time-rewinding ability, referenced in patches since October 2026: Death 13’s watch set has had fixes, and Mandom’s watch set is now cancelable.
What is not published
- Any per-Stand odds inside a rarity tier, on any route.
- The per-tier Opal Roka numbers beyond the 10%/10% print and the S-tier zero-wipe note.
- DIO’s chip drop rate.
- A return date for the four Stands removed from the arrow pool, beyond “sometime after release”.