Tubular Bells

Lore

Background

“Your sentence to torture is now repealed! Now! immediately! You are to be executed!”

The Stand of Mike O., President Funny Valentine’s bodyguard. Tubular Bells lets him inflate metal into balloon animals that pursue a memorized scent. He can reshape them from a distance, and their elastic bodies squeeze through narrow openings. When a balloon bursts, it returns to its original metal form: a nail hidden in an animal or a heavy sheet raised overhead can become a deadly trap.

Abilities

Five Animals

Nails and gas cans make dogs, hydrants make swans, trash cans make turtles, signs make snakes, and metal benches or empty cars make lions. Holding Inflate longer increases size, damage and knockback.

Balloon Control

Tap Ctrl to cycle through your balloon animals and back to your body. Move toward your camera; aim up or down to change height. Hold Ctrl to return immediately.

Early Pop

Press E while piloting to pop the balloon and drop its original object.

Inflate Balloon

Hold while aiming at a metal object to blow it into a balloon animal. Blow longer to make it bigger and hit harder. Tap to send an animal forward; it returns if it misses. Keep up to five, including duplicates. (Cursor over object)

Pick Up Scent

Hold while aiming at a throwable to collect the scent of its last owner, or someone nearby. Tap to send your animals after that person, even through walls. Tap again to recall them. The scent lasts 45 seconds.

Balloon Flower

Plant a flower in front of you. It takes one second to grow, then blasts enemies who approach from the front. The burst knocks them down; enemies behind it are safe. Keep up to three flowers, each lasting 25 seconds.

Cooldown: 6s

Spiked Balloon Swarm

Inflate nearby metal into a swarm of small balloons, some covered in spikes. Bigger objects make larger swarms. They drift toward enemies ahead, stick to them, then burst. Each enemy can take up to five hits. (Cursor over object)

Cooldown: 16s

Figure captions without move text

These entries carry captions, but none of them has its own ability text: “Trash Can (Turtle)”, “Empty cars/metal benches (Lion)”, “Fire hydrants (Swan)”, “Nails and gas cans (Dog)” and “Signs (Snake)” are images of balloon forms already covered by Five Animals, and their notes only add that the swan is faster than any other balloon and that the dog is faster while scent tracking. “Inflate (Hold)”, “Inflate (Object)” and “Send (Tap)” are input clips for Inflate Balloon, and “Hit” is a clip of Balloon Flower.

Awakening (EX) moves

Balloon Beast [4 Bars]

Combine one of each animal into a T-rex, or five of the same animal into a weaker giant. Pilot it, send it with Inflate or have it follow a scent. It swallows an enemy on contact and bursts inside them. Lasts up to 50 seconds and uses all five balloons.

Cooldown: 40s

Babylonian Balloons [3 Bars]

Turn your balloons into swords and fire them forward one after another. They stick into enemies, then burst and cause Bleed.

Cooldown: 22s

Balloon Parade [2 Bars]

Fly your balloons together in a circling formation for up to 12 seconds. They latch onto enemies and burst. Use summon to drop their metal forms, or Pilot to return to your body.

Cooldown: 20s

Lead Balloons [3 Bars]

Send your balloons above an enemy, then pop them one after another. Their metal forms fall onto anyone underneath.

Cooldown: 24s

Ability scaling

What Ability changes

Inflate Balloons’ balloon slots increase by 1 per 30 points in ability. Pick Up Scent duration, Balloon Flower duration, and Balloon Parade duration scale off ability, up to 50%

How to obtain

Rarity and arrow rolls

Epic can come from a Mysterious Arrow or from a Lucky Arrow, which rolls Epic at 42.5%. The Bizarre Arrow excludes Rare and Epic Stands. These are rarity-level odds, not odds for this exact Stand.

See the Stand arrows guide for the full arrow table, crafting costs and reroll rules.

Update notes

Dated developer entries

2026-10-05 — Tubular Bells balloons now use a metal material; colors stay the same.
2026-10-05 — Fixed Tubular Bells’ scent collection needing props to break, flights missing props or failing to recall, and canceled flights bringing back old scent targets.
2026-10-05 — Fixed Tubular Bells’ inflation leaving you slowed.
2026-09-27 — Tubular Bells was in development (WIP).