Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-44478244-20191122151659

(not sure if i posted it before but im posting again)

Well what im thinking is that well.. these are 2 scenarios.

Epitath: Diavolo sees himself in ten seconds getting destroyed by dio and erases time, dio timestops about 4-5 second later, what i think is that in the 9 seconds dio has frozen, he has stopped the erasure of time for those 9 seconds, he will then do 5-6 seconds of movement of diavolo's erased time then we get to a problem. since the 10 seconds of diavolo's erased time is over, does dio get realisation back..? this is where it splits off

If erasure is gone: Dio would be confused at this as he would wonder what his ability is, before the time stop ends, he is then put under the erasure of time again and diavolo would be confused as dio has somehow teleported and would then be confused about the stand ability of dio plus it means the movements he saw werent in the Epitath which as a result would leave diavolo inside of a defensive position, if he used the arrow or not. the time erasure would probably end in a stalemate. then when they fight again they would both try to figure out each other's powers if dio doesnt shout it out, diavolo would probably get it first, but because of dio's regeneration and vampric abilities  he will survive till he gets diavolo's ability and by then, dio's won as he would know when to use the world to outsmart king crimson's erasure of time. It would be easier if we assume that when dio is unaffected by the erased time and and could attack diavolo in that time period, but that would be impossible. But i'd say that dio would be able to set up a moment where he would beat diavolo, as you remember dio has extra seconds to set something up and in polnareff's fight with diavolo he was able to predict where he was and caused a slice of damage.

If erasure stays: with this idea it would be mostly the same however Diavolo would have the advantage in the end, sorta. Because of how dio's abilities work it means that there will be some seconds of his movement that will still exist due to time stop that diavolo wont see. However that still means that he has the advantage as dio would take longer to figure out what was happening which could leave a moment where diavolo's epitath could push him through and kill dio, same with jotaro.

"the gun is mightier than the sword."

"A person with a mountain can be beaten by a person with a pebble if thrown by a master"

this is the mindset im using, both time stop and time erasure are powerful abilities but its how you use them depends on which one's better, both have yings and yangs that people can  take advantage of, hell even G E R has some points where stands with reality warping or stand nullification abilities will take it down.

Time stop: can stop time erasure and could leave the user in a state for a couple of seconds to allow them to ineract and beat time erasure

Time erasure: can stop time stop from damaging the user due to the  nullification but it means that they cant see some movements of the time stopper due to them being frozen in time. but can still overwhelm timestoppers if used right and with unpredictableness.

But due to the overall idea of timestop vs time erasure on its own, timestop is more powerful as the time eraser cant actually predict when the timestop happens unless the enemy shouts it out.... this is my idea of the differences between timestop and time erasure and how they are compared to each other.