Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-39923208-20190922004520

Larry Capucha wrote: I think Diavolo can win, 'tho no without  taking some heavy damaglios in the process. The scenario I'm picturing is as follows:

DIO v Diavolo: Epitaph acticates and diavolo sees DIO screaming ZA WARUDO and himself turned into a donut within the next ten seconds, thus he activates time skip. From that instant onwards he has a couple of seconds to cripple DIO in some fashion so he can survive the incoming time stop. Nos it's DIO's turn, he will recover his agency as soon as time is stopped but he's now damaged and somewhat confused, now, Diavolo had to get in range to acomplish that and that means DIO has 9 seconds worth of free attacks, but since he's crippled he can't finish off Diavolo and as soon as the time stop ends the timeframe of skipped time resumes, this gives the opportunity Diavolo needs to finish off DIO.

Basically I'm giving it to Diavolo since epitaph should give him the first shot Ok, so maybe Diavolo can hurt DIO all he wants with his really good Stand. But would he ever be able to seal the deal, and actually kill DIO for good? Like, no reducing him to just a head for the next 100 years?

This is a very important part of the puzzle. DIO is practically invincible to conventional forms of attack. Diavolo isn't. Both of their Stands specialize in up-close, personal, conventional forms of attack. You can easily see the mountain of problems Diavolo has to overcome.

For Diavolo to win, he needs to incapacitate DIO, keep tabs on him, and spam the fr*ck out of Time Skip to get to morning. But that's only if he knows DIO is 1) a vampire and 2) instantly killed by sunlight. Which he probably won't, since no-one's utilized this since Polnareff vs. Vanilla Ice, and that was a niche-asspull sort of thing. Point is, no-one is going to know DIO's a vampire, and no-one's going to know how to combat that part of him.