Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-39718735-20200717210516

This debate is quite pointless actually. The issue is that we have zero clues at all about how time related powers would interact among themselves. The only single time two different time powers clashes is during Jotaro vs Pucci's fight at the end of part 6, going by it we can conclude that different time related powers may interact and affect each other yet not fully cancel each other (The World time-stop can halt the acceleration yet it's duration is shortened by it).

Yet that example is vastly different to issue we'd have with The World vs King Crimson. The action of both stands happens outside time (No time happens during stopped time, no time is left during skipped time). During the activity of both stands the amount of real time spent is zero.

They are kinda opposites as well. The World "creates new time" for only its user (if a time span in the universe would be, let's say 100 seconds; Jotaro exists during 105 seconds in that interval). On the other hand Diavolo "deletes time" for everyone but the user (everyone else's time span is 90 seconds, while Diavolo retains an experience of 100 seconds).

Thus we have non existant time happening during non existant time, it's sort of a paradox.

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The thing is so inconclusive the only opinion I can give is how I'd make it work, and as you can see that's as far as canon as possible. Given that The World is affected by superposed time effects like time-acceleration it may be able to stop time without being able to experience it:


 * You can move in skipped time, yet only guided by the thoughts you had before it started -  Diavolo may move to your side and you would act guided by the last "time" you experienced - (him being in front of you) > You'd punch forward, you'd end up punching the air.


 * Thus The World's user would probably attack the latest registred location of Diavolo, if he didn't activates The World fast enough he'll be punching the air while Diavolo's frozen. If that happens the user of The World is done for.


 * This may vary if The World's user knows how King Crimson works: he'd stop time and attack towards random directions (DIO may throw knives everywhere and hope some of them reach Diavolo during stopped time).

And that would only happen if Diavolo used Epitaph beforehand (a thing that leads to another personal theory about how KC works, in short words it says Diavolo is tangible only if he uses Epitaph before time-skip - that being the reason he could capture Trish and had to dodge Mista's bullets; if he doesn't do so beforehand he can't interact with the world - like when Aerosmith shoot him or when he was unable to stop Polnareff from activating Requiem during skipped time).