Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-39923208-20190626203153

I guess the answer would be yes, but only if King Crimson's ability was activated before DIO stopped time. If DIO stopped time and donutted Diavolo before he could time skip, however, Diavolo would be a dead man. The way I see it, King Crimson's time skip is like a nerfed time stop. Instead of stopping time and his opponents, King Crimson brings the start and end of his ability together, kind of like taking a piece of string, representing time, and bringing two sections of it together, leaving a sort of pocket or loop (I do not mean a time loop). All the actions that characters took during the time skip would happen instantaneously, and would therefore confuse them. Diavolo, on the other hand, would be able to move and think freely during the skipped time, like DIO would during his time stops. If DIO and Diavolo were to meet and do battle, DIO would surely emerge victorious. DIO is just too tanky to get killed by even King Crimson's donutting. Diavolo, on the other hand, is just a human, probably.

Edit: Hol up.

Neither King Crimson nor Epitaph can stop time. Therefore, Diavolo can't sense stopped time like DIO and Jotaro. So even if he activated his ability, if DIO's plan was to stop time and donut him, he wouldn't be able to see it coming and get donutted in his time skip. An onlooker would just see Diavolo do whatever he does, then get sent flying with a hole in his chest.

"SHINEII, DIAVOLO!"