Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26873003-20150809191532/@comment-26871105-20150811135519

Hanged Man is a strong stand, however unlike the stands that I personally think are the strongest of Part 3 (beside SP and The World), it doesn't have either the conditions that make it broken or a nature that makes the stand almost impossible to lose a fight with.

Under the situation where people have to fight til a person emerges victorious,

Cream can just swallow its user, turn into a void and stay like that for hours on end, the only restriction is the user's need to take care of hunger and thirst otherwise you just can't beat it (Cream was only defeated because Vanilla Ice lacks anything that resembles a common sense).

Death 13 can attempt its assaults indefinitely until he succeeds as your memory inside the dream does not carry over into the real world, nor can you summon your stand once you're inside the dream in order to fight against Death 13. It only lost because the user was cocky, revealing his identity as well as taking his sweet time dragging things out. Not to mention he should heal his victims if the attack is not successful to prevent people use wounds to carry messages when woken up but he overlooked that.

Yellow Temperance is invincible by default, the only way to win against him is by drowning the user, which the story conveniently happened in an amusement park otherwise Joestar's journey in Part 3 could have ended right there.

Sethan is broken in a sense that, unless you have an ability stand that gives the user some sort of superhuman agility, otherwise this stand's first strike is always gonna hit. Even if you can dodge once or twice its ability is still extremely dangerous since you can't touch it, not even once. Under normal circumstances if the user is anywhere near the competent mark, fights could just very much end after Sethan's first swing. But Alessi is definitely not the competent man we're looking for as he lost in wits against a 3 years old and lost in physical fight to a 7 years old.

To combat Hanged Man, if there is a logical guy with a stand whose speed rating is A, it would be toast before the fight even started. Without the perfect scenario, Hanged Man is still very beatable given if you have either good enough brain and environmental set up or if your stand is just fast enough to catch it mid-transferring between surfaces. That's why Hanged Man is certainly tier 1 (or 2 if we were to include everybody), but it's not broken like some others and so it doesn't make onto my list.