Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1739368-20121205124732/@comment-32973614-20190404131544

Ok, I get what you mean now, but i'm pretty sure you are misunderstanding what Araki said, maybe due to translation.

Time stop is the strongest, most invincible abilty means that the ability itself is invincible, but the ability isn't all there is, it's an active ability (requires activation and can be "on" or "off"), not passive, so one with time stop ability is vulnerable when the ability is not active, in part 4 Jotaro still took hits from at least 3 stands as far as i remember, so the ability may be invincibe, but the user is not, at least, not while the ability isn't active.

In your previous message you wrote:"diavolo uses his ability first, dio wins", and i can argue with that because if Diavolo uses time erasure, think it throught, the whole point of erased time is that one cannot react to Diavolo's movement, so

1. If one is a regular person (or has a stand but doesn't use it), they are powerless during all erased time, it's the whole point of KC.

2. If Dio does NOT use the world, since it's an active ability, he would behave like previously stated, there's no reason why it would be different.

3. If Dio DOES use the world, it makes sense if Dio behaves like a regular person, being powerless to KC, at least until he uses time stop and when the effect wears of if nothing interesting happens.

4.When he uses time stop, time gets stopped, so clocks don't move, timers don't run out and all, a single instant of time gets to last 10 seconds in which only those with time stop can be aware or move, so it's not like erased time would end, run out or anything. Dio would not go from seeing Diavolo behind the pillar (if he was in Bruno's place), to activating the world and seeing Diavolo looking at him from the side, then going back to seeing him behind the pillar when the effect wears off, instead, he wold stop time, his perception of what's going on won't change by stopping time, and he would attack behind the pillar, seeing Diavolo there, MISSING the real target, and he would die aftermards, when The World is in cooldown.

also, what does "time now is STOPPED, it's not being erased, because it's stopped" even mean? This makes no sense in practice, if you don't explain it it's a "it just works" kind of explaination.