Talk:Santana/@comment-5016083-20161224205944/@comment-32788838-20161225004309

Pre-Stand Dio was roughly as strong as the other common vampires shown throughout the series; the only thing that separated him from characters such as Straizo, Wired Beck, Nukesaku, and Vanilla Ice, who, as true vampires, should have the same powers as Dio, is that Dio combines his natural intellect, charisma, and seeming creativity with his superhuman powers of bodily manipulation rather than relying upon it - Straizo ascended through the same means as Dio and showed a number of the same powers he exhibited alongside.

Meanwhile, Pillar Men are almost literal gods of bodily manipulation; Jonathan could conquer Dio by punching him, but Joseph knew and understood that he could not risk using those same methods to overcome the Pillar Men as their bodies begin to outright fucking absorb and digest you upon contact.