Talk:Santana/@comment-5016083-20161224205944/@comment-24300265-20180319104455

Given that Dio had an Ice Mode that was about on par with what we saw ACDC use with his Fire Mode, I think he'd actually wreck Santana's shit and give even the other pillarmen an unexpectly hard time (only really ACDC might be able to easily beat him. Kars and Wham might get slipped up. As even Perfect Kars was vulnerable to extreme cold. And given how fast Dio could flash-freeze a person solid, i think it would be unusually effective.

Since Santana never displayed any kind of mode, and outside of natural ripple resistance wasn't THAT much tougher than the limits of what we've seen Dio do with his zombie experimentation.

Straizo even said that he wasn't even going to bother experimenting with his new powers until AFTER Joseph was dead (saying that it was Dio's weakness that he spent too much time innovating powers instead of destroys his rivals), and only learned the one technique that Dio used to kill Jonathan.