Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-45691206-20200505022528

The question is actually tied to how exactly the power of Diavolo work.

The whole logic is King Crimson is able to break continuity of events. You shoot me, logical continuity want that I'll get hit, and well not, the bullet doesn't hit me.

To represent this, Araki did a time window where Diavolo is able to generate paradoxes, have things happens out of thin air and erase events.

One clearer example happen when Mista found, with no apparent reason or intent, that already shooted at him. Diavolo broke the continuity of events.

Or, in the same scene, bullets that should have naturally hit him bounce instead around, breaking the logical continuity of trajectories.

Practically speaking, King Crimson can change ("erase") the normal cause/effect chain. It was depicted poorly, but is an incredible power indeed! I'm there, you're safe and alive, STAND!, you're dead. Continuity broken. It generate continuity flux paradoxes.

It's an incredible strong stand, but frankly speaking used in the worst manner you can figure out (maybe it was a lil too OP and nerfed for plot reason).

Now, what  Diavolo can do against time stoppers?

It's a gunslinger situation.

If Dio stop time the first, Diavolo can't trigger the power and he's dead.

If Diavolo trigger first, can probably see Dio move around or do things 'illogically' (the shift in time) and erase or provoke something in the continuity. For example, move away from trajectory, impale Dio the moment he does stop time, move away from the point Dio reach in stopped time. From Diavolo perspective, Dio is just blinking away.

What happen from Dio perspective? Dio trigger the power, at the same moment he's impaled out of thin air and Diavolo hesn't where he sould be. Dio act in his stopped time but can't reach Diavolo that appear somewhere else again. Time run again.

A bystander will see Dio get impaled out of thin air, teleport away that very istant, and Diavolo teleport in a safe location.