Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-26388068-20190710203913

This is already concluded. Yes you can erease stopped time, because even if time is stoped there are thing ocurring in there. But even if you cant, Diavolo could justo change his position before time is stopped so DIO still would act unconsciously and try to attack Diavolo in the position he have before time skip. Because the Time Stop happens in 0 seconds of real time, Diavolo would have the remaning time to posicion himself and punch DIO's head when time resumes. And no, DIO needs to activate consciously the time stop, if he gets attacked unexpectedly he would be already dead when he realizes that King Crimson is attacking him, just like in the fight of Jotaro vs DIO, when Polnareff appear of nowhere and pierced DIO's head, in wich case DIO himself says that if he pierced harder he could destroy his head. Now put the same case but with a punch of King Crimson that could easily destroy a humans body or a head, similar like he do to Gold Experience in the end of VA. Just the fact that both King Crimson and Star Platinum have A probes this. Especially taking on count that Diavolo always attack trying to kill.

Even then, if you say that Diavolo rather would go to punch his chest in his attemp to kill DIO, we need to remember that DIO needs blood to regenarate critical wounds, just like we see in part 3. So, if we are taking a neutral scenario with no people besides them, DIO would be wounded, and with Epitaph seeing whatever he try to do (Like try to stop time to counterattack), and Diavolo would again erease time and punching another critical hit, that probably be in the head, taking in count that Diavolo already see that attacking other places is pointless. Add to this that in all the fight DIO knowladge of Diavolo's power would be nule or would be to late for him to make something.

If we talk about DIO with Joeastar blood it would be differente, but that not would be a fair scenario.