Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26873003-20150809200556/@comment-26871105-20150810145000

Stand fights aren't about how strong your stand is, but how well you use your stand to the fullest potential and taking the most advantage of the current situation.

Even broken abilities like Time Stop can be defeated by the obviously inferior stand such as "Surface" (which is a Part 4 stand so I don't wanna spoil any further), giving no room for retaliation, if the user played his cards right.

It's only later on into Part 5 and 6, where stand fights become more power oriented instead of smart oriented.

For Dark Blue Moon, it's below average/mediocre on land, but not many would even serve a contest against it underwater. However overall, the main reason for DBM's downfall in Part 3 was not due to its lack of power, but the user's lack of intellegence that gave away his cover instantly and thus ruined his plan that could have actually worked wonders if not for his fk up.