Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-34013154-20181112223306/@comment-38952966-20190929053751

That's false equivalence. Silver Chariot never reaches light speed. During the Hanged Man fight, Polnareff specifically states that Silver Chariot ISN'T fast enough to keep up with the Hanged Man, and can only hit it if he knows where it's going (a baseball player can hit a baseball moving at 90mph, but they aren't swinging the bat at 90mph).

I don't know where you got the math about Silver Chariot's after-images, but it's untrue. While it is a speed feat unmatched in the series, it's not even a 10th of the speed of light. Araki loves to exaggerate speed, particularly Star Platinum's, but there are no feats to back up going that fast.

Distance is a major player here as well. You're right in saying that Jotaro could dodge the nail bullet and blitz Johnny if he stopped time, but that's assuming Johnny is within range. Star Platinum can only reach up to 2 meters away from Jotaro, and even if he moves in stopped time, he can probably only go, at most, 9 or 10 meters further before the time stop runs out. Tusk ACT 4 doesn't have any range limit, but assuming that the nail bullets have the same range as ACT 2, then Johnny can still be up to 20 meters away, well outside of Star Platinum's punching range.

Johnny can position himself too far away for Jotaro to hit, even if he stops time. Plus, unless Jotaro already knows how ACT 4 works, he wouldn't waste the time stop to dodge it. He'd more likely try to grab it, which would then imbue the spin into him.