Board Thread:Fanmade/@comment-31731691-20190816114648/@comment-39718735-20200605212451

Kingasdfg wrote: Don't forget that GER is also described as the most powerful ability. It even says itself that "no ability can stand before me", though Araki likes to exaggerate Stand capabilities, particularly in side panels. Still, I find it likely the GER would retain movement and awareness during stopped time, considering he does so during erased time as well. Oh yes, just like the Thunder Split Cross Attack was unavoidable, the Emerald Splash couldn't be deflected, SHA had no weaknesses. I know GER may be considered more... enlighted? Giorno never faced a stopping time enemy, nor any stand from parts 6 onwards. GER's statement shouldn't be taken as absolute.

Still, I find it likely the GER would retain movement and awareness during stopped time, considering he does so during erased time as well. I think so as well (what I say is that given Araki statements and that Giorno never faced, and perhaps never would face an oponent with time stop the result of their duel would be uncertain). GER was never directly hit: perhaps it's as tough as normal GE or even tougher than SHA. But what is actually amusing is not GER defying time skip (and regarding the anime effect...perhaps that was GER cancelling the time skip, it's unknown) but that it defied Epitaph's prediction (sometimes I feel Epitaph as an ability may be more important than the time skip per se): GER defied a fate altering ability, can time stop be considered a "fate altering ability" in the same vein than KC? Probably yes, perhaps Kakyoin could've severely harmed or killed DIO with the 20 mts ES (a partial attack made a hole in his shoulder) but DIO altered his fate in a way GER could deny.

As you said mantaining a Requiem may be exhausting and probably impossible in a total way (Polnareff couldn't, Giorno doesn't even know what his own does, KQ (I consider it a pseudo requiem in a sense, it allowed him to find a solution for a desperate and impossible task as well) defied Kira and protected Hayato). It's quite probable SP:TW is considered the strongest cause GER dissapeared and SP:TW is permanent - that's a huge advantage after all (in the genealogical tree it's said Giorno's stand is plain GE although it mentions Jotaro's as plain Star Platinum, thus I didn't pay it many importance) and MiH almost won cause Giorno didn't manage to invoke it again.

But that's a huge, enormous flaw for an invincible stand. If a ruthless and cunning person tricks him into using GER against an underling or enemy of him and then GER deactivates that leaves Giorno really vulnerable.