Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39718735-20200727063725

It's actually pretty simple: Diavolo skips himself in time as well! He isn't intangible and outside of this world cause he becomes a "victim" of his own stand to do so. I'll be using some images to further explain my point.


 * This is what we have before the time skip. Every character involved has intentions they will try to follow during the next 10 seconds and even beyond, no one knows what may interrupt them yet.


 * This is what would happen if Diavolo tries to attack without using King Crimson beforehand: stealing Trish unnoticed becomes impossible, there's no way neither Bruno or Trish won't notice that.


 * On the other hand this is what happens if Diavolo skips himself out of time, he can't interact with anything in the world, he's unable to attack Trish!


 * Thus, this is the ideal solution: Diavolo skips time for everyone, including himself, he will follow the actions he planned to do in the following 10 seconds just as Bruno and Trish will (namely, wait inside the lift). Sure, he won't perceive anything... but if he's going for a stealth attack, no one will perceive him as well

This application of skipped time makes it fairly different than stopping time as well. Since stopping time for everyone (user included) has no sense for DIO or Jotaro, being frozen as the rest of the universe has no practical use.

The use of time powers may be more liberal than it may be thought on a first glance, after all Diavolo showed Bucciaratti a prediction from Epitaph and AU Diego was able to ride Silver Bullet in stopped time. If they are able to bring more people along themselves with their powers they may also be able to get themselves outside of their own power if they want to do so.

This also explains why he can't attack anyone directly when using skipped time on himself and why it is said he can't interact with anything during skipped time. It's like that Adam Sandler's movie, Click: whenever he skips time for himself, he would do things on "auto-pilot". 