Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28702329-20181215114648/@comment-43399801-20190805122118

Imho: The winner is whoever uses his ability '''second. '''Let's make an example with a timeline, starting from e.g. 0:00:00.

0:00:00 - KC and TW start the fight. 0:00:05 - TW decides to stop the time. During this he donuts KC. 0:00:06 - KC is dead. 0:00:10 - Epitaph shows himself dead on this second. He uses his ability.

From now on, KC is "out of time". He cannot be attacked, nor he can attack. Again, they still did not do anything, the time is still on 0:00:00. It's just TW only intents to attack after 5 seconds.

So, KC is out of time, like a ghost. Time goes on. 0:00:05 - TW stops the time and attacks. He can't hurt KC, since KC is already out of time. 0:00:06 - TW sees KC dead on the floor, DIO probably monologues. 0:00:09 - KC positions himself behind TW, preparing to attack. 0:00:10 - KC is in time again, his ability ends. He attacks from behind, while DIO is confused.

So in this case, KC wins purely because DIO used his ability first. Though this is possible only on the first try, when DIO is not aware (if they are not aware of their powers), or if the "time skip" ends right on DIO's ability ending (if they are aware of each other's powers), i.e. cooldown starts (they have some arbitrary minimal "cooldown" on skills, right?). That would require KC to use less than 10 seconds for his ability, which is possible for him.

It can go the other way around: if KC uses his ability first, DIO sees he suddenly vanished, and uses timestop. Since KC just used his ability, he can only accept getting donutted. Therefore, it becomes a baiting game: whoever baits his opponent to use the ability first.