Dio Brando/Abilities and Powers

Personal
Intelligence: Dio is naturally intelligent; manifesting between cunning, perceptiveness, comprehension and/or foresight.

Toughness: Prior to becoming a vampire, Dio was already an able bare-handed fighter and a good amateur sportsman; which he says he accumulated in the slums of London.

Charisma: Dio is a cunning, charming and intelligent individual. In addition to Stand users, whom Avdol and Joseph suggest he recruits through sheer charm or charisma, he has charmed many women through his life.

Knowledge: Throughout both his humble youth and tempestuous maturity, Dio is often seen reading. Also during his youth, he is seen playing chess with adults.

In Part VI, in conversation with Enrico Pucci, he is shown to have accumulated some wisdom within the world of Stands. Importantly, Dio is able to concoct a plan, contained in his diary, incorporating vast, unknown information as to the deliberate creation of Stands of perfectly specific abilities.

Vampiric
Becoming a Vampire as a young adult, Dio displays a broad range of fantastic, supernatural abilities; explained as expressions of the full potential of the human body.

Strength: Dio attains massive strength as a Vampire. He is able to walk on walls. Almost unstoppable, only a bullet to the head fired at point-blank range is able to momentarily stun him.

Regeneration: Dio can regenerate his body faster than fire can consume it. His incredible vitality is maintained by consuming human beings (or their blood), which he commonly does by piercing them with his fingers. Like all JoJo vampires, Dio sucks blood through tentacles in his fingers and has been seen at least once drinking blood from an unnamed girl.

Space Ripper Stingy Eyes: Dio is able to pressurize liquid in his eyeballs and then create small openings in his pupils, eventually creating two fluid jets (referred to by Straizo as "Space Ripper Stingy Eyes" ) powerful enough to slice stone.

Ice: He is also able to vaporize his bodily fluids rapidly enough to freeze anything he touches.

Evil Implants: In Part I, Dio's powers are more bio-organic, but for the most part in Part III he only utilizes the "evil implants" - a parasite that brainwashes Polnareff and Kakyoin and is generated from Dio's hair.

Weaknesses
All of this, however, is at the expense of having a body sustained by sheer willpower alone, rather than vital energy. A sufficiently powerful vital force - specifically, sunlight or the Hamon force - will negate the sustaining force's presence and disintegrate the long-unliving body.

Stand
Dio's humanoid Stand is The World; facilitating melee attack roughly equal in its immense force and speed to Jotaro's Star Platinum.

About a year after gaining his Stand, Dio discovered that it is capable of stopping time. At first, he could only do this for a very short amount of time but, by the end of Part III, he is able to stop time for a maximum of 9 seconds. When stopping time, Dio gives the impression that he is teleporting or moving at impossible speed.

The ability is best known for Dio's activation and cancellation phrases "Time, stop!" (時よ止まれ, Toki yo tomare!) and "And now, time resumes." (そして,時は動き出す, Soshite, toki wa ugokidasu).

Joestar Stand Abilities
Due to the familiar connection between Jonathan's body and Jonathan's descendants, it seems that The World shares abilities with the Stands of the Joestar family. This is hinted when Dio was shown able to create a vision on a photograph, similar to Joseph's Hermit purple and could explain why Star Platinum is also able to stop time.

Still due to this connection, Dio is also able to sense the presence of other Joestars. He was even able to tell when Joseph used Hermit Purple to take a psychic photograph of him, as well as instinctively know that his acquisition of a Stand also awoke stand abilities in Jonathan's descendants. He also had control over Jonathan's Stand, which allowed him to create psychic images, be it on photographs or crystal balls. This increased his charisma with people, as it made them even more aware about how superior Dio was.

In Video Games

 * Blazing Fists (MudaMuda)
 * Blazing Strike
 * The World, Road Roller
 * Eye-Crushing Kick
 * The World, Circle of Knives
 * The World, Time Stop
 * The Touch of Evil (Charisma)
 * Referring to his "Evil Implants"