Original abilities
Prior to become a vampire, Dio was already a quite able bare-handed fighter and a good amateur sportsman. Despite coming from a poor family, he has spent a lot of time reading and playing chess with adults. Thanks to it, he has grown as a cunning, charming and intelligent individual. He also was known as a really charismatic man and charmed many women through his life.
Vampire Abilities
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. 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.
In Part I, Dio's powers are more bio-organic and slimy, 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 (In the fighting game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure it is the vector of attack when he uses the move "Charisma").
Stand Abilities
Due to the familiar connection between Jonathan's body and Jonathan's descendants, it seems that The World share the Joestar stand's abilities. 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 Games
References
- ↑ Volume 6, Chapter 50: The Immortal Monster
- ↑ Volume 3, Chapter 25: The Power of the Mask That Freezes Blood
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 From the Game Jump Super Stars
- ↑ From the Game JoJo's Bizarre Adventure