Why Jotaro Never Got Weaker After Stardust Crusaders

So before I get the whole stand stat (the letters) argument here. they’re bullshit. They have never been consistent and a majority of the time are just wrong. the only thing that matters on those things is the stand description.

Why didn't Jotaro use Star Finger to save his marriage?

the fact that part 4 jotaro survived a kira bomb validates he did NOT get weaker atleast durability wise

Jotaro was a victim of power creep.

He didn't get weaker, people just came prepped to face him better. By part 4, he's something of a legend among the Stand using community as the guy who took Dio out, so you have to have a "what happens if Jotaro shows up" plan ready to go.

I would say that in Parts 4 and 6 he is clearly rusty since as he himself said it had been years since he used the Time Stop and it seems to me that he had never had to face someone on the same level as Dio again until Pucci showed up.

Just the fact that Jotaro had a chance to win against made in heaven shows how strong he still is

I think what a lot of people don’t quite realize about Part 4 specifically is that the game plan for a majority of fights , the good guys automatic win state, is getting the bad guy within spitting distance of Jotaro. lol

Jotaro was an absolute MONSTER in Part 3 and 4. Part 6 he just feels way older than he actually is(He's 40 in part 6.) And also with Araki's new art style, it looks like all the muscle he had withered away.

I think the reason Jotaro stopped using Time Stop after Part 3 is because of its association with Dio. Stands are the manifestation of one's soul, and since Dio (who Araki describes as the living embodiment of evil in the series) had the "same stand" with the same ability, it brings into question Jotaro's own nature. So, to avoid being reminded of this existential connundrum, Jotaro just decided not to use Time Stop unless he really needed it which was almost never.

The fact that Pucci needed to learn all of Jotaro's moves and acquire an even more broken Stand in order to beat him should really have been enough to nullify the idea that Jotaro was a weakling after Part 3.

Bro part 6 jotaro had to face pucci with batman levels of prep time on him, fighting a stand which is absolutly broken (only getting beaten out by stands that have power that is just on a different level of bullshit) and if it wasnt for him targeting jolyne, he would of gotten his head turned into soup. Not enough people understand how absolutely overprepared pucci was and despite everything, he was only a few steps away from caving in the guys head who is beyond infinitly fast. Jotaro kujo, is a fucking unit.

i do love the fact that part 6 jotaro casually throws a spear

Pucci being able to speed up STOPPED time should be enough for someone to comphrehend the that he was simply too strong for jotaro

"Peaked at 17."

Physically I think, since it was noted some of his muscles were degrading, but this is Jojo where Soft and Wet can kick butt! I don’t think Physicality and Stands are really concurrent (ignoring Holly). If anything, Pucci’s power was just too strong, as it was meant to be.

Pucci needed a whole part to find a way to beat Jotaro knowing every single character aspect of him so that he can finally revenge his Dio

YES, WE PATIENTLY WAITED AND GOT THE THING WE ALL WAITED

Around 5:00 That's not how power scaling works in JoJo. If person A beat person B and person B beat person C, person A isn't necessarily stronger than person C. Jotaro didn't get a rage boost that amplified his power, he just used all of his innate strength to destroy The World, this doesn't mean he's stronger than DIO, it just means Star Platinum's strength stat is higher than The World's durability stat; if DIO didn't summon The World right then and there and just took the hit he would just eventually regenerate because Jotaro didn't use the sun or hamon, he would have won. Jotaro was only able to kill The World, not DIO himself. if the stand dies the user dies too so this had to happen this way. This is also why Jotaro is NOT "power creeped" by Made in Heaven, he could have ended Pucci in stopped time but he chose to save Jolyne instead. Of course he wouldn't have been able to know when to stop time without the help of Anasui but it's not impossible. Koichi's Echoes Act 3 would beat Made in Heaven, there's no such thing as power creep.

In summary, the villains just got stronger