Frozen

Frozen is a state which characters enter under varying circumstances, most commonly being hit by a Freezie. In this state, controls are completely disabled. Characters thaw out naturally, although button mashing helps break out faster. Being hit with a fire attack or an explosion will immediately undo the freezing. How long a character stays frozen depends on both current damage and what caused the freezing.

Frozen characters cannot be affected by other status effects (such as being asleep, buried, or stunned), take very low knockback, and cannot be grabbed. The ice also reduces the damage of all attacks to about half. Fire attacks do not get any benefit or penalty other than removing the ice.

Causes of Freezing

Generally, all ice attacks have a chance (however remote) of freezing the enemy. More specifically:

• Freezie - The most common way a character becomes frozen. When a Freezie is thrown at an opponent, the opponent will be encased in a block of ice for a few seconds.
• Giga Bowser's Down smash - Giga Bowser will retract into his shell and spin rapidly, occasianaly freezing opponents.
• Ice Climbers' Ice Shot - Can occasionally freeze opponents with high damage percentages, though the effect wears off extremely quickly.
• Ice Climbers' Blizzard - When the Ice Climbers use their Down Special Move, they will release a small gust of wind from their hands. The characters that make contact with the attack will be encased in a block of ice for a split second.
• Ice Climbers' Final Smash - Iceberg - A massive iceberg rises from the ground covering most of the stage. The iceberg can freeze any opponents who touch it.
• Lucas's PK Freeze - Lucas's standard special move. He fires off a large snowflake that acts similarly to PK Flash. After the snowflake charges enough, it will explode, freezing anyone in the surrounding area, as well as harshly damaging the players who are hit.
• Mr. Game & Watch's Judge (8) - When someone is hit with an 8, they will be frozen and fly up.
• Articuno's Blizzard - Articuno will unleash a large ring of ice. Any character that is in Blizzard's blast radius will become frozen for a few seconds.
• Togepi's Powder Snow - One of the attacks Togepi can use while using Metronome is Powder Snow, for which Togepi will release a small blast of ice from its body. Any character that is in the radius of the blast of ice will become frozen for a few seconds.
• Suicune's attacks (SSBB and SSBM) - In SSBM, the frozen effect only lasts very briefly, but in Brawl, if a character touches Suicune when it appears, he or she will become frozen for a Freezie-like amount of time.
• Crazy Hand - A few of Crazy Hand's attacks can cause freezing.
• Glices - A Glice's attack will freeze Smashers. This usually lasts just long enough for the Glice to attack again.