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:''This page is about the status effect. For other uses, see [[Frozen (disambiguation)]].''
[[Image:Freeze.jpg|right|thumb|The Ice Climbers being frozen.]]

'''Frozen''' is a state which [[character]]s may enter when they are hit by a [[freezing]] attack. The likelihood of being frozen increases with damage. When characters are frozen, their in-game appearance is being trapped in a block of ice. In this state, characters are unable to do anything. Characters thaw out naturally over time, although [[button mashing]] helps to break out faster. Being hit with a [[Flame|fire attack]] will immediately thaw a character and deal minimal knockback. How long a character stays frozen depends on how much [[knockback]] the freezing hit did.

Frozen characters cannot be affected by other status effects (such as being [[asleep]], [[buried]], or [[stun]]ned), take quartered knockback, and cannot be [[grab]]bed. The ice also halves the damage of all incoming attacks while altering the shape of the character's hurtbox. Additionally, [[metal]] characters cannot be frozen.

Usually, the hit that causes freezing will send a character upwards (while also seeming to drastically decrease their [[falling speed|vertical endurance]]). This has the effect of making it difficult to push a frozen character off an edge, as well as making most freeze-based [[KO]]s occur off the top. This is solely based on the angle of the attack and is not a property of the freezing effect itself; it is simply a convention.

In ''Melee,'' [[star KO|star]] and [[screen KO|screen KO'd]] characters will remain in their ice block until they respawn. In ''Brawl,'' however, frozen characters immediately thaw before crossing the upper [[blast line]].
==Trivia== 
*According to [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/M_AttackSystem.html the Nintendo website], an "ice" effect was originally planned for inclusion in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' It is unclear whether this refers to characters being frozen or simply the usage of ice-based attacks.
*In ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'', if players are KO'd in [[Stamina Mode]] by freezing, they will remain frozen for the rest of the match.

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