Freezing

Blizzard, a freezing attack.

Blizzard, used in Brawl.

There are a few attacks in the Super Smash Bros. series that cause the freezing effect, more easily described as the ice effect. Targets hit by these attacks will be frozen for an amount of time based on the knockback dealt.

Out of all the effects in Brawl, freezing is one of the more useful in the Subspace Emissary - it deals extra damage to fire-based enemies and about half of the bosses, and is only specifically resisted by Glices. However, it cannot cause non-Smasher enemies to freeze, and attacks using it are not only rare but almost exclusively Specials: Indirect, which softens enemies' weakness to it. Mr. Game and Watch has the only ice attack that is not part of Specials: Indirect and not a Final Smash.

List of freezing attacks by characters

• Giga Bowser - down smash
• Ice Climbers - Ice Shot, Blizzard, Iceberg
• Kirby - can copy Ice Shot and PK Freeze
• Lucas - PK Freeze
• Mr. Game & Watch - Judge (number 8)

List of freezing attacks by items

• Freezie
• Poké Ball Pokémon:
  • Articuno
  • Togepi (Powder Snow)
  • Suicune

List of freezing attacks by enemies and bosses

• Glice
• Crazy Hand - Poke (third hit)

Trivia

• A page on the SSB64 website reveals that "ice" was a planned effect for hitboxes, but was cut. [1]