Freezing

For game freezing, see game crash.

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, and in Super Smash Bros. Melee only, being hit by a freezing attack causes a variation of the Ping sound to play; high knockback-dealing attacks, such as the Freezie and Articuno's attack, cause the actual ping sound.

Out of all the effects in Brawl, freezing is one of the more useful in the Subspace Emissary - it deals extra damage to flame-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; Judge is the only non-indirect freezing attack available in the Subspace Emissary, and it can only be used at random.

List of freezing attacks

By characters

Character	Move(s)	Games
Giga Bowser	Down smash
Ice Climbers	Ice Shot
	Blizzard
	Iceberg
Kirby	Ice Breath
Kirby (copy abilities)	Ice Shot
	PK Freeze
Lucas	PK Freeze
Luigi	Ice Ball
Mega Man	Ice Slasher
Mr. Game & Watch	Judge (number 8)
Ness	PK Freeze

By items

Character	Move(s)	Games
Assist Trophies	Riki: Freezinate
Freezie	Throwing or attacking the Freezie
Poké Ball Pokémon	Togepi: Powder Snow
	Articuno: Icy Wind
	Suicune: Blizzard
	Suicune: Contact with head before attacking
	Suicune: Aurora Beam
	Abomasnow: Ice Punch
	Kyurem: Icy Wind

By enemies and bosses

Enemy/Boss	Attack(s)	Games
Crazy Hand	Tri-Poke (third hit)
Glice	Ice attack
Blue Bubble	Ramming into the player
Cryogonal	Ice Beam
Master Hand	Icy Wind

By stage hazards

Stage	Hazard	Games
Gerudo Valley	Kotake's ice spell

Trivia

• A page on the Smash 64 website reveals that "ice" was a planned effect for hitboxes, but was cut. [1]