Ice

Ice is a freezing weapon special. It is the lowest tier of freezing specials (1★). Ice weapons have a chance to Freeze their targets.

Damage

Ice weapon special attacks deal 0.67x the damage of a normal attack. The chance to Freeze monsters depends on Enemy ESP.

Rarity	Special Name	Power
1★	Ice	32%

Base Freeze Chance = ((Power) - (ESP)) * (1 - Special Reduction)
Freeze Chance = min((Base Freeze Chance), (Difficulty Cap)) * (Unit Boost)

• Androids receive a 30% boost to the activation rate of all freezing specials on Ultimate difficulty. This value can be added directly to the values in the Power column (Ice has a power of 62%).
• Special Reduction is as follows (See also: List of weapons with reduced specials):
  • 0.5 for Swords, Daggers, Partisans
  • 0.67 for Slicers, Mechguns, Shots
  • 0 for unreduced weapons
• Unit Boost is as follows:
  • 1.5 if either V501 or V502 are equipped
    • These stack with the android boost, but not with each other.
  • 1 if neither are equipped
• Difficulty Cap is 40%.

Epsilon, Zu, Pazuzu, Dorphon, Dorphon Eclair, Girtablulu, and all bosses cannot be Frozen. Characters equipped with a Cure/Freeze are also immune to being frozen.

List of Ice weapons

There are three weapon types that can have specials. Specials on common weapons dropping from Monsters or Item boxes are randomly assigned, but are predetermined on all rare weapons. Specials on ES Weapons can be added with Photon drops.

Rare weapons

There are no rare weapons with Ice as a special attack.

Common weapons

The chance of obtaining specials on common weapons depends on area and difficulty. When a common weapon drops in an untekked state, there is a chance for it to come with Ice as a special. Ice can also be obtained by tekking down a common weapon that drops with the Frost special. Once a weapon drops in an untekked state, the table below lists the overall chance of it coming with the Ice special (including the ability to tekk down from Frost).

Ice drop chance

Area			Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
Forest 1	VR Temple Alpha	-	0%	11.25%	11.25%	5.63%
Forest 2	VR Temple Beta	-	0%	11.25%	7.5%	5.63%
Cave 1	VR Spaceship Alpha	Crater East	12.5%	11.25%	7.5%	5.63%
Cave 2	VR Spaceship Beta	Crater West	12.5%	7.5%	7.5%	5.63%
Cave 3	Jungle Area North	Crater South	12.5%	11.25%	5.63%	5.63%
Mine 1	Jungle Area East	Crater North	12.5%	7.5%	5.63%	5.63%
Mine 2	Mountain Area	Crater Interior	12.5%	7.5%	5.63%	5.63%
Ruins 1	Seaside Area Central Control Area	Subterranean Desert 1	11.25%	7.5%	5.63%	5.63%
Ruins 2	Seabed Upper Levels	Subterranean Desert 2	11.25%	7.5%	5.63%	5.63%
Ruins 3	Seabed Lower Levels Control Tower	Subterranean Desert 3	11.25%	7.5%	5.63%	5.63%

ES weapons

Ice cannot be added to ES Weapons as a special.