Blizzard

Blizzard is a freezing weapon special. It is the highest tier of freezing specials (4★). Blizzard weapons have a chance to Freeze their targets.

Freeze chance

The chance to Freeze monsters depends on Enemy ESP.

Rarity	Special Name	Power
4★	Blizzard	80%

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 (Blizzard has a power of 110%).
• 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 Blizzard 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

Although Frozen Shooter and Snow Queen do not follow the rules of freezing specials, they are still listed here as the strongest weapon option to Freeze monsters.

Weapon Name	Rarity	ATP	ATA	Grind	Total ATP	Special	Req.	Classes												Notes
								HUmr	HUnl	HUct	HUcl	RAmr	RAml	RAct	RAcl	FOmr	FOml	FOnm	FOnl
Zero Divide	10★	200-300	29	99	398-498	Blizzard (Reduced)	490 ATP	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	+30 DFP
Meteor Cudgel	10★	300-560	42	15	330-590	Blizzard	750 ATP	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×
Shouren	10★	820-870	56	0	820-870	Blizzard	850 ATP	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	+5 MST, +30 DFP; turns into Jizai if used with Guren
Yamato	10★	380-390	40	60	500-510	Blizzard	470 ATP	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	×	×	×	×
Sacred Duster	10★	660-730	67	25	710-780	Blizzard	800 ATP	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	Built-in +20% attack speed
Frozen Shooter	10★	240-250	60	9	258-268	See Notes	162 ATA	×	×	×	×	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	Special inflicts freeze on hit, has heavy accuracy and power and infinite vertical range; freezes user every two minutes; Turns into Snow Queen if used with a Photon Booster
Snow Queen	11★	330-350	60	18	366-386	See Notes	162 ATA	×	×	×	×	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	Cannot combo; bullets pierce; special inflicts freeze on hit, has heavy accuracy and power and infinite vertical range; freezes user every two minutes
Rage de Glace	10★	175-185	40	9	193-203	Blizzard	190 ATA	×	×	×	×	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×	Increased range (+15)
Guilty Light	10★	240-250	38	18	276-286	Blizzard	120 ATA	×	×	×	×	○	○	○	○	×	×	×	×

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 Blizzard as a special. Blizzard can also be obtained by tekking up a common weapon that drops with the Freeze special. Once a weapon drops in an untekked state, the table below lists the overall chance of it coming with the Blizzard special (including the ability to tekk up from Freeze).

Blizzard drop chance

Area			Normal	Hard	Very Hard	Ultimate
Forest 1	Temple Alpha	-	0%	0%	0%	4.55%
Forest 2	Temple Beta	-	0%	0%	3.03%	4.55%
Caves 1	Spaceship Alpha	Crater East	0%	0%	3.03%	4.55%
Caves 2	Spaceship Beta	Crater West	0%	3.03%	3.03%	4.55%
Caves 3	Jungle North	Crater South	0%	0%	4.55%	4.55%
Mines 1	Jungle East	Crater North	0%	3.03%	4.55%	4.55%
Mines 2	Mountain	Crater Interior	0%	3.03%	4.55%	4.55%
Ruins 1	Seaside & CCA	Sub Desert 1	0%	3.03%	4.55%	4.55%
Ruins 2	Seabed Upper	Sub Desert 2	0%	3.03%	4.55%	4.55%
Ruins 3	Seabed Lower & Tower	Sub Desert 3	0%	3.03%	4.55%	4.55%

ES weapons

Blizzard can be added to ES Weapons as a special for 30 Photon drops.