Freeze

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Freeze
Type:	Defensive
Keyboard selection:	F12 (x4)
Standard effects:	Protects team from injury, poison, and most motion
Present in:	W:A, WWP

It seems the frozen worm will be stuck next turn!

The Freeze is a very easy to use defensive super weapon. Upon activation of this weapon all of worms on the user's team will become encased in an inpenetrable block of ice which will shield them from harm. While encased inside the ice, the worms cannot receive any damage or be pushed around the landscape, with some notable exceptions (such as Scales of Justice, Earthquake, and the 1-HP Sudden Death), although frozen worms can still be drowned if the land beneath them is removed. All of the worms will return to normal when their next turn begins.

Tactics

Creating a "sink hole" under a frozen worm

• As worms cannot be harmed or poisoned when frozen, it can be very useful to keep a Freeze until near the end of the game, where health is usually low and worms are in open positions.
• If you are playing a game against more than one person, freezing your worms can force your opponents to harm each other instead, preserving your team's health.
• Frozen worms cannot be pushed, and so freezing your worms can prevent one of your worms being forced off of the edge of a cliff before your next turn.
• If Sudden Death triggers a nuke, then freezing your worms just before Sudden Death is activated can prevent them from becoming poisoned, giving your team the advantage.
• A backflip or Jet Pack underneath a frozen worm will fail to lift the frozen worm up. So, this can be useful to body-block worms at inclined tight tunnels, where usually the backflip underneath a worm would allow the worm being controlled pass through it. Also, rope knocking does not work against frozen worms. So, it will fail to push or pass through frozen worms at horizontal tight tunnels and not only that, even if the rope is attached exactly above the frozen worm at an inclined tight tunnel and the worm being controled drop from the rope, this will fail to pass through the frozen worm (the worm will drop at the top of the frozen worm).

Criticisms, Problems and Weaknesses

• Frozen worms can still be drowned if the ground beneath them is removed. An easy way to kill a frozen worm is to stand on top of him and Kamikaze downwards, creating a vertical shaft that will lead into the water. Either that or use a Pneumatic Drill, or a Concrete Donkey if you have one.
• Frozen worms can still be moved horizontally by an Earthquake, thus worms near water aren't prevented from drowning, even without removing the ground beneath them (for example, on a indestructible map).
• Frozen worms are not protected by the Scales of Justice, or from the having their health reduced to 1 by Sudden Death.
• Mines are not triggered by frozen worms, so they can be placed on top of worms and will detonate only when they unfreeze. If placed on top of the worm whose turn it will be when they unfreeze, his turn can be lost when he is harmed by the mine.
• Similarly, Petrol Bomb fire will instantly harm any worm who unfreezes when on top of it, and is another good tactic for forcing the team's turn to end.
• If you are playing in teams, the Freeze will only work to the worms of the team that used it. The other allied teams won't be protected.

Trivia

• Using a Freeze triggers an enemy team to speak out the Coward.wav voiceclip.
• Blow Torch allows the passage through frozen worms at tight horizontal tunnels (if the Weapon Use Doesn't End Turn feature is not activated, this will cost 1 turn). Battle Axe can do this too, but only if there is enough horizontal opened space above the frozen worm, so that the frozen worm will be able to lift up high enough to the worm being controled walk below it (with good timing).

External links

• Freeze on Wormopaedia