Character Freezing Point PERCENT range (When Characters Get Encased In Ice)

[Vorporal]

Greetings fellow Eskimos,
I want to clear a misconception about the chances of freezing an opponent in ice. First of all, there is a set percentage when each character will freeze (all of which are shown below). Being aware of these percents can help with situational awareness, followups, and best of all style. I was curious to what caused freezing (all my sources were saying it was random), so I did tests until I figured it out. I found these percents using Melee v1.02 Training Mode on FD (set a percent, see if it freezes, repeat). I noticed right away that the first blizzard would freeze much earlier than the subsequent ones, so I figured staleness directly affects it. After that, I came to the conclusion freezing was based off of knockback (If knockback >=X Then Freeze), consequently heavier characters freeze later because they receive less knockback. I then went through every character to find each of their freeze percents, SDing to test the fresh percents. A bit of a warning, the stale ice blocks were stale to the max, so they can freeze earlier if they're less stale, also it's very possible some of the blizzards may be off by 1-2% (multi hit move). Finally, blizzard was spaced to hit in the far mid to close range (from my experience the farthest hitboxs don't freeze).

Freeze Percents​

Dr. Mario
Blizzard: Stale 87% | Fresh 65% | Ice Block: Stale 273% | Fresh 153% |

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Mario
Blizzard: Stale 87% | Fresh 65% | Ice Block: Stale 273% | Fresh 153% |

Luigi
Blizzard: Stale 87% | Fresh 65% | Ice Block: Stale 273% | Fresh 153% |

Bowser
Blizzard: Stale 95% | Fresh 70% | Ice Block: Stale 296% | Fresh 166% |

Peach
Blizzard: Stale 83% | Fresh 61% | Ice Block: Stale 259% | Fresh 145% |

Yoshi
Blizzard: Stale 90% | Fresh 67% | Ice Block: Stale 284% | Fresh 159% |

DK
Blizzard: Stale 94% | Fresh 69% | Ice Block: Stale 292% | Fresh 164% |

C. Falcon
Blizzard: Stale 88% | Fresh 66% | Ice Block: Stale 278% | Fresh 156% |

Ganondorf
Blizzard: Stale 91% | Fresh 68% | Ice Block: Stale 285% | Fresh 160% |

Falco
Blizzard: Stale 78% | Fresh 58% | Ice Block: Stale 245% | Fresh 137% |

Fox
Blizzard: Stale 76% | Fresh 56% | Ice Block: Stale 238% | Fresh 133% |

Ness
Blizzard: Stale 84% | Fresh 63% | Ice Block: Stale 264% | Fresh 148% |

Ice Climber(s)
Blizzard: Stale 81% | Fresh 61% | Ice Block: Stale 256% | Fresh 143% |

Kirby
Blizzard: Stale 73% | Fresh 55% | Ice Block: Stale 231% | Fresh 130% |

Samus
Blizzard: Stale 92% | Fresh 68% | Ice Block: Stale 287% | Fresh 161% |

Zelda
Blizzard: Stale 83% | Fresh 61% | Ice Block: Stale 259% | Fresh 145% |

Sheik
Blizzard: Stale 83% | Fresh 61% | Ice Block: Stale 259% | Fresh 145% |

Link
Blizzard: Stale 88% | Fresh 66% | Ice Block: Stale 278% | Fresh 156% |

Young Link
Blizzard: Stale 80% | Fresh 60% | Ice Block: Stale 252% | Fresh 141% |

Pichu
Blizzard: Stale 68% | Fresh 50% | Ice Block: Stale 211% | Fresh 117% |

Pikachu
Blizzard: Stale 78% | Fresh 58% | Ice Block: Stale 245% | Fresh 137% |

Jigglypuff
Blizzard: Stale 69% | Fresh 51% | Ice Block: Stale 218% | Fresh 121% |

Mewtwo
Blizzard: Stale 80% | Fresh 60% | Ice Block: Stale 252% | Fresh 141% |

Mr.Game & Watch
Blizzard: Stale 69% | Fresh 51% | Ice Block: Stale 218% | Fresh 121% |

Marth
Blizzard: Stale 81% | Fresh 60% | Ice Block: Stale 255% | Fresh 142% |

Roy
Blizzard: Stale 80% | Fresh 60% | Ice Block: Stale 252% | Fresh 141% |


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Discussion​

This is my first post, so I tried to do something unique, but if anyone has covered this before at least you now have an easier way to access the information. One stylish thing I do with this is while under a platform Dthrow Nana Blizzard, which Freezes the opponent, then Jump to the above platform and charge an Upsmash, when they get out of the ice block release it. My training partner plays Samus so when he's under the ledge (not grabbing it) I'll make Nana blizzard towards the edge and off stage to punish Samus's linear recover with a freeze, then I have Popo charge an Fsmash releasing it after Samus unfreezes. Also, frozen characters have a large circular hurtbox, so this could be used to rack up damage. If you have any ideas or questions feel free to comment them.
-Stay Frosty,
Vorporal

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[Vorporal]

For all the frame people like me: After characters escape the ice block they're stuck in a 10 frame "Ice jump" where you can get a free punish. You can set yourself up for a punish when they're stuck in ice.

 

[Vorporal]

I changed the name of the Forum because Kyu Puff had the formulas for freezing. Here's the video I found the info from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpRZFIVOL7I&list=LLLGb5NhTdq7QIAtm5QIK2IA&index=4

and here's the formulas. To get specific percents (like 2 ice blocks in a row) apply staling to these formulas.


Blizzard Equation:
Min. Freeze % = 0.32(Weight+100)

Ice Block Equation:
Min. Freeze % = 0.76(Weight+100)

Here's a link to weights
https://www.ssbwiki.com/Weight
Link to staling
https://www.ssbwiki.com/Stale-move_negation

 

[Vorporal]

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