Freeze

Freeze is a negative status effect that is commonly inflicted after being struck by Ice Skills, but can also be caused by the effect of some weapons and bullets. The target's evasion is dropped to zero when frozen, but there are additional effects depending on the game.
==Appareances==
*Megami Tensei II
*Shin Megami Tensei
*Shin Megami Tensei II
*Shin Megami Tensei: if...
*Shin Megami Tensei NINE
*Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
*Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
*Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers
*Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. The Soulless Army
*Giten Megami Tensei: Tokyo Mokushiroku
*Megami Ibunroku Persona
*Persona 2: Innocent Sin
*Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
*Persona 3 / FES / Portable
*Persona 4 Arena / Ultimax
*Persona 5 / Royal
*Persona 5 Strikers
*Persona 5 Tactica
*Devil Survivor / Overclocked
*Devil Survivor 2 / Record Breaker
==Effect==
===Shin Megami Tensei I, II, if... and Persona 2===
A frozen character will skip their turn and unfreeze immediately afterward.
===Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne===
Frozen characters lose whatever immunity they had to physical attacks and will always receive critical hits. A character will unfreeze once their team's turns starts.
===Digital Devil Saga series===
Frozen characters lose whatever immunity they had to physical attacks and will always receive critical hits, but become incredibly resistant to Hunt skills despite still counting as criticals. A character will unfreeze once their team's turns starts.
===Megami Ibunroku Persona===
A frozen character becomes more vulnerable to Electric Skills. The number of turns a character stays frozen can stack, and that number is reduced by one at the end of each turn. Being hit by Fire Skills will fasten the recovery.
===Persona 3 / FES / Portable / Reload===
Frozen combatants have an increased chance of receiving critical hits. A combatant will unfreeze at the start of their turn.
In Reload, Freeze prevents a combatant from moving for one turn and will wear off at the start of their next turn. It is also removed when the combatant is hit with any attack, including with Ice. Physical attacks landing on a Frozen combatant will always become a critical hit. When afflicted with Freeze, affinities to Slash, Strike, Pierce damage, whether weakness or resistances, are all set to neutral.
===Persona 4 Arena / Ultimax===
A frozen character cannot move. They can unfreeze by breaking free of the ice by themselves by rapidly inputting the left and right buttons. They will also unfreeze if they are hit by an attack.
===Persona 5 / Royal===
A Frozen combatant is unable to take actions. Freeze allows Technical damage from Physical, Gun and Nuclear skills, melee attacks included. Frozen combatants have their affinities to Physical and Gun (either weakness, resistance, reflection or absorption) changed to neutral until thawed, although protections from Tetrakarn and Counter skills still function as normal.
Attacking a Frozen combatant in any way, including with an Ice skill or an All-out Attack, will thaw them. The combatant's own repelled attack will also remove the ailment, but this can only happen due to the following glitch.
Combatants immune to Ice damage because of their affinity are also immune to Freeze, unless they are under the effect of Ice Break.
In Persona 5 Royal, if a combatant simultaneously Downs an enemy and gets Frozen (e.g. from a reflected Ice Skill), the combatant will still get a One More but Freeze prevents them from taking an action with it. However, due to a glitch, if this attack happens after a Baton Pass, the combatant will be able to act freely during the One More even while being Frozen. In either case, an irregular Hold Up will be initiated if all enemies are Downed after this.
Frozen Shadows cannot be negotiated with.
===Persona 5 Tactica===
A frozen unit is unable to act for their next turn. A frozen unit will be thawed after their turn passes or if they are attacked again while frozen.
If a frozen party member is cured during the players turn, such as with Diamrita, they can regain their action for that turn.
Freezing a revenger unit will prevent their Counter from activating unless they are thawed by another attack.
==Inflict==
===Persona 5 / Royal===
====Via Skills====
Skill 	Affinity	Effect
Bufu 	 	Light Ice damage to 1 foe.
Bufula 	 	Medium Ice damage to 1 foe.
Bufudyne 	 	Heavy Ice damage to 1 foe.
Mabufu 	 	Light Ice damage to all foes.
Mabufula 	 	Medium Ice damage to all foes.
Mabufudyne 	 	Heavy Ice damage to all foes.
Diamond Dust 	 	Severe Ice damage to 1 foe.
Ice Age 	 	Severe Ice damage to all foes.
Freeze Boost 	 	Increase chance of inflicting Freeze.
Ailment Boost	 	Increase chance of inflicting all ailments.
====Via Items====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Skill 	Effect
Freeze Spray 	Deals 50 Ice damage to one foe.
Frost Magatama	Deals 150 Ice damage to one foe.
Dry Ice 	Deals 50 Ice damage to all foes.
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Persona 5 Royal=
Skill 	Effect
Freeze Spray 	Deals 50 Ice damage to one foe. High chance of Freeze.
Ice Magatama 	Deals 50 Ice damage to one foe. High chance of Freeze.
Frost Magatama	Deals 150 Ice damage to one foe.
Dry Ice 	Deals 50 Ice damage to all foes.
</tabber>
====Via Melee Weapons====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Weapon 	For 	Effect
Blizz Dagger 	Protagonist 	+Freeze (low)
Arsene's Cane	Protagonist 	+Random Ailment (low)
Naraka Whip 	Ann Takamaki 	+Freeze (high)
Vajra 	Makoto Niijima	+Random Ailment (high)
Ice Axe 	Haru Okumura 	+Freeze (med)
|-|
Persona 5 Royal=
Weapon 	For 	Effect
Blizz Dagger 	Protagonist 	Low Freeze
Arsène's Cane 	Protagonist 	Low Random Ailment
The Great Thief Stick	Protagonist 	Med Random Ailment
Naraka Whip 	Ann Takamaki 	High Freeze
Dainaraka Whip 	Ann Takamaki 	High Freeze
Murasame 	Yusuke Kitagawa 	Low Freeze
Vajra 	Makoto Niijima 	High Random Ailment
Unparalleled Vajra 	Makoto Niijima 	High Random Ailment
Ice Axe 	Haru Okumura 	Med Freeze
White Snow Rapier 	Sumire Yoshizawa	Low Freeze
</tabber>
====Via Ranged Weapons====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Weapon 	For 	Effect
Cocytus SP 	Protagonist 	+Freeze (med)
Calamity Gun SP 	Ryuji Sakamoto 	+Random Ailment (low)
Northern Light SP	Morgana 	+Freeze (low)
Sudarshana 	Morgana 	+Random Ailment (low)
Blaze Assault SP 	Yusuke Kitagawa	+Freeze (low)
Kuzuryu Gouhou 	Yusuke Kitagawa	+Random Ailment (low)
Evil Roulette 	Makoto Niijima 	+Random Ailment (low)
Evil Roulette II 	Makoto Niijima 	+Random Ailment (low)
|-|
Persona 5 Royal=
Weapon 	For 	Effect
Tkachev [I] 	Protagonist 	High Freeze
Riot Police [I] 	Protagonist 	High Freeze
Cocytus [I] 	Protagonist 	High Freeze
Levinson M31 [I] 	Ryuji Sakamoto 	High Freeze
Slingshot [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Slingbow [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Shrike [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Comet 3[I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Northern Light [I]	Morgana 	High Freeze
Shooting Star [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Star Slayer [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Dreamstone [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Utopia [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Falcon [I] 	Morgana 	High Freeze
Heavy Assault [I] 	Yusuke Kitagawa 	High Freeze
AR-X [I] 	Yusuke Kitagawa 	High Freeze
Baptism [I] 	Makoto Niijima 	High Freeze
Twilight [I] 	Makoto Niijima 	High Freeze
Unlimited [I] 	Makoto Niijima 	High Freeze
Moebius [I] 	Goro Akechi 	High Freeze
Sirius [I] 	Goro Akechi 	High Freeze
Mauser [I] 	Goro Akechi 	High Freeze
Red Five [I] 	Goro Akechi 	High Freeze
Roosevelt [I] 	Sumire Yoshizawa	High Freeze
Yellow Girl [I] 	Sumire Yoshizawa	High Freeze
</tabber>
====Via Accessories====
Persona 5 Royal only:
Accessory 	Effect
Cooling Pack	Freeze Boost
====Miscellaneous====
Persona 5 Royal only:
Criteria 	Effect
Cold Wave weather	Inflict Freeze on enemies at start of battle in Mementos
==Remove==
===Persona 5 / Royal===
====Via Skills====
Skill 	Affinity	Effect
Baisudi 	 	Cure Burn/Freeze/Shock of 1 ally.
Mabaisudi 	 	Cure Burn/Freeze/Shock of 1 ally.
Amrita Drop 	 	Cure all ailments of 1 ally except for special status.
Amrita Drop 	 	Cure all ailments of 1 ally except for special status.
Amrita Shower	 	Cure all ailments of party except for special status.
Salvation 	 	Fully restore HP and cure all ailments of party except for special status.
====Via Items====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Skill 	Effect
Thaw Stone 	A mysterious stone. Cures Freeze for one ally.
Hand Warmalizer 	A heat pack to warm a chilled body. Cures Freeze for one ally.
Nohar-M 	Medical ointment that cures Burn/Freeze/Shock for one ally.
Hiranya 	Cures all non-special ailments for one ally.
Recover Oil 	A spring-exclusive body oil. Cures all non-special ailments for one ally.
Refresh Aroma 	Autumn-only. Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Repentance Ashes	Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Amrita Soda 	Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Phantom Wafers 	Phantom Thieves snack. Restores 50 HP and cures ailments for one ally.
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Persona 5 Royal=
Skill 	Effect
Thaw Stone 	A mysterious stone. Cures Freeze for one ally.
Hand Warmalizer 	A heat pack to warm a chilled body. Cures Freeze for one ally.
Nohar-M 	Medical ointment that cures Burn/Freeze/Shock for one ally.
Hiranya 	Cures all non-special ailments for one ally.
Awake Incense 	Cleansing air freshener. Cures all non-special ailments for one ally.
Recover Oil 	A spring-exclusive body oil. Cures all non-special ailments for one ally.
Refresh Aroma 	Autumn-only. Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Repentance Ashes 	Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Awakening Incense 	Invigorating air freshener. Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Amrita Soda 	Cures all non-special ailments for all allies.
Phantom Wafers 	Phantom Thieves snack. Restores 50 HP and cures ailments for one ally.
Strawberry Daifuku	Fully restores HP and cures non-special ailments for all allies.
</tabber>
====Miscellaneous====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Skill 	Effect
Harisen Recovery	Chance to cure status ailments inflicted upon party members.
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Persona 5 Royal=
Skill 	Effect
Harisen Recovery	Chance to cure status ailments inflicted upon party members.
Detox X 	When Joker is inflicted with an ailment, he may recover immediately.
Detox DX 	Raises the chance of Detox X succeeding.
</tabber>
==Resist==
===Persona 5 / Royal===
====Via Skills====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Skill 	Affinity	Effect
Fortify Spirit	 	Reduce susceptibilities to all ailments.
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Persona 5 Royal=
Skill 	Affinity	Effect
Null Ice 	 	Impart immunity against Ice.
Fortify Spirit	 	Reduce susceptibilities to all ailments.
</tabber>
====Via Armor====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Armor 	For 	Effect
Cat Sweater 	Cats 	+Resist Freeze
Burntech 	Males	+Resist Freeze
Guard Bandana	Cats 	+Resist Freeze
|-|
Persona 5 Royal=
Armor 	For 	Effect
Robust Apron 	Females	+Resist Freeze
Cozy Dress 	Females	+Resist Freeze
Lyrical Scarf	Cats 	+Resist Freeze
</tabber>
====Via Accessories====
<tabber>
Persona 5=
Accessory 	Effect
Hot Water Pouch	+Resist Freeze
Hot Compress 	+Null Freeze
|-|
Persona 5 Royal=
Accessory 	Effect
Freeze Charm	Null Freeze
</tabber>
==Gallery==
P5_Freeze_PierceWeak.gif|In this footage, a gun attack pierces through High Pixie's weakness, with the first attack dealing raw Technical damage, before the ailment is immediately thawed out for the next. Note that Weaknesses normally take priority over Technical.
==See also==
* Status Changes in Persona 5
* Status Changes in Persona 5 Strikers
Category:Status Effects
Category:Persona 5 Status Effects
Category:Persona 5 Strikers Status Effects