Snowball

* Normal
* Heavy

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**Snowballs** are Throwables added in the v0.6.9 "Snow-covered island" update on December 19th 2018.

## Info

Snowballs deal a very tiny amount of damage (2), and hardening it will only increase the damage to 5. However, it makes up for it by having the ability to remove one random item from an enemy's inventory for each hit and slowing them down for a few seconds.

## How to Obtain

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Snowballs are very common on the Snow Map and uncommon on the Woods Snow Map.

* They spawn in Snowball Crates scattered all over the map. When broken, gives the player 12 snowballs.
* they can be found in other crate as well, but only drop in stacks of 5.

## Strategies

### Using

* Use similarly to the Potato in the Potato Map as they're effectively the same to the potato. It doesn't deal much damage, but rather should be used to slow down opponents, using a Melee Weapon or a Weapon to finish them off easily.
* They can be "Cooked" or charged to deal more damage and slow for a longer duration.
* This weapon functions similar to Frag Grenades, meaning you can hold longer for a further throw. However, unlike grenades, you can hold a cooked snowball indefinitely.
* Use this weapon to first get the enemy's armor, ammo, medical supply, or even their weapon off. This will weaken them and giving you an advantage.
* Unless you are just messing around or the whole island is having a snowball fight, never use this as your primary damaging source, as it only deals 2 damage, or 5 when "cooked".
* Remember that even though you can make the enemy lose many items, they can quickly pick them back up and resume fighting.
* Because the Snowball slows down an opponent, camping with a cooked Snowball can be deadly when paired with melee weapons, especially the Katana. Just hide under a Bush or Tree and leave a Snowball cooked. When someone passes by, throw the Snowball(s), then switch to your melee weapon. If they walk out of range, you can just switch to your gun.
	+ However remember to move while camping to avoid being damaged by the Idle Freeze, which can also be avoided by equipping the Polar Bear Perk.
* If you have a Sniper Rifle, try to cook the Snowball and hit the enemy first so they will be easier to hit because they will be slower.

### Countering

* Be wary of campers as they will attack unsuspectedly.
* Try to dodge the snowballs as getting hit could have fatal consequences.

## History

* v0.6.95
	+ Nerfed damage from 4 to 2
	+ Nerfed Hardened Damage from 12 to 5
* v0.6.91
	+ Fixed an issue with using healing items while getting hit by Snowballs.
	+ Fixed an issue where Snowballs sometimes dealt no damage.
* v0.6.9
	+ Added

## Trivia

* In the Snow-covered island update, the snowball replaced all other throwables.
* It has the second-lowest damage out of all weapons, only next to the Flare Gun and Bugle that does no damage.
* This is the 1st of 2 items that can forcefully remove another player's items without killing them. The other being the Potato.
* This is functionally identical to the Potato.
* You can hit yourself with a snowball by throwing a snowball right in front of you and moving forward and by throwing a snowball on the surface you are right next to wherein the splash damage will damage you.

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