Freeze

• Frost launches an icy projectile in the direction of the reticle, traveling until it reaches an enemy or a surface. The projectile deals 150 / 225 / 275 / 350 Cold damage to an enemy if hit directly and freezes them in place for 5 / 7 / 12 / 15 seconds. Inflicts 50 / 100 / 125 / 150 Cold damage with a 600% status chance to all enemies within a radius of ? meters from the impact point.
  • All damage is affected by Ability Strength and body-part multipliers.
    • Area damage affects the initial target, decreases with distance, and does not bypass obstacles in the environment.
  • Freeze duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Impact radius is not affected by Ability Range.^{[Needs further testing.]}
  • Status chance is not affected by mods.
  • Has a cast delay of ~0.6 seconds.
• The freeze duration will end prematurely if the initial target loses 50% of its current health during the time its frozen.
  • While frozen, enemies are unable to regenerate Shields.
• Ability Synergy:
  • Casting Freeze onto the exterior of a Snow Globe will destroy it, triggering an icy explosion that damages and ragdolls enemies in an area of effect.
• Casting Avalanche on a target frozen by Freeze will override Freeze's effects. The target will remain frozen for Avalanche's duration while temporarily reducing the target's armor and removing Freeze's health threshold.
• Freeze is a one-handed action. As such, it can be used while performing various maneuvers and actions without interruption.
• Can be recast on a frozen target multiple times, restarting the freeze timer.

Main article: Freeze Force

Freeze Force is a Warframe Augment Mod for Frost that allows Freeze to be held on cast, creating a wave of energy traveling outward from the user that temporarily grants the caster and nearby allies additional Cold damage to all attacks.

Rank	Cold Damage	Duration	Range	Cost
0	50%	28s	15m	6
1	65%	32s	15m	7
2	80%	36s	15m	8
3	100%	40s	15m	9

• Its primary strength is that a direct hit causes the target to be frozen in place for a fixed 10 seconds, regardless of rank. This is particularly useful when fighting single enemies such as bosses to buy time for teammates to revive incapacitated Tenno, recharge shields, reload, etc.
• Targets that are frozen will be freed of their immobility if they take health damage by anything. Freeze's utility can be easily wasted unless proper coordination with teammates is exercised.
• Freeze can be used to set up an effective kill-combo on an enemy with a burst-damage attack.
• Arbitration Shield Drones won't dispel the freeze effect from frozen enemies.
• Placing a Slash proc on enemies and then casting freeze can stop an enemy from killing you while slowly killing them via bleed damage.