Freezer

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Freezer
Unlock Cost	1,600
Base Cost	$450
Base Selling Cost	$150
Type	Support
Placement	Ground
Statistics
Base Damage	1
Damage Type	Single Burst (Level 3+)
Base Firerate	0.608
Base Range	10
Hidden Detection	Level 4
Lead Detection	N/A
Flying Detection	N/A
Immunities	None
Placement Footprint	Average (1.5)
Audio
Ice Age abilityFile:IceAge.ogg

• Current
• Version 2
• Version 1

"Chill enemies to a slow freeze!"

―Store Description

"Shoot an ice beam, freezing targets for a few seconds."

―Store Description

"Freeze zombies temporarily with a freeze ray!"

―Former Store Description

Description

The Freezer is an intermediate support tower that, as the name suggests, freezes certain enemies. It can be bought in the store for 1,600.

The Freezer targets a single enemy and fires an ice beam, chilling the enemy and slowing it down. The chillness slowness effect stacks with each hit up to three times. When the chillness slowness effect is higher than the max slowdown, the enemy will be frozen, which generally when targeting a single enemy takes four or five shots. Larger enemies will be frozen for a shorter amount of time than average sized enemies. Enemies with freeze immunity also cannot be frozen, slowed down or have their defense dropped by the Freezer.

At Level 3+, the Freezer becomes a burst tower. This makes it fire quickly in bursts, with a short delay between them. Additionally, at Level 2+, it drops defense by 10% every tick. It can only decrease an enemy's defense by 33%. For example, if an enemy has 50% defense, it will be decreased by 16%.

Upgrades

Level 1 - Expedition Gear - $150
+2 Range 45% > 60% Max Slowdown 15% > 20% Slowdown per Shot Sell Price changes to $200

Level 2 - Bundled Up! - $625
+1 Damage 1.5 > 2 Freeze Time Drops 10% defense every tick Sell Price changes to $408

Level 3 - Arctic Soldier - $1,650
0.608 > 0.128 Firerate 1 > 4 Burst 0 > 1 Burst Cooldown 60% > 75% Max Slowdown 20% > 25% Slowdown per Shot Sell Price changes to $958

Level 4 - Frost Bite! - $5,000
+Hidden Detection +2 Range 0.128 > 0.108 Firerate +1 Damage 4 > 7 Burst +Frost Grenade Ability Sell Price changes to $2,625

Ability

Frost Grenade
Level 4 25s Cooldown Throws a frost grenade that freezes up to five enemies for 4 seconds.

Stats Table

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page, while for the statistics without the Firerate Bug, visit the Firerate Bug page.

Level	Total Price	Damage	Firerate	Max Slowdown	Slowdown per Hit	Slowdown Time	Burst Count	Burst Cooldown	Range	Freeze Time	DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	$450	1	0.608	45%	15%	3	1	0	10	1.5	1.64	$274.39
1	$600	1	0.608	60%	20%	3	1	0	12	1.5	1.64	$365.85
2	$1,225	2	0.608	60%	20%	3	1	0	12	2	3.29	$372.34
3	$2,875	2	0.128	75%	25%	3	4	1	12	2	5.29	$543.48
4	$7,875	3	0.108	75%	25%	3	7	1	14	2	11.96	$658.44

Skins

To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.

Skin	Deep Freeze	Mint Choco	IcyTea	Foam
Rarity	Common	Uncommon	Uncommon	Exclusive
Daily Store Cost	85	105	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Premium Skincrate	Premium Skincrate	Code: ICYFREEZE	Roblox Code
Skin	Cryptid
Rarity	Event
Daily Store Cost	N/A
Obtained From	Krampus' Revenge Season

Strategy

• The Freezer can be used early on to deal with lower health enemies that spawn by placing down multiple Level 0 Freezers, though there are much better options for this.
  • Other towers should be used against higher health enemies like the Abnormal Boss.
  • Later on, it does not have enough DPS to handle other enemies, due to their much higher health.
  • Due to the nature of the Freezer's attacks, a single Freezer is unable to kill even the first waves of Normals and Abnormals.
• The Freezer can be very effective at slowing down enemies, especially at Level 3+, as its burst count allows it to freeze an enemy in a single burst.
  • It can be very effective at slowing down fast average-sized enemies, like the Glitch or Error.
    • It is much less effective against bigger enemies like the Giant Boss, as freeze time is reduced on larger enemies. It also cannot freeze or slowdown freeze immune enemies.
    • While it cannot freeze bosses as they are immune to freeze by default, they are not immune to the chillness slowdown effect unless they have the freeze immunity. However, bosses are slowed down by much less than regular enemies.
• The Freezer's defense dropping ability can be useful for decreasing an enemy's defense, allowing your towers to deal more damage to it.
  • However, do note that as the defense dropping happens when an enemy is frozen or slowed down. Because of this, freeze immune enemies cannot have their defense dropped.
  • The defense drop can stack with other towers, such as the Pyromancer, Electroshocker or Jester, allowing you to remove all of an enemy's defense.
    • Do note that only a burn defense dropping tower and a poison defense dropping tower, like the Pyromancer or Toxic Gunner are required to do this. The Freezer can still be used to speed up the process.
    • However, the Freezer's defense drop does not stack with the Frost Blaster's and Cryomancer's defense drop.
• Unlike some other towers that slow down enemies, the Freezer has no placement limit.
  • This means that, theoretically, you can easily stop a decent number of enemies from progressing for a long time.
  • It is recommended to have multiple Level 3-4 Freezers set to Random, as this allows them to slow down the highest amount of enemies.
• The Freezer is especially useful when paired with towers that have long charge-up times or a high firerate.
  • One example would be pairing the Freezer with the Accelerator.
• The Freezer can be quite useful when combined with towers that can deal damage to multiple enemies, such as the Demoman, Mortar or Rocketeer as it can cluster up a group of enemies. This allows these towers to damage more enemies within their fixed attack radius.
• The Freezer's Frost Grenade ability is quite effective against crowds of enemies, due to it being able to freeze five enemies at once and freezing them for longer than with its regular attack.
  • While it does freeze enemies for a longer amount of time, it is not recommended to use it on singular enemies as it has a hefty 25 second cooldown.
    • This can be somewhat mitigated by having multiple Level 4 Freezers.
  • This ability should not be used on enemies with freeze immunity, as it will do nothing on them, wasting the ability.

Trivia

• When the game was in Alpha, this tower's upgrade description was, "sans ice gun".
• Before the MEGA Update, the Freezer had an ability called Ice Drop, which dropped ice on the first enemy within the Freezer's range. This froze all enemies within a 10 stud radius for 6 seconds (except major bosses and those immune to the Ice Drop). It used to cost $250 and had a 75 second cooldown.
  • This ability was unusable against enemies under a roof since the drop would never collide with them. This did not apply to Crystal Cave as that roof was non-collidable.
  • The Freezer's Ice Drop was able to freeze the Gold Titan and Molten Boss prior to the 15th of August 2019.
• Before the Overhaul Update, the Freezer had another ability called Ice Age which froze all enemies around the Freezer in a 10-stud radius for about 3 seconds. It had a 30 second cooldown.
  • Additionally, the Freezer gained the Frost Mark at Level 3. It slowed enemies down by about 20% for a short duration after they had thawed.
    • Any enemy with the Frost Mark effect could not be frozen by the Freezer. This included the Frost Blaster's Frost Mark.
  • This was seemingly replaced by the Frost Grenade ability.
• Prior to the MEGA Update, the Freezer fired in bursts, similar to the Soldier, except that it targeted different enemies with every shot within a burst.
  • If there was only one enemy in range of the Freezer, then it would target that enemy only once.
  • However, if an enemy had basic freeze immunity, then the Freezer could target those enemy multiple times.
  • This burst functionality would later be re-added in the Krampus' Revenge Update, though it would target an enemy based on its targeting.
• Prior to the Overhaul Update, the Freezer fired an explosive ice projectile which could freeze multiple enemies.
  • After the 24th of December 2019, the Freezer was the only explosive tower to have direct damage.
    • This meant that it could deal damage to a targeted enemy that had explosive immunity (like the Golden) but could not deal damage to other enemies with explosive immunity if they were not the intended target.
      • This meant that the total damage was effectively doubled for the targeted enemy, if they were caught in the projectile explosion.
• This tower may be loosely based on the Ice Monkey from Bloons Tower Defense as well as the Cryo-Gunner from Tower Battles.
• The original Level 1 upgrade name is a reference to R2DA's Frost Knuckles.
• Prior to the 5th of May 2023, the IcyTea skin decreased the Freezer's placement footprint. It was the only skin that could decrease the tower's placement footprint.
  • It was also one of the only skins in the game to change a tower in any other way than its appearance at the time, with the other being XR500 Turret.
• When the third act of the Lunar Overture Event released, the Freezer, alongside all other freezing towers, were able to permanently stop enemies from moving, making them ridiculously strong. This, however, was fixed few hours later.
• Before the Krampus' Revenge Update, the Freezer was a Starter tower.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 24 June 2019 - BETA v1.2.0
  • Freezer added.
  • Bug: Freezer is prone to errors.
• 14 August 2019 - BETA v1.9.3
  • Bugfix: Freezer is no longer prone to errors.
• 15 August 2019 - BETA v1.10.0
  • Ice Drop is no longer able to affect major bosses.
• 13 October 2019 - Release v1.0.0
  • Upgrade names added.
    • Now uses the new projectile and explosive system.
    • No longer is a burst tower.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Range changed from 8 to 10.
      • Cooldown removed (was 3).
      • Firerate increased from 0.25 to 3.05.
      • Freeze time increased from 0.35 to 0.75.
      • Explosion range of 3 added.
    • Level 2
      • Burst removed (was 1 > 2).
      • Firerate changed from 0.25 to 3.05 > 2.3.
    • Level 3
      • Hidden Detection removed.
      • Freeze time changed from 0.35 > 0.5 to 0.75.
      • Now gains Frost Mark (passive ability that slows enemies after being hit).
    • Level 4
      • Burst removed (was 2 > 3).
      • Freeze time changed from 0.5 > 0.75 to 0.75.
      • Firerate changed from 0.25 to 2.3 > 0.65.
      • Cooldown removed (was 3 > 2.25).
    • Level 5
      • Ability changed from Ice Drop to Ice Age.
  • New skin: Deep Freeze
• 26 January 2020 - Release v1.6.1
  • New skin: Mint Choco
• 18 March 2020 - Release v1.8.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 2
      • Damage decreased from +2 to +1.
        • Bug: This was not changed in the upgrade description.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +1.
        • Bug: This was not changed in the upgrade description.
    • Level 3
      • Damage decreased from +3 to +1.
        • Bug: This was not changed in the upgrade description.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from 2.3 > 0.65 to 2.3 > 1.05.
        • Bug: This was not changed in the upgrade description.
• 26 May 2020 - Release v1.11.0
  • New skin: IcyTea
  • Bug: IcyTea skin decreases tower placement footprint.
• 29 October 2020 - Overhaul v1.0.0
  • Unlock cost decreased from 1,000 to 800.
  • No longer fires an explosive projectile.
  • Freeze mechanic changed.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Skin rarity added to Basic Skincrate and Premium Skincrate skins.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Damage decreased from 1 to 0.
      • Range decreased from 10 to 8.
      • Firerate decreased from 3.05 to 3.03.
      • Maximum Freeze Time increased from 0.75 to 0.8.
      • Mininum Freeze Time of 0.35 added.
      • Cost decreased from $450 to $350.
    • Level 1
      • Freeze time changed from 0.75 to 0.8 > 1.35.
    • Level 2
      • Range increased from +1 to +2.
      • Damage decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from 3.05 > 2.3 to 3.03.
      • Cost decreased from $600 to $400.
    • Level 3
      • Damage increased from +1 to +2.
      • Frost Mark removed.
      • Now drops 1 defense every hit.
      • Cost decreased from $1,500 to $1,400.
      • Renamed from Winter Attire to Cold Snap.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from 2.3 > 1.05 to 3.03 > 1.53.
      • Cost decreased from $3,000 to $2,500.
      • Renamed from Subarctic Vest to Arctic Commando.
    • Level 5
      • Damage decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Freeze time changed from 0.75 > 1 to 1.35 > 1.5.
      • Firerate changed from 1.05 to 1.53 > 1.03.
      • Ice Age ability removed.
      • Now drops 2 defense every hit.
      • Cost decreased from $7,500 to $6,000.
  • Bug: Level 3 upgrade description does not list that the Freezer gains defense dropping.
• 8 May 2021 - Overhaul v1.3.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 3
      • Defense dropping changed from 1 to 5%.
    • Level 5
      • Defense dropping changed from 2 to 10%.
  • Bug: If the Freezer freezes an enemy that was slowed down by the Toxic Gunner, that enemy has a chance to stop moving completly until it is frozen again, with slower enemies being more likely to be affected.
• 12 March 2022 - V1.1.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 3.03 to 3.008.
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from 3.03 > 1.53 to 3.008 > 1.508.
    • Level 5
      • Firerate changed from 1.53 > 1.03 to 1.508 > 1.008.
  • Bugfix: The Freezer can no longer make an enemy stop moving completly, if it freezes that enemy while it is being slowed down by the Toxic Gunner.
• 30 September 2022 - v1.4.0
  • New skin: Foam
• 21 December 2022 - v1.6.0
  • Skin rarity added to all skins.
  • Deep Freeze skin rarity changed from Uncommon to Common.
• 21 March 2023 - v1.6.3e
  • Bugfix: Level 3 upgrade description now lists that the Freezer gains defense dropping.
• 5 May 2023 - v1.7.3
  • Bugfix: IcyTea no longer decreases tower placement footprint.
• 28 October 2023 - v1.9.0
  • The Freezer can no longer freeze enemies if it was set on fire by a tower.
• 12 November 2023 - v1.9.0l
  • Bug: Freezer permanently stops enemies from moving after being frozen.
    • This was fixed later the same day.
• 21 December 2023 - v1.11.0
  • Unlock cost increased from 800 to 1,600.
  • Now applies a chill slowness effect when hitting an enemy, only freezing them when slowdown is higher than max slowdown.
  • Now drops defense every tick while an enemy is slowed down or frozen instead of dropping it on hit.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Damage increased from 0 to 1.
      • Range increased from 8 to 10.
      • Firerate decreased from 3.008 to 0.608.
      • Freeze time increased from 0.8 to 1.5.
      • Max Slowdown of 45% added.
      • Slowdown per Shot of 15% added.
      • Burst of 1 added.
      • Cooldown of 0 added.
      • Cost increased from $350 to $450.
    • Level 1
      • Max Slowdown change of 45% > 60% added.
      • Slowdown per Shot change of 15% > 20% added.
      • Freeze Time changed from 0.8 > 1.35 to 1.5.
      • Cost decreased from $350 to $150.
      • Renamed from Frost Knuckles to Expedition Gear.
    • Level 2
      • Damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Freeze Time changed from 1.35 to 1.5 > 2.
      • Defense dropping changed from 0% to 10%.
      • Max defense dropping changed from 20% to 33%.
      • Cost increased from $400 to $625.
      • Renamed from Frost Vision to Bundled Up!.
    • Level 3
      • Damage decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from 3.008 to 0.608 > 0.128.
      • Burst change of 1 > 4 added.
      • Burst Cooldown change of 0 > 1 added.
      • Max Slowdown change of 60% > 75% added.
      • Slowdown per Shot change of 20% > 25% added.
      • Defense dropping changed from 5% to 10%.
      • Cost increased from $1,400 to $1,650.
      • Renamed from Cold Snap to Arctic Soldier.
      • Cost decreased from $1,500 to $1,400.
    • Level 4
      • Damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Range increased from +0 to +2.
      • Firerate changed from 3.008 > 1.508 to 0.128 > 0.108.
      • Hidden Detection added.
      • Burst change of 4 > 7 added.
      • Frost Grenade ability added.
      • Cost increased from $2,500 to $5,000.
      • Renamed from Arctic Commando to Frost Bite!.
    • Level 5 removed
      • Statistics:
        • Name: Subzero Hero
        • Cost: $6,000
        • +2 Damage
        • 1.508 > 1.008 Firerate
        • 1.35 > 1.5 Freeze Time
        • 10% Defense Dropping
  • New skin: Cryptid
  • Bug: Freezer's Level 4 description includes the slowness changes from Level 3.
  • Bug: Upgrade descriptions list incorrect burst values.
• 21 June 2024 - v1.25.0
  • Bug: Damage is no longer boosted by damage buffs.
• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • Bugfix: Damage is now boosted by damage buffs.
• 23 October 2024 - v1.37.0
  • Freezer now can freeze enemies that are set on fire.

Notes